Syd Meats
@sydmeats.bsky.social
Syd Meats has performed at events and festivals around the UK. He has been shortlisted for Verve’s Poem of the Month (April 2025, Oct 2025) and Highly Commended in the Charm Poetry Prize (May 2025). He is half of Panda Harmonium Duo, Panda-monium.
I am excited to be the guest poet for Oxford Poetry Library's Spoken Word Open Mic Night on Tues 6th January. Theme: The Surreal.
7pm for 7:30pm. £5 / £2 concs / performers free.
The Community Works OX1 1HU. Entrance on Becket Street.
7pm for 7:30pm. £5 / £2 concs / performers free.
The Community Works OX1 1HU. Entrance on Becket Street.
December 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I am excited to be the guest poet for Oxford Poetry Library's Spoken Word Open Mic Night on Tues 6th January. Theme: The Surreal.
7pm for 7:30pm. £5 / £2 concs / performers free.
The Community Works OX1 1HU. Entrance on Becket Street.
7pm for 7:30pm. £5 / £2 concs / performers free.
The Community Works OX1 1HU. Entrance on Becket Street.
Antosh Wojcik presents an excellent poetry podcast for ArtfulScribe There have been 6 episodes so far, and I recommend all of them. I'm thrilled to be featured in the latest one, with a recording of my 3-way ekphrastic poem from 2024.
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Their Crude Materials
Podcast Episode · LifeJacket · 11/12/2025 · 18m
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December 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Antosh Wojcik presents an excellent poetry podcast for ArtfulScribe There have been 6 episodes so far, and I recommend all of them. I'm thrilled to be featured in the latest one, with a recording of my 3-way ekphrastic poem from 2024.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
Thanks to Stewart and Hayley at Verve for shortlisting my poem She’s In A Better Place. It’s my second appearance in Poem Of The Month since the competition began in April 2025! Congratulations to winner P.A. Erskine and the other runners up.
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OCTOBER Poems of the Month
An anthology of presence, and disappearance.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Thanks to Stewart and Hayley at Verve for shortlisting my poem She’s In A Better Place. It’s my second appearance in Poem Of The Month since the competition began in April 2025! Congratulations to winner P.A. Erskine and the other runners up.
open.substack.com/pub/vervepoe...
open.substack.com/pub/vervepoe...
An honourable mention today in the Wetherby Comedy Poem Competition. Congrats to the winners and the other runners up!
October 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
An honourable mention today in the Wetherby Comedy Poem Competition. Congrats to the winners and the other runners up!
Thanks to Alan Buckley for placing my poem We Play The Music of Food in the Highly Commended category for the Charm Poetry Prize. You can read the competition report at www.charmpoetrycompetition.com/p/competitio...
Competition Report 2025
Charm Poetry Competition 2025 Judge’s Report “ I must not pretend that I know what it [a poem] is, but one thing I do know about i...
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June 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Thanks to Alan Buckley for placing my poem We Play The Music of Food in the Highly Commended category for the Charm Poetry Prize. You can read the competition report at www.charmpoetrycompetition.com/p/competitio...
I have seen Flaubert’s parrot!
March 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I have seen Flaubert’s parrot!
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“Is it loud?”
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
February 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“Is it loud?”
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
Do bags of desiccant arrive in the post with additional bags of desiccant to keep them dry? Or are they shipped with bags of moisture to maintain the balance of things?
February 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Do bags of desiccant arrive in the post with additional bags of desiccant to keep them dry? Or are they shipped with bags of moisture to maintain the balance of things?
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A reader writes…
“The last time I made a submission to Private Eye was in 1968, when I was 15 years old. I received this wonderful response which I still treasure:”
JOHN CLIVE
“The last time I made a submission to Private Eye was in 1968, when I was 15 years old. I received this wonderful response which I still treasure:”
JOHN CLIVE
January 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A reader writes…
“The last time I made a submission to Private Eye was in 1968, when I was 15 years old. I received this wonderful response which I still treasure:”
JOHN CLIVE
“The last time I made a submission to Private Eye was in 1968, when I was 15 years old. I received this wonderful response which I still treasure:”
JOHN CLIVE
I saw a secondhand camera labelled ‘Pentax AF’ and I wondered exactly *how* Pentax something can be. Apparently it was auto focus!
January 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I saw a secondhand camera labelled ‘Pentax AF’ and I wondered exactly *how* Pentax something can be. Apparently it was auto focus!
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I can confirm we will finally have the last episode the poetry podcast, Eat the Storms, this saturday and it’s such a joy to have with us once again Vicky Allen reading from her new poetry collection Wonder Lines 🙏😉💙
January 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I can confirm we will finally have the last episode the poetry podcast, Eat the Storms, this saturday and it’s such a joy to have with us once again Vicky Allen reading from her new poetry collection Wonder Lines 🙏😉💙
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Love this Hannah Ledlie list poem for the way it makes you gleefully imagine the Queen doing all of the things. More fun in poetry, please :)
January 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Love this Hannah Ledlie list poem for the way it makes you gleefully imagine the Queen doing all of the things. More fun in poetry, please :)
Does only the mind boggle? Does anything else boggle?
January 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Does only the mind boggle? Does anything else boggle?
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Driving a car as a metaphor for living in a foreign country.
First published in The Rialto, this poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
First published in The Rialto, this poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
January 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Driving a car as a metaphor for living in a foreign country.
First published in The Rialto, this poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
First published in The Rialto, this poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
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Teaching on A. R. Ammons today, and his focus on poetry that "leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.” (The poem below first appeared in Poetry magazine - July 1967.)
January 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Teaching on A. R. Ammons today, and his focus on poetry that "leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.” (The poem below first appeared in Poetry magazine - July 1967.)
Did you know that the term ‘mansplain’ derives from a combination of the words ‘man’ and ‘explain’?
January 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Did you know that the term ‘mansplain’ derives from a combination of the words ‘man’ and ‘explain’?
Thurs 27 March at Arc: As part of RAW Winchester, Panda-monium and Stewart Taylor present Mind Games. Follow the link below for details and tickets.
www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/panda-...
www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/panda-...
Panda-monium and friends 'Mind Games' | The Arc, Winchester
Panda-monium’s Mind Games will be fun, interactive and appeal to people of all ages, cultures & backgrounds. It’s all about getting happy through song, spoken word, and holistic Panda activities.
www.arcwinchester.org.uk
January 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thurs 27 March at Arc: As part of RAW Winchester, Panda-monium and Stewart Taylor present Mind Games. Follow the link below for details and tickets.
www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/panda-...
www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/panda-...
