Stephen Emmerson
@tothemadpoets.bsky.social
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Join us on Tues 4th November 12.45 – 1.15 GMT for a free talk with artist @tothemadpoets.bsky.social as part of his exhibition How to read a book. Special Collections area of Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol. No booking needed just turn up, free event, all welcome. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Join us on Tues 4th November 12.45 – 1.15 GMT for a free talk with artist @tothemadpoets.bsky.social as part of his exhibition How to read a book. Special Collections area of Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol. No booking needed just turn up, free event, all welcome. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/
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Two images from the BOOKMORPHS catalogue. Exhibtion currently on at the Hellenic Centre, consisting of work by 44 artists from Greece and the UK.
October 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Two images from the BOOKMORPHS catalogue. Exhibtion currently on at the Hellenic Centre, consisting of work by 44 artists from Greece and the UK.
An event coming up at Hastings Museum on the 14th October. With readings from Sharon Kivland, Ken Edwards and Richard Makin. 7pm. Details here: www.hmag.org.uk/event/how-to...
How to Read a Book (or a Palm) – Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
www.hmag.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
An event coming up at Hastings Museum on the 14th October. With readings from Sharon Kivland, Ken Edwards and Richard Makin. 7pm. Details here: www.hmag.org.uk/event/how-to...
'How to read a book' opens at the Portico Library in Manchester on Thursday, October 2, 2025
6:00 PM 7:30 PM
Be great to see you there if you can make it.
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
6:00 PM 7:30 PM
Be great to see you there if you can make it.
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
How to read a book — The Portico Library
How to read a book is an exhibition by Stephen Emmerson about language, writing, and memory. It also explores themes of neurodiversity by offering different ways of exploring and reading books.
www.theportico.org.uk
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
'How to read a book' opens at the Portico Library in Manchester on Thursday, October 2, 2025
6:00 PM 7:30 PM
Be great to see you there if you can make it.
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
6:00 PM 7:30 PM
Be great to see you there if you can make it.
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
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Genocide deniers have been left with nowhere to go.
A new UN report cements the overwhelming consensus that Israel is committing genocide.
Genocide deniers should be treated as beyond the pale.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/un-leaves-...
A new UN report cements the overwhelming consensus that Israel is committing genocide.
Genocide deniers should be treated as beyond the pale.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/un-leaves-...
UN leaves genocide deniers with nowhere to go
A new UN report cements the consensus that Israel is committing genocide. Genocide deniers must now be ostracised
www.owenjones.news
September 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Genocide deniers have been left with nowhere to go.
A new UN report cements the overwhelming consensus that Israel is committing genocide.
Genocide deniers should be treated as beyond the pale.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/un-leaves-...
A new UN report cements the overwhelming consensus that Israel is committing genocide.
Genocide deniers should be treated as beyond the pale.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/un-leaves-...
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Our new exhibition is ‘How to read a book’ by @tothemadpoets.bsky.social, on show until Tues 4 Nov.
Concerned with language, writing, memory and offering alternative ways of approaching books and text. Alongside it are other works exploring what it is to be a book.
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/
Concerned with language, writing, memory and offering alternative ways of approaching books and text. Alongside it are other works exploring what it is to be a book.
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/
September 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Our new exhibition is ‘How to read a book’ by @tothemadpoets.bsky.social, on show until Tues 4 Nov.
Concerned with language, writing, memory and offering alternative ways of approaching books and text. Alongside it are other works exploring what it is to be a book.
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/
Concerned with language, writing, memory and offering alternative ways of approaching books and text. Alongside it are other works exploring what it is to be a book.
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/
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Via @cwag_uk Instagram 🇵🇸🕊️
September 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Via @cwag_uk Instagram 🇵🇸🕊️
If you haven't already, please sign this petition to recognise Palestine as a state - and consider donating to a pro Palestinian agency. Peace.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
August 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
If you haven't already, please sign this petition to recognise Palestine as a state - and consider donating to a pro Palestinian agency. Peace.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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First of what I'm planning to be a series of postcards. Reverse contains a short prose piece. Front relatates to something from the piece, in this case the mystical incantation HOT CURRY SAUCE. I'm selling these for the price of printing and postage on my website. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/hot-c...
July 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
First of what I'm planning to be a series of postcards. Reverse contains a short prose piece. Front relatates to something from the piece, in this case the mystical incantation HOT CURRY SAUCE. I'm selling these for the price of printing and postage on my website. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/hot-c...
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crikey. I haven't seen the NYRB reissue of Rodefer. I still have literally boxes of the book I published, Left Under a Cloud (2000) which I struggle to give away. If anyone wants one, just ask.
July 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
crikey. I haven't seen the NYRB reissue of Rodefer. I still have literally boxes of the book I published, Left Under a Cloud (2000) which I struggle to give away. If anyone wants one, just ask.
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Stephen Emmerson (@tothemadpoets.bsky.social)
July 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Stephen Emmerson (@tothemadpoets.bsky.social)
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On now: "The visual and the textual, the lucid and the illegible: a vibrant exhibition of the last sixty-five years of experimental poetry." Curated by Steve Clay and M. C. Kinniburgh, in collaboration with Conley Lowrance, Grolier Club, NYC, through July 26, 2025
4columns.org/mobilio-albe...
