Aaron Kent
@godzillakent.bsky.social
Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
When conservative poetry critics read a poem presented as a sonnet which doesn't strictly adhere to the traditional sonnet form.
June 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
When conservative poetry critics read a poem presented as a sonnet which doesn't strictly adhere to the traditional sonnet form.
The late, great Geoff Hattersley.
March 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The late, great Geoff Hattersley.
I am so overwhelmed and delighted to finally be able to reveal that my National Poetry Competition (@poetrysociety.bsky.social) entry was NOT successful!
March 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I am so overwhelmed and delighted to finally be able to reveal that my National Poetry Competition (@poetrysociety.bsky.social) entry was NOT successful!
Here's a poem I had published in Red Poets last year. I think it's one of my favourite titles for a poem.
March 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Here's a poem I had published in Red Poets last year. I think it's one of my favourite titles for a poem.
Two great bits from Danny Dyer here. Both absolute gold.
March 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Two great bits from Danny Dyer here. Both absolute gold.
Me: I like all genres of poetry, really.
Also me:
Also me:
February 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Me: I like all genres of poetry, really.
Also me:
Also me:
'Songwriters stir up a living tradition, poets make flowers grow in air.'
— Glyn Maxwell, 'On Poetry'
— Glyn Maxwell, 'On Poetry'
February 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
'Songwriters stir up a living tradition, poets make flowers grow in air.'
— Glyn Maxwell, 'On Poetry'
— Glyn Maxwell, 'On Poetry'
I've been playing bass for about 20 years, but have never had the opportunity to play double bass, so imagine my delight upon finding one in the music department at work!
February 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I've been playing bass for about 20 years, but have never had the opportunity to play double bass, so imagine my delight upon finding one in the music department at work!
Absolutely delighted to return home to post from the brilliant @jeremyover.bsky.social, containing his astounding new book 'Fourth & Walnut'. Jeremy is a wonderful person and poet, and this book, out next month with @carcanet.bsky.social, is Jeremy at his best.
![ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET
"There is only one way. Go within yourself. Explore what is calling you to write; check whether it is rooted in the deepest part of your heart, admit to yourself whether you would have to die if you were not able to write. This above all: ask yourself in the quietest hour of your night: must I write? Dig deep within yourself for the truth. And if the answer is yes, if you can reply clearly with a simple I must then build your life upon this [...] To feel that one could live without writing is enough of a sign that one should not.'
Rilke (Letter to a Young Poet)
'When a great and unique soul speaks the small ones must remain silent'
Franz Kappus (Rilke's 'Young Poet')
Dear Small Ones,
Be careful with Rilke. In the quietest hour of your night, in particular, don't listen to him. And don't join the Austrian army just yet. Try and get back to sleep and don't drink so much black tea tomorrow. When the day finally breaks, listen instead to James Broughton (or was it Ted Shawn or the Grateful Dead - does it really matter?): 'When in doubt, twirl'.
Then to Gaston Bachelard:
'What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us. The brook will nonetheless teach you to speak, in spite of sorrows and memories, it will teach you euphoria through euphuism, energy through the poem. It will repeat incessantly some beautiful, round word which rolls over rocks.
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January 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Absolutely delighted to return home to post from the brilliant @jeremyover.bsky.social, containing his astounding new book 'Fourth & Walnut'. Jeremy is a wonderful person and poet, and this book, out next month with @carcanet.bsky.social, is Jeremy at his best.
I've been a diehard Chelsea fan my entire life, but have never been able to afford to go to Stamford Bridge. Emma got tickets for us to watch Chelsea Vs Wolves today, so here I am decked out with my new Chelsea scarf, and chatting with Wayne Bridge.
January 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I've been a diehard Chelsea fan my entire life, but have never been able to afford to go to Stamford Bridge. Emma got tickets for us to watch Chelsea Vs Wolves today, so here I am decked out with my new Chelsea scarf, and chatting with Wayne Bridge.
Me editing Me editing
a friend's poem my own poem
a friend's poem my own poem
January 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Me editing Me editing
a friend's poem my own poem
a friend's poem my own poem
It's that time of the year again, where I write the previous year and scribble over it, failing to learn my lesson for another good 5 months.
January 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It's that time of the year again, where I write the previous year and scribble over it, failing to learn my lesson for another good 5 months.
The Poetry Wales award, judged by Jeremy Dixon, closes 17/02/2025 at midnight GMT.
First prize = a course at Tŷ Newydd or a stay at their writing retreat cottage.
Entry: £5/poem or free for magazine subscribers & low-income households.
@poetrywales.bsky.social
www.poetrywales.co.uk/award
First prize = a course at Tŷ Newydd or a stay at their writing retreat cottage.
Entry: £5/poem or free for magazine subscribers & low-income households.
@poetrywales.bsky.social
www.poetrywales.co.uk/award
January 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The Poetry Wales award, judged by Jeremy Dixon, closes 17/02/2025 at midnight GMT.
First prize = a course at Tŷ Newydd or a stay at their writing retreat cottage.
Entry: £5/poem or free for magazine subscribers & low-income households.
@poetrywales.bsky.social
www.poetrywales.co.uk/award
First prize = a course at Tŷ Newydd or a stay at their writing retreat cottage.
Entry: £5/poem or free for magazine subscribers & low-income households.
@poetrywales.bsky.social
www.poetrywales.co.uk/award
Delighted to have a poem in the new @poetrysociety.bsky.social Poetry Review. With immense love to @rachaelboast.bsky.social for choosing it.
January 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Delighted to have a poem in the new @poetrysociety.bsky.social Poetry Review. With immense love to @rachaelboast.bsky.social for choosing it.
Back in 2016-2017 I used to write for those free movie preview magazines you get in cinemas. I worked in a cinema at the time and could write them while the film was playing.
I made it my mission to mention Godzilla in every piece I wrote.
Here are some examples.
I made it my mission to mention Godzilla in every piece I wrote.
Here are some examples.
January 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Back in 2016-2017 I used to write for those free movie preview magazines you get in cinemas. I worked in a cinema at the time and could write them while the film was playing.
I made it my mission to mention Godzilla in every piece I wrote.
Here are some examples.
I made it my mission to mention Godzilla in every piece I wrote.
Here are some examples.
New painting I finished today before my good friend, the surrealist artist John Welson, came round for a coffee and a chat.
I've been enamoured by the works of the late, great Canadian artist Jack Bush recently.
I've been enamoured by the works of the late, great Canadian artist Jack Bush recently.
January 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
New painting I finished today before my good friend, the surrealist artist John Welson, came round for a coffee and a chat.
I've been enamoured by the works of the late, great Canadian artist Jack Bush recently.
I've been enamoured by the works of the late, great Canadian artist Jack Bush recently.
13 times I've made this joke now. I'm generally the only person in my family who stays awake at midnight as the kids and my wife Emma are long asleep, and I do so purely to make this joke.
January 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
13 times I've made this joke now. I'm generally the only person in my family who stays awake at midnight as the kids and my wife Emma are long asleep, and I do so purely to make this joke.
It is I, Arrom.
A new misspelling of my name to add to the list.
A new misspelling of my name to add to the list.
December 19, 2024 at 1:10 PM
It is I, Arrom.
A new misspelling of my name to add to the list.
A new misspelling of my name to add to the list.
Here on the west coast of Wales, Storm Darragh has ripped one of our trees out of the ground.
December 7, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Here on the west coast of Wales, Storm Darragh has ripped one of our trees out of the ground.
From the local Facebook group where a misspelling of the word 'figurine' has led to some confusion
December 1, 2024 at 6:35 PM
From the local Facebook group where a misspelling of the word 'figurine' has led to some confusion
Bought a Mezze Salad from Pret a Manger, purely because it was one of very few gluten free items by the train station, but I can't figure out what this symbol on the box means? At first I thought it meant pineapple, but it contains no pineapple. Any ideas?
December 1, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Bought a Mezze Salad from Pret a Manger, purely because it was one of very few gluten free items by the train station, but I can't figure out what this symbol on the box means? At first I thought it meant pineapple, but it contains no pineapple. Any ideas?
My wife, Emma, made me this absolutely glorious Edgar Allan Poe inspired shirt and I adore it almost as much as I adore her.
November 24, 2024 at 6:42 PM
My wife, Emma, made me this absolutely glorious Edgar Allan Poe inspired shirt and I adore it almost as much as I adore her.
Spotted this beautiful bird watching us make breakfast this morning.
November 21, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Spotted this beautiful bird watching us make breakfast this morning.
Delighted to be discussing how to get published as part of the literary agents and publishers panel for Writers and Artists, and Open University on 5th December. Sign up deets below:
www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...
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November 14, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Delighted to be discussing how to get published as part of the literary agents and publishers panel for Writers and Artists, and Open University on 5th December. Sign up deets below:
www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...
www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...
Stephen Watts is one of our finest contemporary poets.
'And I should watch the kaleidoscope of wind- migrated leaves.
And I should reckon on the silence of my mouth of rooted speech.'
From Journeys Across Breath, Prototype.
'And I should watch the kaleidoscope of wind- migrated leaves.
And I should reckon on the silence of my mouth of rooted speech.'
From Journeys Across Breath, Prototype.
November 9, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Stephen Watts is one of our finest contemporary poets.
'And I should watch the kaleidoscope of wind- migrated leaves.
And I should reckon on the silence of my mouth of rooted speech.'
From Journeys Across Breath, Prototype.
'And I should watch the kaleidoscope of wind- migrated leaves.
And I should reckon on the silence of my mouth of rooted speech.'
From Journeys Across Breath, Prototype.