Jane Thomas

Just back from a great literary festival in Wexford after being placed in the poetry comp, such a joy to be back in Ireland 🇮🇪 & to spend time with Claire Keegan & hear the wonderful @kitdewaal.com

Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading skills Denmark is eliminating its 25% book tax after finding reading skills in steep decline. Culture Minister Engel-Schmidt: "The gift of reading is something we should give to younger generations."

Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading
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The European Union 🇪🇺

Brexit b’stard

I’m still waiting to hear what their estimate is :)

Very much enjoyed ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’ such true & well crafted work including powerful poems on Alzheimer’s from @alisonbinney.bsky.social (& good luck with Gladstone!)

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Creation Theatre % “Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.”– Demetrius“The course of true love never did run smooth.”– Lysandr It isn’t summer until you’ve seen Creation’s summer Sha...

Fantastic performance 🎭 from @creationtheatre.bsky.social last night - no summer should be without - only a week left tix creationtheatre.co.uk/show/midsumm...

This looks excellent

@lizottosson.bsky.social congrats // hope to see you down by the sea 🤞

😍 I’m on the poetry shortlist biting my nails & now manifesting like a lit crone // soooo hope to see you there :)

It’s the uk

A perfectly poetic cafe in Copenhagen : )

why are we doing age verification? we're all 38

Many congratulations 🙌 xxx

Soooo excited to be on the Alpine Fellowship Shortlist for 2025 : 0

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

We have just seen this in London it was fabulous can’t wait to see it again Oxford next week #creationtheatre #dalloway100 #woolf #oxfordtheatre #mrsdalloway

Poetry Readings - Creation Theatre Poetry readings by Creation Theatre at United Reformed Church, Summertown

Looking forward to reading at Creation on Monday in Summertown, Oxford, see you there ! creationtheatre.co.uk/show/poetryr...

Poetry Readings - Creation Theatre Poetry readings by Creation Theatre at United Reformed Church, Summertown

Looking forward to reading at Creation on Monday in Summertown, Oxford, see you there ! creationtheatre.co.uk/show/poetryr...

Up the May 🎉

“There is reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend.” ― James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

Exciting Icelandic Activity Bókmenntahátíð í Reykjavík / The Reykjavik International Literary Festival & Arts Council England - Anne Carson / Claire Keenan / Andrev Walden, volcanoes 🌋, stone stories & double rainbows.

The wrong ICE is melting The wrong Amazon is burning

Sign of the day…

Seems like a good time to repost (admittedly probably to the converted) :) X

Photo of a brown willow sculpture of a female archer holding a bow as if about to release an arrow, with hair tied back and in a long flowing skirt, the sculpture is on a path in a green woodland setting

UK contemporary sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #womensart

A hand holds the small book, "How to Resist Amazon and Why (updated & expanded) - The Fight for Local Economies, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future" by Danny Caine, co-owner of the Raven Book Store.

Picked this up on the way out of my local bookstore today and was happy to hear it's been flying out the door.

Enjoying first @rialtopoetry.bsky.social and daff of the season - great sequence from @lorrainemariner.bsky.social

Hi Hannah I love your lists here (and your poem in The Rialto !) pls can I be added to the late joiners list :) thanks X

Writing as Transformation Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.

“It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy. I think my life didn’t seem my life until I started to write,” Louise Glück writes.