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A maid following a master.
  • 9 February 20239 February 2023
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The Master’s Tools: the poetry and perversion of control

Self-interview about Hot Cockalorum and its folklore, kink and animal familiars.

Header reads "National Poetry Competition, Kirsten Irving, Then and Now"
  • 9 October 20227 October 2022
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Poetry Society Then & Now video series

Video reading of ‘Namazu at the Physicist’s Funeral’ and ‘Benjamins’.

Hot Cockalorum poetry book, with plum-coloured leather cover with embossed white cartoon cat skull
  • 7 October 20227 October 2022
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New poetry collection and audiobook: Hot Cockalorum!

Folklore! Masters! So many animals! My second full-length collection is out now from Guillemot Press!

Cover of Gramarye issue 18. Snow White is sat on a leafy ledge in a red and white dress, with roses in her long, dark hair. She is reaching down into a basket of apples held by an old peasant woman in a brown dress with red shawl.
  • 28 March 20213 August 2022
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Two folklore poems in Gramarye Journal

If you like folklore and fairytales, critical thinking and art, investigate the journal Gramarye.

A young man with a beard and a young woman with short red hair read poetry in a Waterstones bookshop
  • 20 August 20183 August 2022
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Two Robots in York

Watch JT Welsch and K being robots at York Waterstones, as part of the NxNE poetry reading series organised by Harry Man.

Never Never Never Come Back by Kirsten Irving and School of Forgery by Jon Stone
  • 22 February 201813 August 2022
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Never Never Never Come Back is, um, back! In paperback!

Salt Publishing are releasing paperback versions of my first collection, Never Never Never Come Back, and Jon Stone’s exceptional debut School of Forgery!

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  • 19 July 20173 August 2022
  • Leave a Comment on Alchemy: Why poetry publishers need to get it together

Alchemy: Why poetry publishers need to get it together

I wrote an article for BookMachine on the value of collaboration over competition in poetry publishing.

A blue book cover reading "Poetic Interviews - edited and conducted by Aaron Kent"
  • 3 July 20173 August 2022
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Poetic Interviews: Line breaks of questioning

Aaron Kent, Editor of Broken Sleep Books, conducts unusual interviews: the questions and answers take the form of poetry.

Clipping of Poetry News article headed "Voice Recognition", with inset photo of Kirsten Irving recording in the booth.
  • 31 March 20173 August 2022
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Poetry News gets vocal

I’m in Poetry News, published by the Poetry Society, talking about the links between voiceover and poetry.

Tweet from Gertrude's Gifts reads: "The flameless tea lights: Why is there so much resignation in a package"
  • 15 December 20163 August 2022
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Play-poems and bardbots!

Advent is upon us, and we’ve been celebrating over at Sidekick Books! Every day we’ve opened a new window of poetry mishmashery, featuring: i) Hybardrid Twitterbots, mixing famous poets with other poets and other texts…

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