David Cain
@davidmarkcain.bsky.social
Poet. Hatter. Director for Cambridge Festival @cambridgefestival.bsky.social
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David Cain
@davidmarkcain.bsky.social
· Apr 24
To Wake Up in the Promised Land
We proudly present an extraordinary new work of poetry. David Cain's personal, powerful and touching tale of a special, yet tragic season...
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Tomorrow is publication day and book launch event for my new book. Join us at 6pm Friday 25 April for the launch of my new poetry book about Dad’s and @lutontown.co.uk Hosted by the Bricklayers Arms, High Town Road, Luton. Book tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
Luton Reliance 1909 from another site with captain J Holdstock. Any relation @rogerholdstock.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Luton Reliance 1909 from another site with captain J Holdstock. Any relation @rogerholdstock.bsky.social
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Have that naysayers…Luton Town’s new third kit was on trend all along. Mint chocolate chic is the fashion flavour of the month in the @lutontown.co.uk @ftweekend.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Have that naysayers…Luton Town’s new third kit was on trend all along. Mint chocolate chic is the fashion flavour of the month in the @lutontown.co.uk @ftweekend.com
It was great to be in Luton to share my new book To Wake Up In The Promised Land. The poems are all about Luton and Dads and grief and football. Thanks Utter Lutonia and The Hat Factory. Book is available from tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It was great to be in Luton to share my new book To Wake Up In The Promised Land. The poems are all about Luton and Dads and grief and football. Thanks Utter Lutonia and The Hat Factory. Book is available from tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
Join us for some poetry tomorrow night Thursday 7.30pm) at Utter Lutonia. I will be reading from my new book all about @lutontown.co.uk and dads and loss and how love of football helps us through the hard times www.culturetrust.com/whats-on/utt...
September 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Join us for some poetry tomorrow night Thursday 7.30pm) at Utter Lutonia. I will be reading from my new book all about @lutontown.co.uk and dads and loss and how love of football helps us through the hard times www.culturetrust.com/whats-on/utt...
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Just 2️⃣ weeks to go until #OpenCambridge opens its doors for 2025!
Let us know what you’ve got planned and keep an eye out for Saturday Open Cambridge trails coming soon.
📨 Keep up to date by signing up to our mailing list: https://bit.ly/3qh8THa
Let us know what you’ve got planned and keep an eye out for Saturday Open Cambridge trails coming soon.
📨 Keep up to date by signing up to our mailing list: https://bit.ly/3qh8THa
August 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Just 2️⃣ weeks to go until #OpenCambridge opens its doors for 2025!
Let us know what you’ve got planned and keep an eye out for Saturday Open Cambridge trails coming soon.
📨 Keep up to date by signing up to our mailing list: https://bit.ly/3qh8THa
Let us know what you’ve got planned and keep an eye out for Saturday Open Cambridge trails coming soon.
📨 Keep up to date by signing up to our mailing list: https://bit.ly/3qh8THa
I’m looking forward to reading some poetry from To Wake Up In The Promised Land at Utter Lutonia on 4 September. Dads and Luton and football and poetry. See you at The Hat Factory. www.culturetrust.com/whats-on/utt...
August 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’m looking forward to reading some poetry from To Wake Up In The Promised Land at Utter Lutonia on 4 September. Dads and Luton and football and poetry. See you at The Hat Factory. www.culturetrust.com/whats-on/utt...
Positive pre season so far for @lutontown.co.uk Keep feeling the new signings are actually ones that we should have made 12 months ago. Feel if we add a forward and some midfield creativity ( might be same player) we will challenge.
July 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Positive pre season so far for @lutontown.co.uk Keep feeling the new signings are actually ones that we should have made 12 months ago. Feel if we add a forward and some midfield creativity ( might be same player) we will challenge.
What to do until the start of next season? Have a read of my new poetry book! Football, Dads and how the game holds us up when the world is falling down. To Wake Up In The Promised Land shares a personal story of Luton’s promotion to the Premier League. tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
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June 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
What to do until the start of next season? Have a read of my new poetry book! Football, Dads and how the game holds us up when the world is falling down. To Wake Up In The Promised Land shares a personal story of Luton’s promotion to the Premier League. tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
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Was privileged to read (and cry quite a bit at) an earlier version of this, so lovely to get the finished article. Obviously buzzing to feature in that midfield. A beautiful thing, cheers @davidmarkcain.bsky.social
#LTFC
#LTFC
June 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Was privileged to read (and cry quite a bit at) an earlier version of this, so lovely to get the finished article. Obviously buzzing to feature in that midfield. A beautiful thing, cheers @davidmarkcain.bsky.social
#LTFC
#LTFC
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Looking for creative inspiration? Join @crasshlive.bsky.social for the ‘Admitting the Possibilities of Error’ exhibition by Kirsten Lavers. It features drawings formed from the process that begins with the line of a perfect circle, with new circles accumulating to create a whole new picture.
