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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Next Tuesday at Gloucester Road Books in Bristol! I will be In Conversation with @tomsastry.bsky.social about my new @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social collection The Revelation Tapes. Some tickets / ticket + book packages still available. Come and have some poetry if you like

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Stefan Mohamed at Gloucester Road Books

Gloucester Road Books hosts the award-winning, much-loved Bristol author and poet, Stefan Mohamed, who will be discussing and reading from his brand new poetry collection, The Revelation Tapes. Stefan...

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

" I actually can't do another round of Hereward the Wake should / shouldn't have raided this /that. I am going to bury myself in soft peat and you can dig me up in 1000 years" Stefan Mohamed, a thousand years ago

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The main alternative to a far right party being terrible is an argument against voting tactically for the alternative. How could it possibly be a reason to campaign for the far right? The sheer arrogance of expecting people to buy that.

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is true for now but not for ever. One day I hope to purchase the Folio Society's deluxe five-volume set of your Complete Waste Of Time.

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I'm Young Boozer the Third I am

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I hope this enlightened attitude lasts until your next birthday

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Not just a different point of view. A new kind of understanding. Machine and human creating content together.

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Was he the janitor at the KitKat museum?

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Errr...they *are" the guys in the pub desperate to tell us 5G is making everyone's nan gay. The pioneers of felt pen antivax poster art. The fleshy avatars of the phrase 'No offence, mate, but'

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

And human behaviour on social media has already primed us to accept recombined snippets of comforting opinions as original content. The robots landed at the perfect moment.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

⚡FLASH SALE - titles from earlier this year now just £7.99 each. Save 33% on these celebrated #poetry books now. Plus FREE UK postage across the shop. Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social & @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Very grateful to Kevin Gardner for this lovely review essay placing Life Expectancy Begins to Fall in some great company wildcourt.co.uk/work/reviews/

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Reviews – Wild Court

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The way random likes and dislikes are presented as the inescapable corollary of progressive politics is kinda fun though. Like an advert where someone is sipping coffee in a beautiful place with beautiful people and right at the end you discover that you should buy a particular brand of bleach.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The Wells Fountain Poets next meet-up is this Monday 1st September, an open-mic plus two guest poets @julwe1.bsky.social and @tomsastry.bsky.social, authors of these wonderful recent #poetry collections. Upstairs in the King’s Head in Wells High Street, 7pm. wellsfountainpoets.wordpress.com

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The dogmatists don't want you to know that there's a middle way between packing and not packing. Just procrastinate unhappily until desperation sets in. Then throw a vague approximation of the requirement into bags of roughly the appropriate volume while crying for your passport like a baby.

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

You can absolutely get comments like that from a bot. That audience is completely replaceable.

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Something to believe in rather than something believable.

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

All of this -

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

What's the point of a disappointingly unambitious compromise of a Labour government if it doesn't do the easy and obvious things the Tories wouldn't do for ideological reasons.

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Mango Lurgy. Melodic songs about nothing with the odd sample. Cheekbones and fringes. Singer's dad owns a construction company. The irritatingly catchy 'Who are you really?' featured on an advert for a rebranded confectionery item. Name referenced a boring travel story. Weren't that good.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

'Magician of deadpan' and master creator of titles, here's a glimpse into the brilliant titles of poems from Life expectancy begins to fall by @tomsastry.bsky.social - out now. Intrigued?... Get your copy and dive into the contents. ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

📢PLEASE BOOK YOUR PLACE BY 6PM TONIGHT TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH featuring James McDermott @tomsastry.bsky.social & Laurie Bolger celebrating these fantastic new #poetry books. We'd love your company tonight: Tuesday 15th April, 7.30pm BST Pay What You Can www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If you have randomly connected with me because I was on a list of poets, you should definitely check whether I ought to be on a list of poets. Here's how.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

TOMORROW - Join us for a TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH featuring James McDermott @tomsastry.bsky.social & Laurie Bolger celebrating their fantastic new #poetry books. We'd love your company: Tuesday 15th April, 7.30pm BST Pay What You Can Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

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Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

1/3 On Wednesday, the UK Supreme Court will issue its ruling on the For Women Scotland case. The stakes could barely be higher for the UK trans community. Prior to that we've produced this refection on the backdrop & the travesty of a process that led to it. www.translegalproject.org/post/a-uk-su...

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A UK Supreme Court ruling is about to appear and the transgender community is terrified

At 9.45am on Wednesday 16 April, the UK Supreme Court will hand down its judgments in the For Women Scotland case. It could change everything for the endlessly-attacked UK trans community.Introduction...

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Won't somebody think of the squirrels?

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Not long now - Join us for a TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH featuring James McDermott @tomsastry.bsky.social & Laurie Bolger celebrating these fantastic new #poetry books. We'd love your company: Tuesday 15th April, 7.30pm BST Pay What You Can Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Step into the Magic of The Word Café The Barrel House, Totnes Wednesday 30th April, 7.30pm Including #poetry from @tomsastry.bsky.social and his freshly published Life expectancy begins to fall. Plus Deborah Harvey and the Gora Ensemble Tickets and details: bit.ly/4i6T4fI

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I am now on my coach. Glad to be on time but sad about all I am leaving behind. Goodbye Digbeth Coach Station and thanks for the memories.

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The building cherishes sound and will not allow a single decibel to leave. Instead, the shredded echoes of last week's screaming toddlers bounce off the toughened glass like the experimental music of the damned.

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Poetry can take you to wonderful places. Last night it took me to Fire & Dust in Coventry in the beautiful Priory Visitors Centre. This morning it is taking me home via Birmingham Coach Station where I have just had to spend 40p to piss.

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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Huge thanks to Tom Sastry, & the open mic, for an excellent night at the Crown & Sceptre poetry and spoken word open mic last night. Tom’s new book, Life Expectancy Begins to Fall is well worth getting, if you missed out last night. Been merrily reading it this morning. @ninearchespress.bsky.social

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I'm bringing Life Expectancy Begins to Fall to the wonderful Fire & Dust in Coventry on 3rd April. The future looks terrible but if you are hopeful about our ability to be decent to each other through the peri-apocalypse and appreciate gallows humour you might enjoy this. Personally, I can't wait.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Liz Truss is still refusing to comment about her first day as an electrical engineer at Heathrow.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We're delighted to publish Life expectancy begins to fall by @tomsastry.bsky.social today. Part-elegy and part-satire, a subtle meditation on hope full of "wit, originality and formal innovation", of "clarity, complexity, and kindness". Congratulations Tom. ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Out today, Life expectancy begins to fall by @tomsastry.bsky.social - take a sneak preview by going to our blog, where Tom shares a (typically) brilliantly titled poem and great insight⬇️

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

in a world of sparse and fragile hope guinness zero is surprisingly not bad

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

'Navigating the Peri-Apocalypse with Radical Self-Care': starting from the premise that 'writing against type generally throws up something interesting', we're given 5 memes & @tomsastry.bsky.social explains their pattern & intentions - at our #blog now ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/01/in-c...

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Gloucester Road Books @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We have two cracking events coming up later this month. Tickets for @tomsastry.bsky.social on March 20th and Dan Richards on March 31st are available from Headfirst via the links. www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/glo... www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/glo...

A faded background of an illustrated scene of a bookshop interior, with text in front announcing events by Tom Sastry and Dan Richards.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Join us for a TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH featuring James McDermott @tomsastry.bsky.social & Laurie Bolger celebrating their fantastic new #poetry books. We'd love your company: Tuesday 15th April, 7.30pm BST Pay What You Can Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

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Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Unless they are T20 death bowlers. Some poets are.

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