Matthew Rice
@matthew-rice.bsky.social
Poems-Running-PhDing-Anti-racist. ‘Plastic’ forthcoming in January 2026 with Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) & Soft Skull Press (US), available here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790542/plastic-by-matthew-rice/
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plastic | Fitzcarraldo Editions
Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire, plastic...
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Plastic is now available for pre order from the Fitzcarraldo website! Do a boy a solid and smash the pre order…. 🙏💙🤍 @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
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We’re running a winter sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. GMT on 19 December, with a 30 per cent discount across our website, including Fiction, Essay, Classics and Poetry titles, subscriptions, collections and tote bags.
❄️
Shop now: bit.ly/4oRFpxc
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Thanks to NEIL CZESZEJKO for this insightful (p)review of plastic 🙏💙🤍 Pre order available everywhere x
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www.thesubtextreview.com/p/review-pla...
Review: 'plastic' by Matthew Rice
The night’s rhythm, rendered
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November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Thanks to NEIL CZESZEJKO for this insightful (p)review of plastic 🙏💙🤍 Pre order available everywhere x
www.thesubtextreview.com/p/review-pla...
www.thesubtextreview.com/p/review-pla...
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106.
12 days of work in 106 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 106 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106.
12 days of work in 106 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 106 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
Plastic is now available for pre order from the Fitzcarraldo website! Do a boy a solid and smash the pre order…. 🙏💙🤍 @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/plastic/
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/plastic/
plastic | Fitzcarraldo Editions
Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire, plastic...
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Plastic is now available for pre order from the Fitzcarraldo website! Do a boy a solid and smash the pre order…. 🙏💙🤍 @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/plastic/
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/plastic/
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'What keeps fascinating me is just the process of writing. Where will it lead me? What will I learn about the world this time? What will I bring to the world that I didn’t know about before.' Jon Fosse answers @thetls.bsky.social's Twenty Questions: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Twenty Questions with Jon Fosse
“How can I know what I think, until I see what I say?” (E. M. Forster). How much of your writing surprises you? If it doesn’t surprise me, I am writing badly, and then it isn’t worth writing. After ma...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
'What keeps fascinating me is just the process of writing. Where will it lead me? What will I learn about the world this time? What will I bring to the world that I didn’t know about before.' Jon Fosse answers @thetls.bsky.social's Twenty Questions: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Yesterday, on my birthday, I successfully defended my thesis and was awarded my PhD! I had a wonderful day. Thanks to my supervisors, Nick Laird and Fran Brearton, as well as the examiners Happy birthday to me! 🎈#qub #seamusheaneycentre
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Yesterday, on my birthday, I successfully defended my thesis and was awarded my PhD! I had a wonderful day. Thanks to my supervisors, Nick Laird and Fran Brearton, as well as the examiners Happy birthday to me! 🎈#qub #seamusheaneycentre
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
Oh look, there’s that right ear that was *definitely* hit with a high velocity bullet …
October 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Oh look, there’s that right ear that was *definitely* hit with a high velocity bullet …
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‘Bagging and tagging / plastic table latches / for aeroplane seats / my hands are each its twin’
Three poems from the factory floor by Matthew Rice.
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Three poems from the factory floor by Matthew Rice.
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20:03 & 01:03 & 4:18 | Matthew Rice | Granta
‘Bagging and tagging / plastic table latches / for aeroplane seats / my hands are each its twin’ Three poems from the plastic moulding factory by Matthew Rice.
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October 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Happy to have three sections from plastic in @grantamag.bsky.social ! Thanks to the editors. 🙏🤍💙
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granta.com/three-poems-...
20:03 & 01:03 & 4:18
‘Bagging and tagging / plastic table latches / for aeroplane seats / my hands are each its twin’ Three poems from the plastic moulding factory by Matthew Rice.
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October 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Happy to have three sections from plastic in @grantamag.bsky.social ! Thanks to the editors. 🙏🤍💙
granta.com/three-poems-...
granta.com/three-poems-...
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“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
www.thenerve.news
October 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Happy Nobel Peace Prize day to all who celebrate! 🕊️
In a brilliant and well deserved move, an (1) antifa (2) Latina (3) woman, María Corina Machado, wins for her work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela.
In a brilliant and well deserved move, an (1) antifa (2) Latina (3) woman, María Corina Machado, wins for her work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela.
October 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Happy Nobel Peace Prize day to all who celebrate! 🕊️
In a brilliant and well deserved move, an (1) antifa (2) Latina (3) woman, María Corina Machado, wins for her work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela.
In a brilliant and well deserved move, an (1) antifa (2) Latina (3) woman, María Corina Machado, wins for her work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela.
Everything that spills out of his mouth is ALWAYS so easily fact checked.
youtube.com/watch?v=Qr36...
youtube.com/watch?v=Qr36...
Confused Trump TELLS DEEPLY CONCERNING STORY – Invents Tale About Him & Osama bin Laden!!!
YouTube video by Jesse Dollemore
youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Everything that spills out of his mouth is ALWAYS so easily fact checked.
youtube.com/watch?v=Qr36...
youtube.com/watch?v=Qr36...
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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
October 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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Reading from plastic @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social 💙🤍
September 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reading from plastic @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social 💙🤍
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Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
September 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
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HT @matthew-rice.bsky.social always good to be reminded of this
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154788...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154788...
Happiness
I'm near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that passes for thought. It's early in the morning, and they are doing this thing together.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
HT @matthew-rice.bsky.social always good to be reminded of this
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154788...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154788...
Thank you for the lovely early mini review! 🙏❤️
PLASTIC HAS LANDED and it looks like Northern Ireland's answer to Elf Uhr
OOH Spring 2026 catlogue from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Matthew Rice: plastic (poetry from a plastic moulding factory. SOLD no word of a lie)
NEW JEREMY COOPER "Discord" (sounds AMAZING)new Polly Barton (YASS)
new Brian Dillon!
new Keith Ridgway!
and loads more
Matthew Rice: plastic (poetry from a plastic moulding factory. SOLD no word of a lie)
NEW JEREMY COOPER "Discord" (sounds AMAZING)new Polly Barton (YASS)
new Brian Dillon!
new Keith Ridgway!
and loads more
September 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Thank you for the lovely early mini review! 🙏❤️
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Dear #MSNBC hire back @matthewjdowd.bsky.social and make a public apology to him.
September 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Dear #MSNBC hire back @matthewjdowd.bsky.social and make a public apology to him.
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So Kilmeade issues a weak apology about giving homeless people lethal injections and Fox just moves on with zero consequences. As usual.
September 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
So Kilmeade issues a weak apology about giving homeless people lethal injections and Fox just moves on with zero consequences. As usual.
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A Palestinian child helping her family evacuate from their house that is about to be bombed by Israel.
This girl has lost her father during the genocide.
This girl has lost her father during the genocide.
September 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A Palestinian child helping her family evacuate from their house that is about to be bombed by Israel.
This girl has lost her father during the genocide.
This girl has lost her father during the genocide.