nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Oh my. Not new poems, but poetry itself. 010 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New from the Tories: not only do they want you to live in penury, but they want to shame you about how you wish to spend your pittance. Most people on UC are working in jobs where the wage is so poor it has to be subsidised by the state. 011 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“When Godera died, he immediately realised he had made a mistake, he had died badly, carelessly, he had got dying wrong and would have to go through the whole thing again.” Olga Tokarczuk 010 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The attacks in education continue. Solidarity with Edinburgh Uni staff. 000 0
Reposted by @nick-allen-poet.bsky.socialMark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Help please: This is Christine. She has been standing in St George's Square Hebden Bridge for over 17 years in solidarity with the Palestinian people. She has been told she is no longer allowed to do this and is likely to be arrested. Please RT this for awareness. Photo credit: Morning Star. 2147105 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Successive governments and senior management behaving like education is a business have run HE into the ground and now they want to prevent workers defending what little they have left: for shame. Solidarity with Brighton Uni staff & unions. 032 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026…and it’s good morning from Bin Juice. 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Shrigley addresses people on the internet. 001 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Isn’t it quite incredible what we have become: a country divided over a group of volunteers who risk their own lives to save others. This would have been unthinkable 10 years ago, but thanks to Nigel and others we are here. Shameful really 010 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 27/08/20261st visit to this little wonder in York - it’s not just poetry. @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Not only do oil and other extraction and burning industries know that man made climate change is real and devastating, they used to use the data to boast of their prowess: this from 1962. From Fire Weather, John Vaillant. 010 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 09/08/2026“In the store old men gathered, occupying for endless hours the creaking milkcases, speaking slowly and with conviction upon matters of profound inconsequence …” 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Tonight poet Judith Willson will be reading at the Beehive Poets, Bradford City Library, Centenary Sq. 19.00. I’ll be the support act. 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Published 1935. Still setting the standard 2026. Page 1, a house, “Square, with a broken roof set at a single pitch, it leans in empty and shimmering dilapidation in the sunlight…” 220 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 24/07/2026once more with feeling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=isMj...youtube.comLinton Kwesi Johnson - Inglan Is a BitchYouTube video by RastaChaka 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Published in 1969, this is the Ur-text of environmental, ecological poetry, and contains a decent amount of native American thought/belief. Turtle Island = America Superb. 010 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Remember to tidy away your poet when you’re done with them. 010 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Remember to tidy away your poet when you’re done with them. 000 0
Reposted by @nick-allen-poet.bsky.socialPeepal Tree Press @peepaltreepress.bsky.social · 29/06/2026☀️ Poetry Summer Sale! ☀️ To celebrate the publication of our new collections Before the Rain and The Impossibility of Nothingness, we’re running a poetry summer sale - until Monday 6th July, enjoy 40% off all poetry titles on our website! www.peepaltreepress.com 122 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 08/06/2026We’re overdue another novel from Donna Tartt. 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Right little summertime cracker, this one 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Big thanks to Joseph Blythe for this review of my poem hill fog. Poetry books available at pauladunnartist.com zimmermagazine.com/blogs/poem-o...zimmermagazine.comA Look at Nick Allen's 'Hill Fog'walking the loose cross-stitch / of tracks that mesh this hillsidepushing through the seaweed / heavy cling of brackena jogger emerges from mist / disappears as if pulled under I pull my low-brow ca... 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 08/05/2026A slimline glimpse of Willy Vlautin (60 pages, a steady hour of reading), doing what he does best. The down-trodden, blue collar, just trying to make ends meet week to week… and all the while waiting on some kindness, some sign of hope. A verifiable treat 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Burn back: poetry and painting about “moorlands”. Our first joint publication. Available today and tomorrow through the Saltaire Arts Trail, at 6 Harold Place. pauladunnartist.com/products/bur... 021 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Palate cleanser and no mistake. 100 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Make sure you vote. You can’t afford not to. 010 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Let’s do this @uolunison.bsky.social 010 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The last time they did something interesting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcvG...youtube.comArctic Monkeys - Red Right Hand (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Cover - Live)YouTube video by Domino Recording Co. 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 01/03/2026This book is fierce. It starts where Kelman usually leaves off. If it is standing at the abyss looking down, it takes your hand, jumps, and takes you with it. Recommended. 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Can someone tell me what is being preempted by killing over 140 school kids? 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Let’s get those ballots returned! We work hard and what do we see for it..? 021 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Nice to able to think about hope for once. 111 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026The new Lord of the Flies is intense. Apocalypse Sow 000 0
Reposted by @nick-allen-poet.bsky.socialUniversity of Leeds UNISON @uolunison.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Uni of Leeds and fellow Leeds UNISON branches are hiring a coach for members to join the @togetheralliance.bsky.social March Against the Far Right on 28 March. Leaving Parkinson steps at 7:30, leaving London at 16:30. Email the branch to book a FREE place for yourself + a guest. In solidarity ✊ 074 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Copy lands in BD18 @stuhennigan.bsky.social 120 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Solidarity in the fight for fair pay! 010 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Topical poem channeling beats www.militantthistles.com/nick-allenmilitantthistles.comNick Allen – Militant Thistles 011 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 28/01/2026“My house is a cold mess except for that thing in the corner. Poetry, that snarling flaming bitch.” Recent poetry reading has been… punchy. See top from Diane Seuss, which I liked a lot but I think is pipped by “frank: sonnets” 000 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Picked up on a whim in St John’s. Really enjoyed these tales from everyday, workaday lives. No fluff, no spare, just the bones of what you need to know. Excellent @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social 020 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I try not to do politics on here, but “several shots”, point blank at a nurse trying to protect a woman from these ICE terrorists… and then the doubling down lies to “justify”…America you are lost. 020 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 31/12/20252026: the way forward is love 010 0
nick-allen-poet.bsky.social @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social · 24/12/2025A late contender for book of the year - travelogue, sociological study, political fury, personal grief, documents environmental carnage and the casting off of America’s poorest. With great playlists too. 010 0
