Jamie Woods

Seren Esgynnol/Rising Star: Jamie Woods YouTube video by Just Another Poet

Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Here's a video of me reading some poems from my new book, and talking about my writing so far, influences, illness, and future plans

youtu.be/vrHfZC16yyQ

CARDIFF FRIENDS! After 12 years I'm coming back to read.
I'll be featured poet at the amazing @bookspacecardiff open mic Weds 17th Sept.
Tix £4 or PWYC from bookspacecardiff.co.uk
I'd love to see you there, it's been much too long x

#Poetry
#cardiffpoetry

Radio on! Beyond chuffed to get a spot on the monthly playlist on Dandelion Radio. Poetry + guitars ftw

Poster. Reads as follows. Jamie Woods reading from Black Skies Die Starless. 2nd September, online. 17th September Cardiff Book Space. 25th October Swansea Tangled Parrot 19th November Newport, Murenger House.

I'm going on a book tour! Recreate the 90s experience with events booked in a record shop in Swansea, a book shop in Cardiff, a pub in Newport and for the online one, just pretend it's a dodgy bedsit?
Tickets and info from Jamiewoods77.com

A text-heavy poster for an event. The key text reads: love poetry, hate racism. Patrick Jones, Rhoda Thomas, Jamie Woods. October 25th. Tangled Parrot, Swansea. £4 in advance.

Love Poetry / Hate Racism event in Swansea. Oct 25th.
Raising money for UNICEF Gaza appeal and love music hate racism.
Featuring...
The amazing Patrick Jones!
The brilliant Rhoda Thomas!
Me!
The polar opposite of painting flags on roundabouts.
Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/674236/

And you can buy my newest book Black Skies Die Starless from @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social

punkdustpoetry.sumupstore.com

The 90s / I've Found God in Seattle, by Jamie Woods 2 track album

You can buy the digital downloads from bandcamp
jamiewoods77.bandcamp.com/album/the-90...

Jamie Woods: I've Found God in Seattle YouTube video by Punk Dust

Also from Black Skies Die Starless...
Side AA: I've Found God in Seattle
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Jamie Woods: The 90s YouTube video by Punk Dust

New poetry double A-side single taken from my book Black Skies Die Starless.
Side A: The 90s
youtu.be/gGEJ74r9i0c?...

If anything, the US show is more recent, and therefore less historic. Although they blur more faces, so their witnessing is less precise.
Anyway, I think I'd like to work in an airport xraying suitcases.

QOTD.
Why is the show 'Nothing to Declare' about Australian airport border control on the channel Sky Witness, while the almost identical yet geographically different show 'Airport Security USA' is on Sky History?
And yes, I am still unemployed, thanks for asking.

In Conversation, In Critique - Jamie Woods - Alan Parry In Conversation Jamie Woods doesn’t write poetry for your comfort. He writes because he must—because the words arrive heavy, vital, unfinished until spoken aloud. “I’ve always written: lyrics, reviews, short stories, opening chapters to novels, and poems,” he says. But it’s poetry that stuck. Not for lack of ambition elsewhere, but because it’s the only […]

#InConversationInCritique with @jamiewoods77.bsky.social
What happens when the work is actually read, closely? Alan digs deep into Jamie Woods’ latest, challenging the poems and the person behind them.
Interview + Critique by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
🔗 alanparrywriter.co.u...

A lovely review from the depths of Paul's Book Bag. *Blushes*

A Poetry Award That Puts Poets First – And You Can Make It Happen - The Broken Spine Poets deserve more than empty prestige. They deserve real recognition, real opportunities, and real support. That is why I am launching The Broken Spine

The Broken Spine has always been about the poets. We’ve run chapbook competitions, Reader’s Choice Awards, and more. Now, we want to give back like never before—but we need your help. Let’s hit £5,000. 🔗 shorturl.at/G2mMo

Same. You know where to find me :)

Right? It's the least taught part of a writing practice. I try and teach it using the hero's path and that sort of thing, but I've never worked it out for myself.
(To be fair, I made two actual humans and I can't tell them what to do.)

Yeah, I normally write the characters and a story emerges. Hasn't happened with this one yet.
Trying to squash them into a storyline doesn't make for a good read. Although if I did that, maybe I'd finish something for once!

So similar / so different
*Creates characters*
*Starts writing*
Plot: hahaha no lol

Wow, what a great pile of books. Honoured to be part of it! Enjoy

A pile of books and pamphlets

Been a good two days for post! TBR pile now quite large thanks to @taniahershman.bsky.social @thebraag.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Bring on the rainy weekend

I've already ordered yours!

In Conversation, In Critique - Jamie Woods - Alan Parry In Conversation Jamie Woods doesn’t write poetry for your comfort. He writes because he must—because the words arrive heavy, vital, unfinished until spoken aloud. “I’ve always written: lyrics, reviews...

Love this quote from @alanparrywriter.co.uk : "For Jamie Woods, poetry is never done. It evolves with context, with time, with each reading. Like a song rearranged, the same poem can carry new weight in a new world."

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#WritingSky #PoetrySky

Oh I'm just crying now

If you see this, post a planet

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Love the conversation.
Love the critique.
Thanks Alan. You're a star.

Wow. Wow and thank you @thebrokenspine.co.uk x

Have you seen the video of the twister factory? It is probably my favourite thing on the internet.

Yes m'lady

Logistically though, if they dipped the base in chocolate and hundreds and thousands, the stick would also be covered in them and that would be gross.

Cooly eating a callipo for lunch in the shade of my living room, while people are voluntarily going outside in this weather, and yet somehow I'm the one who genuinely can't get life insurance because I'm too "mentally unstable"...