Lydia Unsworth is a contemporary British poet currently studying for a PhD at the Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Her research explores kinship with post-industrial architecture, while her poetry is de...

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Lydia Unsworth is a contemporary British poet currently studying for a PhD at the Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Her research explores kinship with post-industrial architecture, while her poetry is de...

______________Lydia Unsworth is a poet based in Greater Manchester. She is the author of This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode), Stay Awhile and YIELD (Knives Forks and Spoons Press), Arthropod ...

Podcast Episode · The Poems We Made Along The Way · 6 July · 59min

Daniel Mendelsohn, Lydia Unsworth, Joe Shute and Khadijah Ibrahiim join Ian McMillan.

ISBN: 978-1-915108-41-8Published 26 May 202684 pages “Poor old rickety, broken-biscuit Britain, with its tottering institutions, buy-to-let landlords, bad food and buried dreams. What does it mean to...

ISBN: 978-1-915108-41-8Published 26 May 202684 pages “Poor old rickety, broken-biscuit Britain, with its tottering institutions, buy-to-let landlords, bad food and buried dreams. What does it mean to...

presented on March 29, 2026 as part of The Factory Lecture Series, VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival         My th...

FFS It’s like, you built this . You don’t just get to say I quit and start again like you’re 77 and can father a new family without con...

BRESCIA     He walked down his valley into the modern city and said— though whose valley is it and for how long do you, in order   t...

The Peter F Yacht Club #36 2026 VERSeFest Special lovingly hand-crafted, folded, stapled, edited and carried around in bags of envelopes by ...

Adrian Slatcher was good enough to offer his thoughts on a recent above/ground press launch in Manchester, England by Tom Jenks ( launchin...

I wait. My mouth dropping, hanging, receiving air. My posture heaves steadily forward – the angle of a slow and painless heart attack. The wonderful wait, like the ticking hands of an unrelenting…

In case you hadn't caught, The Factory Lecture Series returns to VERSeFest this year , with lectures by Manchester poet Lydia Unsworth and ...

I’ve been feeling a little untethered I bought a new pan so I can touch it the non-stick so slippery the way nothing sticks to m...

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Lydia Unsworth is a poet from Manchester, UK. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Dreaming Awake: New Cont...

Valerie Coulton has a new poem at the arts fuse ; Gwen Aube is announced as one of the 2026 Writers-in-Residence at the Al Purdy A-Frame ; b...

above/ground press present live poetry at Saul Hay Gallery with David Gaffney, Tom Jenks, and Lydia Unsworth - plus art and free wine!

The Aftershock Review is a poetry magazine devoted to looking at the aftershocks of experiences.

Leonard begins to open up his world with the help of his best friend, Hungry Paul.

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Lydia Unsworth is a poet based in Greater Manchester, whose recent collections include Arthropod, Mortar, and These Steady Bulbs.

Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries   I Think That’s What Love Is I find you in the small canteen. The noise around an elegant TV mast. Oh god, the sadness. A series of paving slabs implant...