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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

PREORDER, @godzillakent.bsky.social: Aaron Kent’s Collected Világos is a sprawling, genre-resistant archive of poetic experimentation, written under the pseudonym U. G. Világos between 2015 and 2025. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

A deep maroon cover features a chaotic, abstract line drawing of a face in mustard yellow. The title Collected Világos appears at the top in a serif font of the same mustard color, with the author's name, Aaron Kent, just below it in a lighter, muted tone. The publisher’s name, “Broken Sleep Books,” is centered at the bottom.

I began writing as U. G. Világos in 2015, while in the midst of attending group therapy, juggling two jobs, and yearning to overcome the things that haunted me and led me to the edge. I wanted to write about the traumatic experiences I had whilst in the military, and the terrible things that happened, but didn’t feel comfortable putting my name to them, defining myself as part of it. So, I created a pseudonym, one which did the work of hiding my name from my experiences, and also honoured my grandfather, Jenö Világos, who was my best friend growing up, who introduced me to Laurel and Hardy, and who died in the midst of my writing as Világos, in 2021. His name was Magyar for Eugene, hence U. G.
I occasionally took part in online readings for U. G. Világos. I navigated these by: 1. Asking an Italian friend to record himself reading from the book, and playing that over a recording I made on a Super 8 camera. 2. Asking 6 friends with 6 different accents to read a poem each, and then playing that recording and suggesting U. G. sent it. 3. Asking Stuart McPherson to read and to tell people U. G. Világos asked him to do so.
The books were all subtitled at 3 year intervals starting from the year of my birth, 1989, and having no actual connection to the year they were written in.

1989-1992: Written on a typewriter in which I didn’t look at the typewriter while typing, and covered anything I was still unable to say, even under a pseudonym, in a string of ‘x’s. When I began typesetting it I made some pieces even more abstract because I still couldn’t hold ownership of some of the experiences.

1993-1996: These poems were written as descriptions of the night terrors I was struggling with in late 2016/early 2017. My wife, Emma, was pregnant with our daughter and I was determined to overcome these nightly hallucinations. I kept a journal of the night terrors as I remembered them, making sure the notes were sparse. I sent an early, typographically weird version of this to a poet…

1997-2000: This larger, immense Világos was written between 2017-2019. I had been collecting brief snippets of conversations, odd lines that had come to me, brief poetic ideas, etc. I then compiled them after 3 years and edited it into a more poetic piece, ensuring to maintain the disparate connections between the work whilst also seeking thematic coherence.

Selected Lyric Poetry: I essentially challenged myself to write a large body of poetry between 2020-2021, which was interrupted by a 6 week hospital stay where I wrote a lot of these on my phone. The poem title ‘The Red Child’ also appears in Bobby Parker’s Honey Monster which Bobby hadn’t yet written at this point, and he had no knowledge of U. G. Világos. Just one of those oddities. ‘The Red Child’ was chosen as The Daily Telegraph poem of the week as the date coincided with April Fool’s Day, and Tristram Fane Saunders was in the know about U. G. Világos. I wrote a poem under my own name ‘The Continued Adventures of the Upside-Down Boys’, which was a nod to the Világos poem ‘Adventures of the Upside-Down Boys’.

2001-2004: I’ve always wondered how to write a book in which the book has no actual content. This was the culmination of that idea. The contents pages list poems that don’t exist, and goes on for 14 pages, in sections marked by Roman numerals with no 6th section. There is an extended bibliography of books that don’t exist, quotes about the book written by fake authors of fake books, dedications to people that don’t exist, a series of fake epigraphs by fake people, and an endnotes section that references parts of the book that aren’t actually in the book and uses fake literature to do so. There’s an acknowledgements section that thanks fake journals for publishing the non-existent poems in the book, and a bio with a photo of a man who doesn’t exist, which claims to give U. G. Világos a pseudonym of his own: Discovery Jones. Tristram Fane Saunders, Rupert Loydell, Ian McEwan, and Jon Gabrus are all allu…

from the 60s titled The Lark Sings Wind, this book does not exist, but is referenced in the bibliography as being published by ‘Jenoimissyou Books’. I put that in shortly after my granddad died, I miss him.

2005-2008: I think this is the best thing I’ve ever written. I wrote it between 2021-2022 after being told my grandfather had died. I would leave the house late at night, walk into darkness and write a field recording of my grief. This is my eulogy to my grandfather, but also to U. G.

