My first poetry pamphlet is out now with Red Ceilings Press. I'm reading from it at the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford on Saturday 24th at 5pm.
Available to buy here: www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page...
Ian Hamilton Finlay quote in our community garden.
MES in the classical.
UK and European postal services have suspended delivery to the US because of Trump Tariffs.
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Did a bit of printing...
If you come to the Dusty Miller in Mytholmroyd on Sunday at 7:30 you can pick up a copy of this.
You can also hear Tom Branfoot, Becca Drake, Antony Rowland and me read some words.
80 years since the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And now we have nuclear weapons back in the UK.
Taking my dog on her last walk down the field. She was the final link in a chain going back nearly 20 years. The house is so empty with no dogs.
Or ask the Fitzwilliam if you can have a look at William Blake's spectacles?
Go and look at the dead Roman in the archaeology museum that Sylvia Plath wrote a poem about?
So.
Doing this.
Didn't get the full Albion Rose street mural done today, but this is a start 😃😃
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Nature hates a vacuum
I seem to have a studio in Hebden Bridge now.
Because it's how I feel
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Four years ago, reading Falling Awake by Alice Oswald as the sun came up over Wales.
Happy Blooms Day to all those who celebrate.
Dennis Gould.
First ink on the press in at least ten years. It's not perfect, but it's a lot less bad than it could be.
Restoring a 19th century printing press. Because William Blake would want us to.
It's in a mill on Albion Street.
Here's William Blake. He was friends with Samuel Palmer, who died on this day in 1881. This is an image of Blake's life mask that I took in the Fitzwilliam a while ago and have been playing with.
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Avebury today!
Reading with Tom Branfoot at the May Day celebration at the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford.
Sylvia Plath in the woods.
Reading at this on Sunday. It's going to be a good day!
Highly Commended in the World Curlew Day poetry competition!!!
There are worse places to stop for lunch...
Moving a Victorian printing press up three floors to the top of a mill.
Crazy people 😃!
Photos of Joan.
Reading from Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at the @1in12club.bsky.social this evening.