Adam Barrett

Thank you both!

Adam Barrett - The First Thirty Years EP | Broken Sleep Books Adam Barrett’s The First Thirty Years EP is a taut, propulsive collection that fuses poetic memoir with political indictment, navigating masculinity, class, and grief through the lens of North East En...

My debut pamphlet, The First Thirty Years EP, is out now. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

'Barrett writes with formal agility and emotional charge, drawing lines between private collapse and public failure without sacrificing lyrical control.'

I’ve abandoned this for a while.

This week my debut poetry pamphlet comes out with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. Please buy, read it, take a photo of it and post it, whatever you can to support writers and small presses.

Can't wait to see this develop. Shout out @newwritingnorth.bsky.social

I love you Durham but fuck me. We could have kept Darren Grimes in his ma’s basement.

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📚 In a survey by The Bookseller a staggering 78% of working-class authors said their background had hindered their career. [1]

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It cured a real slump I was in with my writing. I just couldn't sit and write at my laptop and so gave it a try and have done it since.

I can only write first drafts longhand. Then typing them up becomes a huge part of the editing process.

Hi you lovely muggy boneheads.

I've joined Bluesky.

Isn't this wonderful!

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#BritishBookAwards

Holding a sign or refusing to clap as Trump walks past isn’t resistance. It’s a pathetic attempt to get your face on social media, especially when many of those ‘resisting’ are appalled by the treatment of Ukraine but are more than happy to see Israel kill children.

People who aren't fans of wrestling have woken up today thinking it was a normal weekend, blissfully unaware that John Cena is a horrible man.

CM Punk wearing a teachers’ union tee on WWE on Netflix… voice of the voiceless.

Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately

30% of arts leaders in England were privately educated, compared with 7% national average. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

'Guardians of Western Civilisation' hahahahahahahahahahahahaha fucking hell hahahahahahahaha

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Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life

Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures

Insane longlist. Great to see Northern writers getting some well-deserved love for their work!

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Nothing punk about anything this man does. He's like the kid at a house party when you're 16 who shows up when you did everything to avoid them finding out about it.

Thank you for discovering top writers in the North!

Read this in two sittings. A harrowing exploration of how people can descend into unspeakable evil and one I’ll be recommending from now on. @northodoxpress.bsky.social

Beautiful place. Alnwick Gardens, Castle etc., but then Barter Books, too!

Alnwick

WE WON'T BE HOME FOR TEA

And also…

For #ReadIndies

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February is #ReadIndies month - read books from small independent publishers.

So… here’s a few to follow:

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Saltburn – Renard Press May the residents of the real Saltburn-by-the-Sea and neighbouring towns forgive my mermaids, my nuclear power stations, my foetus museums and so on and so on. They were written with love. Welcome to ...

And as well as being a supporter of Indie Presses for years. I might just have my own book out with an indie press in February.

Saltburn.

Book your visit now.

It’s a place you’ll never forget.

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Well this is minging.

Wow, look, they all seem to have a certain look, dont they?

Maybe it's cultural.

WE NEED A NATIONAL INQUIRY ANYTHING LESS IS A COVER-UP.