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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you both!

Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Sep 1

My debut pamphlet, The First Thirty Years EP, is out now. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

'Barrett writes with formal agility and emotional charge, drawing lines between private collapse and public failure without sacrificing lyrical control.'

Adam Barrett - The First Thirty Years EP | Broken Sleep Books

Adam Barrett’s The First Thirty Years EP is a taut, propulsive collection that fuses poetic memoir with political indictment, navigating masculinity, class, and grief through the lens of North East En...

www.brokensleepbooks.com

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’ve abandoned this for a while.

This week my debut poetry pamphlet comes out with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. Please buy, read it, take a photo of it and post it, whatever you can to support writers and small presses.

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · May 5

Can't wait to see this develop. Shout out @newwritingnorth.bsky.social

The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social · May 5

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · May 2

I love you Durham but fuck me. We could have kept Darren Grimes in his ma’s basement.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · Apr 24

📢 Every working class writer belongs in their union!

📚 In a survey by The Bookseller a staggering 78% of working-class authors said their background had hindered their career. [1]

www.thebookseller.com/news/survey-...

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Apr 28

It cured a real slump I was in with my writing. I just couldn't sit and write at my laptop and so gave it a try and have done it since.

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Apr 25

I can only write first drafts longhand. Then typing them up becomes a huge part of the editing process.

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · Mar 14

Hi you lovely muggy boneheads.

I've joined Bluesky.

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · Mar 12

Isn't this wonderful!

@thebookseller.com
@waterstones.bsky.social
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social

#BritishBookAwards

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Mar 6

Holding a sign or refusing to clap as Trump walks past isn’t resistance. It’s a pathetic attempt to get your face on social media, especially when many of those ‘resisting’ are appalled by the treatment of Ukraine but are more than happy to see Israel kill children.

Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Mar 3

People who aren't fans of wrestling have woken up today thinking it was a normal weekend, blissfully unaware that John Cena is a horrible man.

Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Feb 25

CM Punk wearing a teachers’ union tee on WWE on Netflix… voice of the voiceless.

Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Feb 22

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Feb 21

30% of arts leaders in England were privately educated, compared with 7% national average. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn

Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Feb 21

'Guardians of Western Civilisation' hahahahahahahahahahahahaha fucking hell hahahahahahahaha

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Feb 21

👏👏👏

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Feb 21

Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures

The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Feb 18

Insane longlist. Great to see Northern writers getting some well-deserved love for their work!

www.walterscottprize.co.uk/the-2025-wal...

The 2025 Walter Scott Prize Longlist -

The Longlist for the sixteenth Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been announced by The Abbotsford Trust. The twelve novels contending for the £25,000 Prize are: THE HEART IN WINTER Kevin B...

www.walterscottprize.co.uk

Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Feb 14

Nothing punk about anything this man does. He's like the kid at a house party when you're 16 who shows up when you did everything to avoid them finding out about it.

Byrney14 @ladyeuropean.bsky.social · Feb 14

Boycott this fecker

www.thenational.scot/news/2493240...

BrewDog founder launches unofficial Elon Musk-style watchdog to take on UK Government

BREWDOG founder James Watt has launched an unofficial government watchdog which he has styled after Elon Musk’s programme in the US ...

www.thenational.scot

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Feb 10

Thank you for discovering top writers in the North!

Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Feb 8

Read this in two sittings. A harrowing exploration of how people can descend into unspeakable evil and one I’ll be recommending from now on. @northodoxpress.bsky.social

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Feb 6

Beautiful place. Alnwick Gardens, Castle etc., but then Barter Books, too!

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Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social · Feb 6

Alnwick

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Newcastle United @newcastleunited.com · Feb 5

WE WON'T BE HOME FOR TEA

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