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Wicklow-based writer and photographer. Latest poetry collection is Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems (Salmon, 2017).

Bray, Co Wicklow
Joined April 2010
Hard Rain poetrysociety.org/poems/hard… Time to share this again, Hoagland giving us the gift-wrapped horror of American stupidity with bitterness and humour.
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This is how dangerous a CT scan machine looks without its outer casing
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Ventriloquist Nina Conti does a human ventriloquism bit with two sisters from the audience.
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‘If I did not have to read poetry I should be of a lot more use in the world, as well as of a more serene temper.’ From a review of T.S. Eliot’s letters in the LRB by Stefan Collini
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This experiment breaks your brain 🤯 Remove air in the world’s largest vacuum chamber, drop a bowling ball and feathers, and Galileo is proven right—400 years later.
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Trump 🔽 This is hysterical and sad at the same time.
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*****NEW POLITICAL VIDEO***** WATCH + RETWEET!! STEPHEN MILLER says Donald Trump has PLENARY AUTHORITY This represents a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER.
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The Doomsday Clock is 30 seconds closer to Midnight, but that remains no less abstract. What’s closer is a touch on the shoulder, light as the lightest flake, a finger stubbornly pressing a bell that only works when nobody’s home.
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The Man Who Saw MAGA Coming (w. Matthew MacWilliams) youtu.be/dp19ZKI2m2w?si=CjLX… via @YouTube
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Edward Steed: The New Yorker
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Homages that aren't. Thanks A.E.
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