Liam Bates 🚪
@liambatespoet
NWCDTP-funded PhD student @MMUEnglishDept / Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry winner / Human Townsperson out now https://tinyurl.com/y6b2zs5y
My debut poetry collection, Human Townsperson, is now available. I’m so grateful to everyone who helped make it happen. brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/l…
it’s gone. That sense of the ground I walk on — hear how my first land changed. With genocide.
One of my favourite poets @matthewzapruder is reading poems and talking about process with me online on Wednesday night - This is the first proper event of my residency, it’s pay what you can, and it would be amazing to see some familiar faces there 🙏 arvon.org/writing-course…
PREORDER (28.02.2025): Opening Line is a £3.99 poetry anthology built on the principle that access to the arts should not be a privilege. This anthology dismantles economic barriers that too often limit audiences from engaging with contemporary poetry. brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/o…
I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi. neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
Polite request for poems to wallow to, if you know any sad enough, please. Like, *really* sad. Advanced level Wallowing.
Has anyone else been teaching metre and discovered that the lyrics to the original English Pokémon theme tune are written in common metre, so anything in that metre can be sung to the same tune?
Poets in the North, get your applications in!
Win between £2k-5k to help develop your full-length poetry collection! ✍️ The #NorthernWritersAwards for Poetry are open to new & established poets based in the North of England. Winners will also receive access to a career support network. D/L 6 Feb: newwritingnorth.com/northern-write…
This is next Tuesday. If you fancy writing a load of poems before Christmas, join me… @arvonfoundation
Fancy a massive Christmas poemathon? If you came to this last year, come again! There will be ALL NEW exercises. It’s not a repeat, it’s a sequel. @arvonfoundation arvon.org/writing-course…
AND WE’RE ALL DONE! Thanks everyone for joining me on this wild ride. Please learn from my mistakes
PAID POETRY EDITING OPPORTUNITY I've been writing poems and have some funding to pay people to read and pass judgement on them. Anonymised applications are open till 14/11/24. Please share! forms.gle/yxTXo9SEpcpodL…
Ok, if you’re one of the below you have 24 hours to get in touch. The first claimant takes it (assuming I can verify your identity) ManateeHat00023 KeenEye02024 BlueCarrot80808 SharkJade81888 UnaccountableLasagne01138
PAID POETRY EDITING OPPORTUNITY I've been writing poems and have some funding to pay people to read and pass judgement on them. Anonymised applications are open till 14/11/24. Please share! forms.gle/yxTXo9SEpcpodL…
The Sufjan songs for Christmas are coming from inside the house
Okay, last time I'm trying this and if there are any unclaimed spots remaining by Thursday midday then I'll come up with a new plan! TeethBack89989 GuiltySpark93450 TurnipFiend71520 BananaMasala12345 Shandyship67842
PAID POETRY EDITING OPPORTUNITY I've been writing poems and have some funding to pay people to read and pass judgement on them. Anonymised applications are open till 14/11/24. Please share! forms.gle/yxTXo9SEpcpodL…
Bargain poetry collections!
It's time for the @LivUniPress Winter Sale! Use discount code 27WINTER for up to 50% off print and ebooks (including preorders of our new collections!). Sale runs Monday 2nd - Sunday 15th December, 2024. bit.ly/pavilionpoetry…
Unclaimed places have been redrawn! TurnipFiend71520 TeethBack89989 RandomBastard12345 Shandyship67842 BananaMasala12345 Please get in touch by Monday or this process could go on forever!
PAID POETRY EDITING OPPORTUNITY I've been writing poems and have some funding to pay people to read and pass judgement on them. Anonymised applications are open till 14/11/24. Please share! forms.gle/yxTXo9SEpcpodL…