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Andrew Taylor

@dradny.bsky.social
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Poet and writer. NEW PAMPHLET ‘State Honey (Leafe Press, 2026) @leafepress.bsky.social ‘European Hymns’ (Shearsman Books, 2024), ‘There’s Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch (Seren Books, 2025) www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com

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The Lincoln Review @thelincolnreview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
THE LINCOLN REVIEW is now open for submissions of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and artwork. Guidelines and submission links are here: thelincolnreviewtlr.submittable.com/submit. We look forward to reading your best work!
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Looking forward to it, Poppy.
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A collaboration between me and @leafepress.bsky.social Alan Baker, performed as part of the European Poetry Festival in Nottingham in June, has been published at www.m58.co.uk A video of the performance is here: youtu.be/9cQRNQFShKQ?...
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New poem at International Times. With thanks to Rupert and the folks at IT. internationaltimes.it/slow-luminos...
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Slow Luminosity  | IT
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Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As ever, thank you. Good wishes to all at ALCS: always a shining light, but more so in these days of take and take and take and other darknesses...
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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Grief, Love and Loss internationaltimes.it/grief-love-a... Rupert Loydell
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Indeed.
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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New Substack about writing a pangrammatical novel with Catherine Vidler. tomjenks.substack.com/p/pack-my-bo...
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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Do you teach (or just enjoy) place-writing or creative non-fiction? Please check out my new book! It comes recommended by Iain Sinclair and @drdavidcooper.bsky.social so can’t be too dusty! Liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836240341
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Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry | Home
Helen Tookey is a poet, writer, editor and lecturer. Originally from Leicestershire, she has lived in Liverpool since 2000. She teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University.
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some translations of Sylvie Gustin-Griffault’s work. www.littermagazine.org/2026/09/sylv... Thanks to Alan Baker.
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Sylvie Gustin-Griffault
Sylvie Gustin-Griffault tr. Andrew Taylor [Au centre une cible] Au centre une cible au loin un visage et puis l’oubli … impossible [In the c...
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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Latchkey is overflowing with heart and humor and The Bohemian Frame of Mind. It is a Liebesbrief to a lost and found Liverpool, and you can now pre-order @wildtwin.bsky.social's unmissable new novella here: www.sacredparasite.com/product/jeff... Cover photo: Gerard Fieret Author photo: Alex Hurst
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thanks RNLI.
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Liar.
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Scum.
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
New poem up at @internationaltimes.bsky.social thanks to Rupert and the good folks at IT. internationaltimes.it/blue-drift/
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Blue Drift | IT
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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’m delighted that this book is now out in the world, and looking forward to launching it @thebluecoat.bsky.social on 8th Sept. Ahoy fellow Lowry fan @imcmillan.bsky.social - hope you might enjoy this too-loose-lowry-trek!
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles The Durutti Column - LC Love - Forever Changes The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen.
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Andrew Thacker @andrewthacker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Arts and humanities have a role in understanding space exploration | Letters
Letter: Prof Abbie Garrington reflects on an interview with the physicist Laura Grego about the battle for our skies
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Three poems from a new collaboration with Cliff Yates, published at Litter magazine. @leafepress.bsky.social thanks to Alan Baker. www.littermagazine.org?m=1
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Litter
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Looking forward to sharing my collaboration with @leafepress.bsky.social on Saturday at Nottingham Contemporary gallery. Such a brilliant line-up. More details here: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/nottingham
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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A new independent Nottingham Book Festival, organised by members of the Society of Authors (East Midlands), is taking place on Sat 5 Sept 2026 at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham. Expect guest speakers, writing workshops, readings and panels, and 1-1 sessions with publishing professionals. #booksky
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It really is. What a shit show.
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It’s about time that ghoul just went off somewhere dark and counted his ill gotten gains.
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
And poets still submit there 🤷‍♂️
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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I've been waiting for this for a long time. Soon.
