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Steve Pottinger @bigstevepoet.bsky.social · 2d

Buy a copy of ‘Unsung’, folks. It’s an incredible volume of poetry. Really.

Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in the top ten again at Waterstones in Wolverhampton! How lovely.

Waterstones Wolverhampton @waterstoneswton.bsky.social · 2d

Out latest Waterstones #Wolverhampton best-sellers, with Richard Osman and SenLinYu again out in front, a good week for #Twilight fans, and weekend events for @emmapurshouse.bsky.social's Unsung and Jake Perry's Nights in Gold Satin help keep them in the Top 10!

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in the top ten again at Waterstones in Wolverhampton! How lovely.

Waterstones Wolverhampton @waterstoneswton.bsky.social · 2d

Out latest Waterstones #Wolverhampton best-sellers, with Richard Osman and SenLinYu again out in front, a good week for #Twilight fans, and weekend events for @emmapurshouse.bsky.social's Unsung and Jake Perry's Nights in Gold Satin help keep them in the Top 10!

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 4d

Had a ball last night @waterstoneswton.bsky.social reading from my new poetry collection 'Unsung', then today I was writing 'poetry on demand' for children at Whitchurch Blackberry Fair. Tomorrow it's online Yes, We Cant. If you'd like to be in the Zoom Room for YWC shout up. Poetry filled weekend.

Poster for online Yes, We Cant. 7.30pm on 5th October 2025. Feature poets John Osbourne and Beth Hartley. To be in the Zoom Room email poetsprattlerspandemonialists@gmail.com

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks so much for having me. I had a great time. I was delighted that people braved the weather and came to listen and buy the book.

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Waterstones Wolverhampton @waterstoneswton.bsky.social · 5d

Huge thanks to the fantastic @emmapurshouse.bsky.social for a wonderful performance in store yesterday, and to our lovely audience!
Do come and grab a copy of Emma's brilliant new collection, Unsung, and you'll see why we're so enthusiastic about this book and poet! #Wolverhampton #poetry

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Jean Atkin @jmatkin.bsky.social · 8d

Huge tree.
Little castle.

#ActonBurnell

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 8d

If you're coming to @waterstoneswton.bsky.social on Friday night to hear me read it'll be great to see you. Here's a review of the new collection...
londongrip.co.uk/2025/09/lond... I am chuffed

London Grip Poetry Review – Emma Purshouse – londongrip.co.uk

londongrip.co.uk

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 8d

Review just in...I'm delighted. Thank you to Pat Edwards for such a close reading and positive response to my work.
londongrip.co.uk/2025/09/lond... And thank you to London Grip for publishing the piece.

London Grip Poetry Review – Emma Purshouse – londongrip.co.uk

londongrip.co.uk

Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for the repost :)

Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 9d

2/ Drop by and say hi. If you want more information about how to submit poetry to this project which is part of Walsall MakerFest Fringe Festival then check out this link pandemonialists.co.uk/2025/09/01/w...

Walsall MakerFest Fringe Festival – Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists

pandemonialists.co.uk

Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 9d

1/ I'll be in the New Art Gallery Walsall tomorrow (30th September) between 11.30 and 2.00pm. If you'd like to write a haiku about somewhere in the Walsall Borough with a view to seeing your words projected large on a building later in the year, then I shall be there to help you achieve this aim.

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow evening (30th September) I'll be reading from my new collection of poetry at Press Books and Coffee in Hednesford. It's a smashing independent bookshop. It'd be great to see you if you can make it along. Here's the ticket link...
www.pressbooksandcoffee.co.uk/event-detail...

An Evening with Emma Purshouse | Press Books & Coffee

Join us at Press Books and Coffee for the launch of Unsung, the new poetry collection by Emma Purshouse, published by Offa’s Press.

www.pressbooksandcoffee.co.uk

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 10d

Smashing afternoon over in Ironbridge for the slam. Huge congratulations to Morgan Birch for her win. Well done to David Braziel for achieving 2nd place, and to Mogs for his 3rd place. Thank you to everyone who came along. @pandemonialists.bsky.social couldn't do these events without you.

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 11d

Ironbridge Poetry Slam is today! 2.30pm on 28th September 2025. There will be tickets on the door. 15 slammers are getting ready to go head-to-head in a top-notch poetry knock-out. Here's the address...
THE ENGINE SHOP, ENGINUITY,
10 WELLINGTON ROAD, IRONBRIDGE TF8 7DX

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Louise Longson @louisepoetical.bsky.social · 11d

Just under an hour to go before I am joined by this amazing array of poets! Join us if you can - free on Zoom, we'd love to see you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...

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Waterstones Wolverhampton @waterstoneswton.bsky.social · 12d

It's #NationalPoetryDay on Thursday and we'll be celebrating on Friday October 3rd with @emmapurshouse.bsky.social reading from her brilliant new collection of poems, Unsung. Tickets are available to buy in store or online at: www.waterstones.com/events/emma-... #Wolverhampton

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Alex Vann @alexvann.bsky.social · 14d

My latest piece of graphic design is 'Unsung' the latest collection by poet @emmapurshouse.bsky.social available now from offaspress.co.uk/shop/

It features a wonderful portrait of Emma painted by Keith Turley:
rbsa.org.uk/members/keit...

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 17d

The Blackcountryman is out and about in all of its usual retail outlets...
Black Country Living Museum, Red House Cone, Dudley Canal Trust, RS News in Willenhall, New Art Gallery Walsall, Framers Gallery in Wolverhampton, Ashwoods, Black Country Hub at the Merry Hill Centre.

Cover of The Blackcountryman magazine. Showing an owl sculpture. Articles include 'Flame at 50 - Slade's Foray into Celluloid Revisited' and 'Commemorating Bean Cars'

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 17d

I'm reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty and loving it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17d

As I've seen it come up, no, authors don't get paid for writing blurbs for other authors. We do it (mostly) to pay it forward and to bring attention to work we think is good. Also, if an editor/publisher tried to bribe me for a blurb, that email would go up here and on my personal site SO FAST

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 17d

In case anyone missed it, endorsements for Keshed coming in thick and fast, this one from @leebrackstone.bsky.social (in two parts), a fella with a frankly ridiculous pedigree/track record blew me the fuck away.

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 20d

"Keshed hums with the vitality of lived and hard won experience that only fiction of the most transcendent kind can deliver. Channeling Bukowski, Denis Johnson and Selby Jr in a Yorkshire patois of brutal authenticity......

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 17d

"Keshed is brazen in its brutality and its brilliance. Ferocious, fearless, tender and immaculately observed, it's a propulsive, take-no-prisoners masterclass in voice, style and atmosphere." - Jae Auxjera

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Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social · 18d

Ridiculously cheap deals on remaindered copies of my book of animal poems - The Budgie Likes to Boogie. Get class sets or group readers. Contains 'Walking With My Iguana' and 'The Snake Hotel'. Details here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/08/budg... Reposts appreciated.

Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel

THE BUDGIE LIKES TO BOOGIE (Cover and inside illustrations by Chris White) My book of poems about animals is now remaindered but I have acq...

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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 18d

3/ www.telfordtheatre.com/whats-on/ironbridge-poetry-slam/#Tickets_in

Ironbridge Poetry Slam - Telford Theatre @ Oakengates

Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists return with their high-energy, highly entertaining poetry slam. Fifteen poets perform their work and compete against each other. Only one can win the prize of a p...

www.telfordtheatre.com

Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social · 18d

2/ *Due to a bit of drop out I've got one slam place left. If you're a slammer who'd like to give it a go then shout up. Prize is a paid gig.

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