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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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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 2h

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.

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 6h

Caught up on The Archers now...

David Archer earlier
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'Mulligan, you son of a bitch...' - Kelly's Heroes

Big Joe: [a mortar round lands close, covering everyone in dust] [muttering] Big Joe: Mulligan, you son of a bitch...

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 7h

**leaves club immediately. Sets up The Post-Disappointedists**

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 7h

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

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, or the comeback 9th LP..The this is truly us...

Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 10h

Why not both?

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12h

www.worldofmoose.com/products/ven...

Cartoon of a Venn diagram. Two circles intersect, the intersecting area is a wedge shape so that the left hand circle looks like a pie chart. Caption under the left circle: Pie charts that wish they were Venn diagrams. Caption under the right circle: Venn diagrams that wish they were pie charts

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 1d

Rogue Strands are making a Live Poetry Mix Tape...!

Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 1d

When Mat and I are working out what poets to invite to read with us at Rogue Strands events, it feels like we're generating our own Live Poetry Mix Tapes...

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A Live Poetry Mix Tape

Back in the day, we used to create mix tapes for our mates. Of course, they were really made up of the music we enjoyed listening to ourselv...

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 1d

How is that not being lined up for the back cover of the inevitable reprint?

Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 1d

I had a pathetic rage earlier if that helps.

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 1d

Where do I sign?

Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 1d

Very happy to see this by the excellent Christopher Horton is up for pre-order via @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
I've ordered mine...
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Christopher Horton - Clutter Jar | Broken Sleep Books

Christopher Horton’s Clutter Jar is a taut, emotionally charged debut that explores masculinity, violence, memory, and technology with formal clarity and restrained lyricism. These poems move between ...

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 1d

New 'how modernity works' explainer just dropped

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1d

Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false

“Winning” means prioritizing independence from outside influence over being right.

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 1d

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*
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* 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

Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 1d

**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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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry.

Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 2d

ManAIc Street PreAIchers

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 2d

Get down tonight

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 3d

A very happy birthday to you

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 5d

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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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 5d

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

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