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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 8d

My favourite book.

A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · 16d

To take your first in the other direction: Sausage Dogs.

Perhaps followed bythe nice and simple: 101 Sausages.

Memorable informational documentaries...

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Attie Lime @attielime.bsky.social · 24d

My festive poetry book, A Welly Full of Christmas is out 6 weeks today with @tinytreebooks.bsky.social! 🎉🎄 The most splendiferous @afharrold.com said some lovely things about it. And here's a sneak peek of the contents! Pre-orders available now from all the usual places ❤️🎄#UKKidLit #KidLitUK

Contents

Quick!

Outside

Wonderful Word

Here Comes Winter

Things I Looked up Online to Put on My Christmas List

Grandma's Poinsettia

The First

Message from the Elf on the Shelf

Dear Santa, Love Sam

8 Alternatives to a Christmas Stocking

“Perfect poems, rhythmically rambunctious and lyrically lively."

A.F. Harrold

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · Sep 9

I'll never not vote for Barbara Firth and Martin Waddell's Big Bear/Little Bear books, starting with Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · Aug 17

Yep.

A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · Aug 4

Thanks for the shout out!

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What's On Reading @rdgwhatson.bsky.social · Aug 4

This Thursday, Battle Library are hosting a fun-filled activity day to support the Story Garden Summer Reading Challenge, with games, workshops and local poet/author/beardmeister @afharrold.com!

All sessions are FREE but best to book in advance - whatsonreading.com/venues/readi...

Poster for Activity Day at Battle Library with details of the event (which you can also find via the link in this post)

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · Aug 3

I honestly have no idea what actual kids (teens, I guess?) would make of it, but Fishfolk, by Steven Quincy-Jones (pub. by Firefly), is the best mythic-Doggerland-survival-tale-written-in-Beowulf-footed-prose-poetry, I've read for yonks. I think you'd dig it, Louie, if you've not found it already.

Fishfolk book cover. Blue-green Hokusai-ish wave with added tentacles, threatening a couple of figures by a straggly tree. By Steven Quincey-Jones. Smashing book.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Jul 20

As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks.

Please share and support if you’re able :)

www.bookbanks.co.uk

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · Jul 7

Glad you enjoyed! And hooray for libraries!

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · Jul 3

When it's too hot to actively hate one another...

Two melted cats, Vincent and Susan, ignoring one another, in seperate puddles.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · Jun 28

How many editors does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Not sure about this wording: it could be read as meaning editors have sex in light bulbs! Also, do we really "screw in" UK light bulbs? Don't we tend to use bayonet caps? Rewrite and bring it back in your own time, OK?

Have you finished yet?

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · Jun 25

"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · Jun 24

I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.

🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · Jun 24

I think AI is going to eventually tank in the longterm, but...

the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · Jun 27

#poetry #poem

I loved reading A.F. Harrold's Pocket Book of #Poems yesterday. It inspired me to write my words.

@afharrold.com

Twister Lolly Green and Trumpet Yellow by Kay Medway

If my pocket houses my poem, it is clear on one condition: its contents are from simpler, cameraless times,

like waiting at the aviary’s gates in the park, for a peacock’s feathers instead of sparks, its still firework-like fan display of delights.

Park café baskets of gold chips, ice cream vans on hills with Twister lolly green or Calippo lollies for sale, queasiness on spinning castle outdoor play area seats, easiness on the tennis courts.

School fields used for fetes, county dancing skirts of trumpet yellow, and for racing by holding bean bags in hands and on heads; Cyprus souvenir dresses, suede summer clogs, and volumes of gingham hair ribbons.

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · Jun 27

Tasty penny paper bag pick n mix newsagent nostalgia mellow fruitfulness and summer park poem - thank you, took me right back! x

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Argonaut Books @argonautbooks.bsky.social · Jun 22

We were robbed last night. When it’s our stock or our money that is targeted, there’s insurance and systems in place for this, but when it’s stealing from a charity in an extremely direct way then we just can’t abide it.

scottishbooktrust.com/donate

@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · Jun 16

Further adventures in comfortable pillow land. Susan and some Joan Aiken/Quentin Blake loveliness.

Susan, a ginger cat, on a windowsill leaning her cheek on the pointy edge of some books.

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · Jun 1

Everybody needs a rocking chair for a pillow, everybody needs a rocking chair...

Or so Vincent thinks.

Grey cat, Vincent, using a rocking chair as a pillow.

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LJ Ireton @literaryvegan.bsky.social · May 30

Poets'R'Us @afharrold.com

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · May 30

Had a nice visit to Waterstones, Finchley Road, this afternoon. Plenty of signed books left for you all!

@bloomsburyed.bsky.social @literaryvegan.bsky.social
@waterstones.bsky.social

Poet (AF Harrold) with books (Pocket Book of Pocket Poems).

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Bloomsbury Education @bloomsburyed.bsky.social · May 28

A.F. Harrold has a whole load of poems that he’d like to share with you!🥳

He’s a word wonder, herding unexpected ideas into unusual shapes!

Don't miss his session at the St Austell Festival of Children's Literature on June 14th. Tickets here: bit.ly/3FnXd1s @afharrold.com

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · May 25

My cat. Not my cat.
Vincent. Lucifer.

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · May 24

I guess security chief Garibaldi had seen some several hundred year old reruns...

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A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com · May 24

If Babylon 5 taught us nothing else...

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · May 21

Reading with children changes their lives forever, and EVERY SINGLE CHILD is entitled to this right! That's why I support the #ReadingRights campaign. The full report is out today from @booktrust.org.uk & @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social: please read & share!
www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/rea...

Poster supporting the BookTrust/Children's Laureate Reading Rights campaign, with illustration by Chris Riddell of a reader with books

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