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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 28/06/2026

Portait of the poet as an anglerfish. New hat.

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 24/06/2026

Thank you, Coral, for the very generous words.

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 26/05/2026

Thank you. Wonderful company to be in!

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 27/04/2026

Gerald Mainly Hopkins, but sometimes gets the bus.

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 19/04/2026

I feel like I've been followed all day.

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Bloomsbury Education @bloomsburyed.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Happy #WorldPoetryDay! ✨ Celebrate with Pocket Book of Pocket Poems by A.F. Harrold & illustrated by Jack Viant, a hilarious, pocket-sized collection of tiny poems perfect for carrying everywhere. 🎥 Watch A.F. read one of the poems in this special clip! Perfect for readers 8+ 📚 @afharrold.com

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 01/02/2026

I often think of the Half-Man Half-Biscuit version: 'That's when I was watching Junior Kickstart.'

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 24/01/2026

Vincent is unimpressed by my new hat.

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 08/01/2026

If you do manage to get them, you can share this amazing animated advert with the kids: m.youtube.com/watch?v=aAMX...

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Fizzlebert Stump Book series ad.

YouTube video by Naeem Tadayon

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 02/01/2026

Yes, the first couple of Fizzlebert Stump books are (or were (I assume they're still in print over there)) published in Farsi (in Iran) by Hoopa. Well remembered!

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 10/12/2025

I may be a bit behind, but it's time to turn the calendar... (from Susan and Vincent, to Vincent and Susan).

November 2025. Susan eating a biscuit like a t-rex. Vincent standing legs akimbo like a Tory.

December 2025. Vincent and Susan guarding the after eights like dignified cats.

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 26/11/2025

A new hat came in the post this morning.

A poet wearing a hat made from post and a beard made from beard.

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Clare aka GingerKnits @claresdraws.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The Worlds We Leave Behind by @afharrold.com is brilliantly unsettling. Highly recommend. Plus Levi Pinfold's illustrations are spectacular.

Cover of The Worlds We Leave Behind. Pale green forest with a small river running through it. Some young people are balancing their way along the river bank, their backs to us.

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Bloomsbury Education @bloomsburyed.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🎃 Celebrate all things spooky this #HalfTerm with PoetryJoe’s deliciously eerie poem Halloween Crumble! 🍇👻 A tasty treat from A. F. Harrold's Midnight Feasts collection: bit.ly/474JDer #MidnightFeasts #Poetry @afharrold.com

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 26/09/2025

To take your first in the other direction: Sausage Dogs. Perhaps followed bythe nice and simple: 101 Sausages. Memorable informational documentaries...

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Attie Lime @attielime.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My festive poetry book, A Welly Full of Christmas is out 6 weeks today with @tinytreebooks.bsky.social! 🎉🎄 The most splendiferous @afharrold.com said some lovely things about it. And here's a sneak peek of the contents! Pre-orders available now from all the usual places ❤️🎄#UKKidLit #KidLitUK

Contents

Quick!

Outside

Wonderful Word

Here Comes Winter

Things I Looked up Online to Put on My Christmas List

Grandma's Poinsettia

The First

Message from the Elf on the Shelf

Dear Santa, Love Sam

8 Alternatives to a Christmas Stocking

“Perfect poems, rhythmically rambunctious and lyrically lively."

A.F. Harrold

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 09/09/2025

I'll never not vote for Barbara Firth and Martin Waddell's Big Bear/Little Bear books, starting with Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 04/08/2025

Thanks for the shout out!

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What's On Reading @rdgwhatson.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This Thursday, Battle Library are hosting a fun-filled activity day to support the Story Garden Summer Reading Challenge, with games, workshops and local poet/author/beardmeister @afharrold.com! All sessions are FREE but best to book in advance - whatsonreading.com/venues/readi...

Poster for Activity Day at Battle Library with details of the event (which you can also find via the link in this post)

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 03/08/2025

I honestly have no idea what actual kids (teens, I guess?) would make of it, but Fishfolk, by Steven Quincy-Jones (pub. by Firefly), is the best mythic-Doggerland-survival-tale-written-in-Beowulf-footed-prose-poetry, I've read for yonks. I think you'd dig it, Louie, if you've not found it already.

Fishfolk book cover. Blue-green Hokusai-ish wave with added tentacles, threatening a couple of figures by a straggly tree. By Steven Quincey-Jones. Smashing book.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 20/07/2025

As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks. Please share and support if you’re able :) www.bookbanks.co.uk

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 07/07/2025

Glad you enjoyed! And hooray for libraries!

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 03/07/2025

When it's too hot to actively hate one another...

Two melted cats, Vincent and Susan, ignoring one another, in seperate puddles.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

How many editors does it take to screw in a light bulb? Not sure about this wording: it could be read as meaning editors have sex in light bulbs! Also, do we really "screw in" UK light bulbs? Don't we tend to use bayonet caps? Rewrite and bring it back in your own time, OK? Have you finished yet?

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

#poetry #poem I loved reading A.F. Harrold's Pocket Book of #Poems yesterday. It inspired me to write my words. @afharrold.com

Twister Lolly Green and Trumpet Yellow by Kay Medway

If my pocket houses my poem, it is clear on one condition: its contents are from simpler, cameraless times,

like waiting at the aviary’s gates in the park, for a peacock’s feathers instead of sparks, its still firework-like fan display of delights.

Park café baskets of gold chips, ice cream vans on hills with Twister lolly green or Calippo lollies for sale, queasiness on spinning castle outdoor play area seats, easiness on the tennis courts.

School fields used for fetes, county dancing skirts of trumpet yellow, and for racing by holding bean bags in hands and on heads; Cyprus souvenir dresses, suede summer clogs, and volumes of gingham hair ribbons.

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 27/06/2025

Tasty penny paper bag pick n mix newsagent nostalgia mellow fruitfulness and summer park poem - thank you, took me right back! x

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Argonaut Books @argonautbooks.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

We were robbed last night. When it’s our stock or our money that is targeted, there’s insurance and systems in place for this, but when it’s stealing from a charity in an extremely direct way then we just can’t abide it. scottishbooktrust.com/donate @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 16/06/2025

Further adventures in comfortable pillow land. Susan and some Joan Aiken/Quentin Blake loveliness.

Susan, a ginger cat, on a windowsill leaning her cheek on the pointy edge of some books.

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 01/06/2025

Everybody needs a rocking chair for a pillow, everybody needs a rocking chair... Or so Vincent thinks.

Grey cat, Vincent, using a rocking chair as a pillow.

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 30/05/2025

Had a nice visit to Waterstones, Finchley Road, this afternoon. Plenty of signed books left for you all! @bloomsburyed.bsky.social @literaryvegan.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

Poet (AF Harrold) with books (Pocket Book of Pocket Poems).

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