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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder what Ernest Hemingway would have to say about the number of unused baby shoes for sale on Vinted. Is this a poem or???

Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · 6d

🐺 I am an absolute sucker for rewilding. Bring back the wolf. Bring back the lynx.

Photograph of the book The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 22d

Remember, if you are going out in the hail showers today, pop a child's xylophone on your head for added fun.

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · 22d

Won £25 on the Premium Bonds but am gutted to be reminded that the email you get no longer says 'Good News From ERNIE About Your Premium Bonds'. That's a poem out the window ffs.

Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · 28d

'They'll chisel fucking poet when they do you
and that, yer cunt, 's a crude four-letter word.'
💔

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · 28d

Oh no, I hadn't heard. What a man. What a loss.

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 19

I love the man but he has a lot of stackable music related offences. In his defence he did then say that no one can do Common People at karaoke because only Jarvis can pull it off.

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 19

Breaking up with Dan for saying 'the sort of shit you listen to, Britpop where the guy can't sing... PULP!'

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 13

Today is the first boot day of the year for me here in south Wales. Join me.

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 12

Perk of being a dual income no kids person over 30 and not in London, brands are desperate for your cash and have no single clue how to speak to you. It's hilarious. It's joy. It's fodder.

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 12

♟️ Several things:

- The bloke who wrote this also wrote The Man Who Fell to Earth? Mad.
- The sexy French woman was a TV only addition ffs
- BENNY WATTS

Photograph of the book The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 11

PS if you're in the circle and you nick my Brooklyn Beckham and/or Premium Bonds poem ideas I'll see you outside

Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 11

Enjoyed speaking to the Swansea & District Writers' Circle last night. It is impossible to look good in a mid chat photo especially when you've spent six hours in the car that day 🚗 📚

Photo of Emily sitting at a table in front of a Swansea & District Writers' Circle banner

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 7

Significant Wow spotted at The Bookshop By The Sea in Aberystwyth ❤️ 🌊 📚

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 7

I keep saying I will organise a hometown launch for Significant Wow and I don't because I'm very out of the loop of local literay stuff so I'm trying to get on and do it. I don't even have a date yet tbh will likely be in The Pottery if you know? My cousin runs the café there.

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Do I know anyone who knows an East Mids based poet who might be interested in reading with me at an Alfreton event?

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Do I know anyone who knows an East Mids based poet who might be interested in reading with me at an Alfreton event?

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 2

Who wrote the line Gilmore Girls where Paris says she is an Anglophile and then references Neil Kinnock? Have they been held accountable for their crimes??

Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 1

Towards the end of this book there is a series of chapters called: Escapes and Captures , Dungeons, and Torture. So that's jazzy.

Photo of the book Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb next to a cup of tea in a Creme Egg mug

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 1

Went to the East Midlands to see old friends and came back with a current affairs poem.

Flag Summer

Was a summer like childhood, storybook weather
and brown grass, with ground hard for handstands
and rounders slides. Uknown threat-hope of a new year
burgeoning at the edge of your six-week universe.
Ready to turn fun tumble into real fight for something
snarled but not defined. So much without anything.
In the dark, or early, or other moments, things unsaid
are still things happening. There are holes in different
kinds of smiles. Anti-climb paint clinging to fingers
and inner trouser thighs and a wind ripple of something
poisonous, turning anger into fear, danger, and fabric.

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Sep 1

Went to the East Midlands to see old friends and came back with a current affairs poem.

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Aug 23

Looking forward to speaking to the Swansea and District Writers' Circle in September 🍂
swanseawriters.co.uk/september-20...

September 2025 Guest Speaker Emily Cotterill - Swansea & District Writers Circle

Emily Cotterill is a Cardiff-based poet from Alfreton, Derbyshire. Her debut pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants was published by smith|doorstop in 2019. The pamphlet was a part of Carol Ann … Septemb...

swanseawriters.co.uk

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Aug 23

Fully thought Corbyn was sporting a dangly earring in this photo and honestly I'm here for it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 23

UN special rapporteur will contribute to ‘Gaza tribunal’, Jeremy Corbyn says

Former Labour leader says Francesca Albanese to take part in event seeking answers over UK’s ‘role in war crimes’ A UN special rapporteur will contribute to a two-day “tribunal” being held by Jeremy Corbyn into Britain’s “role in war crimes perpetrated in Gaza”, the former Labour leader has said. Corbyn, who is campaigning for a new political entity with the working title Your Party, said the event would take place in early September. His private member’s bill for an official inquiry into UK involvement in the Israel-Gaza war was blocked by the government at its second reading in July. Continue reading...

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Aug 23

Been slowly making my way through The Poetry Annual since Xmas. The last poem, Eric Yip's Ardently Love is one of the best things I've read in ages.

Photograph of The Forward Book of Poetry 2025

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · Aug 23

I maintain my anti-yarn-bombing stance but these lil guys, right by the rec that is the main inspiration for this poem, really did have me on the ropes for a moment.

A railing in front of dry grass featuring miniature knitted versions of the characters Feathers McGraw, Wallace, Gromit, and Shaun the Sheep from Wallace and Gromit.

Photograph of a poem which reads:
The yarn-bombers don't know
I'm at war with them. I only rip off their rain soaked small world
kitsch in my imagination. I am as unobtrusive as they are. My edges
are softening. I fascinate myself with destruction and spray-paint
but the crotcheted mice of reality still ive their post-box topping lives,
tiny slices of unknowable cake, stuck on the way to undetailed mouths.
Who has the time for woollen graffiti? Who is the parish-councillor
god of village greens and bunting? In the phone-box library I turn
romance spines to face inward, bury novels under German readers
and manuals for toasters long taken by landfill. I know what the don't
that British Telecom is coming with binbads and police nocies
to take all this chaos apart. I drink three beers on the grass
of the Public Space Protection Order alcohol prohibitied space.
In my sun-stroked half dreams, the mouse people twich into reality,
swarm down to meet me, tiny faces twisted in a picture postcard of hate.

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