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Tom Blake

@tomblake17.bsky.social
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Some atoms in the shape of an elongated hominid. Poems. Writing reviews for KLOF mag. Buy my book here www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/produ…

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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The good people at Ink Sweat & Tears indulged my fleeting obsession with Sabrina Carpenter’s House Tour and published the resulting poem.
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KLOF Mag @klofmag.com · 05/05/2026
Originally released in 2008 and now reissued with two bonus covers, Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee — the quartet of Darren Hayman, David Watkins, Dan Mayfield and David Tattersall — is an absolute joy to rediscover. klofmag.com/2026/05/haym...
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Hayman, Watkins, Trout And Lee (Album Review)
Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee — Darren Hayman, David Watkins, Dan Mayfield and David Tattersall — reissue their 2008 East London bluegrass gem with two bonus covers.
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Black Nore Review @blacknorereview.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
An eliptical, affectionate poem by Tom Blake. @tomblake17.bsky.social
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Tom Blake – “How To Make an Absolutely Perfect Baked Potato”
How To Make an Absolutely Perfect Baked Potato Titles are important. If you call your six hundred page novel ‘How To Make an Absolutely Perfect Baked Potato,’ you can’t expect people to believe that it’s all going to be about baking a potato. Either it’s about something different entirely or else you’re going to end up with a really, and I mean really, good potato.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
head over to Anthropocene @anthro-poetry.bsky.social, the best of all online poetry magazines, if you want to read two of my new poems. One’s about Ayrton Senna, the other’s about Dave. www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems...
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2 poems by Tom Blake
PersonalAge:unimportantat this stage.Blue eyes greying like everything else.I go through periods where I’ll listento nothing but holy minimalism for a weekand then I’ll go on a gospel jag.That’s about...
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I done a poetry
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perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
PERVERSE 9H is out today! This week features five poems by Adam Clifford, Imogen Wade, Max Terry Fishel, Tom Blake and Isabelle Thompson, on mushrooms, loneliness and Julian of Norwich. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9h
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Reposting this because my exhausted brain got Mark Waldron’s name wrong last time. An incredible batch of poems in the latest Perverse.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
My absolute favourite venue in London - Hackney’s MOTH club - is under constant threat from developers. They would love it if you could give their petition a quick sign. London can’t afford to lose any more of its creative spaces to rampant unsustainable capitalism www.change.org/p/moth-club-...
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Sign the Petition
Moth Club Faces Second Building Planning Application
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I got to write about five of my favourite horror films for B-sides & Badlands, and I had an absolute blast doing it. bsidesbadlands.com/my-horror-an...
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My Horror Anatomy: Tom Blake dives deeper into horrifying storytelling -
Poet and music journalist Tom Blake gives B-Sides & Badlands his five most transformative horror movies, including 'Candyman.'
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I urge anyone with any interest in contemporary poetry whatsoever to subscribe to Perverse. Free and weird and utterly wonderful. Consistently the best thing in my inbox.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
It’s National Poetry Day so do yourself a favour and read some poems, suckers. My latest is over here in the great @streetcakemag.bsky.social www.streetcakemagazine.com/uploads/2/4/...
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I have a new poem in Streetcake, one of the very best places to read poetry of the experimental variety. Head over and have a read.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Werner Herzog is doing unboxing videos on Insta now.
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Matt Sage @mjsage.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
KLOF really got to the heart of it on this one. Thanks for listening! Album is out Friday!
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I had the absolute best day at @supersonicfest.bsky.social on Sunday. So many really great acts crammed into 12 hours. Wrote about it for @klofmag.com if anyone wants to know why I think it’s the best festival in the UK. klofmag.com/2025/09/live...
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Live Review: Supersonic delivers the best festival of 2025
Sunday has traditionally been the folkier day of Supersonic festival (though as we would soon learn, the heaviness and the experimentation are still, thankfully, dialled up to the max), we decided to ...
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Always good to be compared favourably to T.S. Eliot, especially when it’s the ever-insightful Billy Mills at Elliptical Movements doin’ the comparin’ ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/s...
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Six for the Pocket: A Small Pamphlets Review
My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Ian Seed, illustrations by Lupo Sol, Sacred Parasite, 2025, ISBN: 978-3-910822-13-9, €20.00 The Dark, Howie Good, illustrations by Marcel Herms, Sacred Parasite…
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Silver Jews, Pigs x7 and Twin Peaks mentioned in Only Connect tonight!
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I know you all want to learn about the history of cinema in Swindon, so here’s a little thing I wrote. www.museumartswindon.com/collections/...
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July 2025: Tabard and Cap from the Savoy cinema
This July, take an in-depth look at a tabard and cap from the historic Savoy Cinema, currently on display in our exhibition ‘Out on the Town’.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Cool to have 3 (three) of my poems in the latest edition of Confluence magazine. Subjects include the Cottingley Fairies, crowdfunded funerals and a Han Kang book launch. If you would like a read but don’t have the funds to buy the mag: drop me a message www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/confluence-i...
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Confluence Issue 17 | Confluence
Confluence issue 17, June 2025. Available to order, the magazine will be sent out from 20/6/25.
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 20/06/2025
part 1 of today at IHTOV: a great q&a with author, poet, and music journalist tom blake: ihavethatonvinyl.com/q-and-a/q-a-...
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Q&A Remix: Tom Blake
Q&A Remix is a frequent column on IHTOV in which people from all walks of life answer a set of questions about their vinyl collection. Today we welcome author, poet, and music journalist Tom Blake
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It was really fun to be interviewed by @ihavethatonvinyl.com.web.brid.gy about my record collection, and fun to talk about music without my journalistic/critical hat on for once. ihavethatonvinyl.com/q-and-a/q-a-...