2009-2012: I wrote this, after not having written as U. G. for 2 years, between 2024-2025. It was an experiment to disintegrate a single poem, poem by poem, until the poem has fallen apart and is stripped back to the very core. This appeared in Snackbox II and claimed to have been printed as a Legitimate Snack, but it never actually was.

I found, after 10 years of writing under a pseudonym, that I no longer had the ability to write as U. G., and I think the reasons for this are twofold. First being that my Grandfather had passed away, and when he died, and I wrote the eulogy for him (Collected Experimentalisms 2005-2008), U. G. died with him. The second reason being that I had been in therapy for a couple of years, confronting the things that I had hidden beneath my writing. I had learned to forgive myself. This, I believe, is the hardest and most important part of recovery, the ability to forgive yourself. Once I had done that, once I had reasoned with the version of me that needed to be looked after, I no longer needed to write under a pseudonym and was able to be proud of myself again. I’m grateful to U. G. for providing a space when I thought I didn’t deserve it. I know what’s there now so I don’t need to go back. Thank you, U. G.

You know what’s here now. You don’t
need to keep coming back to this place.
— Bluey, ‘Space’ (Season 3, Episode 8)

— Aaron Kent, 2025

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I was on BBC Radio Wales this morning to discuss the impact of PTSD, on behalf of @mindcymru.bsky.social. After bouts of PTSD due to my military service, and then later my stroke, I shared what it feels like, what the signs are, and avenues of support. I'm on at 42:40: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Radio Wales Breakfast - With Dot Davies and Nick Servini - BBC Sounds

Everything you need to know as you wake up.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

When conservative poetry critics read a poem presented as a sonnet which doesn't strictly adhere to the traditional sonnet form.

Tom Robinson, a Caucasian man in black sweater, looking puzzled. The words below, in yellow, read 'I don't know if you're allowed to do that'

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Oh, so you like poetry? Name every poem.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

'and whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral' — Walt Whitman

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

On 16th May, I'll be at The Mental Health & Wellbeing Show in Cardiff sharing my story in support of a campaign between Stroke & @mindcharity.bsky.social to highlight the mental health issues stroke survivors face & the need for better services. Say hello if you're around! mhwshow.co.uk/aron-kent/

mhwshow.co.uk

Aron Kent - The Mental Health & Wellbeing Wales Show

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The late, great Geoff Hattersley.

Hot Glue

Who wants to sniff hot glue twelve hours a day? Not me,
I can't behave as if it was normal,
I can't sit down and switch the telly on,

watch a Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western
spill beer on the carpet, how can I do any of that
sniffing hot glue twelve hours a day?

I wake up and the house is full of cold water,
the same depth upstairs and down, also on the stairs
I'm up to my navel in it.

It's odd how the cat breathes underwater,
how it behaves as if things were normal,
how its purring isn't muffled.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I am so overwhelmed and delighted to finally be able to reveal that my National Poetry Competition (@poetrysociety.bsky.social) entry was NOT successful!

National Poetry Competition 2024

Your National Poetry Competition entry

Dear Aaron

Thank you for entering the National Poetry Competition 2024, judged by Romalyn Ante, Stephen Sexton and John McAuliffe.

The judges have carefully read all the entries and have now made their decision. We are sorry to say that this year, your entry was not successful.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Here's a poem I had published in Red Poets last year. I think it's one of my favourite titles for a poem.

Superhooliganism

Architects to swollen Gods, pockmark grade 2 listings and give us thunder to our backs. This is a call for effigies, to reopen old wounds in splendour. When we die, let us do so on the job, bearing the slogans and omens of a spiteful government lucid with lukewarm platitudes. Care not for hawthorn clustered along the coop's shabby banks, nor for the lark singing of crystalline waters doused with dividends. Care not for hymns to a marginal country, nor suicide as hideous allegory. This is an ode to blood drinkers, to a fountain of corpses and horses. Let there be entrails around the throat of the king, peppered with fallen ash.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Two great bits from Danny Dyer here. Both absolute gold.

ON PROSPECTS:

"There's a whole generation of kids that feel like they've got no hope and they're fucking lost.

The arts is the first place they should turn. You don't need to be academic. You just need to have a bit of something about you, a bit of character.

You show me a kid on a council estate without charisma."

ON THE WORKING CLASS:

"In the arts, seven per cent of us are working class. Fucking incredible. Because I might be slightly biased, but I think we're the most creative people around. Got a bit of trauma there I mean, gives you a bit of character, doesn't it?"

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Me: I like all genres of poetry, really. Also me:

A framed print with bold, black typography displays a quote from Walt Whitman: "A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." The frame is wooden and leans against a textured white wall. Surrounding the print are several copies of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, stacked and arranged. Some books are standing upright, while others are stacked horizontally, including editions with different covers and publishers.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Whenever I speak up about being working-class in the arts, or share my experiences, I always get some classplaining back. People who aren't working-class keen to tell me how I should feel or tell me they're middle-class but have 'struggled with money' in the past www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

theguardian.com

Who is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts?

Prominent figures in the arts say class is a key factor that determines who can make it in the creative industries

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

'Songwriters stir up a living tradition, poets make flowers grow in air.' — Glyn Maxwell, 'On Poetry'

The other half of everything for the songwriters is music.

For the poets it's silence, the space, the whiteness. Music for them and silence for us does the work of time. I think our gig is harder. Their enemy reaches out, plays chords, goes hey we could be friends if you play your cards right. Our enemy simply waits, like it knows the arts of war. Songs are strung upon sounds, poems upon silence. Songwriters stir up a living tradition, poets make flowers grow in air. Bob Dylan and John Keats are at different work. It would be nice never to be asked about this again.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I've been playing bass for about 20 years, but have never had the opportunity to play double bass, so imagine my delight upon finding one in the music department at work!

Aaron, a caucasian man in a suit and tie, is playing an upright double bass. He is holding the neck of the instrument with his left hand while plucking the strings with his right hand. The man is wearing a dark blue blazer, a gray sweater vest, a white shirt, and a green tie with a patterned lanyard and ID badge around his neck. The background consists of a plain off-white wall with vertical wooden beams.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

You're supposed to be honoured and delighted 'just to be nominated' for awards, but when you're working class you can't afford to be happy missing out on a cash prize. The money means more than the recognition. We can't pay the water bill with recognition.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The desire to write grows with writing. — Desiderius Erasmus

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Opening Line is the culmination of all the work I've done running Broken Sleep Books. This sums up everything I've wanted to achieve, which is to ensure poetry is available and accessible to all, regardless of the barriers that are too often imposed. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Petition to rename swordfish 'tunacorn'

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Absolutely delighted to return home to post from the brilliant @jeremyover.bsky.social, containing his astounding new book 'Fourth & Walnut'. Jeremy is a wonderful person and poet, and this book, out next month with @carcanet.bsky.social, is Jeremy at his best.

ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET

"There is only one way. Go within yourself. Explore what is calling you to write; check whether it is rooted in the deepest part of your heart, admit to yourself whether you would have to die if you were not able to write. This above all: ask yourself in the quietest hour of your night: must I write? Dig deep within yourself for the truth. And if the answer is yes, if you can reply clearly with a simple I must then build your life upon this [...] To feel that one could live without writing is enough of a sign that one should not.'

Rilke (Letter to a Young Poet)

'When a great and unique soul speaks the small ones must remain silent'

Franz Kappus (Rilke's 'Young Poet')

Dear Small Ones,

Be careful with Rilke. In the quietest hour of your night, in particular, don't listen to him. And don't join the Austrian army just yet. Try and get back to sleep and don't drink so much black tea tomorrow. When the day finally breaks, listen instead to James Broughton (or was it Ted Shawn or the Grateful Dead - does it really matter?): 'When in doubt, twirl'.

Then to Gaston Bachelard:

'What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us. The brook will nonetheless teach you to speak, in spite of sorrows and memories, it will teach you euphoria through euphuism, energy through the poem. It will repeat incessantly some beautiful, round word which rolls over rocks.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I've been a diehard Chelsea fan my entire life, but have never been able to afford to go to Stamford Bridge. Emma got tickets for us to watch Chelsea Vs Wolves today, so here I am decked out with my new Chelsea scarf, and chatting with Wayne Bridge.

Aaron, stood in a row of blue seats wearing a Chelsea scarf.

Aaron chatting to Wayne Bridge. Wayne wears a black jumper, Aaron a blue Chelsea scarf and green shirt.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Me editing Me editing a friend's poem my own poem

Image comparison meme featuring Gordon Ramsay. The left panel shows Ramsay gently consoling a child with the text 'Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous.' The right panel shows a frustrated Ramsay yelling with the text 'You f***ing donkey.'

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

It's that time of the year again, where I write the previous year and scribble over it, failing to learn my lesson for another good 5 months.

Teaches planner showing Day: Thursday, Date: 16/01/2025. The '5' in '2025' is scribbled over a '4'

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The Poetry Wales award, judged by Jeremy Dixon, closes 17/02/2025 at midnight GMT. First prize = a course at Tŷ Newydd or a stay at their writing retreat cottage. Entry: £5/poem or free for magazine subscribers & low-income households. @poetrywales.bsky.social www.poetrywales.co.uk/award

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Stuart McPherson @stumcpherson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Great article by @godzillakent.bsky.social over at The Bookseller. Small presses are the grassroots. They are the birthplace of great writing and great writers and capture something the big presses will never be able to. The big presses need to make space. www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...

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What big publishers can do for small presses

How can major publishers create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat?

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I have a piece up for The Bookseller today, in which I consider how major publishers can create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat. www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...

thebookseller.com

What big publishers can do for small presses

How can major publishers create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat?

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Delighted to have a poem in the new @poetrysociety.bsky.social Poetry Review. With immense love to @rachaelboast.bsky.social for choosing it.

Iyanuoluwa Adenle

Rae Armantrout

Urvashi Bahuguna

Claire Berlyn

Jay Bernard

Crispin Best

Madailín Burnhope

Nejra Ćehić

Chen Chen

Meg Day

Susannah Dickey

Duy Đoàn

Maura Dooley

Logan February

Jackqueline Frost

Vona Groarke

Marwa Helal

Aaron Kent

Daisy Lafarge

Khando Langri

Mukahang Limbu

D.S. Marriott

Chisom Okafor

Saleem Hue Penny

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

Kerri Shying

Guest folio curated by Rachael Boast on poetry that seeks to demythologise deafness, disability and neurodivergence

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Larkin hated us working-class, and that's why he's still so revered, because he exemplifies the canon in which only the white, male, middle-classes are included. 'I want to see them starving, The so-called working class. Their wages weekly halving, Their women stewing grass.' - Philip Larkin

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Back in 2016-2017 I used to write for those free movie preview magazines you get in cinemas. I worked in a cinema at the time and could write them while the film was playing. I made it my mission to mention Godzilla in every piece I wrote. Here are some examples.

RELEASE DATE 25 MARCH/

Director Zack Snyder /

Starring

Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot /

Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

B en Affleck is something of an enigma. From building a career in rom-com roles and as Hollywood's go-to guy for shallow action movies, he has since crafted quite the diverse filmography. Besides directing Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and Oscar-winner Argo, Affleck has also excelled in various roles, including the beleaguered husband in Gone Girl.

Henry Cavill, on the other hand, had a pretty safe job on TV, never really straying from the confines of safe shows such as Midsomer Murders and The Tudors. Yet when Hollywood came knocking with the

role of Superman, Cavill accepted, and rightly his career has taken off.

Batman v Superman sees the two leading men battle in one of comic book history's most impressive match-ups, as seen in multiple DC comics. It's no surprise that DC have chosen to create an extended universe around the film, with Gal Gadot joining the fight as Wonder Woman prior to the Justice League films. Success for Marvel with their Avenger's universe has seen many franchises try similar ideas, including the upcoming Godzilla universe.

Comic book veteran Zach Snyder directs fresh from 2013's Man of Steel. Expect multiple references to 2016's other DC extended universe showpiece Suicide Squad, which will star Jared Leto as The Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, and Will Smith as Deadshot.

RELEASE DATE 22 JULY / Director

Steven Spielberg / Starring Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Bill Hader / Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy

n recent years Steven Spielberg has strayed from fantasy films, expanding his repertoire to real-world events (Bridge of Spies, Lincoln). This summer he's back to his roots with The BFG, and it promises to be a fizzwiggling, bellypopping, snortling good time.

Based on Roald Dahl's book, The BFG is a Big Friendly Giant who distributes good dreams to children. Unlike other giants, he refuses to eat people, and stands at a 'runty' 24 feet tall - some 88.5 feet shorter than Ghostbuster's Stay

Puft Marshmallow Man, and over 300 foot shorter than Godzilla. However, BFG makes friends with orphan Sophie, and together they battle bad giants and catch good dreams.

The BFG is played by 2016 Oscar nominee Mark Rylance while Sophie is played by Ruby Barnhill, who learned six pages of dialogue from heart for her initial audition. The film also boasts an impressive cast including Bill Hader, Rafe Spall, and Jemaine Clement. In another nod to his early career, Spielberg hired E.T. scribe Melissa Mathison to write the screenplay, though sadly she passed away before its release. John Williams scored the film, ensuring that the whole event will definitely not be a snozzcumber.

RELEASE DATE 1 JANUARY / Director

Tom Hooper / Starring Eddie Redmayne,

Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw /

Genre Biography, Drama

ddie Redmayne caused a shock E last year with his Academy Award- winning portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, taking home the famous statue when many believed it would go to Michael Keaton for his role in Birdman. This year could make Redmayne the first actor since Tom Hanks in 1993/1994 to bag successive Best Actor wins, as The Danish Girl is certain to pick up its fill of nominations.

It tells the true story of Einar

Wegener, who, after sitting in for a female model at the request of his artist wife Gerda, decides to pursue gender reassignment surgery to become Lili Elbe. Handled delicately by The King's Speech and Les Misérables director Tom Hooper, The Danish Girl showcases the troubles and tribulations of Lili's decision to become the first ever male- to-female surgery recipient.

Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Man From U.N.C.L.E) plays Gerda Wegener, and Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone, The Drop) plays Hans Axgil, a childhood friend who forms part of a love triangle with the couple. The film's soundtrack is scored by Alexandre Desplat, composer of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The King's Speech, and 2014's Godzilla.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Stuart is an absolutely sublime poet, and these are 2 genuinely brilliant poems. Chef's kiss.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

New painting I finished today before my good friend, the surrealist artist John Welson, came round for a coffee and a chat. I've been enamoured by the works of the late, great Canadian artist Jack Bush recently.

Abstract painting featuring overlapping brush strokes of vibrant yellow, orange, red, and blue hues on a white canvas. The strokes create a dynamic, textured composition with a blend of smooth and streaked patterns.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

13 times I've made this joke now. I'm generally the only person in my family who stays awake at midnight as the kids and my wife Emma are long asleep, and I do so purely to make this joke.

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1 Jan 2015

Who the fuck sets off fireworks at this time of night?

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1 Jan 2014

Seriously, who sets off fireworks at this time of night?

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1 Jan 2013

Damn neighbours! Bit late for fireworks, don't you think?

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1 Jan 2020

Who sets off fireworks at this time of night?!?!

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1 Jan 2019

Jeez, who the hell lets off fireworks at this time of night?

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1 Jan 2018

Who the hell sets off fireworks at this time of night?

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Who the hell lets off fireworks at this time of night?

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31 Dec 2016

Who the hell sets off fireworks at this time of night?

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Who on earth sets off fireworks at this time of night?!?! It's bloody midnight!

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Who on Earth sets off fireworks at this time of night?!?!?!?!?!

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Seriously, who sets off fireworks at this time of night!?!?!?!?!

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1 Jan 2022

Who lets off fireworks at this time of night? Yeesh!

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Seriously, who the hell lets off fireworks at this time of night? It's bloody midnight!

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

If the poetry society bans me for insisting on including the moon in every poem then I will face God and walk backwards into hell

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It is I, Arrom. A new misspelling of my name to add to the list.

Sender's reference: mb

Show event on map

Signed for by arrom on Thursday 19th December 2024 at 13:07

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Here on the west coast of Wales, Storm Darragh has ripped one of our trees out of the ground.

The roots of tree showing as a tree lies flat down, its base pulled from the ground

A side view of a tree face down, its base pulled from the soil

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This is supposed to be the part where I say how honoured I am to have made the shortlist for the Jerwood, but instead I feel shame, embarrassment, and a sense that I let people down by not winning. I'm working at shaking that feeling, but it persists. rsliterature.org/rsl-204th-bi...

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RSL 204th Birthday Announcements - Royal Society of Literature

On its 204th birthday the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is today delighted to announce the winners of the first RSL Jerwood Poetry Awards and the authors honoured in the fourth year of the RSL Int...

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Delighted to have an extract from a new, longer poem up for @perversemag.bsky.social today. You can read it, and the other poems from great poets, here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-8j

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

From the local Facebook group where a misspelling of the word 'figurine' has led to some confusion

Image of a figurine of a coal miner sitting and eating. The caption reads 'Coal man on his lunch break fingering'

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Bought a Mezze Salad from Pret a Manger, purely because it was one of very few gluten free items by the train station, but I can't figure out what this symbol on the box means? At first I thought it meant pineapple, but it contains no pineapple. Any ideas?

Outer of a salad box with a red circle symbol on the outside.

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Stuart McPherson @stumcpherson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Last few tickets available! Come & hang out with @godzillakent.bsky.social Fran Lock, Lalah-Simone Springer and myself at the National Poetry Library next Weds Dec 4th. Details below! 👇 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe... #poetsonbluesky #poets #poetry

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Special Edition: Working at Working Class | Southbank Centre

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My wife, Emma, made me this absolutely glorious Edgar Allan Poe inspired shirt and I adore it almost as much as I adore her.

Aaron wearing white t shirt with a black print of a raven in the centre, and underneath that in black font the word 'nevermore.'.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Spotted this beautiful bird watching us make breakfast this morning.

A sparrowhawk on the edge of a snowy roof

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm giving a seminar at the Principality Stadium next May for the Mental Health & Wellbeing Show. If you're in the area and want to hear me chat about the importance of mental health care for stroke survivors, do come along! mhwshow.co.uk/mhw-seminars...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

SUBMISSIONS CALL: We are open for submissions of poetry pamphlets (up to 40 pages). Email: Include a short biography, brief synopsis, & poetic influences. Subject Line: Poetry pamphlet Submission - [Name], [Title] Full details & guidelines: brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

Yellow notepad and pen on a blue background. Text above reads 'POETRY PAMPHLET SUBMISSIONS OPEN!' Text below reads '1st October - 30th November brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

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Alex Adams @gdemonology.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Most recently, I co-edited the gorgeous volume DEVASTATION SONGS with @godzillakent.bsky.social! It's burtsing with great poems and stories about kaiju. Available here (£9.99): www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

The cover of Devastation Songs.

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“A gorgeous collection of poetry, fiction, and self-examination, all through the lens of giant monsters; the authors are not simply fans of kaiju but weavers of their mythology. Within these pages is something for anyone who’s ever felt a kinship with a great beast.”
Cressa Maeve Áine

“Devastation Songs is a treasure chest for anyone casually interested in (or downright obsessed with) Godzilla and other kaiju. This diverse, rich, and endlessly creative collection of poetry and prose inspired by giant monsters from Japan and around the world is a revelation and a joy. Offering vivid imagery, raw emotions, a touch of sadness, and flashes of humor, this book is bursting with insights on kaiju, why we are fascinated by them, and what that fascination reveals about us as humans.”
William M. Tsutsui, author of Godzilla on My Mind

“Fascination, awe, dread and love: this anthology of short stories and poems explores the complex emotions that monsters stir. With creativity and verve its authors probe what Kaiju portend and gift. A riveting read.”
Jeffrey J. Cohen, editor of Monster Theory

Co-Edited with Aaron Kent. Published by Broken Sleep Books in 2024. Thirty-three poems and stories by twenty-four writers. Devastation Songs features my poem “Egg (Imaginal Discs)”.

**A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book are donated to Freedom From Torture, a UK-based charity that works with refugees and torture survivors.**

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Stuart McPherson @stumcpherson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

London people! On December 4th I'll be taking part in a reading / panel discussion on working class poetics at the National Poetry Library Hosted by @godzillakent.bsky.social & featuring Lalah Simone Springer + Fran Lock Tickets below! 👇 #PoetsonBlueSky www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Delighted to be discussing how to get published as part of the literary agents and publishers panel for Writers and Artists, and Open University on 5th December. Sign up deets below: www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

'there is a fig tree taller than you in Indiana, it will make you gasp. / It might make you want to stay alive even' This from Ross Gay's poem 'A Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude' stays with me more than any other poem. It has both soothed & saved me. Keen to read others' favourite lines of poetry.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I'm hosting a live reading and discussion on working-class creativity for the National Poetry Library at Southbank Centre on 4th December at 20:00. With @stumcpherson.bsky.social, Lalah-Simone Springer, and Fran Lock. Come along, let's chat working-class! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...

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