@nick-allen-poet.bsky.social
More impeccable genius from Fosse. 100 pages, in 3 parts. Everyone has at least 2 names they are known by.
A man leaves a small fishing village In his boat in search of a good needle and some black thread to sew a couple of loose buttons
Love story, a ghost story, a story of
whims.
Wonderful
A man leaves a small fishing village In his boat in search of a good needle and some black thread to sew a couple of loose buttons
Love story, a ghost story, a story of
whims.
Wonderful
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
More impeccable genius from Fosse. 100 pages, in 3 parts. Everyone has at least 2 names they are known by.
A man leaves a small fishing village In his boat in search of a good needle and some black thread to sew a couple of loose buttons
Love story, a ghost story, a story of
whims.
Wonderful
A man leaves a small fishing village In his boat in search of a good needle and some black thread to sew a couple of loose buttons
Love story, a ghost story, a story of
whims.
Wonderful
The magnificent BinJuice
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The magnificent BinJuice
Vote. Vote soon. Vote yes.
The UNISON Higher Education pay ballot closes this FRIDAY 28TH! 🚨
Ballots must be received by Friday, so post today or tomorrow to ensure your vote is counted and your voice is heard.
The union recommends a YES vote to show the employer we reject another year of real-terms pay cuts.
Ballots must be received by Friday, so post today or tomorrow to ensure your vote is counted and your voice is heard.
The union recommends a YES vote to show the employer we reject another year of real-terms pay cuts.
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Vote. Vote soon. Vote yes.
Great to have a poem in this excellent anthology, alongside the work of 60 or so fine poets.
Buy your copy from Fig Tree (Crooked Spire Press)
Buy your copy from Fig Tree (Crooked Spire Press)
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Great to have a poem in this excellent anthology, alongside the work of 60 or so fine poets.
Buy your copy from Fig Tree (Crooked Spire Press)
Buy your copy from Fig Tree (Crooked Spire Press)
Today "hope" is being brought by the letter “Z”:
Zitouni
Zohran
&
Zack
(pronounced "zed" thank you very much)
Zitouni
Zohran
&
Zack
(pronounced "zed" thank you very much)
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Today "hope" is being brought by the letter “Z”:
Zitouni
Zohran
&
Zack
(pronounced "zed" thank you very much)
Zitouni
Zohran
&
Zack
(pronounced "zed" thank you very much)
All best wishes to Samir Zitouni: what public spirit, what bravery.
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
All best wishes to Samir Zitouni: what public spirit, what bravery.
vote yes.
Voting in the higher education ballot is the only way we can do anything about the latest pay offer. Every vote counts, so don’t miss your chance to have your say. VOTE YES for strike action 💜 @UNISONinHE
www.unison.org.uk/hepay2526/
www.unison.org.uk/hepay2526/
Higher Education Pay 2025/26 | UNISON National
There is a major crisis within higher education. After years of low pay, below inflation offers and with the continuing cost of living crisis – your pay
www.unison.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
vote yes.
Vote against another pay cut!
🚨 We are balloting members in higher education over this years pay offer. Voting YES for strike action sends a strong message to your employers that you deserve more for your hard work.
More info: www.unison.org.uk/hepay2526/
@UNISONinHE
More info: www.unison.org.uk/hepay2526/
@UNISONinHE
Higher Education Pay 2025/26 | UNISON National
There is a major crisis within higher education. After years of low pay, below inflation offers and with the continuing cost of living crisis – your pay
www.unison.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Vote against another pay cut!
So… Fitzcaraldo had a sale … (there’s a couple more to come)
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
So… Fitzcaraldo had a sale … (there’s a couple more to come)
Art on t’moors
October 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Art on t’moors
Quietly devastating: quiet then devastating.
Brilliant novel.
Brilliant novel.
September 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Quietly devastating: quiet then devastating.
Brilliant novel.
Brilliant novel.
Join us.
Mark your calendars‼️
On Saturday 11th October at 12:30, Leeds Stand Up To Racism are organising a Refugees Welcome demonstration outside Leeds Art Gallery.
Say No to the far right and No to reform. Refugees are welcome here! ✊
On Saturday 11th October at 12:30, Leeds Stand Up To Racism are organising a Refugees Welcome demonstration outside Leeds Art Gallery.
Say No to the far right and No to reform. Refugees are welcome here! ✊
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Join us.
Know your enemy
September 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Know your enemy
Apparently amongst “at least” 20,000 books at his home, Cormac McCarthy had 33 copies of Moby Dick.
August 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Apparently amongst “at least” 20,000 books at his home, Cormac McCarthy had 33 copies of Moby Dick.
“Self-elegy is an established genre in Classical Arabic poetry… the living “I” bids farewell to its imagined dying other.”
From XVI, on Gaza: “You wonder: what kind of a linguistic or legal wunderkind could formulate a peace treaty and good neighbourliness between a palace and a shack?”
Luminous
From XVI, on Gaza: “You wonder: what kind of a linguistic or legal wunderkind could formulate a peace treaty and good neighbourliness between a palace and a shack?”
Luminous
August 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
“Self-elegy is an established genre in Classical Arabic poetry… the living “I” bids farewell to its imagined dying other.”
From XVI, on Gaza: “You wonder: what kind of a linguistic or legal wunderkind could formulate a peace treaty and good neighbourliness between a palace and a shack?”
Luminous
From XVI, on Gaza: “You wonder: what kind of a linguistic or legal wunderkind could formulate a peace treaty and good neighbourliness between a palace and a shack?”
Luminous
Returned from Canada with rather more books than intended…
August 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Returned from Canada with rather more books than intended…
Thunderbird
July 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Thunderbird
Spectacular debut novel: 200 pages of good v evil in 1950s Jamaica.
The village has a drunk for a preacher, he is fall-down piss yourself drunk in public much of the time. One day Apostle York arrives from nowhere to drive the Rum Preacher out of town and set the people back on the righteous path.
The village has a drunk for a preacher, he is fall-down piss yourself drunk in public much of the time. One day Apostle York arrives from nowhere to drive the Rum Preacher out of town and set the people back on the righteous path.
July 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Spectacular debut novel: 200 pages of good v evil in 1950s Jamaica.
The village has a drunk for a preacher, he is fall-down piss yourself drunk in public much of the time. One day Apostle York arrives from nowhere to drive the Rum Preacher out of town and set the people back on the righteous path.
The village has a drunk for a preacher, he is fall-down piss yourself drunk in public much of the time. One day Apostle York arrives from nowhere to drive the Rum Preacher out of town and set the people back on the righteous path.
early headland with
back to a rock, collar up
writing fresh poems
back to a rock, collar up
writing fresh poems
July 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
early headland with
back to a rock, collar up
writing fresh poems
back to a rock, collar up
writing fresh poems
Covered bridge, Golden BC
July 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Covered bridge, Golden BC
This is an outstanding short novel - but you have to not mind getting up to your elbows in gore. A family house deep in the mountains and the woods in Catalonia. There is witchcraft and devil summoning.
Fluid, beautiful, ugly, deranged and unputdownable. Essentially Angela Carter meets GG Marquez.
Fluid, beautiful, ugly, deranged and unputdownable. Essentially Angela Carter meets GG Marquez.
July 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is an outstanding short novel - but you have to not mind getting up to your elbows in gore. A family house deep in the mountains and the woods in Catalonia. There is witchcraft and devil summoning.
Fluid, beautiful, ugly, deranged and unputdownable. Essentially Angela Carter meets GG Marquez.
Fluid, beautiful, ugly, deranged and unputdownable. Essentially Angela Carter meets GG Marquez.