Robert Selby
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Writer | The Coming-Down Time (2020): https://t.co/5CbuSnd5Eg | The Kentish Rebellion (2022): https://t.co/f2EHrTL0cN
Kent
Joined November 2013
Today is publication day for The Kentish Rebellion, a sequence of poems set in the English Civil War (and perhaps with some resonances with our own distracted times...). Good place to order is @blackwellbooks here:
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RT @jenniedgecombe: Lovely to read poetry at the opening evening for ALL THAT COULD BE LOST @SavetheBlean - a community photography exhibit…
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RT @ohjoewalker: Each win would heal a bit of playground trauma but it happens so often now that I’m not even sure there’s any left
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RT @TripFiction: Coming 30 January 2025 Bethnal Green by Amélie Skoda Novel set in 1970s East London and Penang
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RT @jenniedgecombe: Just finished and loved this. 'The rivers were full of eels, or had been once. In the county museum you could see eel…
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RT @jenniedgecombe: Thrilled to have poems in @magmapoetry Grassroots edition, including 'Protest Walk' - inspired by @OurWestgate as we wa…
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RT @tombranfoot: had an ace time reading with Fran Lock, Kat Peddie, Mat Riches, Robert Selby & other at Canterbury Festival this afternoon…
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RT @militaryhistori: "Alarrrrrmmm" - Das Boot (1981) was a German war film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, based on a 1973 novel by Lothar-G…
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Looking forward to this. Come on down to Canterbury.
If any poetry friends are based in Kent, I'm reading at Canterbury Festival next weekend with Fran Lock, Robert Selby, Matt Riches and others. I'll be reading from 'boar' seeing as we're in Chaucerian territory 🐗
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RT @jenniedgecombe: Looking forward to reading some new poems protesting the loss of agricultural land at the launch of @magmapoetry 'Grass…
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RT @zoeyang_: Debut author @AmelieSkoda delivering proofs of #BethnalGreen to the brilliant booksellers of London today 💚 Her wonderful no…
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@hrcastor Quite a coincidence for me, reading you say your next book will be about Elizabeth I - I've only just finished Lisa Hilton's 'Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince', which is excellent (and which references Elizabeth's feeling of connection with Richard II), with your book due up next!
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@roguestrands @PN_Review Coincidentally:
"Currently most art isn’t about excellence. The arts have become the cheap indulgence late capitalism buys in the hope of getting out of its material purgatory more quickly." Don Paterson, interviewed in Literary Matters - worth your time:
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