Jim Lawrence

Print in blue and white looking up to a large bird flying in tbe sky which is in a space between the canopy of a forest

'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker  Janis Goodman #WomensArt

Resting Bitch Face comes out in just a FEW months with an August 26th release (and don't forget, it's a September pick for Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club)! Want me to come read in your city, talk to your students, perform at your school/venue, chat about my work? Email me!!

South Side (I) This is what teaches me love. Your streets, their wailing for their dead. The way a siren becomes a mother too. How my parents hold me like some frail thing to their chests at night, how quick they are to cover my ears when the block gets hot. The handshake half-hug sacred enough to make a man feel whole again. The shapeshifting, how what looks like a thug in darkness softens into a boy in the gold- glow of a bedside lamp. How we are all somebody's grandbaby. Harold's Chicken steeped in so much hot sauce, the nose runs, and the small piece of bread too wet to hold, drowning beneath the fries. Each of our brownstones, side by side— so there's nowhere to run, nowhere for us to cry.

Taylor Byas 💙

from I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull Press)

Day 10 - #SealeyChallenge

@taylorbyas.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Here' the complete stanza #75 for my translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

By the end, he's just a touch manic!

#alliterative #poetry #SirGawain #GreenKnight #medievalsky #poetrysky #rpic #poem #translation #alliterativeverse

Based on my last month or two of posting you might not know this, but I'm actually an artist.

Who is not opposed to you buying some art.

It's homophobic to point out that PIP is annoying and boring? I support your opinion!

Yes Please!

I'm new to Sean Bonney, Lucy. Which one of these would you recommend?

4 Sean Bonney books - top lhs Red and white cover of Our Death with silhouette of dancer, top rhs Blade Pitch Control Unit with lit office building, bottom lhs letters against the firmament with black and white illustrations, bottom rhs Happiness (Poems After Rimbaud) black and red cover with photo of young woman in black and white on the cover.

Day 6 (Blade Pitch Control Unit), day 7 Happiness (Poems after Rimbaud), Day 8 Our Death, day 9 (today) Letters Against the Firmament. I've been on a Sean Bonney binge for #sealeychallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #poetrysky

Milestone – Niall M Oliver Milestone . . Niall M Oliver resides in Ireland with his wife and sons. His poems have appeared in Acumen, Atrium, The Honest Ulsterman, and he is the author of ‘We Will Eat Breakfast With Our Chil…

Milestone - Niall M Oliver @nmoliverpoetry.bsky.social
atriumpoetry.com/2025/08/08/m...

This is the future the communists want. #TheArchers

Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds by Lawrence English on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 8 Songs

Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds by @room40.bsky.social

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#experimentalmusic #ambientmusic

I can't believe it's two years since the ferrets' wheel.

'What's a ferrets' wheel?'
'It's a Ferris wheel for ferrets.'
'...oh, OK.'

#TheArchers

This is how I flirt.

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

If you’re in the Portsmouth area you can catch a specially adapted version of my Scooby-Doo live show ZOINKS! on Tuesday 23 September, 7.30pm, at Hunter Gatherer Coffee. This show is part of HolmesFest.

Tickets and more info on this link

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zoinks-the...

Haddock lol #haddock

All Yesterday’s Parties: Social Democracy & Left Populism In the U.S.

All Yesterday’s Parties: Social Democracy & Left Populism In the U.S.

Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World (Gift Article) The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.

@lotusbearer.bsky.social Been meaning to share this with you. An engrossing listen, with lashings of birding.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

I guess that's kind of true.

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future.

Will your posts open with 'Picture the scene...'?

Goodnight from the Great Orlando, exhausted by a shift on Blaxwich Pier peeping around the corners of time to tell day-trippers their fortunes. Goodnight from Molly Cogg, collecting haunted driftwood at Winterhorn Cove so she can make a spirit-freeing bonefire. Goodnight from Hookland.

The foyer at Cinema Galeries in Brussels. On the left, a couple sits beneath an arched alcove. On the right, four people stand around and talk. The lighting is rather nice.

Korean Film Festival at Cinema Galeries (2015) photograph by Anne Billson

Tyneside morning, 1950, photo by Harry Morrison.

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

I have heard much Rumour asseverating that yon Barstow be a vicinage just beyond whose Boundaries the unwary Traveller may find himself Belabour'd by the fell black Wings of 'God-Damme Bats'.

#poetsofbluesky

Disgraceful, the kind of behaviour I'd expect from a cat.