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Here's the trailer for Mud Ghost Estate Redux, launching tomorrow (28th Nov) on Kickstarter! 👻
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For anyone who wants to join a protest to support trans rights, here's list of the ones planned for Saturday 26th April. And beyond: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

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The Hebridean Crab Apple | WritersMosaic Magazine Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, The Hebridean Crab Apple. An Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation funded film, directed by Savannah Acquah.

In this beautiful film from @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social and @writersmosaic.bsky.social directed by Savannah Acquah, poet @marjorielotfi.bsky.social reads the final poem from her award-winning collection The Wrong Person to Ask (available in the US via @consortiumbooks.bsky.social). bit.ly/42EqUTq

Israel says it's deliberately starving Gaza How many confessions do the Western media and political elite need before they call this what it is?

"Katz has simply once again admitted to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocidal acts. There is no other interpretation, no way of reframing it, no leeway."

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#BDS #BoycottIsrael #Gaza #GazaStrip #Israel #Palestine

Yo @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social stop covering up genocide. Remember, the Nuremberg trials, included journalists who not only turned a blind eye, they covered up for the Nazis. Don’t be a Nazis. Report the news.

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Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)

Thanks to our friends at Macmillan, we have two sets of the next two titles in The Poetry Pharmacy series, Wild Remedy and Becoming, to give away. Drop us an email to info[at]poetrybyheart[dot]org[dot]uk by 5pm Friday 4th April to be entered into the draw.

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Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue.

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Issue 14 of Propel is out today!

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Jimmy Carr’s awful face

For someone who enjoys talking to Jordan Peterson about cancel culture, the millionaire comic Jimmy Carr remains omnipresent enough to be the poster boy of an Orwellian dystopia - meanwhile truly original left wing comics like Josie Long remain rarely seen in the media

I really am not sure what else to say about the genocide in Palestine that I have not said already.

That our governments are complicit, that we ourselves are complicit through our taxes, that those who are silent are complicit, that intl law is complicit, that we are repeating history…again.

🚨Only six days of flour left to distribute in Gaza: UN

Israel has blocked all humanitarian and commercial aid to Gaza for about 20 days, — longer than the initial siege from October 7–21, 2023.

UNICEF Executive Director: “Reports and images emerging from the Gaza Strip following today’s attacks are beyond horrifying. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed, including more than 130 children, representing one of the largest single-day child death toll in the last year.”

Today, mothers and fathers in Gaza are mourning their children because governments across the world did not deem their lives worthy of protection.

Siân Berry, "Why is impoverishing disabled people is a higher priority than a wealth tax?"

Liz Kendall ignores the question on the wealth tax

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Rachel Shabi: "None of the papers have anything about... Israel collapsing the ceasefire and blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza, which is a war crime, and it is striking that that has not made any of the front [pages of the UK papers]"

Exactly. Poetry starts with the self, even if it’s outward looking or speaking universally. In the article you linked, the phrase is also in quotes, so I wonder if there’s a further context/source

I wonder where the phrase is from and what was meant by it, seeing as it’s in inverted commas. And I agree with you about it being part of the journey. We all have to start somewhere so it’s seems pretty unhelpful for new writers to dismiss these early poems or call them bad

John Glenday:

This World. S22E03. Gaza. How To Survive A Warzone : Hoyo Films Ltd : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive BBC 2 Documentary, Series This World, published 2025/02/17:Gaza: How to Survive a WarzoneFollowing the lives of four young people trying to survive the...

You can see the documentary censored by the BBC here. #freespeech #freepalestine archive.org/details/this...

Tweet screen grab: “Maya Forstater @MForstater A lot of newspapers are showing photos of Dr Upton and Nurse Peggie side by side. It is worth remembering that Upton is 6ft tall and Peggie is 5 ft 6. This is what that looks like to scale.” Except the pictures start at chest height so the former is twice the height of the latter.

losing it at this “to scale” rendering of a six-inch difference in height that renders 6’ as literally twice the size of 5’6”

We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop.

Please share our statement below widely.

Israeli police raid renowned Palestinian bookstores in occupied East Jerusalem | CNN Israeli police raided two Palestinian bookstores in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, confiscating books and arresting one of the owners and his nephew, according to their family members.

Bookshops in occupied East Jerusalem are the latest target of the Israeli apartheid state. Ideas have always irked the totalitarian powers, especially the ones hellbent on ethnic cleansing and erasing the culture of their victims edition.cnn.com/2025/02/10/m...

Library full of books, old building, dark wood shelves, beautiful diffused light

The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply.

Please share :)

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Our Annual Writers' Award is open for entries! - Creative Future We’re excited to announce our 2024 Writers’ Award Competition is officially open for entries!

The Creative Future Writers’ Award is the only free to enter national poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction competition for all underrepresented writers.

The optional theme is ‘Wild’.

Fifteen winners (5 winners in each category).

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Emma Purshouse: The Hum of the Hive YouTube video by Voices Weaving

Make yourself a cuppa, sit back, take five minutes, and listen to this piece of work by pandemonialist @emmapurshouse.bsky.social. It's incredible. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...