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an honour !!!
Thanks to Oxford Poetry and Godelieve de Bree for reviewing With My Back to the World
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‘Day’s End’ by Olive Franklin @usuallyolive berlinlit.com/days-end/
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BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures. thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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We're shocked to hear that another @KingsCollegeLon alumnus-Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, head of orthopaedics at Al Shifa Hospital-was killed in an Israeli prison after +4 months of detention & torture. How long will KCL refuse to condemn Israel's genocide in Gaza & to stop its complicity?
Dr Adnan Al-Bursh. Murdered by the Israeli army while in detension.
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Sweet twitter followers - I have a ticket to the LRB Anne Carson event at Conway Hall on Monday evening (25th) I am hoping to sell for bought price (£20!) - please get in touch if you, or anyone you know, might want it x
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Enter our new challenge on Young Poets Network, asking you to write poems which reinvent your favourite myth (or myths!). Free to enter and open to writers aged 5-25 worldwide. Winners will be published on Young Poets Network and receive poetry goodies ✨ bit.ly/YPNMyth
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"You are the sun", Georgia O'Keeffe - 1977
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Lieve @godelievedebree came up with Brokebutch Mountain on our writing retreat and to see it published months later in @fourteenpoems is so awesome. one of my favourites in an incredible issue go cop!! 💜💜💜
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Day sixteen of The Poetry Society's #BooksOfTheYear Olive Franklin (@usuallyolive) reccomends Mary Jean Chan's (@maryjean_chan) 'Bright Fear' (@FaberBooks)
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Was delighted to have written this review for @LAReviewofBooks about women in biblical narratives and how stories create realities!
“Where Eve is gifted a rich internal life,” @godelievedebree writes in her review of Carmen Boullosa’s “The Book of Eve,” “Adam is one-dimensional and pathetic until he proves to be downright degenerate.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Gboyega’s family have released their statement below. They have started a Go Fund Me to support his final arrangements and to start The Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation. Please share and support. Gboyega is, and will continue to be, the best of us. gofundme.com/f/gboyega-oduba…
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If you’ve seen Gboyega Odubanjo since 26th Aug please reach out. Details below (clothing description is slightly wrong - he was wearing a red waistcoat).
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Replying to @jerichobrown
“blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton
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jokes on david every chord I play pleases the Lord
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will. —Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"
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last night i was almost naked with you i was almost with so much, passion i was almost an idiot, i was almost your naked idiot, i was almost fearful of how, of how many other names you would give me. but i wanted them all ; i wanted to be your warm little grave
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“this is / the world we have: / take it” A. R. Ammons:
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Sometimes I sat for hours with the word Dear on the page, forgetting what should have come next, thinking only of the whitetail in the woods, body frozen & body darting in the same instant. —Allison Titus, from "Letter"
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another Jen Levitt stunner
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Midmorning I like to think that once my body was a willow, and I was good with stillness and the fluidity of a moment, joining the wind in movement or another body brushing through. I could not still, now, if God asked.
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