Joshua Idehen

Hey Beautiful People

Tonight, @forwardprizes.bsky.social takes place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Mum Does The Washing is up for Best Single Poem Performed. Whatever happens, I'm so proud of it, and so humbled and frankly gassed at how far it's flown.

Have a great Sunday everyone.

Interview | Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed: Bella Cox and Joshua Idehen - The London Magazine Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Poetry 2025, poets Bella Cox and Joshua Idehen discuss each other's work.

'There's an interpersonal feeling that poetry does so well, where you think you’re having a solitary experience, but then you write it down and perform it, and someone's like, no, me too!'

@bellacox.bsky.social and @joshuaidehen.bsky.social in conversation: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-fo...

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And I've mentioned this before but @joshuaidehen.bsky.social taps right into this... "REAL abundance"? vibe.

It's right there in our hands, it always was.

The liberal elite delusion that police are broadly on the side of truth and justice has put us all in existential danger.

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New single and video from @joshuaidehen.bsky.social, hot on the heels of his Jools Holland performance.

Josh has a phone conversation between his London and Stockholm selves.

youtu.be/2yzrDWCzPh8?...

Hey Beautiful People

My debut album

I Know You're Hurting
Everybody's Hurting
Everybody's Trying
You Have Got To Try

Is coming via @heavenlyrecordings.bsky.social March 6, 2026. Here is a snippet of a video for the first single It Always Was

Hey ya
I'm on Jools Holland this Sunday 10pm UK time. Come through

What a plot twist

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Have you got a digital copy of this film? Can you send to me? Can't find it anywhere

Joshua Idehen on ‘Mum Does the Washing’ and the –isms that shape us The British-born Nigerian poet and musician discusses working across formats, the risks of political art, and the lesson he's taking from Dolly Parton.

"If I'm convincing men that it's okay to talk about stuff and it's okay to feel and I'm showing them a glimpse of what a better world can look like, then I'm winning," @joshuaidehen.bsky.social tells @reuters.com in our latest Culture Current.

Read the full Q&A: www.reuters.com/lifestyle/jo...

I’m gonna be honest.

I was whelmed by Superman. Felt like I was watching the second, actiony half of a decent super hero movie.

Pack it up guys, forced diversity is real

I would argue the best hitman film would not have hitman as the main character.

He’s Freddy Kruger but all his victims are dicks.

Make an assassin slasher type movie where a bunch of billionaire class types die horribly despite their best efforts not to.

He'll be with the Toronto Symphony at @roythomsonhall.bsky.social come July, Beck is on Night Music tonight!
Tunes from Pavement, Amy Millan, Murray A. Lightburn, July Talk, Dream Academy, Wall of Voodoo & @joshuaidehen.bsky.social too. #Algorithmfree

8 on @indie88toronto.bsky.social
📸 L. Dukoff

Today on the podcast I’m talking to the mighty @joshuaidehen.bsky.social. We chat about what impacts our self esteem, how Josh got into poetry, good and bad teachers, and how to speak to children about their achievements. Great chat! Lots of fun! Subscribe/listen wherever you get your poddies! 🛁🎙️

Happy Mothers Day
(USA edition)(Except the mothers who voted from Trump)

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Happy Mother's Day to all moms in the USA. Please, if you have time in your no doubt busy schedule, take a few mins to listen to this excellent allegoryical song about the value of women's work. It's also fun, I promise. #speirgorm #mothersday @joshuaidehen.bsky.social youtu.be/PS9Bc_GQBEs?...

I'm supporting Baxter Dury on his November tour. Will be really nice, that

It kinda seems like they all felt pain because he did, which suggests they all died because he did and the sun aided the demise... Except did with plot armour

SPOILER FOR SINNERS

I have a question
When Michael B Jordan killed the main vampire and ask the other vampires died... Whyyyyy didn't his brother?

Went to see @joshuaidehen.bsky.social perform last night - first night out since my mastectomy. Didn’t know there’d be so much DANCING. Loved every minute. Life affirming stuff ❤️

Last Week @joshuaidehen.bsky.social didn’t just walk on Brighton water he danced on the wall #Patterns #LudwigParment with the sone sweet sweet sax sounds 🎹 #BigWednesday I cannot recommend enough to go see them live - I am still smiling and still dancing Brighton loves you come back 🔜

Joyous @joshuaidehen.bsky.social at Patterns tonight. Quite possibly the gig of the year. #MumDoesTheWashing

There has never been a better time to live in a left wing echo chamber. There is not one idea that has come from the right in decades that deserves respect or even rebuttal. We are living on a warming planet with actual problems and none of them are solved by regressing into imagined cultural safety

Jo! Glad you made it to sanctuary

My tik tok was hacked
So fuck it. Let them have it. Here's a chance to reintroduce myself

Hi, I'm Joshua Idehen. I do poetry with music sometimes. Follow me here

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