Pete Green
poet, musician, place writer, beachcomber / edgelander, sarahlander, north briton / middle-aged enby babe / legacy fan / high-functioning anxiety doughnut / chive lying flat / wrongly tagged as twee
Sheffield
they/them please, ta 💖
petegreensolo.com
- Discovered today from my 10-year-old that 'Temu' is in wide use adjectivally among his peers to signify a shoddy imitation item, in much the same way as 'Poundshop' before it
- Also delighted to learn that they've been playing a 'Temu Traitors' game which they call 'The Taters'
- I have a band and we're playing a show! Please follow my band here on Bluesky and please come to see my band when we play a show, thank you
- We're taking the Pink Opaque #futurepop machine to that #Birmingham in May for a @kushikatsurecords.bsky.social @duncautumnstore.bsky.social co-promotion 🩷🪩 The Victoria is an oasis of lovely and this is a pretty lush line-up tbh 🤩 More info/tickets: www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Bir...
- Reposted by Pete GreenI'm no great believer in life targets, objectives, New Year's Resolutions, etc., but one thing I did get round to doing last weekend was finally make good on a promise to myself to reactivate my music blog thatmusiclist.blogspot.com after a hiatus of seven and three quarter years. Enjoy.
- Reposted by Pete GreenMy friends at Poetry at Leeds University have opened the Brotherton Prize up for submissions; it's open to anyone in the world over the age of 18 who hasn't yet published a full collection of poems. Full deets &c here: poetry.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-p...
- I'll ecosystem you in a minute
- It's quite a long title but I'm really enjoying the new @thejustjoans.bsky.social album
- @theguardian.com has overestimated by precisely nine the number of things I need to know about the Beckham family feud
- One of the things I do for shits and giggles these days is pretend to be an AI called ChatGTFC, because why the hell not 🤷👇
- In Tuesday's ChatGTFC diary: A Rose by any other name; the theme is ex-expects; and explosive archived anecdotes in a sandwich shop codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?... #GTFC
- tag urself I'm "pretty items"
- Reposted by Pete GreenIn the latest episode of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Brian Lewis about his memoir Last Collection in relation to my book of poems Little Piece of Harm. @petegreensolo.com @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @emmabolland.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/brian-lewi...
- Sampled an old nee-naw siren for a remix I'm doing, upped the pitch and speed very slightly to match the key and tempo of the song, and now it sounds EXACTLY like the saxophone in Oh Bondage Up Yours by X-Ray Spex
- I was blocked on Twitter by Gary Barlow out of Take That
- Calling yourself an artist after you made something with AI is like calling yourself a marathon runner because you drove to the finishing line and took a selfie
- "insights"
- The resistance has never stopped for Christmas.
- Reposted by Pete GreenMatthew Bowles works for the IEA. Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco. Times up. Merry Christmas! Join.greenparty.org.uk
- Reposted by Pete GreenSheffielders: surprise someone (yourself, even) with a hand-delivered book. Last day to order for Christmas delivery
- Reposted by Pete GreenI’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
- This is why I'm alive
- Reposted by Pete GreenA not fully-worked through thought: if you accept that capitalism works by enclosing what was held in common, and turning that into exploitable property rights, what we're seeing with generative AI right now is an attempt to enclose the human imagination.
- Reposted by Pete GreenSheffield people- Longbarrow Press go above and beyond when it comes to customer service. Well worth having a look to see what takes your fancy, and choose yourself (or someone else) a gift-wrapped, hand-delivered book
- It will surprise none (0) of my associates in the Bluesky community that @theguardian.com's understanding of "affordable" candles includes candles that retail for the sum of twenty-eight (28) pounds sterling
- I've been busy tonight
- Reposted by Pete GreenDon't miss our tenth and final show of 2025 🩷🪩 On 20 December at Hatch here in #Sheffield we've got a stunning line-up of glittery DIY pop with @mylofiheart.bsky.social and Precious Metals Warning: may contain FESTIVE BANGERS 🧑🎄🎉 Tickets are few: get one ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precious-m...
- FIFA, there, demonstrating its commitment to gender equality by making up an award specially for the "grab 'em by the pussy" guy
- This is not a new thing to say but I would just like to reaffirm that if you're a cisgender person who's added pronouns to your bio then that's pretty great and I appreciate you 💖
- Woahhhh
- yes pyro no party www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...
- Christmas just isn't Christmas without a hand-delivered volume from Yorkshire's finest purveyor of poetry.
- Reposted by Pete GreenOkay, here we go. Health & care staff are no longer allowed a Covid booster, but they're still expected to look after COVID+ patients. NHS/govt is reneging on its duty of care. Staff will become unwell, and patients too will suffer. You know what to do 👇✍️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
- At this point I'm leaning towards the conclusion that politicians must now perceive some kind of electoral advantage in pretending to be thick as pigshit, because surely they can't genuinely be *this* thick as pigshit, *surely*
- Managed to avoid both the UK budget and the Champions League by getting totally engrossed in one very small detail of a new @pinkopaque.co.uk song I'm making. Clearly I should sample Jesus Jones tracks more often.
- Reposted by Pete Green"Pink Opaque come across like a more mischievous Human League" We'll absolutely take that 🩷🪩😊 www.punktuationmag.com/the-pains-of...
- Nobody can do the shing-a-ling like I do Nobody can do the skate like I do Nobody can do boogaloo like I do Nobody can do the Philly like I do But that's not necessarily a good thing
- At the @pinkopaque.co.uk show last night someone said playing synthpop is "a great reinvention" for me, and now I feel a compulsion to go full Kylie and follow up Indie Pete, Poetry Pete and Disco Pete with Soap Opera Pete and Girl Next Door Pete
- Well played, Guardian crossword. Well played.
- Reposted by Pete GreenI have this, I love it. A slender, beautiful volume holding a stunning poetic journey. I keep going back and back to it. Local #Sheffield poet @petegreensolo.com whose writing flows with truth (and deserves to be known everywhere). Wonderful. But then all the Longbarrow books are gorgeous...
- I fancied playing a Christmas popshow with @pinkopaque.co.uk so I organised one 🎄✨🎹 It's at Hatch in Sheffield on 20 December and we've got Precious Metals and @mylofiheart.bsky.social to play too 🤩 More info/tickets ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precious-m... #sheffield #sheffieldgigs #20251220
- Reposted by Pete Greenmap geek/poetry geek venn sweet spot here—beautiful little book
- Reposted by Pete Greenultimately you cannot appease people whose purpose in life is to destroy you bsky.app/profile/drje...
- Reposted by Pete GreenWe're actually a four-piece now - @muddyasblood.bsky.social and @petegreensolo.com have been joined by Hello Kitty and Little Miss Sunshine
- Reposted by Pete GreenNext up! Sheffield Almanac by @petegreensolo.com and published by @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Such a vivd snapshot of time and place! Perfect for poetry fans!
