Joe Williams

Writer, poet and performer from Leeds, UK. Author of 'The Taking Part', 'An Otley Run' and more. Available for stuff. Now on BlueSky @joewilliamswriter

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

I'm not deleting my account, but I don't intend to post anything on any of my accounts here for the foreseeable future. If you want to know what I'm up to, please sign up to my email list through my website.

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

@Henry_Raby The Xtrmntr album is your best bet for this. But no, Primal Scream aren't typically overtly political in their music.

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

It's been a busy schedule of events for me over the last couple of months, but this is the last one until September. Sunday night in Meanwood, with @ian__harker, Su Ryder and me.

https://t.co/mD4OZDCLDL

[Chemistry Poetry @ChemistryPoetry]

Tomorrow is Chemistry day! Come and join us at @ChemicTavern in Leeds for our Regulars' Showcase. https://t.co/mB2R3fUQaX

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

@wthirskgaskill Depends where it is and how familiar the audience are likely to be with your work.

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

I'm on the bill at @riponpoetfest on Saturday 21 Sep, in a double-header with fellow Leeds poet Khadijah Ibrahim. Tickets just £5. There's a lot of other good stuff on that day and over the weekend, including @katefoxwriter. Check out the programme here. https://t.co/kZHT6e78h3

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

Great news for @SarahWimbush. She's a regular and former headliner at @ChemistryPoetry, has been a headliner at @WordsontheWall1, and has done numerous other events with me, most recently at @LeedsLit. And now she's shortlisted for the Forward Prize. So pleased for her :)

[Sarah Wimbush @SarahWimbush]

Totally blown away to be shortlisted @ForwardPrizes with some of my heros @rachelallen1 @VChangPoet @EllaFrears @FadyJoudah congratulations all 🥳🖤

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

@claresitafisher @rachelebower @BloomsburyBooks @stephsby Oh, I didn't even know this was a thing. I'll have to have a read some time.

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

Supertram, Supertram, share your views on the Supertram.

[Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire @MayorOfWY]

Trams are coming to West Yorkshire! 🚊

See the proposed routes and tell us what you think in our Mass Transit Consultation:

https://t.co/IpddUxxrn1

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

@wthirskgaskill @ian__harker If Alfred isn't involved, it's bound to fail.

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

@mattabbottpoet Compare to Boris Johnson's election in 2019. He immediately sprang into action by going on a luxury 10-day holiday to a villa in Mustique, hosted and paid for by multi-millionaire Tory donor and political lobbyist David Ross.

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

@JakeWildHall @NadiaWhittomeMP Same situation here with my excellent local candidate (and my MP, before the dissolution of Parliament)
@alexsobel

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

Morning. Don't forget to vote the Tories out.

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

@Sarah_L_Brooks @Nelle_Andrew Brilliant :) You are fast becoming the most famous person I know 😃

[Chemistry Poetry @ChemistryPoetry]

We're doing things a bit differently for next month's Chemistry. Instead of the usual two headliners, we'll be showcasing some of our recently-published regulars. Plus the usual open mic and optional theme. Come and join us at @ChemicTavern in Leeds.

https://t.co/mB2R3fUQaX

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

There's still time to get a ticket for 'The Invisible Worm' - me in conversation with poet Hannah Stone, 5pm today at @HPBCLeeds as part of @LeedsLit.

[Leeds Lit Fest @LeedsLit]

Join Hannah Stone and Joe Williams on the 21st June at The Leeds Library in conversation on Hannah's most recent collection, The Invisible Worm (@IndigoDreamsPub ).

‘Part threnody, part celebration of friendship’

🎟️ https://t.co/KSqbhB2eQQ

[The Leeds Library @theleedslibrary]

Head on over to @HPBCLeeds this afternoon for a cracking double-bill of poetry! We have Hannah Stone's 'The Invisible Worm' at 5pm, with @JoeWilliamsPoet, and Sulaiman Addonia at 7:30pm. And you never know, a beer in the sunshine between the two!

[Geoff Tulley @geofftulley]

@theleedslibrary today to listen to @SarahWimbush reading from Strike & being interviewed by @JoeWilliamsPoet So much of Sarah’s writing & responses resonated with my experience of living in the Sth Yorks Coalfield in 1984. A powerful combo of words and pictures @leedslit

[The Leeds Library @theleedslibrary]

.@SarahWimbush starts out latest @LeedsLit event by reading from her @StairwellBooks collection STRIKE in conversation with @JoeWilliamsPoet

[Joe Williams @JoeWilliamsPoet]

This is happening in about 2 hours from now at @theleedslibrary. There's still time to get a ticket.

[Sarah Wimbush @SarahWimbush]

Join @JoeWilliamsPoet & I on Thursday at Leeds Library as we chat about memories of the miners' strike 1984-85 + a reading from STRIKE. Thanks @stevewh16944270 @TheYorksTimes for this fabulous book review🖤
https://t.co/wko2Prgs4U
@leedslibraries @StairwellBooks @yorkshirepost