4columns.org/mobilio-albe...
After Words
4columns.org
June 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
On now: "The visual and the textual, the lucid and the illegible: a vibrant exhibition of the last sixty-five years of experimental poetry." Curated by Steve Clay and M. C. Kinniburgh, in collaboration with Conley Lowrance, Grolier Club, NYC, through July 26, 2025
4columns.org/mobilio-albe...
4columns.org/mobilio-albe...
flight is out now! Thanks to @guillemotpress for producing another beautiful object.
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/steph...
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/steph...
June 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
flight is out now! Thanks to @guillemotpress for producing another beautiful object.
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/steph...
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/steph...
1st June I will be delivering a workshop at Launceston Poetry Festival - come along if you can.
May 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
1st June I will be delivering a workshop at Launceston Poetry Festival - come along if you can.
I'm reading at Launceston Poetry Festival on 31st May. Come along if you can!
May 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm reading at Launceston Poetry Festival on 31st May. Come along if you can!
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Two new books: Not Sealions But Lions by The Sea, a selected poems 2012-2025, (Broken Sleep); The Walkative Reolvolution, on walking and not walking, (Guillemot). If you want both for £25 PM me, otherwise order from the presses.
May 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Two new books: Not Sealions But Lions by The Sea, a selected poems 2012-2025, (Broken Sleep); The Walkative Reolvolution, on walking and not walking, (Guillemot). If you want both for £25 PM me, otherwise order from the presses.
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Timglaset Editions to cease publishing.
After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5
After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5
March 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Timglaset Editions to cease publishing.
After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5
After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5
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Reading these two pleasantly colour-coordinated @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social tomes ahead of Sleeve Notes today with @vikshirley.bsky.social and An afternoon of absurd surreal poetry tomorrow with Vik and @tothemadpoets.bsky.social here in Manchester. Lay out your unrest!
April 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Reading these two pleasantly colour-coordinated @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social tomes ahead of Sleeve Notes today with @vikshirley.bsky.social and An afternoon of absurd surreal poetry tomorrow with Vik and @tothemadpoets.bsky.social here in Manchester. Lay out your unrest!
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This Sunday in Manchester. 4pm.
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@postpran.bsky.social @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social
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@postpran.bsky.social @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This Sunday in Manchester. 4pm.
🦌🌈🤸🤡🤠👻🦆🐰
@postpran.bsky.social @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social
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@postpran.bsky.social @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social
Tom Bowden has written a brilliant review of Gallery www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
The Book Beat
A new post was just added to the Book Beat website and newsletter.
www.thebookbeat.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Tom Bowden has written a brilliant review of Gallery www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
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This is coming up in April, with @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social and Marcus Silcock. Free, but you can book a place and get reminders here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-afterno...
March 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is coming up in April, with @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social and Marcus Silcock. Free, but you can book a place and get reminders here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-afterno...
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Here we have a cosmic trip disguised as an international voyage. Tender yet absurd. Hallucinatory and strange, like taking psychedelics in the American desert and waking up in a Polish forest. Instead of a spaghetti western, this is a pierogi fever dream. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Marcus Silcock - Dream Dust | Broken Sleep Books
Marcus Silcock’s Dream Dust is a surreal-absurd tapestry of fragmented memories, cultural observations, and existential explorations. Through vivid, kaleidoscopic prose poems, Silcock crafts a world w...
www.brokensleepbooks.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Here we have a cosmic trip disguised as an international voyage. Tender yet absurd. Hallucinatory and strange, like taking psychedelics in the American desert and waking up in a Polish forest. Instead of a spaghetti western, this is a pierogi fever dream. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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Napoli Metro Bad Dream Sequence, Blart Books 2013.
Dreams, nightmares, poems, collages, travel diary fragments & mutated museum guides collected during and after a holiday in a hot, humid Napoli the weekend that Michael Jackson died.
Dreams, nightmares, poems, collages, travel diary fragments & mutated museum guides collected during and after a holiday in a hot, humid Napoli the weekend that Michael Jackson died.
February 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Napoli Metro Bad Dream Sequence, Blart Books 2013.
Dreams, nightmares, poems, collages, travel diary fragments & mutated museum guides collected during and after a holiday in a hot, humid Napoli the weekend that Michael Jackson died.
Dreams, nightmares, poems, collages, travel diary fragments & mutated museum guides collected during and after a holiday in a hot, humid Napoli the weekend that Michael Jackson died.
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I am excited to be speaking at RCA at Materiality of the Book symposium on April 7.
www.eventbrite.com/e/materialit...
www.eventbrite.com/e/materialit...
Materiality of the Book Symposium
Join us for an event that will include discussions on the book as method and object, landscape and the book, and the materiality of language
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February 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I am excited to be speaking at RCA at Materiality of the Book symposium on April 7.
www.eventbrite.com/e/materialit...
www.eventbrite.com/e/materialit...