Newcastle Contemporary Art,
Thursday 24th July, 6 p.m.

I'll give a talk about Turner Prize-nominated Delaine Le Bas' exhibition '+Fabricating My Own Myth– Red Threads & Silver Needles' and will read poems from Outlandish.

Pay as you feel tickets here: www.visitnca.com/events/talk-...

Congratulations to Sharon Black, whose poem 'Baggies' has won the new @poetrysociety.bsky.social Tobias Hill Poetry Prize. 'Baggies' was chosen from all poems published in the Members’ Poems competition from 2024-2025.

I selected 'Baggies' in Summer 2024 and write about it here in Poetry News.

June is #GRTHM Join me Sat 14th at @themerl.bsky.social for the launch of new exhibition 'The Long Road' and a day of GRT history, readings, live music, crafts & more. Free event, 11 am–4 pm ☕ I'll also be talking about my Fellowship and exciting new writing #grthistorymonth #GRTSB

Amy Key wrote a brill Substack about kid's clothes recently. I always pick things like this up and say how much I want the texture, shape and general whimsy in grown-up sizes.

Found a great piece on Simon Armitage's Gawaining in Green Letters.

Want to read stuff made by proper humans and creators to be paid a fair wedge? Write to your MP about Creative Rights and AI. This effortless template even autogenerates your MP's details: creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP

Thanks to @societyofauthors.bsky.social for this campaign.

What a godsend, esp for non-tech heads like me! Bun is a similar but not as user-friendly bulk downloader. I got all my files manually but the next hurdle is conversion. Can't flip from AZW3 to ePub due to DRM. Dropboxing files and crossing this bridge when I come to it. So frustrating!

After a few hours at it, I've got my first eBook download to move into Calibre. Go Slaughterhouse Five!

FYI - I am downloading eBooks I've bought so I can move my library onto another device if I decide to leave the Amazon/Kindle ecosystem.

So far, no good. I've got my Paperwhite plugged in on PC, downloaded Calibre and installed the DeDRM_tools plugin but I'm still getting this XML file error message.

I heard more recent Kindle models have already been locked out. What kind of Kindle are you using?

The new Butcher's Dog anthology of South Asian poets in the North East - THRESHOLDS - found the toastiest of welcomes in Middlesbrough Town Hall's Crypt.

Thanks to everyone who came to show support.

#PoetryCommunity #poems #independentpublishing #northeastculture

Northern folkies - see you in Boro for some poems?

Freespill x Butcher's Dog x Borderlands present THRESHOLDS, 5.30-8 pm Tuesday, 18th February in The Crypt. I'm told it isn't as creepy as it sounds...

Tickets here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/borde...

I can also view the Tweets in this non-functional Bizarro World version of my feed, but will these pages even exist after I've deactivated? I only wanted plain text.

Thanks, Alex. This is how I'm accessing it through the browser, and every which way, it shows HTML.

Anyone else downloaded their Tweet archive?

I unzipped it and found my photos (great) but the text unhelpfully opens as HTML. The last time I downloaded (pre-Musk), it was a simple date/content Spreadsheet.

Deactivating, but I would really like to keep my stuff, esp. any research.🌷Any ideas?

I've looked at this plate found in a London sewer every day since I first saw it.

( post a non-religious picture you think of as holy )

Rare reading from my first collection, Outlandish (@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social), tomorrow at Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts alongside Roy McFarlane, plus a conversation with the brilliant Tara Bergin. Preti Taneja and Alice Kate Mullen from the Poetry Book Society will introduce the evening.

Who wouldn't want to smell like a delicious hot pastry?

* spritz spritz *