Fionn Petch

Wise words...

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard

"The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable... History will judge not just those who committed these crimes, but those who stood by and watched."
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Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action? I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

‘Like Trudi Warner, Rev. Parfitt has been arrested for holding a sign. Can that be understood by any but the most authoritarian of rubrics as an act of terrorism?’

Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action and freedom of conscience, online now from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

⦾HAARETZ Israel News Defense Minister Says Israel Plans to oncentrateAll Gaza's Population in 'Humanitarian Zone Builton Rafah'sRuins

interesting verb

“Uncompromising (…). A rousing story of migration and identity.” Brilliant review of THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING by Renato Cisneros (tr. Fionn Petch) in the @IrishTimes. Thanks always to Catherine Taylor
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

We can't wait to get our paws on this book by a WWB contributor author/translator duo ( @elusiveword.bsky.social ) ! Here's an excerpt from another recent collaboration published by Charco Press, YOU SHALL LEAVE YOUR LAND:

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Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action Officers arrest protesters day after direct action group banned as terrorist organisation

“This is worse than Putin’s Russia... It’s 10 years for doing what we’re doing today in Russia; it’s 14 years in the UK, because of Yvette Cooper’s outrageous betrayal of democracy, liberalism, and what is in my view a step towards fascism.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Caution has turned to cowardice – the BBC is failing viewers with its Gaza coverage | Karishma Patel The craven failure to broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is just the latest example of skewed journalistic values over Israel’s war, says former BBC journalist Karishma Patel

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“The World We Saw Burning” by Renato Cisneros (tr. @elusiveword.bsky.social , Charco Press) is “a fascinatingly structured novel” with insight into “borders, national identity, and the concept of ‘home.’” bookshop.org/a/169/978191...

that is about as high a recommendation as they come... will seek it out

A quick hi from Renato Cisneros, author of THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING (tr. Fionn Petch), landing NEXT TUESDAY! Get your copy now. charcopress.com/bookstore/th...

We were robbed last night. When it’s our stock or our money that is targeted, there’s insurance and systems in place for this, but when it’s stealing from a charity in an extremely direct way then we just can’t abide it.

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THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING by Renato Cisneros (trans. @elusiveword.bsky.social) is "a novel of extraordinary complexity, with dazzling prose, where the characters encounter history, the past and themselves." - El Mundo

Out 24th June! charcopress.com/bookstore/th...

Normal people call this a carjacking.

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We have some great Father’s Day gift options! Available at your lovely local bookshop, or direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore

Philip Glass: The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down, ACT V - The Rome Section Philip Glass · EP · 1999 · 4 songs

though if we're talking actual opera my go to oblivion album is Glass/Wilson, the Civil Wars, in case you don't know it
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full immersion required, all or nothing

Drop Site News Drop Site 17, @DropSiteNews BREAKING: Israeli forces burned to death 9 children of Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital, in a strike on her home in Khan Younis. Civil defense crews recovered 9 bodies — 8 of them completely charred children — after extinguishing the fire. Dr. Al-Najjar was on shift when she learned that all 9 of her children had been killed. GRAPHIC

Israel bombed the home of two doctors in Gaza, killed nine of their children, and injured the father and another child. The deceased children’s names were:

Yahya
Rakan
Raslan
Jubran
Eve
Rivan
Sideen
Luqman
Sidra

(I’m not going to put the graphic photos or video evidence here, but I’ve seen them.)

Israeli opposition MP forcefully removed from podium after blasting Gaza war – video Ayman Odeh, a member of the Arab-Jewish Hadash party, was forcefully removed from the podium in the Israeli parliament as he criticised Israel's war on Gaza and the mounting death toll

Yet I'm constantly being told Israel is a land of free speech and democracy
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YouTube video by The Booker Prizes Max Porter announces the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prize

Max Porter with such a tremendous speech here www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc80...

Our next timeline post is number 12 - 1958
Work begins on what Alasdair would go on to describe as his ‘best mural’, designed for the Greenhead Church of Scotland Mural. During this time, he came to meet his lifelong friends Archie and Eleanor Hind who enjoyed watching him work.

OK so waving a flag is terrorism but arming a terrorist colonial state currently starving thousands of children is not terrorism?

Malicious distraction tactics from the UK establishment.

mysterious note to self. nope, no idea.

Renato signing books

Renato talking to translator Dylan and bookseller Rachel in front of huge bookshelves

Renato and Dylan talking in front of huge book shelf

We're excited to be launching The World We Saw Burning by Renato Cisneros (translated by @elusiveword.bsky.social) in Edinburgh as a little early exclusive for attendees only before the book officially publishes later in June!

Renato Cisneros is also appearing in Edinburgh on Weds 14th, if you want to see both of us... ;)

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Renato Cisneros for The World We Saw Burning at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh

Join us for the early Edinburgh launch of Renato Cisneros' The World We Saw Burning, translated by @elusiveword.bsky.social

📍 Edinburgh, Topping & Company
📅 Thurs 15th May, 7pm
🎫 www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

It's one of Cannes' most anticipated movies. Lynne Ramsay's first film in 8 years. It stars Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson. It is the adaptation of DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz (tr. S. Moses & C. Orloff). Have you not read it? Get your copy today.
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My artworks, like my thoughts, have become overgrown

And yet