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You know what happened a month ago today? Tens of millions of us got a powerful chance to have our views about politicians, policies and politics. People claiming their views are ignored had their chance. It just turned out millions of the rest of us don't share their views.

Farage, Musk, Tate, Trump, Yaxley-Lennon, et al: there's not a spark of creativity between them. They make nothing. They are nothing. Their g(r)ift is to bully, cheat, incite, manipulate, misinform, degrade, destroy. That's all. They're not worth an inch of space in our lives.

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Do not look away

A truly haunting image… back and forth they are moved. Through a landscape that’s ever more unbelievable.

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Admirably mad...

Thanks to everyone who joined me - in part or in full -in 'rewalking' this seventy-mile, thirty-five-hour journey. The full thread (129 tweets) is embedded below.

Artist friends, are any of you living with this condition? All quite sudden and alarming. and nothing to be done, apparently. How has it affected your work? Can you still work? Do you get used to it? #posteriorvitreousdetachment

cos *fash*

In the first episode of the new series of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast to be released on Mon 16 Sept I talk to ⁦Fay Musselwhite⁩ about David Jones’ WW1 poem In Parenthesis and how it influenced ‘Memoir of a Working River’ from her ebullient collection Contraflow Longbarrow Press

This, this... benighted Blighty.

Rosie Duffield gets money from both GB news and Unherd, as well as accepting 10k private donations. That's a pretty lowland moral highground she's got going there.

NEXT: Kemi Badenoch declares that ‘there are too many shoddy live Fall albums’

'Sage' is on display at the Graves Gallery, Sheffield, until December, alongside some excellent work by Prunella Clough, Tess Jaray, Bridget Riley, and others. Highly recommend Lubna Chowdhary’s PLURIVERSE exhibition (til 21 December) at the Graves too.

As we prepare to launch series 3, you can buy titles series 1 and 2 as part of a 2-4-1 offer—buy ne title and we will slip a surprise other into your package. If you already have some series 1 or 2 titles, add a note saying which one and we'll make sure the extra is different.

🧵 Series 3 is here, box fresh and ready to be launched at Small Publishers Fair at the end of the month. Nine titles from Akeem Balogun (with illustrations by Thomas Fowler), @derekbeaulieu , Clee Claire Lee...

We are so happy to be back at Small Publishers this year. Free to all, two days of readings and talks, a special exhibition, and 63 UK and international independent and artist publishers.

Big thanks to Dunlin Press for inviting me to write for their new anthology, and further to read my piece at Small Publishers Fair . This Saturday at Conway Hall, Bloomsbury.