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Matthew Rice
@matthew-rice.bsky.social
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Poems-Running-PhDing-Anti-racist. ‘Plastic’ forthcoming in January 2026 with Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) & Soft Skull Press (US), available here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790542/plastic-by-matthew-rice/
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · May 10
American friends, my new book is available for pre order in its groovy, punky US edition. It’s about, among other things, low paid labour, time and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. ❤️🙏 #poetry #plastic #softskullpress

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plastic by Matthew Rice: 9781593768034 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in an injection molding factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis,...
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · 14h
The end bit… 😬

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Trump Has NOTHING to Do with Epstein Bday Letter, Pam Bondi Grilled & Federal Workers Go Without Pay
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · 2d
Everything that spills out of his mouth is ALWAYS so easily fact checked.

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Confused Trump TELLS DEEPLY CONCERNING STORY – Invents Tale About Him & Osama bin Laden!!!
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · 3d
Oh this is very interesting! I’ll have to hop on the train and check it out! Thanks for the heads up!
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · 9d
Love this book. I used it a lot for the first chapter of my critical thesis on MacNeice. 🫡
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 12d
RIP
Tony Harrison V.
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · 14d
Reading from plastic @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social 💙🤍
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d
Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · 16d
I know right! Sadly the tours have ceased
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · 16d
Yes, that is correct. I also came across a short podcast episode about MacNeice’s childhood which included memories of trips to Portrush where he remembered the wild buddleia. I can’t remember what the podcast was now though
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · 21d
A superb poem. Love Carver. X
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 21d
HT @matthew-rice.bsky.social always good to be reminded of this
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154788...
Happiness
I'm near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that passes for thought. It's early in the morning, and they are doing this thing together.
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · 21d
🙏🙏❤️❤️
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · 21d
Thank you for the lovely early mini review! 🙏❤️
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 21d
PLASTIC HAS LANDED and it looks like Northern Ireland's answer to Elf Uhr
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 22d
OOH Spring 2026 catlogue from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Matthew Rice: plastic (poetry from a plastic moulding factory. SOLD no word of a lie)
NEW JEREMY COOPER "Discord" (sounds AMAZING)new Polly Barton (YASS)
new Brian Dillon!
new Keith Ridgway!
and loads more
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Xander Berkeley @xanderberkeley.bsky.social · 25d
Dear #MSNBC hire back @matthewjdowd.bsky.social and make a public apology to him.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24d
So Kilmeade issues a weak apology about giving homeless people lethal injections and Fox just moves on with zero consequences. As usual.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 24d
A Palestinian child helping her family evacuate from their house that is about to be bombed by Israel.

This girl has lost her father during the genocide.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27d
Amazing how we couldn’t do what Brazil did: Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28d
The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.

And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.

I refuse to sanitize him.
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · 29d
The Fitzcarraldo Editions Spring catalogue just dropped 👀💙🤍🌿 UK edition of ‘plastic’ due January 29, 2026 🫶
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · Sep 6
Three times more people saw Oasis play last Sunday night at MetLife Stadium than were hired in the United States in the month of August.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 4
Part of me is annoyed at myself for letting this Israeli racist colonel get under my skin.

Part of me thinks we should in fact normalize telling genocidal war criminals to "fuck off" on television.

Full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · Sep 6
Absolutely we should.
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · Sep 6
Brilliant from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. This is how racists should be spoken to, called out to their faces.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 5
Ex-Israeli spokesman: "You represent sharia. You represent the hatred of Western society."

Me: "I am Western, you racist piece of shit... I thought I was coming on to debate John Spencer not this ridiculous war criminal."

Full debate between me & an Israeli racist:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
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Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social · Aug 31
“Kankles Caligula” 🤣