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Side before self, every time. @LIVEwirePoetry // @skintanddem // @Roaring20sRadio . He/him.

Leeds (UK)

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4 months

This was such a confidence boost for me 🙌🏻 I was genuinely gobsmacked to discover that I made it into the #NationalPoetryCompetition longlist. They received over 19k entries from around the globe and longlisted just under 1%. Huge congratulations to everybody else on the list!

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Congratulations to the #NationalPoetryCompetition longlist! (1/4)

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4 years

My dad has just posted this to FB with the caption "Expendable Me" and it broke my heart. I know this is naff but can you please RT this, so I can show him people's appreciation? The number of letters, parcels he handles every day, the doors he knocks on, etc. 🙏🏻 #keyworkers

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The greatest honour of my life, bar none. @LUFC commissioned me to write this poem for their centenary kit launch, with @ralphineson reading it. I hope it resonates with the fans, and I hope this kit sees us return to where we belong 💛💙 #ALAW #MOT #LUFC

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1986: Tommy used to work on the docks. Union's been on strike. He's down on his luck; it's tough, so tough. 2019: Tommy votes Tory.

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@NoContextBrits stop voting tory.

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This is 'A Life of Wearing White' - a poem to mark the 100th birthday of @LUFC ! I've rewritten the poem that the club used to launch the centenary kit at the start of the season. Hope you enjoy 💛💙 #LUFC #ALAW #MOT

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3 years

Collaborated with @LUFC on this vid ahead of today's full return to Elland Road 🤍 #ALAW

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2 years

Us #LUFC fans are all desperate to somehow avoid relegation, even though being back in the Premier League is a bit like visiting your favourite sticky-floor boozer after years away, only to find that it's now a Vintage Inns gastropub serving Aperol Spritz and Babyccino.

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What an honour it was to be asked to pen this! Welcoming #LUFC back to the PL on behalf of the city and @WelcometoLeeds . Ace to hear @ralphineson bringing my words to life again. Still hasn't quite sunk in yet 💛💙 #ALAW

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Bit gutted not to have been at the game today, but this commentary from @BrynLaw is just pure magic. Nearly crashed my car when the update came through on 5 Live 🙈 #LEENOR

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To be blunt about it, seeing Bielsa manage #LUFC in the PL is the only thing that made the PL feel palatable. I'm not saying I want us to go down. It just won't be anywhere near as enjoyable. He was a shining light in a turbocapitalist quagmire. We'll lament this loss forever 🤍

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4 years ago today, I met the love of my life in a car park near Birmingham. If there's one thing that 2020 taught us, it's that we can get through anything together. So, this is what we did to kick-start 2021. Made me the happiest man alive ❤

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2 years

describing Andrew Tate as a "social media influencer" is a bit like describing Adolf Hitler as a "former political activist".

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I'll walk through Leeds city centre in nothing but Man Utd boxer shorts before being tied upside down to a lamppost if she's ever voted anything but Tory.

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3 years

Awesome to see #LUFC finally win in London. But couldn't celebrate properly...even for Raphinha's goal which was squeaky clean. VAR makes you doubt everything. It's sucked the joy out of it...I'd rather allow for human error and retain the spark than this. It's just awful 💛💙

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2 years

i bloody love Jack Monroe.

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3 years

Calling for Boris Johnson to sack somebody for adultery is a bit like approaching Happy Mondays to lead the war on drugs.

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I hand on heart believe that @UKLabour are what we need. A decade of Tory-led governments has left us in dire straits on all fronts. More billionaires, more food banks. Please register to vote and get behind Labour's policies. Ta! #WantChangeVoteLabour 🌹

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4 years

The fact that Nadia was one of only 18 Labour MPs who voted against #OverseasOperationsBill makes me sad. The fact that she was sacked for doing so makes me angry. This isn't the party that I want to champion 😔

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Labour MP sacked after opposing veterans bill - BBC News

Nadia Whittome - who says the law could decriminalise torture - was fired by Sir Keir Starmer.

