Mat Riches
@matriches.bsky.social
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Poet, market researcher, husband, father, knobhead. Book called Collecting The Data out via Red Squirrel Press in November 23. The "Aldi Stanley Tucci". Busy "making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee" https://t.co/eJeeqVdmvz
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
**leaves club immediately. Sets up The Post-Disappointedists**
Oh boy, have I got a book to sell you both if that's what you're after...*

* as long as you don't mind it leaning more towards the half-hearted part
Yes, or the comeback 9th LP..The this is truly us...
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Had a bag of potato snacks earlier that tasted so sharp that it caused me to howl into an existential void on a bridge. It was a bag of pickled onion Monster Munch.
How is that not being lined up for the back cover of the inevitable reprint?
I hear that. I haven’t heard of it before now. In my DFENS*, I may have but have a mangled colander for a memory. I feel a book order coming on @beckenhambookshop.bsky.social

#SeeWhatIDidThere
I had a pathetic rage earlier if that helps.
One week + 4 days from today (26th Oct, 7.30 onwards). You could watch the Forward prizes...or you could come to this to see Louise Walker, @eldersville.bsky.social and me. I know what I'd choose*
torriano.org/whats-on/poe...

* That they didn't clash
Bright background in lime, oranges, pinks, blues with faces. White blurred box over the top with the names Louise Walker, Mat Riches & Neil Elder in black type. Advertising a reading at The Torianno Meeting House, 26th October, 19.30 onwards. £6 entry fee. Open Mic opportunity
One week today folks. I assume you've sorted cat sitter, etc...Free poetry from @hannahcopley.bsky.social @fionalarkin.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social @jonathandavidson.bsky.social Philip Hancock and me...22nd Oct from 18.45 At the Devereux, Near Temple in London. We'd love to see you there.
Line green background with text saying Rogue Strand presents: An evening of poetry @ the Devereux pub, Temple, London Weds 22nd October. Free Entry. readings start at 18.45. Readers are Hannah Copley, Jonathan Davidson, Fiona Larkin, Philip Hancock, Matthew Stewart, Mat Riches.
Do come along please.We'd love to see you.
**Takes off ITV employee Hat**

You can now watch a live stream from actual space live on ITVX
www.itv.com/watch?channe...
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when the title is also a line in the poem
Art by Katerina Kamproni feature a fork that has as one of its tines a tiny fork
A very happy birthday to you
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Been doing a lot of reading on the shoe industry. Interesting fact, a Skiver as in the trade of thinning leather down on seams etc, is from the OE/ON ‘skifa’ ‘to cut or split’. The term skiver to avoid work is from the Middle French ‘esquiver’ to escape.
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This is just to say

I have eaten
3kg
Of cola bottles

Which was
Medically
Ill advised
And bunged me up
Completely
With gelatin

Forgive me
I had a hankering
And also
Ate a carvery