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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 12/09/2026

'You can't call it a shepherd's pie unless it has lamb in it.' Actually, I am happy to call my vegan shepherd's pie a 'shepherd's pie' because I believe that a shepherd could serve it to be enjoyed by sheep.

Picture of a vegan shepherd's pie in a square, white casserole dish. The pie has been under the grill, so the potato topping is quite brown and crispy. The cook has etched a grid pattern into the potato topping with a fork.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 22/08/2026

I've just realised that the Pope uses two spaces after a full stop. This is hard to accept.

The world does not need an artificial intelligence that diminishes humanity; rather, it needs human intelligence enlightened by wisdom, political authority guided by conscience and technological innovation directed by charity. Only then will artificial intelligence become not a rival to humanity but a servant of the common good.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 22/08/2026

If you're wondering, yes, there is a picture of me looking dark and brooding.

Image of page of physical edition of the 22 August 2026 'Press' showing some of the text of the article 'A city dreaming in verse' and pictures of the poets Doc Drumheller and Erik Kennedy.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 12/08/2026

The perils of pre-scheduling your emails.

Email from Bookshop.org advertising -- as the first listed title! -- a new book by disgraced ex Cambridge don Jason Arday.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 24/07/2026

Lil poem in Instagram-only mag 'Mote'. 🏹

Erik Kennedy
'Sport Isn't Political'

The king made me learn archery.
The muscles I grew warped my body.
I shot an arrow so accurately that it split me in half:
who I was before, and who I became after.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbHHOi0lKRZ/

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https://www.instagram.com/erikcurtiskennedy/

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 24/07/2026

That sounds fucking horrible.

Norman Rockwell's 'Freedom of Speech'. Image of a man getting up at a public meeting to speak his mind.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 13/07/2026

This is the kind of passion it takes to rise to the top of the palaeontogy game. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nilpanapan told BBC Thai the features, in particular a unique air-cavity structure, were "unlike any other dinosaur in the world... That's what sets it apart".

He said he smashed his computer after realising they had discovered a new species, adding that he felt both "exhilarated and relieved".

The study was published in the Nature scientific journal earlier this week.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 11/07/2026

Lol at the description of Luis Suárez having 'done some damage' at World Cups.

Image sequence of Luis Suárez biting Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 07/07/2026

Yes, supporting rapists is an authentic leftist position. You're definitely a good-faith actor.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 07/07/2026

There is no difference here.

Colin Firth in 'Pride and Prejudice' (1995). Franz Beckenbauer (1972).

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 18/06/2026

That's one of Hockney's late Normandy paintings.

David Hockney, 'No. 340', 21 May 2020, iPad painting.

The image is of a marbled green and slimy pond surface with a mass of lily pads (perhaps) at centre left.

Image source: https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/news-events/latest-news/no-fear-of-the-new/

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 17/06/2026

'Untitled' 1957 Mark Rothko www.nga.gov/artworks/674...

'Untitled'
1957
Mark Rothko

'This painting depicts large, rectangular shapes in shades of blue and green. In the center of the painting, two dark green rectangles are separated by a horizontal band of bright blue. Around the green rectangles is a wide border of darker blue. The brushstrokes in are visible in the various colors, creating slight differences in shade.'

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/67499-untitled

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 26/05/2026

The first one is the 'Loveless' cover.

The cover of 'Loveless', by My Bloody Valentine. It is a gorgeous fuchsia headache of blurs and suggestions.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 21/05/2026

Like an Uno Reverse Card for scammers.

Image of an Uno Reverse Card, a red playing card with arrows pointing in opposite directions in the centre, and the same motif in the top left and bottom right corners.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 08/04/2026

People just be saying anything.

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Sharif continues: "Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability."

"We earnestly hope, that the 'Islamabad Talks' succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days," he signs off.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 01/04/2026

Two new pieces up at @memezine.bsky.social. 🐅 🚀 www.memezinelit.com/spring-2026/... www.memezinelit.com/spring-2026/...

Erik Kennedy

Aphorisms on Forbes Rich List Day

The world’s billionaires now own a larger share of fear than ever before, according to data published today.

Like the hardman French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo I do all my own stunts. He fought a tiger in “Animal” (1977), and I told someone how I feel.

Some of the most human things I have done have been done where no one could see.

I wonder how many people accidentally go to work the day after they retire.

I refuse to let people quote my own embarrassing words back to me “for copyright reasons.”

It’s hard enough being self-destructive. Imagine finding the energy to be destructive to others!

My superpower is being more excited by the potential of things than I ultimately am by the final thing.

I told the fortune-teller, “If you can describe my life, I must live a very average life,” and then she described it perfectly.

Erik Kennedy

Newly Opened Venue

The man I overheard saying
that he needed to raise venture capital
to start a new relationship
was drinking red wine with ice in it

he said he’d met the right person
a hundred times
but they weren’t ready for him
he said love

is a space rocket
it has stages
and the cost of making one
is coming down

and as he did the FWRRGHRRMMFRMM sound
of the rocket
the music swelled
and utterly out-rocketed his rocket

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 24/03/2026

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS

Super Hans offering Mark a 'little bit of matter' in 'Peep Show' S06E01.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 06/03/2026

I have four (!) poems in the new 'PN Review'. I think it's fair to share this one and say buy the mag if you're in the UK. =) 'Attention-Starved Waif' is a very me poem, obvs. www.pnreview.co.uk/magazines/pn...

Attention-Starved Waif

I have always been needy, wailing for water and laughs
as far back as the days when I wore soft yellow
and only had two star-coloured teeth.

I read an article about turning need
into rugged self-sufficiency by drying it out overnight
in a low oven, switching it to convection just before bed.

No, my mistake, that’s how you make fruit leather.
The process I’m thinking of is longer
and involves self-denial and stern language and whips,

and it can’t really be done in the home, it has to be done
everywhere you are alive, all the time,
it takes place in the car and in court

and when you’re having blood taken, and for it to work
it will have to take over your sleep. In fact, it takes so long
that it’s not practical to recommend it

to anyone except the most patient self-improver,
and the thing about patience is that
it’s always a virtue that other people have.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 03/03/2026

An honour for me and a lovely thing for my book. So pleased that 'Sick Power Trip' is shortlisted in the Ockhams. Full of gratitude. 🩵 🩷 @thwupbooks.bsky.social www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...