Helen Tookey
banner
helentookey.bsky.social
Helen Tookey
@helentookey.bsky.social
Poet. Writer. Based in Liverpool, UK. Published by Carcanet Press and Liverpool University Press.
Yes… and yes, not his finest!
October 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
‘Though you are changed from what I once beheld’ makes me think of Melville’s Redburn, trying to navigate Liverpool with his father’s old guidebook. Interesting this persistent sense of the city as constantly changing…
October 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Next Pulp album, Morning Miss Marple, How’s the Leg…
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The OK Gatsby
Man-Flu in Venice
The Wings of the Pigeon
Confessions of an English Toast-Eater
(I like this game!)
September 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Immediately made me think of Yvonne’s postcard in Under the Volcano: ‘Darling, why did I leave? Why did you let me?’
August 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Congrats to Steve and to Longbarrow! Great news.
August 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Script lichen! What a fantastic name/descriptor.
January 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Absolutely love the idea of error gardens.
January 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Interesting. I’ve noticed this at work, and felt at odds with it, because I don’t think that it’s at all what I’m interested in as a writer. (And I doubt whether it’s primarily what many poets are interested in.) But I hadn’t really thought about it as symptomatic of a wider thing.
January 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I really fancy the artisanal flans
January 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Have you read Olga Ravn’s The Employees? It’s a brilliant, moving, unsettling sf novella that also skewers the language of ‘workflows’ and ‘upgrades’
January 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
University management seem to be suckers for pointless, expensive, third-party bits of software, none of which connect to each other, and which mostly just create more work. I assume ‘rolling out’ this stuff makes them feel like tech bros…
January 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM