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Jamie Woods

@jamiewoods77.bsky.social
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Poet, indie punk, optimistic rebel. Buy my book, read my poems etc etc: linktr.ee/jamiewoods77

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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They are very good. Loved it when you told me about them and you kept saying "PISS" and I kept saying "BIS?"
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I will not be the first nor the last person to say this, but the whole process of applying for PIP when you have Chronic Fatigue / ME is literally making me more ill. I slept for 16 hours yesterday because it is hurting my head so bad.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Here's a video of me reading some poems from my new book, and talking about my writing so far, influences, illness, and future plans youtu.be/vrHfZC16yyQ
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Seren Esgynnol/Rising Star: Jamie Woods
YouTube video by Just Another Poet
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
CARDIFF FRIENDS! After 12 years I'm coming back to read. I'll be featured poet at the amazing @bookspacecardiff open mic Weds 17th Sept. Tix £4 or PWYC from bookspacecardiff.co.uk I'd love to see you there, it's been much too long x #Poetry #cardiffpoetry
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Radio on! Beyond chuffed to get a spot on the monthly playlist on Dandelion Radio. Poetry + guitars ftw
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I'm going on a book tour! Recreate the 90s experience with events booked in a record shop in Swansea, a book shop in Cardiff, a pub in Newport and for the online one, just pretend it's a dodgy bedsit? Tickets and info from Jamiewoods77.com
Poster. Reads as follows.
Jamie Woods reading from Black Skies Die Starless.
2nd September, online.
17th September Cardiff Book Space.
25th October Swansea Tangled Parrot
19th November Newport, Murenger House.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Love Poetry / Hate Racism event in Swansea. Oct 25th. Raising money for UNICEF Gaza appeal and love music hate racism. Featuring... The amazing Patrick Jones! The brilliant Rhoda Thomas! Me! The polar opposite of painting flags on roundabouts. Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/674236/
A text-heavy poster for an event. The key text reads: love poetry, hate racism. Patrick Jones, Rhoda Thomas, Jamie Woods. October 25th. Tangled Parrot, Swansea. £4 in advance.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
And you can buy my newest book Black Skies Die Starless from @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social punkdustpoetry.sumupstore.com
punkdustpoetry.sumupstore.com
Punkdust.com online store
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
You can buy the digital downloads from bandcamp jamiewoods77.bandcamp.com/album/the-90...
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The 90s / I've Found God in Seattle, by Jamie Woods
2 track album
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Also from Black Skies Die Starless... Side AA: I've Found God in Seattle youtu.be/YjOzoa33Poc?...
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Jamie Woods: I've Found God in Seattle
YouTube video by Punk Dust
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New poetry double A-side single taken from my book Black Skies Die Starless. Side A: The 90s youtu.be/gGEJ74r9i0c?...
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Jamie Woods: The 90s
YouTube video by Punk Dust
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
If anything, the US show is more recent, and therefore less historic. Although they blur more faces, so their witnessing is less precise. Anyway, I think I'd like to work in an airport xraying suitcases.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
QOTD. Why is the show 'Nothing to Declare' about Australian airport border control on the channel Sky Witness, while the almost identical yet geographically different show 'Airport Security USA' is on Sky History? And yes, I am still unemployed, thanks for asking.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 08/08/2025
#InConversationInCritique with @jamiewoods77.bsky.social What happens when the work is actually read, closely? Alan digs deep into Jamie Woods’ latest, challenging the poems and the person behind them. Interview + Critique by @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🔗 alanparrywriter.co.u...
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In Conversation, In Critique - Jamie Woods - Alan Parry
In Conversation Jamie Woods doesn’t write poetry for your comfort. He writes because he must—because the words arrive heavy, vital, unfinished until spoken aloud. “I’ve always written: lyrics, reviews, short stories, opening chapters to novels, and poems,” he says. But it’s poetry that stuck. Not for lack of ambition elsewhere, but because it’s the only […]
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A lovely review from the depths of Paul's Book Bag. *Blushes*
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 25/07/2025
The Broken Spine has always been about the poets. We’ve run chapbook competitions, Reader’s Choice Awards, and more. Now, we want to give back like never before—but we need your help. Let’s hit £5,000. 🔗 shorturl.at/G2mMo
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A Poetry Award That Puts Poets First – And You Can Make It Happen - The Broken Spine
Poets deserve more than empty prestige. They deserve real recognition, real opportunities, and real support. That is why I am launching The Broken Spine
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Same. You know where to find me :)
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Right? It's the least taught part of a writing practice. I try and teach it using the hero's path and that sort of thing, but I've never worked it out for myself. (To be fair, I made two actual humans and I can't tell them what to do.)
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Yeah, I normally write the characters and a story emerges. Hasn't happened with this one yet. Trying to squash them into a storyline doesn't make for a good read. Although if I did that, maybe I'd finish something for once!
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
So similar / so different *Creates characters* *Starts writing* Plot: hahaha no lol
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Wow, what a great pile of books. Honoured to be part of it! Enjoy
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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Been a good two days for post! TBR pile now quite large thanks to @taniahershman.bsky.social @thebraag.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Bring on the rainy weekend
A pile of books and pamphlets
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I've already ordered yours!
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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Love this quote from @alanparrywriter.co.uk : "For Jamie Woods, poetry is never done. It evolves with context, with time, with each reading. Like a song rearranged, the same poem can carry new weight in a new world." alanparrywriter.co.uk/2025/07/12/i... #WritingSky #PoetrySky
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In Conversation, In Critique - Jamie Woods - Alan Parry
In Conversation Jamie Woods doesn’t write poetry for your comfort. He writes because he must—because the words arrive heavy, vital, unfinished until spoken aloud. “I’ve always written: lyrics, reviews...
