Stories that travel across time. Conversations that stay with you.
Join us at KSLF 2026 for a celebration of ideas, literature and meaningful dialogue.
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On @bbcradio4 discussing Virginia Woolf (& my new book) - 100 years since Woolf's On Being Ill so alongside the brilliant @steinkedarcey I pick my fave lines of Woolf's to read from this beautiful reissue by @renardpress - also discuss parallels to my soilnets (muddied sonnets) rendered here as poem-sculpture. Full program (incl. announcing new climate change commission I'm presently involved in between Met Office, Exeter Uni & @guillemotpress .. hence the fuzzy line, zooming from Met Office HQ in Exeter.. 🌤) on BBC Sounds:
/programmes/m002w5z2
Soilnet 18
I keep a vial of soil beside my bed —
a tiny globe of cork to plug the glass.
Its scent uproots the thistles in my head
with grounding memories of mud and grass.
Some days, I find it hard to quarry on —
to excavate more timestone from this earth.
I snuff until my prickling thoughts are gone
and scrubland brain is lined alush with turf.
Each soil nub guides me with its nose for light —
a small brown nudge to see beyond the weeds.
They press like mine against the pane of night,
exhaling hope when browning heart-mulch bleeds.
So long as soil can’t breathe nor siltspawn be,
I’ll write to crack the code that sets us free.
@faberbooks (only 1 sonnet, still editing, rest more wild / experimental)
#poetry #sculpture #natureart #soilart landart
Saltburn is now available as an ebook.
‘A literary Naked Gun’
‘echoes of Bukowski, Hunter S Thompson and Burroughs’
‘an English Vonnegut’
All for about a fiver.
Available from wherever you buy your ebooks.
For this month’s #shufflingtheshelves we’re delighted to reintroduce you to @alexhumphreystv ’s Playing with Reality: #Gaming in a Pandemic. We chatted to Alex last week about the inspiration for the book and what went on behind the screens…
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‘Playing Zelda: Breath of the Wild was like therapy, and I realised immediately that there must have been others who were being helped by games. So I started looking into it online, reading other people’s stories...’
(link in bio to Shuffling to read on →)
#bookstagram #gamingbooks #videogame
Delighted to put some joy back into today and declare open the #RegenerationPoetry project, an open call exploring people and nature 🌱🍃
Calling all #poets, send us your #naturepoems!
Link in bio
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Competition opens on Friday 8th May 2026
Closes on Sunday 28th June 2026.
Entry cost: free
Open to: anyone, anywhere, any age.
1st prize: £200
2nd prize: £100
Special mentions at the judges’ discretion.
Welcoming back the wonderful judges of previous years, @miriamhalahmyauthor@tom_denbigh@reshma_ruia_writer and @willhdady
#poetsofinstagram #writingcommunity
Such a delicious evening with @guilbertbaptiste and translator Trask Roberts at the iconic @bricklanebookshop last night – a few snaps here from a reading in French and English… Marseille might be out of reach this Friday, but Queer Marseille can come to you! Signed copies available while stocks last @bricklanebookshop in person and on our website 🙌
Wonderful to attend the launch of AT THE END OF THE SIDEWALKS, Trask Robert’s translation of the striking queer bildungsroman by @guilbertbaptiste , at @bricklanebookshop tonight. Trask and Baptiste had a lively discussion about the challenges of bringing the French original’s wordplay into a new language, showing that while some of the decisions a translator makes are invisible, others will deliberately ‘slap you in the face’. I was particularly struck by Trask’s comment that he had opted for a mix of British and American English so that, like the narrator, no reader ever feels entirely at home in the text. Great to celebrate this first translation of a living author from my lovely publisher @renardpress #readtheworld #bookstagram
Just a few hours to go until the launch of this fantastic novel by @guilbertbaptiste , who will be in conversation with his translator Trask Roberts @bricklanebookshop at 7 (tix on their homepage) – we’re getting in the mood, so here’s a glance inside to set the scene…
Expect to be on the edge of your seat and meet Marseille anew. 🚤 🌊 🍆 😢
#bookstagram #queerbooks #frenchbookstagram
ℹ️Get to Know... Baptise Thery-Guilbert and 'At the End of the Sidewalks' (translated by Trask Roberts)
Baptiste will be at Brick Lane Bookshop on Thursday 7th May discussing his divine queer bildungsroman.
🎟️Tickets are available via the events link in our bio.
🔥 We asked Baptiste a few questions and got back a damn good response - read here!
Delighted to officially introduce you to Maybe the World Will End So We Won’t Have To, the glorious literary autofiction @bytashbell , out 1st Sept. 🖼️
#coverreveal #bookstagram #beautifulbooks #bookig