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Q&A Remix: Tom Blake
Q&A Remix is a frequent column on IHTOV in which people from all walks of life answer a set of questions about their vinyl collection. Today we welcome author, poet, and music journalist Tom Blake
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Here’s an incredible review of my latest chapbook, written by @travisshosa.bsky.social for Eulogy Press. eulogy.press#fruit-and-an...
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Eulogy Press
A literary magazine that rejects what's safe to create something meaningful.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Important work.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Hey! My new chapbook is out in the world! Anyone out there want a copy for review purposes? Hit me up. If you want to buy a copy, head to the Red Ceilings website or drop me a message. www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page...
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Peach Epoch - Tom Blake | Red Ceilings Press
Chapbook RCP116A6 44 Pages40 Copies£9
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Really happy to have my second chapbook out on Red Ceilings Press. It’s available to order now. If anyone wants a copy (pdf or book) to review, let me know and I’ll send one your way. www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page...
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Peach Epoch - Tom Blake | Red Ceilings Press
Chapbook RCP116A6 44 Pages40 Copies£9
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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Issue Six of And Other Poems is out now on our website. Read it here: andotherpoems.com/issue-six/ (Cover photo by kat_katerina on Unsplash)
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
One of the very best online poetry mags, @andotherpoems.bsky.social, launches its new issue today. And I’m in it (along with loads of really great poets)! Take a look. andotherpoems.com/issue-six/
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Issue Six
Tom Blake – What Had Ye For Supper Lord Donal’ My Son Helen Bowell – A little game that could result in death Julian Dobson – A Lake District pilgrimage in the steps of Alfr…
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Look at this! Me, in the same pages as some real big proper poet people! Philip Gross for goodness sake!
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KLOF Mag @klofmag.com · 09/04/2025
New Thing, the scarily accomplished debut album from Avery Friedman, inhabits a complex emotional realm where nervousness can coexist with (and inform) ideas of sexiness, sadness, tenderness. Her world is fragile but appears to have arrived fully-formed. klofmag.com/2025/04/aver...
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Avery Friedman – New Thing (Album Review)
New Thing, the scarily accomplished debut album from Avery Friedman, inhabits a complex emotional realm where nervousness can coexist with (and inform) ideas of sexiness, sadness, tenderness. Her worl...
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Newsom covering Hurley m.youtube.com/watch?v=L6uV...
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“Slurf Song (Michael Hurley cover)” Joanna Newsom featuring Amber Coffman and Kevin Barker 5/26/24
YouTube video by Eric Doce
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Got a little poem in the latest issue of The Shore. @theshorepoetry.bsky.social Have a read if that’s your bag. www.theshorepoetry.org/tom-blake-lo...
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Tom Blake "Love in the Anthropocene" — THE SHORE
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Really pleased to have my poem published by Stone of Madness Press. It’s a beautifully presented online journal and the work is consistently excellent. Head on over there! stoneofmadnesspress.com/tom-blake
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Issue 28 - Tom Blake — Stone of Madness Press
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The Museum has recently acquired some bits by Paul Rudall. I‘m convinced he was one of the best British artists of the 20th century. One of those acquisitions is their first Item of the Month of 2025, and they let me write about it! www.museumartswindon.com/collections/...
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January 2025: Paul Rudall – Distant Red
Of all the artists with connections to Swindon, Paul Rudall is one of the most interesting, and one of the most unfairly ignored. Museum and Art Swindon recently acquired several paintings by Rudall,...
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Songwriter Ed Askew has died. He was a real one-off. I wrote a poem about him a couple of years ago, and it’s just been published by KLOF.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Prediction: Pavement to headline Green Man this year. 🤞
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The 2025 reading pile is taking shape.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Really sad to hear that Ed Askew has died, aged 84. Ed was one of the finest, most big-hearted, most underappreciated songwriters of his or anyone else‘s generation. I wrote this weird little poem about him a couple of years ago.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Psi...
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Jimmy Carter Says "YES"
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
i’m a bit obsessed with eau de Nil (a colour possibly named by Flaubert) at the moment. Imagine my joy when i discovered that one of my favourite poets, Timothy Donnelly, has written a poem about it. Pull up a Cadbury’s Chocolate Eclair and read this absolute zinger.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Nothing Christmassier. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDdE...
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Richard Burton reads Dylan Thomas’ “A Child's Christmas in Wales” 1961
YouTube video by Historic Films Stock Footage Archive
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Guys, don’t forget to spruce up your seasonal playlists with the new Frog Xmas song. It’s a little masterpiece. heyitsfrog.bandcamp.com/track/did-sa...
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DID SANTA COME, by Frog
track by Frog
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Guys this album is the absolute tits. Get on it.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I was lucky enough to write about an awful lot of great new music for KLOF this year. This is my top 10.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Grim reading for grim weather.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The tree’s going up tomorrow.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This is one of the best EPs of the year. Definitely worth a quid of your money.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Honoured to have my work discussed in the highest echelons of avian academia.
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KLOF Mag @klofmag.com · 29/11/2024
With ‘Music for Space Age Shopping', David A. Jaycock has achieved something quietly spectacular: an album rooted in highly specific locales and timeframes which nonetheless allows you to drift into nostalgia or to imagine better possible futures. klofmag.com/2024/11/davi...
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It would appear that this is now sold out on the Red Ceilings website, but if you still want one give me a shout - I might have a copy knocking about somewhere.
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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Beware of geeks bearing grifts. www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
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New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.
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