and suddenly you are the old – Steve Pottinger and suddenly you are the old . . Steve’s work regularly appears online in CultureMatters and Yorkshire Bylines, and he’s won prizes in a fistful of poetry competitions. His seventh volume of poems,…

and suddenly you are the old – Steve Pottinger @bigstevepoet.bsky.social

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If there is a point to being human, it probably is something stupid like writing poems and songs. So go write your book. Do your part.

Have just read Matthew Rice's Plastic so the first section was very much 'ah I'm reading more poetry about work!'

This is my weekend reading also - loving it so far

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So glad you liked it, had a crisis of confidence and nearly didn't send it!

Excited to have one of my rare forays into fiction appearing in this

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Two Poems by Jo Rigg The reassurance machine

Spending Sunday morning writing a poem attempting to unpick some of my feelings about technology. I had one published in the latest @frazzledlit.bsky.social as well www.frazzledlit.com/p/two-poems-.... Definitely a theme I keep returning to...

Would recommend picking up Necrosmologies while its on sale (or even if it wasn't)...alternate realities, strange creatures and an industrial setting, what more could you want?

Thanks Cole, glad you liked it

Issue 4 Has Landed! Welcome to our Spring 2026 issue!

I've got a couple of poems in the latest @frazzledlit.bsky.social which is a BUMPER issue...perfect reading for a cosy Sunday morning! www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha...

‘Well, here you are again with your plucked lurex tights’

Sally Baker in our Christmas winter anthology.

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Front cover of Issue 4 of Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social. We'll be launching the issue in nine days time, on the morning of January 11th, and boy, is it going to be a great issue!

Back cover coming tomorrow!

A bargain! Absolutely love this book

Visual Studio tends to ask me this right at the time I'm dealing with some weird bug or other. "Now is not the time to be needy VS"

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

The cover of the FUEL anthology of prize-winning flash fictions raising funds to fight fuel poverty, with a brightly-coloured petrol pump, and a banner on the right hand side saying "Ebook with 12 bonus prize-winning stories". Edited by Tania Hershman

Today is #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay so why not pick up a copy of the FUEL anthology of prizewinning flash fictions - it's a great read and profits go to four #fuelpoverty charities, including @nea.org.uk. The brand new ebook has 75+12 bonus stories = 87 flash stories! Buy here: www.fuelflash.net

Really interesting stuff: "the architecture of disordered discourse"...

Yeah a world away from Hit The North! A proper Fall baptism by fire that

:-). Second purchase was witch trials on tape...bought in your neck of the woods (on a trip to watch Burnley play) and then inflicted on my very tolerant Dad on the car ride home over the Pennines! I'm sure it was raining and dark, but maybe I'm imagining that for maximum Fall effect.

Probably maybe my favourite Fall album (today anyway)...certainly the first one I bought. A fine choice to start with.

The Rigg, Bingley, Yorkshire, painting by Jane Fielder. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

The energy I bring to social events: Ai is 💀 the planet and chat gpt is making you stupid

People love it

Today’s poem is selected by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

“It will all work out okay” appeared in High Lonesome by Allison Titus, published by Saturnalia Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Castlefield Carnival, Manchester, 1985 (Manchester Libraries).

It's a lovely thing! Looking forward to reading it (hopefully this weekend)

A pile of books and pamphlets

Been a good two days for post! TBR pile now quite large thanks to @taniahershman.bsky.social @thebraag.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Bring on the rainy weekend

I was glad I read it before I went for a run as it meant I could run off the crossness!

Yeah, mine also. She's fantastic and I'm totally despairing of Labour now :-(