Poet @poetrybusiness and Mariscat. Co-director and editor at Worple Press for over 20 years. Creative writing tutor @arvonfoundation. Bowiephile.

Joined January 2016
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It seems impossible that someone as vital as Benjamin is gone. RIP, great soul
RIP to the great #BenjaminZephaniah 🕊🙏🏿 One of Britain’s most prolific literary voices. We lost a legend today. Sending our deepest condolences out to his family & friends.
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Peter Carpenter retweeted
RIP Benjamin Zephaniah. I read with him once in Huddersfield and he was gracious to me who nobody there had come to hear. He helped cut a path for later poets of colour and could use humour well to make his point, as in this Xmas poem: benjaminzephaniah.com/books/…
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Bach's Aria and Variation 1 from the 2023 OPUS Klassik Awards at the Konzerthaus Berlin, with @DGClassics 🎶 Watch the full performance on YouTube 🎥 youtu.be/2iFXB7o9Au0?si=83-d…
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Sellafield: ‘bottomless pit of hell, money and despair’ at Europe’s most toxic nuclear site The latest estimate for cleaning up the Britain’s nuclear sites is £263bn, of which Sellafield is by far the biggest proportion. However, adjustments to its...1/2 theguardian.com/business/202…
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Peter Carpenter retweeted
‘The Exceedingly Tiny Bookshop’ my cartoon for today's @GuardianBooks / @GdnSaturday. Let's support good bookshops of all sizes, either locally or online.
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Peter Carpenter retweeted
Popped in to the wonderful ⁦@jambookshopuk⁩ yesterday to catch the ⁦@tonyhusband1⁩ tribute. It’s the go-to emporium for graphic novels, cartoon books and illustration . So go to! #books #graphicnovels #cartoons
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Celebrate with me 125 years of @DGClassics with the most beautiful classical music in the world. Tune in to DG's classical radio station on Amazon Music ... "Alexa, play Deutsche Grammophon"!
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Peter Carpenter retweeted
“I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now…” Philip #Larkin, died 2 December 1985 #death #poem
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Peter Carpenter retweeted
Coming soon to BBC1… #bbcpanorama @BBCPanorama
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Due to demand, @coronettheatre has released a limited number of standing tickets for Autumn Journal - starring Éanna Hardwicke - this Sunday. 🍂 #LouisMacNeice was a Northern Irish poet. #AutumnJournal, his masterpiece, describes his response to a season of intense anxiety…
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Peter Carpenter retweeted
Local fantastic poet Clare Shaw @ShareClaw leading this poetry workshop at Heptonstall Museum @MuseumFriends ~ poetry + mudlarking...cake! This Saturday ~ eventbrite.co.uk/e/message-i…
Message in a Bottle: join us in Heptonstall Museum on 2nd December for unique festive gift buying, poetry, refreshments - and sheer unbridled enjoyment of local heritage, habitat and creativity!
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From lines submitted, we've made a Scottish People's Address to World Leaders. Fellow poet Niall Campbell joined me for an inaugural reading at @PTBOpoetry. The poem will be launched on Friday, St Andrew's Day.
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How glad I am to have chosen this seat, opposite this poem. Poetry says more by saying less…and today it speaks to me especially powerfully, at a time of deep sadness and despair.
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#SizewellC site this morning. Dune has retreated six feet, more in places, in one weekend surge. #StopSizewellC
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NO place for a #nuclear power station! Serious erosion next to the #SizewellC site this weekend. Left is the "tank traps" in October this year, which we thought was bad.... on the right is how the same spot looks today. Sea incursion and tons of dune washed away! #StopSizewellC
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Heading towards a wee collection of work being made available - if you’d like to know when please ✍️for studio notes on the website, thanks! I’ll be sending out details soon.
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Peter Carpenter retweeted
Floods at Lewes, Eric Ravilious, 1935. The original artwork appears to be in a private collection but has been on display at @TownerGallery I believe. #Sussex #EastSussex #SouthDowns
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Peter Carpenter retweeted
Thanks to Graeme Richardson @thetimes for picking out from 'the year's best poetry collections' Contraflow, the anthology of Englishness @KevinGardner520 and I edited, from the excellent @renardpress + introduction by @IMcMillan - looks beautiful too, the ideal #Christmas gift
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