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Just exchanged on a house in Leeds 🍾 Part of me feels bad for dragging the Queen of Essex up norf, but she'll soon find that Leeds is the greatest city on earth...

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Amelia is 11. She's obsessed with football, and has very kindly agreed to read my poem 'Football Is NOT For Girls' ahead of #ENG 's #FIFAWWC semi-final tonight! Come on you #Lionesses ! Thanks to @p_franklin5 for filming it.

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Corbyn was a class act this afternoon. He chatted - & listened - both formally & informally. Stayed way longer than planned & had time for everyone 🌹 #JC4PM

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We were honoured to have @jeremycorbyn & @TanDhesi visit @SloughHomeless this afternoon. Jeremy held a pop-up surgery to listen to the some of the issues surrounding homelessness 🏘

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@Vanessa_Kisuule that thread is one of the most powerful things i've read on here for a very long time.

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#LUFC : let's potentially smash our all-time transfer fee record to sign a highly-rated continental striker and turn our form around. @lukeayling_8 , Cockney right-back: hold my beer. 💛💙 @LUFC @TheSquareBall

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@David_Ornstein does this make him our record signing then, or...

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4 years

I don't agree with everything that #ExtinctionRebellion have done, but listing them alongside neo-Nazis and terrorists on the Prevent scheme is complete bullshit. Johnson's govt can get away with anything now 🤦🏻‍♂️

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6 years

Very useful blog as always from @Angry_Voice which totally rips apart the damaging Guardian story from Friday night. What Corbyn 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 said is entirely misrepresented by the headline. He's not 'backing #Brexit regardless'. Please RT 🌹 #JC4PM

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OK, Bradford - I'm listening...

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I'm all for freedom of choice and that, but as a Wakefield lad born and bred, this is pretty grim. I know it doesn't represent the city as a whole. Just sends out a very ugly message #BlackLivesMatter

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One day, Pascal Struijk will score from a corner, and it will be absolutely bloody glorious 💛💙 #LEECRY

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6 years

A powerful and moving video. @Harryslaststand is an incredible man, and it's shameful that his memories are being reflected in 2018. Please watch this if you can 👇🏻 #WithRefugees

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This is why I still use Twitter 👏🏻

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5 years

Still heartbroken. The overriding inevitability doesn't soften the blow. But Bielsa has been the catalyst to completely unite the club again. I've never been prouder to be an @LUFC fan than last night. We've started something, and like chuff are we finished ☝🏻 #ALAW #LUFC #MOT

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nice passive aggressive text justification, @PhilHay_ .

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After settling in the glorious city of Leeds last year as a married couple, @kerdonk and I decided to start a family ❤ And I couldn't be prouder or more grateful. So excited for what #2022NewYear will bring!

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Absolutely stunning from Bamford. I realise folk'll moan about the fact that he hit the post, but I'm not having it - he's #LUFC personified right now and I fucking love him. Pandemonium when this goal went in 💛💙 #ALAW

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3 years

Back at Elland Road wi me old man. First time since Brentford in Aug '19 🤍 #LUFC

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Went exploring around the new gaff today. Found me nearest #BurleyBanksy 💛💙

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2 years

@JoshParkin @andrearadri I did a poem for the @LUFC account ahead of this season's opening home game. Was offered free tickets instead of a fee (which I've previously charged them). Every time I asked, I was fobbed off. They treat freelance fans terribly...knowing that they can play on loyalties, etc.

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I was asked to write a poem for Jeremy Corbyn's #GE2019 campaign. Here it is being read by @michaelsheen 🌹 An incredibly proud moment for me! #VoteLabourToday

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Johnson Man U referred to as 🤝 referred to as Boris United Deeply entrenched bias

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4 years

As I approach 32, I'm utterly convinced that the only difference between adulthood and childhood is that we put our posters in frames.

