A.F. Harrold
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A.F. Harrold
@afharrold.com
Poet, performer, children's author.

The Imaginary, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Fizzlebert Stump, Greta Zargo and others.

www.afharroldkids.com
I honestly have no idea what actual kids (teens, I guess?) would make of it, but Fishfolk, by Steven Quincy-Jones (pub. by Firefly), is the best mythic-Doggerland-survival-tale-written-in-Beowulf-footed-prose-poetry, I've read for yonks. I think you'd dig it, Louie, if you've not found it already.
August 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
When it's too hot to actively hate one another...
July 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Further adventures in comfortable pillow land. Susan and some Joan Aiken/Quentin Blake loveliness.
June 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Everybody needs a rocking chair for a pillow, everybody needs a rocking chair...

Or so Vincent thinks.
June 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Had a nice visit to Waterstones, Finchley Road, this afternoon. Plenty of signed books left for you all!

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@waterstones.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My cat. Not my cat.
Vincent. Lucifer.
May 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Just read this excellent kids-folk-horror-walk-away-from-Omelas-wickerman-is-a-river-adventure from @darrensimpson44.bsky.social and @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social. Gripping, gruesome, dark and dripping. Beware the woods and the reanimated child corpses... #Thirst out in September. A Good Thing.
May 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The view from my desk, this morning!
May 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Have you got your tail under control? Vincent has.
May 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Pity poor Susan.
May 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Sunday's going well.
April 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Vincent knows where his tail is. It is his.
April 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Vincent knows where his tail is. Do you?
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This was Vincent, Wednesday evening, in my shed, waiting for folks to arrive for DnD. He was the TPK they never saw coming...
April 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
For any teachers looking for a treat for their class this summer term (or in the autumn), or for anyone else thinking they're bored of the usual tosh that lands on their doormats, why not consider signing up for a handwritten-poems-on-postcards subscription?

www.afharroldkids.com/poetry-postc...
April 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Sometimes Vincent doesn't want to think about his feet.
April 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
These are the times, from my pal Chris Riddell...
March 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Oh, and the magnolia's started up...
March 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Every now and then I like to remind myself that Charles Mingus had a toilet trained cat. Big Kitty.
March 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
One of these feet is not like the others, one of these feet is out on its own...

Oh, Vincent's lovely feet.
March 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Penultimate school of World Book Day month...
March 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Vincent sleeps as if his feet have been drawn by AI.
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Ouch, this hurts. No designers available that day.
March 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Am on a train to visit a school in Cambridge, so I'll share this nugget of advice I remembered from the childhood times following mum round the front of department stores trying the free perfumes.

From #TheBookOfNotEntirelyUsefulAdvice by me & @mini3grey.bsky.social (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social)
February 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Vincent's sleeping hard this morning...
February 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM