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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 · 8m

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 9m

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 · 23m

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

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 28m

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 · 15h

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 · 20h

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 · 19h

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

God I miss Dawn Foster

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

What is *up*, guys

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

If Mary Poppins was set today the father would have been called George Internet

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. ‘I think what you mean is I should start a podcast.’

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

It’s maybe the last remaining place that an artist / writer / maker of Fimo miniatures has a hope of reaching an audience and it is so completely terrible.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

I know this is algorithmically determined, but for me most of the recommended accounts are of the genre ‘funny things people said up to ten years ago on other platforms when social media still basically functioned’

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

Instagram is an incredibly linear experience and 75% of the posts in your stream are “recommended” accounts for you to follow rather than posts by the people you actually follow, which is much worse than ads.

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