Alastair Hesp

Poet. MA @McrWritingSchl - Winner 'Best imagined sound' @sound_awards 2021.
“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one”

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

Overcome with joy to win ‘Best Imagined Sound’ Award 2021
Thank you @sound_awards @natpoetrylib @theradiophonic

The competition was incredible. I chose a subject that is difficult and often overshadowed, it means a lot to me that poetry and sound can illuminate it 🙏⚡️

[Broken Sleep Books @brokensleep]

Great to see we've got a book on The Guardian's best recent poetry round up. We were delighted to publish Mind's Eye by Carol Rumens. Also good to see an occasional indie press featured on the monthly roundup, breaking up the hegemony of major publishers.

https://t.co/LSgWuMbohW

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

Today is both my birthday and @WMHDay

So I went to visit an old friend
and wrote a poem about manic depression.

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The visualisation of a poets mind.
Starting a new poem
and trying to finish the poem.

Art courtesy of Anish Kapoor, ‘Unseen’ from Arken Museum

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

The visualisation of a poets mind.
Starting a new poem
and trying to finish the poem.

Art courtesy of Anish Kapoor, ‘Unseen’ from Arken Museum

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

@JennyMitchellGo Indirectly… Call me by your name

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According to my photo library, I stopped photographing bottles of natural wine and distorted images of my friends in bars in early ‘21 - which confirms I have been sober for over three years.

Now all I photograph is nature and things that oscillate my conscious reality ☺️

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A day foraging in the forest

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Just wrote a poem about it

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT:

He’s not wrong.

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

In a moment of synchronicity I walked into a recently opened bookstore. After the owner of ‘super time books’ recognised my northern accent she recommended @kimmoorepoet whom I was briefly taught by @McrWritingSchl I left buzzing and also part of new poetry workshop group 🙌☺️✨

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

Look. It has grown.

The principal of elastic limits,
need lots of dough
kneed what is immaterial

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New year, new dough, the fresh awakenings of new mess and perhaps even poetry

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

Look. It has grown.

The principal of elastic limits,
need lots of dough
kneed what is immaterial

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

A nice Christmas read 🔪

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

Can anyone recommend me a contemporary poetry collection about the body?

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

So great to still see the @VervePoetryPres Eighty Four anthology (curated by @HelenCalcutt) on grief and suicide on the shelves of @WaterstonesMCR. And next to David Cain! The most essential poetry anthology I have read and been fortunate enough to be a part of 🙏

[Cherry Doyle 🍒 @CMDoet]

It is here...

I'm so thoroughly grateful to @HelenMort for her kind words of endorsement (which appear in full on the cover).

[Audrey Molloy @Audrey_Molloy]

Thrilled to announce my forthcoming second poetry collection, The Blue Cocktail, to be published by The Gallery Press in Oct and launched in Ireland in late September. This edition features a glorious cover 'Voyager 6' (2011), oil on aluminium panel, by Irish artist Chloe Early.

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

@JTaylorTrash Very kind of you to say. Thank you for writing one of the most seminal books of this century. An inspiration that is still unfolding in the present

[Alastair Hesp @AHespPoet]

Having a spectacular moment, sat on a park bench reading @JTaylorTrash’s C+nto & other poems, being just so very grateful that this powerful, imagistic hybrid book exists. Grateful that contemporary poets and contemporary poetry exists. 🙏