TriumphOfTheNow.com has been going for almost ten years, and in that time rather a lot of poetry has been discussed! Below is a list of some highlights. Please note that some of these go back almost a decade when I was young, floppy-haired and still beautiful: if anyone is upset by this, please be assured by the fact that I’m now in my mid-30s and I look as terrible as most of you now.
Enjoy – lots more – new – POETRY MONTH content all October!
- In The House Of My Father by Hiwot Adilow
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
- NDN Coping Mechanisms by Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
- Pamper Me To Hell & Back by Hera Lindsay Bird
- Maiden by Karina Bush
- 50 Euro by Karina Bush
- The Beauty Of The Husband by Anne Carson
- Decreation by Anne Carson
- Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
- Red Doc> by Anne Carson
- Who Is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins
- New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Boxset (SITA), ed. Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani
- Typhoid August by Sarah Fletcher
- Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity by Ella Frears
- This Is Where I Get Off by KIRBY
- Sunshine by Melissa Lee-Houghton
- Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
- Utopia by Bernadette Mayer
- The Africa In My House by Andrea Mbarushimana
- Poem 66 by Susana Medina
- Baby, I Don’t Care by Chelsey Minnis
- Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
- The Fat Black Woman’s Poems by Grace Nichols
- The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod
- The Father by Sharon Olds
- Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds
- There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
- Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
- The Long Take by Robin Robertson
- Street Epistles by Faruk Šehić
- Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
- The Best of A Bad Situation by Jamie Thrasivoulou
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Here’s a video of me recently performing at the prestigious (it has a Wikipedia page) comedy night, Quantum Leopard. Listen to how much fun the crowd is having. You could have that much fun, too!
Forthcoming gigs include the following – there may/will be others:
17th March 2026, 7pm: Slap & Giggle @ Coin Laundry, Clerkenwell
24th March 2026, 7.30pm: Lolipops, Southwark
26th March 2026, 7.30pm: Comedy @ Cosmic, Plymouth
9th April 2026, 7pm: Sunset Comedy, Chalk Farm
15th April 2026, time tbd: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER 40min-ish WIP at Shirker’s Rest, New Cross (more details soon!)
27th June 2026: Twinkles Cabaret, London
9th August – 14th August: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER at The Street, Edinburgh, part of PBH’s Free Fringe
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