I’m very excited to announce the publication date for my debut poetry collection, featuring this gorgeous cover art by Kate Winter. Pre-orders are now available here:

RT @LondonGrip: Poetry review – The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning: Mat Riches enjoys Alison Binney’s deft handling and close examinati….

RT @BarbaraBleiman: What a gorgeous review - and coming from such a wonderful poet as @AEBinney makes it all the more thrilling. Thank you….

Thanks so much, @EngMediaCentre, for including my poetry collection in your Summer Reads. It’s an honour to be there in such good company, and I’m looking forward to reading some of the other recommendations on this list.

I’m delighted with my signed copy of this wonderful poetry collection from @BarbaraBleiman. These poems jump, dance, skip, chuckle, cackle, shout, sing and, of course, SNAP off the page. Just brilliant!

Here’s the copper font ‘that stretched our faces like toffee’ in @Nrw_Cathedral, from my poem ‘Muscle Memory’ which featured on last night’s episode of @R4TheVerb with @IMcMillan. It was donated by Rowntree’s chocolate factory when it closed down.

RT @LazyBeeScripts: Very moving to hear Alison Binney (@AEBinney) on @IMcMillan's @R4TheVerb this evening, reading a poem from her collecti….

RT @bwthornton: #Poetry .@R4TheVerb .Sunday 17:10.@BBCRadio4.@IMcMillan welcomes guests @boohewerdine, Fiona Benson, @AEBinney, @yvonnelyon….

RT @BuzzMagWales: June poetry collected by @mabjones featuring @AEBinney and @imogen_cassels .

RT @BarbaraBleiman: I love this collection by @AEBinney! English teachers out there, she’s one of our own and she’s a wonderful poet, so do….

Thanks so much for this generous and astute reading of my poem. I love that phrase ‘the aching release from winter’ - something that feels all the more poignant given that I wrote this poem in February 2020….

Thanks so much for having me, @IMcMillan and @R4TheVerb! Great to chat about fathers, witches, things that fall out of books, and even phrasal verbs!.

Looking forward to a series of launch events for ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’, starting with the wonderful Wave of Nostalgia bookshop in Haworth on Thursday. Details in this link:

I’m really looking forward to another visit to Wave of Nostalgia in Haworth where I’ll be reading from ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’ at 7pm on Thursday 29th May. Tickets to attend in-person or online here:

RT @gosspoems: Huge congratulations to past mentee @AEBinney on the publication of her debut full collection. Out now!.

RT @JulianD86666247: @AEBinney Congratulations, Alison! That has to be one of the best poetry collection titles going so far this year!.

Lovely to see ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’ as today’s Friday Poem from @SerenBooks. I’m very happy with the Cornish blue and white stripy egg cups to go with it!

Pre-orders of my poetry collection, ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’, are available via the @SerenBooks website here:

For #mothersday2025, here’s ‘Chalk’ from my forthcoming poetry collection, in celebration of my Mum and the connection between us. Finding the tin that she last closed in 1998 was one of the most precious moments when I sorted and cleared my parents’ house.

RT @NATEfeed: In the spring issue of Teaching English, published early in March, @aebinney and @busy_lizzi explore the self-perceptions of….