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@NoContextBrits

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The acute, unflinching, relentless pain of being a Leeds United fan is made ever worse by the fact that it feels entrenched in inevitability. And yet it only makes you care even more 💛💙 #LUFC #ALAW

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Heroes, the lot of 'em. Anyone who says otherwise can get in the fucking sea. Proud of these #ENG players 👏🏻

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I'm properly blown away by this. A @guardian cover story on "the rise and rise of new poets", and I'm alongside @ToriaGarbutt , @Brrnrrd , @theresa_lola and @RaymondAntrobus 🤩

Generation next: the rise – and rise – of the new poets

With soaring sales and a younger, broader audience, poetry is on a high. What is behind the boom? Plus the fresh voices to read now

www.theguardian.com

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@biminibabes Bimini & the Binaries.

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6 years

Hello @virginmedia . Your street salesman by the Stratford Centre (Broadway side) is cat-calling women in order to try and sell them your products. Just thought I'd let you know ✌🏻

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3 years

This Is England.

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@jessgreenpoet This is so beautiful. Not least because people do buy Jessica Green books 🥰

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5 years

The response to the @LUFC kit launch poem has been absolutely phenomenal. It means a lot that so many fans were moved by it 🤘🏻 You can read it here, if you like #ALAW

Inspirational Leeds poem in full read by GOT star during kit reveal

A brilliant Leeds United poem has come to the fore after the shirt reveal on Tuesday

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4 years

A colossal thanks to all who've shared or replied to this! I'm pretty sure he'll be overwhelmed by your response when I show him. I've ordered him one of these Virustatic Shields (thanks to @iamgledhill for the advice). Sending love to all #keyworkers ❤️

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5 years

What a nasty little island we've become.

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3 years

Average white men complaining that they're no longer being booked because they're white men, failing to realise that they were only ever booked because they're white men, and are no longer being booked because they're average.

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4 years

So, just to clarify. Throwing missiles at and attacking police (including mounted officers) is an acceptable form of "angry protest" if you're white, and "violent thuggery" if you're black. Boris Johnson's Britain. Fucking shame of it.

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2 years

@Cli5hy forever in our hearts 🤍 #LUFC

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2 years

Absolutely stunned that people voted for a bunch of corrupt selfish wankers and they turned out to be a bunch of corrupt selfish wankers 🤷🏻‍♂️ #DowningStreetParties

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5 years

Never been prouder to be from Wakey. #PleaseLeaveMyTown

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2 years

absolutely loved #TheTraitors from start to finish. what brilliant telly. we were Team Traitor right till the final episode, though - can't believe people are/were hating on Wilf & Co.?! either way, Auntie Beeb played a blinder here 🕵

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3 months

@IpswichTown Good lad.

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1 year

just seen Pochettino at the Greggs on Boar Lane. asked him if he was here to interview for the #LUFC job...he just winked at me and gave his steak bake to a homeless woman. any word, @PhilHay_ ...?

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2 years

one month since the little fella arrived. absolute madness but magic every day. feeling blessed to be sharing my life with Maria and wee Rory ❤️

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5 years

I'd say @georgegalloway pretty much nails it in this video RE #DianeAbbott 's treatment. The reputation that she has as an incompetent liability is entirely fabricated and unfair, and strongly disproportionate due to the fact that she's a black woman.

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2 years

@AstonBible Why don't you sign Harry Kane for £35m whilst you're at it 👍🏻

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4 years

Can we all just stop for a minute and comprehend how utterly batshit crazy it is that members of the public feel the need to 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲 for the #NHS ? In the 6th largest economy in the world...?

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6 years

So, Leeds United contacted me and asked if I'd do the voice over on their Season Ticket ad. No writing involved, just my voice... I'm usually on the terraces watching non-league these days, but as a former #LUFC Season Ticket holder, it wasn't difficult! 🎞

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🎫 | Renew your Leeds United Season Ticket for 2018/19 before 30th March to guarantee your seat and price freeze! More info ➡️

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4 years

Never have I felt so fortunate to be able to work from home. Unless you've stood on a crowded bus at 8am, being held at financial gun-point and surrounded by genuine risk of death, stop criticising the workers and start criticising those who made them travel in the first place.

