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Luke Kennard

@lukekennard.bsky.social

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Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 25d

Reminder that my new poetry collection (my SEVENTH because I apparently cannot take a hint) is available from Picador www.panmacmillan.com/authors/luke...

A big superimposed copy of Luke’s book, The Book of Jonah, “emerges” from the sea.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 4h

In this photo I make entreaties to God with a sniper aiming at my forehead

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 4h

It’s not my step ladder it’s my ladder that stepped up

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 4h

Pockets full of bran muffins, caffeinated to the point of psychosis, staggering back to my room eating a peach melba with a teaspoon

Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 4h

Please write one so I can use it

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 4h

Too Vast Too Spurious would be a great review title of a book that is too long and full of conjecture

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 8h

They’re my siblings yeah but I don’t even like them really

Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 8h

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 8h

I dread to think how much turkish delight I could put away in a buffet situation

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 8h

And it’s hard to say no to a pain au chocolat

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 8h

Love a hotel buffet breakfast. Love to have muesli and then a fry-up with 7 hash browns and then to be like, you know what would wash that down? Some BRIE!

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 1d

You should pre-order this brilliant-sounding book by the legend that is So Mayer. Also Peninsula Press have an online shop that actually functions, so I was able to pay with my FACE in a PUB!

So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 1d

It's real & it's here. I'm real & I'm here. There were times during the writing where I didn't think that those sentences could simultaneously be true. So yes I am grinning like a dork.

Pre-order BAD LANGUAGE from Peninsula Press. It's not secondhand yet... 👇🏻

peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

So Mayer, a short, grey-haired white person, holds up copies of Bad Language. There's a sign that says Second-hand Books behind them.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 1d

If I put my mind to it I can feel irritated by journals he once published a short story in laying some kind of claim by association

Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve come up with an idea for a website that *doesn’t* use cookies, but it still has a big pop-up thing where you have to click a button that says THANKS SO MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOT USING COOKIES.

Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

“Oh it’s because your literal job is to be audibly / visibly wrong and stink up my day!”

Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

It’s always worth asking, “Wait, why can I even hear you?”

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

An act of almost superhuman largesse, magnanimity and forbearance; Christ would have struggled

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

It’s always a challenge to have any respect for the opinions of a professional opinion-haver - on anything, but particularly re. jobs

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

When the junk folder is empty on the Outlook app it shows you this which looks vaguely reminiscent of a toilet and I don’t like it

Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3d

God I miss Dawn Foster

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3d

I do remember creating the line “mad little winter penis” on my friend’s parents’ fridge, on which I suppose they must have had both the base kit and the ‘erotic’ one.

Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3d

Q.
A. Thank you for asking, yeah - I got the idea when I was buying £10 worth of Robux for my kid and I thought, ‘There *has* to be some way of applying this to poetry.’
Q.
A. No, it didn’t work at all, no.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3d

At the end George Internet would realise that there’s more to life than the internet.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3d

“Let’s do a real deep dive into why that is”

Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3d

this is a little video to promote a bigger video of me with some headphones

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