May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Looking for creative inspiration? Join @crasshlive.bsky.social for the ‘Admitting the Possibilities of Error’ exhibition by Kirsten Lavers. It features drawings formed from the process that begins with the line of a perfect circle, with new circles accumulating to create a whole new picture.
Want to find out more about why football is perfect for poetry and an insight into my new book? Read on ! wednesdaywriter221052756.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/d...
David Cain’s ‘To Wake Up in the Promised Land’: tablet poetry, football, grief, and connection
David Cain is, among a number of other things, a poet. For those interested in these sorts of things, he’s also quite a heavy-hitting cultural champ, notably in his role as Public Engagement and Ca…
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May 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Want to find out more about why football is perfect for poetry and an insight into my new book? Read on ! wednesdaywriter221052756.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/d...
Football, Dads and how the game holds us up when the world is falling down. To Wake Up In The Promised Land is a series of poems sharing a personal story of Luton Town’s promotion to the Premier League in 2023 and of my Dad’s death. You can purchase a copy tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
May 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Football, Dads and how the game holds us up when the world is falling down. To Wake Up In The Promised Land is a series of poems sharing a personal story of Luton Town’s promotion to the Premier League in 2023 and of my Dad’s death. You can purchase a copy tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
Disgrace when you think a draw would have been enough.
May 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Disgrace when you think a draw would have been enough.
Luton needing a Pompey miracle. Looking on seems as though players thought they had already done enough and just need to turn up. Distinct lack of intensity compared to last few games.
May 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Luton needing a Pompey miracle. Looking on seems as though players thought they had already done enough and just need to turn up. Distinct lack of intensity compared to last few games.
Full bloom for the Hatters. Did the same for the Play offs in 2023. Plus wearing 20th Anniversary of Luton Wembley 1988 luck T shirt, worn victoriously the last two home games and unwashed since…
May 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Full bloom for the Hatters. Did the same for the Play offs in 2023. Plus wearing 20th Anniversary of Luton Wembley 1988 luck T shirt, worn victoriously the last two home games and unwashed since…
Meant to be today. Meant to be. One more @lutontown.co.uk One more.
April 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Meant to be today. Meant to be. One more @lutontown.co.uk One more.
Thanks everyone who made it such a great way to launch my new book To Wake Up In The Promised Land. What an evening and huge thanks to the Bricklayers Arms for hosting. Wonderful. Book available here: tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
April 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Thanks everyone who made it such a great way to launch my new book To Wake Up In The Promised Land. What an evening and huge thanks to the Bricklayers Arms for hosting. Wonderful. Book available here: tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
Tomorrow is publication day and book launch event for my new book. Join us at 6pm Friday 25 April for the launch of my new poetry book about Dad’s and @lutontown.co.uk Hosted by the Bricklayers Arms, High Town Road, Luton. Book tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
To Wake Up in the Promised Land
We proudly present an extraordinary new work of poetry. David Cain's personal, powerful and touching tale of a special, yet tragic season...
tonicstapress.bigcartel.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Tomorrow is publication day and book launch event for my new book. Join us at 6pm Friday 25 April for the launch of my new poetry book about Dad’s and @lutontown.co.uk Hosted by the Bricklayers Arms, High Town Road, Luton. Book tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
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Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
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Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
Join us at 6pm this Friday 25 April for the launch of my new poetry book about @lutontown.co.uk and Dad’s. Hosted by the Bricklayers Arms, High Town Road,Luton.
April 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Join us at 6pm this Friday 25 April for the launch of my new poetry book about @lutontown.co.uk and Dad’s. Hosted by the Bricklayers Arms, High Town Road,Luton.
The most profound hour you will spend this long weekend www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Music Matters - Music on the Front Line - Sir Don McCullin - BBC Sounds
Clive Myrie talks with Don about music he heard whilst reporting from conflict zones
www.bbc.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The most profound hour you will spend this long weekend www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
15 days until publication day for my new book: To Wake Up In The Promised Land. Pre order via link. A book length poem sharing one extraordinary season in the life of @lutontown.co.uk and one life in the season of a man. @wearelutontown.bsky.social
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April 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
15 days until publication day for my new book: To Wake Up In The Promised Land. Pre order via link. A book length poem sharing one extraordinary season in the life of @lutontown.co.uk and one life in the season of a man. @wearelutontown.bsky.social
tonicstapress.bigcartel.com/product/to-w...
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Our feet are sore but what a weekend! We welcomed thousands of you to #CamFest over our MASSIVE Family Weekend.
Thank you for everyone who joined us in the sunshine and to all our amazing contributors ⭐
Thank you for everyone who joined us in the sunshine and to all our amazing contributors ⭐
March 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Our feet are sore but what a weekend! We welcomed thousands of you to #CamFest over our MASSIVE Family Weekend.
Thank you for everyone who joined us in the sunshine and to all our amazing contributors ⭐
Thank you for everyone who joined us in the sunshine and to all our amazing contributors ⭐