Jazmine Linklater

Incident by Norman MacCaig I look across the table and think (fiery with love) Ask me, go on, ask me to do something impossible, something freakishly useless, something unimaginable and inimitable Like making a finger break into blossom or walking for half an hour in twenty minutes or remembering tomorrow. I will you to ask it. But all you say is Will you give me a cigarette? And I smile and, returning to the marvelous world of possibility I give you one with a hand that trembles with a human trembling.

Came across this MacCaig poem by chance and bloody hell, amazing

Paper Goes Swimming: Alicia Paz’s Women in Print Residency — Corridor8 On my way to meet Alicia Paz on a hot morning in late June, Preston seemed to be cast in magic realism, as though priming me for the artist’s fixations

'Paz’s works, some completed, some in fragments, were strange, shimmering, mutable forms, as though the images were conjured from memory — part-seen, part-imagined.'

Susannah Thompson responds to Alicia Paz's Women in Print residency at Artlab Contemporary Print Studios in Preston 🧜‍♀️ 🐚 🐟

Morton Feldman. Intersection +, 1953

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Wait @abrackenbury.bsky.social is literally here

Yes can you email me tomorrow? jazmine@carcanet.co.uk I'd like to say I'll simply email you but alas I will forget

Amtssprache So what would you pay to have your family safe In that house with the garden and the clean running water - And you walk in and hold them and kiss their faces? Your life? Too easy, and nobody’s asking. How about the life of an Afghan child, A city, the birds in the sky? Would you turn a blind eye? Would you turn off the news? Would you run the trains to death camps? Of course you would. You do. You do these things. (Poem by Clare Pollard)

Every diaspora Palestinian I know has been living with survivor’s guilt for 655 days. Guilt & shame for every glass of water, every bite of food, every shower, every daily annoyance, every moment of joy, every booboo we can kiss better, every sleep in our own beds. Our people are being slaughtered.

Starving people is in itself a #massacre.

North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

I just donated to this in support of @eligoldstone.bsky.social Olivia Sudjic and Jack Underwood’s hunger strike for Gaza

chuffed.org/project/help...

We are starving My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.

This is a really difficult read by Ruwaida Amer in Gaza. I just can't anymore with the barbaric Israeli state.

www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...

Israeli fire mows down starving Palestinians in Gaza as hunger deaths surge UN says starvation in Gaza is man-made as families in the besieged territory endure ‘catastrophic hunger’.

UN says starvation in Gaza is man-made as families in the besieged territory endure ‘catastrophic hunger’.

85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.

I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.

After Brecht Be thankful it’s this dark. Nobody knows what you’re up to. What if they did — who’s to say it’s wrong? Anything we want to do, as long as we can find the energy, we do it. That’s how come it’s getting darker all the time. What if some dark night they do you in. No last moments marred by the injustice of it all. I don’t know who to thank.

David Bromige

This was really quite beautiful tonight. The visuals were mesmerising. I think there's one more performance tomorrow! You should go

June Newsletter: we have been awandering Post-strawberry moon and summer solstice tidings ~

What happened in June, you ask? Fear not, all is here! Catch up with the free-to-read activity on our site in this recent newsletter, delve into our paid long read on the Substack from @pdkmitchell.bsky.social‬, frolic in the summer fields of art writing from the top half of England, etc, etc:

In 1982, The NY Public Theater presented a "Language/Noise Festival." RIchard Foreman introduced a small group of poets c. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, including Bruce Andrews, James Sherry, Hannah Weiner, & me. In this post: audio + transcription of Richard's intro.
Goto:
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WHITE DOG First snow-I release her into it - I know, released, she won't come back. This is different from letting what, already, we count as lost go. It is nothing like that. Also, it is not like wanting to learn what losing a thing we love feels like. Oh yes: I love her. Released, she seems for a moment as if some part of me that, almost, I wouldn't mind understanding better, is that not love? She seems a part of me, and then she seems entirely like what she is: a white dog, less white suddenly, against the snow, who won't come back. I know that; and, knowing it, I release her. It's as if I release her because I know.

is that / not love?

Carl Phillips

How to respond to the EHRC consultation Good Law Project has taken advice from a leading public law King’s Counsel on how to respond to the EHRC’s consultation. What follows is a form which, after you complete it, will automatically be sent...

With 38 hrs to go to the EHRC consultation deadline I'm seeing posts from people feeling bad they're too stressed to engage.
The GLP⬇️has removed all but the last step, a general comment box. This is a far easier task. I hope it helps those who want to, to get their voice heard without too much pain.

Why and how Paul Celan's poems are so satisfying is a lovely mystery (trans Felstiner)

Tom Pickard

Illustration of woman upside down looking a snake in the eye

From Lenora Carrington’s estate, the girl and her snake:

Panels of the UK AIDS Quilt laid out in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall. I’d write more but it’s a bit overwhelming.

If you do one thing in London this weekend please go see the UK’s AIDS Quilt in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall.

Israel just reopened land property registration in the West Bank. Here’s what that means. The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it. Here’s what this means for Palestinians.

The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it. Here’s what this means for Palestinians.

mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

#Palestine #Israel

Ah thanks Éireann you're too kind! You all just write very good books! Hehe but yes I'll miss Carcanet and everyone very much indeed...

Thanks Adrian!

Oh that's also easy you just soak them with acetone, I got a little starter kit from a company called, funnily, Blue Sky, that has everything you need inside it

*territory 🤦🏻‍♀️ just flaunting my unprofessionalism here