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3 years

I'm 33 next week and me mam still buys me #LUFC socks for Christmas. Got the matching boxers as well but nobody needs to see that 😁

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5 years

My début collection for kids is being published by @BloomsburyBooks this summer. 'A Hurricane in my Head' is targeted at kids aged 11-13. Playful rebellion, challenging stereotypes and loads more 📖 It's out on 11 July and is available to pre-order now!

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2 years

@NoContextBrits has to be @LGSMpride .

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@TheSquareBall The mentality of an #LUFC fan: I see us 7 points clear of 3rd and still can't get fully excited. I see Barnsley 7 points clear of safety and think, "nah - they're fucked! no chance!" 🙈

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That was excruciating, horrifying, exhausting and upsetting for 91 minutes. And then ecstatic and exhilarating for 4. Well worth it 🤍 #LEEPAL

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I can't believe that a woman of colour has applied her own experiences of racism to a - let's face it - blatantly racist comment, even whilst adding "I'm not accusing anyone of anything here", and she's being reprimanded by the 𝘽𝘽𝘾! #IStandWithNaga .

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4 years

Diane Abbott is totally right. We're sleepwalking into surrendering our right to protest otherwise. I don't agree with everything that #XR do, but I'd always side with them over right-wing billionaire media moguls ✊🏻

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On Extinction Rebellion blockading the printing presses, Diane Abbott says “direct action is a legal tactic... these people are not criminals”. #ridge

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2 years

Truss totally embracing Girl Power!* *unless you're an LGBTQ woman, woman of colour, woman claiming Universal Credit, woman fleeing war, woman taking industrial action to improve her working conditions, woman trapped in an exploitative rental market, woman living in poverty...

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Sooz Kempner is doing Edinburgh and then a tour

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CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIN, THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEEEEAAAAL

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I never knew it could get this good 👇🏻

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I'm sorry, the old Maria can't come to the phone right now... Why? 'Cause she's engaged ❤💍👰

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Thing is, right, everybody will have a little flurry of excitement when Theresa May resigns. Fair enough. But name me one potential replacement that doesn't make you want to violently projectile vomit everywhere...

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3 years

@LUFC An honour as always to be involved in creating this 🤍 #ALAW

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1 year

a year to the day since Marcelo Bielsa was sacked by #LUFC . the wound still hasn't healed...! here's the poem that @btsportfootball commissioned me to write ahead of Marsch's first game in charge 🤍

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4 years

I first came to Cardiff in 2006 for the Championship play-off final. I had to sleep rough in the rain and we lost 3-0 to Watford. Tonight, I'm in a swanky hotel with the love of my life and we're about to head out for a curry. Can't argue with that 👌🏻

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3 years

1 year ago today we got married, 3 years ago today we got engaged, and 33 years ago today I was born ☀️ Feeling like the luckiest man alive!

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@mattabbottpoet

7 months

Even if you set aside the vile misogyny. The punditry from most male ex-pros is dreadful. Lazy, cliché-ridden, terrible grammar. Not to mention Sam Matterface's cringeworthy scripted soundbites. The likes of Emma Hayes & Alex Scott are a breath of fresh air. Football = football.

