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Ben North

@inkib

Palliative treatment for terminal brain tumour|20yrs UK publishing as copywriter, art director, CD|2018 Bridport Poetry Prize shortlist|IG:inkynorth

Joined March 2010
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My first public poetry collection is now available to buy (the colour on the back cover image is far from accurate but at least the copy’s readable). If ya liked my stuff at all you may enjoy it. It’s genuinely been a labour of love. Get it here amzn.to/2Wu4LFd
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I am heartbroken to tell you that our beloved Ben died early this morning, as I held his hand and told him how loved he was. Thank you for your incredible support throughout this journey. How less bright the world will be without him. How lucky we were to have him. Lana xxx
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I'm truly overwhelmed by the kindness of both friends and strangers here. I wish I could reply to every message but know that I've seen them all and they mean the world to me. And to those sharing their own losses: I'm so sorry, you're all in my thoughts. Lana (@LanaBeckwith) xxx
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I’m now in palliative treatment for my two brain tumours. That means very little carefully crafted tweeting from me, the odd ‘like’, and, eventually, you you know, death. It’s been a pleasure. B~
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Happy #bookbirthday 'William Blake: Visionary'! 🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈Organized by theme, it explores Blake’s imaginative world, and his astonishing creativity. #williamblake #ArtBook #bookstagram
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Damn right
Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) profile pictureDignity in Dying
@dignityindying6 Aug 2020
“We can’t ever delete these memories, and I’m not the same person that I was.” Every day people like Emil are watching their loved ones die in agony. An assisted dying law would allow them to die on their own terms, in their own homes.
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“As a home carer I have seen what cancer can do to people in their last weeks and days. The idea of being sedated for days on end, and my family seeing me like that, terrifies me." All @big_british wants is control over her own death. haslemereherald.com/article.…
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“The easiest deal in history” – at Adwick le Street, England
Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) profile pictureFaisal Islam
@faisalislam3 Aug 2020
NEW: Govt writes to medicines industry to tell them to rebuild 6 week no trade deal Brexit stockpiles even while “recognising global supply chains under significant pressure, exacerbated by COVID-19” amid concerns for cross channel disruption after transition period ends:
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Beto’s early design for issue one (LOVE & ROCKETS SKETCHBOOK, #Fantagraphics, 1989). #GilbertHernandez #LoveandRocketsComic #LosBrosHernandez
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“The Southern oligarchy, which has so much power in Washington ... was created by my labor and my sweat, and the violation of my women and the murder of my children. This, in the land of the free and the home of the brave.“ Happy birthday, James Baldwin nitter.gq/1KINDOFBLUE7/status/12…
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Having a bit of a funny turn
Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman) profile picturePhilip Pullman@PhilipPullman31 Jul 2020
I've just been reading @SusieSteiner1's Manon Bradshaw novels and I'm so impressed I want to tell everyone about them. Police procedural with real imagination and heart, and a marvellous lightness of style and wit.
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All rise for the national anthem. #YorkshireDay
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Carefully
The BMJ (@bmj_latest) profile pictureThe BMJ
@bmj_latest1 Aug 2020
"We’ve been reassured that the government has successfully secured contracts for 30 million doses of flu vaccine. Given the recent governmental track record—many GPs are feeling less than confident" @HelenRSalisbury ow.ly/pHtM50ANBzv
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Ben North retweeted
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The Kynd@KyndThe30 Jul 2020
Getting started into Memory Songs by @jamesbpcook of @FlamingoesHQ - a band we loved and a writer we admire....
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85 today 🧡
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Hey fellow writers in the #cancer community...@ElephantsTea is calling for #writing submissions! @fschmnn @MelissaMBlank @JNeurman @inkib – at Brookhaven, GA
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‘I mean come *on* guys ... it’s like 3 in the morning here ...’
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Quite
The Pink Smoke (@thepinksmoke) profile pictureThe Pink Smoke@thepinksmoke30 Jul 2020
All technical refinements depress me. The perfection of photography, the big screens, the stereo sound, all of it makes possible a servile reproduction of nature; & that reproduction bores me. The artist's personality interests me more than the copying of an object. ~Jean Renoir
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Ben North retweeted
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@beesandbombs30 Jul 2020
:)
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HB, KB.
#WOMENSART (@womensart1) profile picture#WOMENSART
@womensart130 Jul 2020
Singer #KateBush was born on this day in 1958. By rock photographer Jill Furmanovsky in 1978 aged 19, just after her debut single "Wuthering Heights". She was the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song #womensart
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