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View in winter from Greenan Shore. Grass and brambles in the fore. Waterbirds in the estuary. Snow-capped peaks across the sea

Reflective still water at the river mouth. Warfside wall and newer buildings either side of the water. Moody sky. Snowy mountains out between the buildings.

Couple of cold shots from Ayr last January. Expecting Arran to look that way again before much longer. It is good to live in a town beside the sea. Especially with views of the island.

#photo #scotland #ayr #southAyrshire #arran #isleOfArran

This is good. Somehow missed the pub-date if Feb but really glad to read this now - having a poem among so many other fine poems. A sheer, austere and sincere anthology, here

#highRise #BrutalistPoetry #LiftToTheSky @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Wow, thirty years since I checked this out. Still good, yeah?

Autistic woman masks flawlessly as portrait in her attic grows increasingly haggard An autistic woman is reportedly so good at masking she is frequently mistaken for a neurotypical – while the monstrous portrait in her attic withers and decays at an alarming rate. Mary Walker, 33, no...

“This is something healthy and sustainable that I can keep up forever,” she added. “If I play my cards right, my sister might even let me come to her hen do! We just can’t do predrinks in my attic, for obvious reasons.”

Amazing! Autistic woman’s life story somehow longer than actual life An autistic woman who started telling her life story 45 minutes ago has only just got to the moment of her conception, sources have said. Pippa Durham, 28, was attending a comedy night when the comedi...

“If the rest of the story is anything to go by, the account of her conception is going to be both graphic and disturbing.”

Thanks. I've already ordered a copy today but was just curious about the full list of contributors. Really looking forward to reading yours.

Hey, how amazing. That lightning really snags my attention.

I have wondered about this anthology as seem to have lost comms with the publisher. Any chance of a shot of the contents page+s)?

The cover of High Rise, a slimline anthology from the poetry publisher The Broken Spine. The cover image is an abstract representation of buildings, grit, wear and tear, in dark blue and yellow against a light gray background.

Happy to have a poem in this collection from @brokenspinearts.bsky.social which just came out!

#HighRise #BrutalistPoetry

Cover of High Rise, a poetry anthology from The Broken Spine press

High Rise, a new anthology from @brokenspinearts.bsky.social, out now. Honoured to have a poem in this mesmeric collection

#poetry #brutalistpoetry

www.amazon.co.uk/High-Rise-Brutalist-Thematic-Slimline-Anthologies/dp/B0DX27Y5Y5

Art: Book Cover, blue, brualist building. Title: High Rise Slimline, Broken Spine Arts Poem by Clark Pascoe: Last Will and Testament I watched a guy from my balcony one night sitting in his Volkswagen there was lightning out on the horizon and this guy was rapidly sucking through a cigarette not pausing to enjoy it but yes, rapidly smoking it down and then he suddenly took off like it was his Last Will and Testament I do not know what goes on in the mind of another man “Perhaps he will burn down his village or perhaps he will go on a holy pilgrimage to Jerusalem”

Ever read a #poem & not know why it drew you in? Did its casual tone make you the observer who wouldn't otherwise pay attention to this scene, or did the end leave you both curious & quite satisfied with "I don't know"? Simply wonderful! #ClarkPascoe #LiftToTheSky
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social

It's not a great leap to that, as another question for the curious. But I think I'll own it. It's not meant to be aggressive, just challenging.

Upgraded my yoga mat bag. The nice middle class people will be in for a treat at class.

#allyship
@transsolidarity.bsky.social

Set of badges sporting the phrase, "Maybe I'm TRANS" in support of trans rights and to express the fact that anyone could be. Particularly important now that women are being challenged in public spaces regardless of whether they are trans or not.

Lush to receive these from @transsolidarity.bsky.social

Looking forward to wearing one out.

Will do. I actually know and live the Gower. My sister in law loved there for a while.

What a dream. Glad to hear he's lived to fulfil that and enjoy it. I think I'll need to settle for a bit further south, alas.

"... fjord's skin" 🤩

Oh, yes. Thanks for reading. I have actually *been* to Norway since writing this and found what I was wishing for. Nowadays, I live in Scotland rather than the Southwest of England... And I find a lot of what I wish for here too!

Thanks to Poetry Wales for sharing this poem of mine from their archive. This was back when Nia Davies edited the journal. I have really admired her as a poet and editor for a long time.

mailchi.mp/poetrywales/...

But what the actual fuck?

I'm enjoying learning French with Duolingo but I must say, the concept of a gendered language makes no more sense to me now than when I was a child. And I don't just mean it's weird to gender objects, it is really odd to speak differently to two kinds people!

This is a question for the digital age all right. OK, so we're separating the art from the medium, now. In that case, if I EVER bought and paid full price for a hardback or vinyl record, am I now ethically able to download it, even if have lost my original copy?

A passage from page 118 of 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed '

Is there dignity in work? This, from Paulo Freire:

Helping @GoodLawProject challenge the High Court ruling at the ECHR .https://goodlawproject.org/s/851fc4

I'm aware, though not familiar, with these 3 registers. The overlapping rings seem interestimg!

Thanks for the recommendation of those books.

I'm curious. Can you briefly tell me what this relates to? Nascent Lacanian, here

"Without faith in people, dialogue is a farce which inevitably degenerates into paternalistic manipulation"
- Paulo Freire

Class conflict still. Again. Always.

Block Trump from addressing Parliament I've just signed 38 Degrees' petition calling on Trump to be banned from addressing the UK Parliament during his state visit later this year. Will you join me and add your name too?

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# A new venture offering digital submissions, audio stories and literary works.

I have been awarded 4th place for my poem in the Plaza Prize. Thanks! And well done to the other winners and shortlistees!

#poetry #poetsOfBluesky #poetryBluesky #poets #writingPoetry

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