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7 months

Stand by everything I’ve said on Women commenting and co-comms on the Men’s football. Like me talking about Knitting or Netball. Way out of my comfort zone. Some of the Men are bad enough! We have gone too far. You cannot watch a game now without hearing the nonsense. Any

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5 years

Whatever happens, I'll be immensely proud of #LUFC for the first half performance. Unlucky not to be ahead at Arsenal - they can't get a look in. I realise it's a game of two halves and I'll probably regret this, but bollocks to it, we were ace 💛💙 #ALAW

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@mattabbottpoet

3 years

Just submitted the 3rd draft of my novel to my mentor, who happens to be one of my favourite novelists. Taken me 2¼ years to get to this point, and this'll be the first time that anybody else casts eyes on it 🤢

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@mattabbottpoet

4 years

Was supposed to be going on my stag weekend today. 10 blokes in a house in South Shields. Just come out of a workshop to find that @kerdonk is throwing a party for me anyway! This is only the beginning, apparently. I'm the luckiest man alive 🦌

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Matt (Ferguson) Abbott 🍉

@mattabbottpoet

2 years

2 years today since @kerdonk & I tied the knot in Gretna Green. a lockdown elopement with a bottle of Buckfast for our toast & Spotify on my phone for our first dance. all we needed was each other. the absolute bee's knees, she is. made me happier than I ever thought possible ❤️

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Matt (Ferguson) Abbott 🍉

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7 years

The quality isn't great, but here's me performing my #JC4PM poem in front of Tory MPs in Wakefield just now, inc. Hunt & Leadsom ✊ #GE2017

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Matt (Ferguson) Abbott 🍉

@mattabbottpoet

3 years

Boris Johnson broke ministerial code and has lied to the Queen. And now both Matt Hancock and Michael Gove have been found to have broken the law. And yet nowhere near as much outrage as when Diane Abbott had a can of M&S Mojito on the Overground 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Matt (Ferguson) Abbott 🍉

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3 years

Was great to join Emma and @Mattdavelewis on the official @LUFC podcast this week! Available in all the usual places ✌🏻

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Emma Louise Jones

3 years

A few special guests on this week’s Official @LUFC podcast! Thanks @tonydorigo and @MattAbbottPoet 🙌🏼 Full episode here:

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3 years

Immensely proud to have worked with @lufctrust on this, and to have such a great range of voices reading it 💛💙 #WorldPoetryDay

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Matt (Ferguson) Abbott 🍉

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4 years

I'm on #lockdown with my better half. On a weekend we do Date Night and transform our kitchen into a restaurant. Tonight I made @BootstrapCook 's firecracker sausages & tragedy mash, and it went down as I hoped 😁

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3 years

Today I have lost two prospective commissions which would have paid my salary for six months and so I am going to have an Aperol Spritz from a mug.

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Matt (Ferguson) Abbott 🍉

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2 years

@BBCNews lovely unbiased news coverage from your friendly state broadcaster, here. #SupportTheStrikes

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Matt (Ferguson) Abbott 🍉

@mattabbottpoet

2 years

@PhilHay_ £42m for Phillips is nothing short of embarrassing.

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Matt (Ferguson) Abbott 🍉

@mattabbottpoet

4 years

Waited my entire life to see #LUFC lift a trophy. Well, since 1996 anyway. Muchas gracias, señor Bielsa 💙💛 #ALAW

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Matt (Ferguson) Abbott 🍉

@mattabbottpoet

4 years

@LUFC I was only 3 when we won the title in '92, so I've essentially waited my whole life to see this 😍 What a journey #LUFC

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Matt (Ferguson) Abbott 🍉

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5 years

I've had my own GIF made by #BluePeter . This will take some topping 🤣 Thanks for all of your kind words. I absolutely loved it. What a way to celebrate #NationalPoetryDay !

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5 years

How amazing was @MattAbbottPoet 's poem about #BluePeter for #NationalPoetryDay2019 ? 🙌 We loved it, thank you Matt and thank you for joining us on Blue Peter today and inspiring our audience to have a go at writing and enjoying poems. 👏 #Poems #PoetryDay

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4 years

"When Big Jack has the ball, it's a joy to us all, to know that he is on our side." A truly one-of-a-kind footballer who'll never be forgotten. So proud that he was ours. RIP Jack Charlton 💛💙 #ALAW

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