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ha! Saw him at the Liverpool Empire in 1986. Just him and a guitar. Fantastic.
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Here you go: Pink Floyd The Velvet Underground Love Galaxie 500 Felt John Denver The Smiths The Rolling Stones New Order The Coral.
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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Thanks Mike.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...
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What’s the future for our universities?
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This is sad news. I’ve a fair few of your beautiful books.
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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Thought I would do a little photoshoot of some of the lovely @longbarrowpress.bsky.social books I’ve got. The Blue Hour is a particular favourite of mine.
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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Nottingham people - you may wish to come to this next Saturday. Launching books by Linda Kemp and @dradny.bsky.social : boningtongallery.co.uk/event/poetry...
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Linda Kemp & Andrew Taylor Poetry Book Launch with Leafe Press - Bonington Gallery
Join us at Bonington Gallery for the launch of two new poetry books — 'The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun' by Linda Kemp and 'State Honey' by Andrew Taylor, both published by Leafe...
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Shite hawk (Liverpool in the 1980s)
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Matt Fallaize @mattfallaize.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
lastpoetstanding.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-... a poem, of sorts
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the armchair dissident: The Astonishing Bus Ride of Alan Fairfax
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Looking forward to launching my new @leafepress.bsky.social collection alongside Linda Kemp at The Bonington Galley in Nottingham on Sat May 9th 11-1. Free admission and free coffee and pastries. RSVP at boningtongallery.co.uk/event/poetry...
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Warhol at Lakeside, Nottingham.
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Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Andrew Taylor's latest from @leafepress.bsky.social, rather than documenting, these poems convey as we truly see/observe: peripheral, fully felt, askance, fleeting, intense focus; HS perhaps hints at process - both these poems exemplfy flow and disruption, and a recurring lyricism...
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
All the best!
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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New from Leafe Press: "State Honey" by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social "...fast-moving to contemplative, presenting experience mediated by language that is fragmentary and shifting, disconcerting and never dull." www.leafepress.org/2026/01/stat...
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State Honey - Andrew Taylor
State Honey Andrew Taylor 36 pages The phrase 'State Honey' - a mistranslated caption from a Chinese opium pot provides the starting point f...
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I hold out my hands to show they are empty that we’ve come for a while to the end of things To the End of the Land: a text/audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Order the pamphlet & CD here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
The pamphlet and CD editions of 'To the End of the Land' by Martin Heslop and Helen Tookey: the blue-grey coastal edge of Nova Scotia, with dilapidated wooden lobster traps in the foreground, sea and distant land beyond, and white clouds and blue sky above.
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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
New postcard, short text on back, oblique title on front. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/flyin...
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
To have brought a shell to bed with me, picked from a Welsh cove. To have spoken to no one, to have let grammar abrade and brighten with the wet stones. To return now with something to tell you. 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza £2 off until 20 February longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
A stack of hardback copies of Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'
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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Pleased to say I have 2 new poems and a review of 3 books by Tim Allen in TEARS IN THE FENCE no. 83. @tearsinthefence.bsky.social I write about them here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/02/one-...
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One review and two poems in Tears in the Fence 83
I usually post on this blog to alert people to the fact that I’ve published a poem or two in Tears in the Fence or – more recently – an anno...
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Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Selling quickly', but it's free. My inaugural professorial lecture in Nottingham on 4 March, titled 'Byard's Quantum Leaps: The Origins and Mutations of a Folk Tale'. Reserve a place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...
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Professor Rory Waterman’s Inaugural Lecture
Byard’s Quantum Leaps: the origins and mutations of a folk tale
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The Sacred Memory Bank. Kirkby Gallery. Mondays to Saturdays until 27 March. Works by Mike Badger and Jeff Young. Come and have a look!
Four assemblages from the Sacred Memory Bank exhibition at Kirkby Gallery. Pieces incorporate buttons, marbles, photographs, jars of see, ceramics, fragments of poems from old books, coins and beads
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
1st March 2026.
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