The Last Carry on YouTube

The Last Carry is now on my YouTube channel! I uploaded a video of me reading the poem last week, and it's already reached over 350 views. I do feel YouTube is another useful (free!) resource for poets to get their poems out there and transmit the pauses, the accelerations, the cadences, the stresses, the aural textures, etc, etc, that come alive when poetry's read aloud.

I do hope you enjoy it...!

A thousand likes

I can't quite believe that my poem ‘The Last Carry’ has now reached over a thousand likes on Bluesky, many of them from people beyond the poetry bubble. Oh, and a fair few of those likes have then gone on to generate sales of Whatever You Do, Just Don't. All in all, a terrific example of how social media, when functioning at its best, can generate new readers for poetry.