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Oh I'm just crying now
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
If you see this, post a planet youtu.be/WxLBOwdTKjI?...
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NIAMOS! (Chandrilian Club Mix) (From "Andor (Season 2)")
YouTube video by Nicholas Britell - Topic
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Love the conversation. Love the critique. Thanks Alan. You're a star.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Wow. Wow and thank you @thebrokenspine.co.uk x
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Have you seen the video of the twister factory? It is probably my favourite thing on the internet.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Yes m'lady
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Logistically though, if they dipped the base in chocolate and hundreds and thousands, the stick would also be covered in them and that would be gross.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Cooly eating a callipo for lunch in the shade of my living room, while people are voluntarily going outside in this weather, and yet somehow I'm the one who genuinely can't get life insurance because I'm too "mentally unstable"...
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Aaaah Mari! Thanks so much x
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I walked around that duckpond for hours as I tried to get well enough to cope with having chemo again. Not quite as exciting as walking The Salt Path, but there were lots of benches to sit on along the way. And it's a true story...
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Ah thank you! Was great to meet you / hear you read last night :)
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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 07/07/2025
And if you want to hear @jamiewoods77.bsky.social read his poem 'Wolf Alice & Camper Van Beethoven Live at the Adam Smith Institute', head over to his page on @iambapoet.com. iambapoet.com/wave/14-jamie-woods
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Jamie Woods | wave 14 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard
Hear poet Jamie Woods read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
And you can buy the special disability issue of Poetry Wales it's in here: poetrywales.co.uk/product/poet... - it's reduced
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⭐️ Featured Archive Issue: Summer 2022 | On Disability - Poetry Wales
Poetry Wales Summer 2022 is, above all else, a celebration of the kind of art that can only come from a place of illness and disability - and it was conceived of, written, and edited by disabled artis...
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
You can buy the new book Black Skies Die Starless (90s coming of age / loses religion & friends poetry) and the old book Rebel Blood Cells (man has cancer, watches Star Wars, has PTSD) from the Punk Dust shop punkdustpoetry.sumupstore.com All proceeds after costs go to Leukaemia Care UK.
punkdustpoetry.sumupstore.com
Punkdust.com online store
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Woke up to the @poetrywales.bsky.social weekly email and their "poem for you" was a "poem by me"! It's not in my old book or my new book, but it will be in a book one day. It's about how I really wanted to go and see a Wolf Alice gig in Swansea but was immunocompromised and didn't.
Advert for a magazine. Text reads "Issue of the Month". The magazine is shown, it is Poetry Wales, and the cover features a brain.
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Punk Dust @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"AN ABSOLUTE RIOT OF A BOOK" In between award ceremonies for her poetry & fiction, and writing a non-fiction book about running, the awesome @natholborow.bsky.social has taken the time to read BLACK SKIES DIE STARLESS and then wrote about it. Buy it now. Punkdust.com and all good bookshops #poetry
Text reads: "Jamie Woods is one of those rare poets who can coolly hold a mirror to the darkness, then crack a grin in the reflection and make it look natural. Black Skies Die Starless hums with the energy of grunge, rave and rain-slick Swansea backstreets, blisteringly alive with honesty, wit and hard-won tenderness. An absolute riot of a book. Read it now" - Natalie Ann Holborow. Then it says: black skies die starless, jamie woods, 1st July 2025, punkdust.com and all good bookshops.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
If you're already bored of the O*s*s reunion (and they haven't even hit the stage / each other yet), then I have 48 pages of anti90snostalgia poetry with my name on it... punkdustpoetry.sumupstore.com
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
At which point I shall be both so sweet and so cold :)
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This is just to say I shall not be attending As it is too late at night. Forgive me And I'll see you At the Black Bough On Sunday
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Au contraire EHRC... give me an open-ended text entry form and I will debate all over it.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Certainly seemed to be pedantry about language, rather than any meaningful consultation on the proposed changes. 'how clear is the sentence?' as opposed to 'what is your belief?'
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Horrible, isn't it? Not your poster, I don't remember it, but the things we've said and done over the years that were so very wrong but we didn't know. Hard to make peace with conversations or actions, when memories flash into your head and you're like, damn. I'm just trying to be a better person.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Accidentally posted something on ThReAdS which was meant for here. it's gone a bit loopy, as things do on that mess of a website and I've been accused of 'calling for gen0cide' by posting Free Palestine. SMH How's your day been?
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Punk Dust @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"Hopeful poetry of a hopeless time"... Thanks Dean Rhetoric for truly getting to the heart of BLACK SKIES DIE STARLESS. It's out tomorrow, all Punk Dust & Jamie's £ to charity. Buy from our website punkdustpoetry.sumupstore.com or ask your fave bookshop #WelshPoetry #GenXPoetry #The90s #poetry
A book advert reading Punk Dust Poetry, Black Skies Die Starless, Jamie Woods. The main text reads: "“With Black Skies Die Starless, Jamie Woods spits in the face of nostalgia porn with a collection of direct and sincere poetry set against the backdrop of 1990s South London and South Wales. While this is poetry that tackles loss, loneliness, and the death rattle of small-town industry, salvation can be found shrieking in the battered cassettes of American musical angst, offering a gleam of light through the pitch-black valleys and suburban boredom of Woods’ youth. Hopeful poetry of a hopeless time.” — Dean Rhetoric"
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Igor Namus @igornamus.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
your #nostalgia a lie to hide the ugly nothing was better #vss365 #haiku
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
*blushes*
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