Paul Moorehead
@paulmoorehead.bsky.social
Poet and physician.
My new poetry collection, “Green”, is available from Breakwater Books. https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/green
My new poetry collection, “Green”, is available from Breakwater Books. https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/green
Thanks to @joannemerriam.bsky.social for this Bluesky-style shout-out for “Green”.
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: @paulmoorehead.bsky.social's Green (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social): breakwaterbooks.com/products/green & Olga Tokarczuk's Mr. Distinctive trans by @antonialloydjones.bsky.social (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.sevenstories.com/books/4664-m... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thanks to @joannemerriam.bsky.social for this Bluesky-style shout-out for “Green”.
Wow. Got blocked for disagreeing with an overly-optimistic interpretation of some data about Drumpf’s declining approval rating.
Again, a third of Americans, at least, approve of this insanity in an unalterable way. That’s enough for this to be a persistent problem.
Again, a third of Americans, at least, approve of this insanity in an unalterable way. That’s enough for this to be a persistent problem.
39%?!? How the fuck could he still be at 39%???
Going from 50-some to 39 is not a free-fall. The graph shows this: it’s an expected gradual decline that has probably flattened out. 30 to 40 percent of Americans approve, or just of Drumpf, but of what’s been happening over the last 11 months.
Going from 50-some to 39 is not a free-fall. The graph shows this: it’s an expected gradual decline that has probably flattened out. 30 to 40 percent of Americans approve, or just of Drumpf, but of what’s been happening over the last 11 months.
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Wow. Got blocked for disagreeing with an overly-optimistic interpretation of some data about Drumpf’s declining approval rating.
Again, a third of Americans, at least, approve of this insanity in an unalterable way. That’s enough for this to be a persistent problem.
Again, a third of Americans, at least, approve of this insanity in an unalterable way. That’s enough for this to be a persistent problem.
Autocorrect just tried to turn a misspelling of “shit son” into “Whitman”.
Tell me your phone thinks you’re a poet without telling me you’re a poet.
Tell me your phone thinks you’re a poet without telling me you’re a poet.
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Autocorrect just tried to turn a misspelling of “shit son” into “Whitman”.
Tell me your phone thinks you’re a poet without telling me you’re a poet.
Tell me your phone thinks you’re a poet without telling me you’re a poet.
39%?!? How the fuck could he still be at 39%???
Going from 50-some to 39 is not a free-fall. The graph shows this: it’s an expected gradual decline that has probably flattened out. 30 to 40 percent of Americans approve, or just of Drumpf, but of what’s been happening over the last 11 months.
Going from 50-some to 39 is not a free-fall. The graph shows this: it’s an expected gradual decline that has probably flattened out. 30 to 40 percent of Americans approve, or just of Drumpf, but of what’s been happening over the last 11 months.
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
39%?!? How the fuck could he still be at 39%???
Going from 50-some to 39 is not a free-fall. The graph shows this: it’s an expected gradual decline that has probably flattened out. 30 to 40 percent of Americans approve, or just of Drumpf, but of what’s been happening over the last 11 months.
Going from 50-some to 39 is not a free-fall. The graph shows this: it’s an expected gradual decline that has probably flattened out. 30 to 40 percent of Americans approve, or just of Drumpf, but of what’s been happening over the last 11 months.
"Ein nicht-schreibender Schriftsteller ist ein Ungeheuer, das den Wahnsinn umwirbt." - Kafka
"A non-writing writer is a monster who courts madness."
"A non-writing writer is a monster who courts madness."
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"Ein nicht-schreibender Schriftsteller ist ein Ungeheuer, das den Wahnsinn umwirbt." - Kafka
"A non-writing writer is a monster who courts madness."
"A non-writing writer is a monster who courts madness."
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
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In fantastic awards news: BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME is a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! Huge congrats to Mélikah and Catherine 🎉
Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In fantastic awards news: BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME is a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! Huge congrats to Mélikah and Catherine 🎉
Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
We’ve been rewatching LotR over the last little while. It has an additional resonance these days. You know what I mean.
November 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
We’ve been rewatching LotR over the last little while. It has an additional resonance these days. You know what I mean.
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Save the date! Submissions open for HOWL New Irish Writing 26 in February 2026 🐺 🖤
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Save the date! Submissions open for HOWL New Irish Writing 26 in February 2026 🐺 🖤
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November 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
An interesting review/opinion piece.
I’m just getting acquainted with Oliver’s work now. It’s uneven: some of it is trite and obvious; but some is really affecting, and she had a good of lining at her best.
I see no reason to be embarrassed by her.
#poetry #booksky
I’m just getting acquainted with Oliver’s work now. It’s uneven: some of it is trite and obvious; but some is really affecting, and she had a good of lining at her best.
I see no reason to be embarrassed by her.
#poetry #booksky
Maggie Millner: “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”
A reckoning with Mary Oliver’s reputation as an unserious poet explores how her best work has been misunderstood.
yalereview.org
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Grawlix | The Walrus
Sharp cornered, nonsensical, / yet fully understood
thewalrus.ca
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I’ll be at @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social Grand Opening of their new Duckworth
St. location on Saturday from 12 to 1, signing copies of Green and talking books!
Support local writing and publishing!
#booksky #poetry #canlit #canadianliterature
St. location on Saturday from 12 to 1, signing copies of Green and talking books!
Support local writing and publishing!
#booksky #poetry #canlit #canadianliterature
October 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’ll be at @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social Grand Opening of their new Duckworth
St. location on Saturday from 12 to 1, signing copies of Green and talking books!
Support local writing and publishing!
#booksky #poetry #canlit #canadianliterature
St. location on Saturday from 12 to 1, signing copies of Green and talking books!
Support local writing and publishing!
#booksky #poetry #canlit #canadianliterature
Really interesting article.
‘There is something about the poetry which means that for all its experiments with voice – with modes of address, kinds of ventriloquy, sorts of listening – it always sounds like the same person talking.’
Fiona Green on Jorie Graham’s methods: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fiona Green on Jorie Graham’s methods: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
October 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Really interesting article.
‘There is something about the poetry which means that for all its experiments with voice – with modes of address, kinds of ventriloquy, sorts of listening – it always sounds like the same person talking.’
Fiona Green on Jorie Graham’s methods: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fiona Green on Jorie Graham’s methods: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fiona Green · Chi Chi Trillip Trillip: Jorie Graham looks ahead
For Jorie Graham, the teeming possibilities of lyric – tense and mood, syntax and sound crossed with layout and...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Really interesting article.
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Many thanks to @pinholepoetry.bsky.social for featuring an interview with me. Have a read, read the wonderful poetry on the site, and support them if you can. pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview...
An Interview with Shelagh Rowan-Legg · P I N H O L E • P O E T R Y
Shelagh Rowan-Legg (she/they) is a writer and filmmaker. Her work has been published in The Windsor Review, The Ampersand Review, numerous anthologies, and her short films have screened at festivals a...
pinholepoetry.ca
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Many thanks to @pinholepoetry.bsky.social for featuring an interview with me. Have a read, read the wonderful poetry on the site, and support them if you can. pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview...
Fact checked: www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
October 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Fact checked: www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...