@benedictan.bsky.social
Poet| Terrible Mother available from Black Cat Poetry Press| Citizen of the world/nowhere, middle class woman of a certain age, liberal woman over 50. Poems linked: https://linktr.ee/benedictanorell
Despite the rain, the chill, winter's reluctance to cede his throne, spring arrives with daffodils, birdsong, the lengthening of days. Welcoming it are the 15 poets of wave twenty-five of @iamb.uk. Expect 45 poems, written and read – fresh as the incoming season.
iamb.uk/index/wave/25
Happy World Book Day! It’s been a rather good one for me; not only did I get a delivery of author copies of The Way the Water Held Me, but I got an Emma Press badge! This makes up for never winning a Blue Peter badge.
#worldbookday
Congratulations 🥳
Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist
Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine nominated for award worth £30,000
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Help me out please, what’s the best dinosaur toy or other gift for an 18 month-old, no expense spared?
#dinosaurs #kids
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London
Our Book of the Week is this gorgeous facsimile edition of William Blake's *The Marriage of Heaven and Hell*: pick up your copy here - www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-ma...
Happy to launch this gorgeous book today. Grab a copy via the links in bio!
@jmatkin.bsky.social @richardnskinner.bsky.social
Exactly one month until ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ is published! If you haven’t already, you can preorder your copy via the link in my bio ✨
My husband marked the one-month countdown until publication day by giving me this gorgeous little brooch featuring the front cover. Isn’t it lovely?
Ratcliffe
More proof that being a billionaire has little to do with intellect, insight, sensitivity, empathy, reading or curiosity
Like all billionaires, who decry benefit recipients & migrants but demand government bailouts & live as tax exiles, he’s just a ruthless, brainless, hypocritical shite
...but a flat line you steer for.
Make Art (1/4)
Closing at midnight tonight, UK time...
Reviewing @louisepoetical.bsky.social 's The How in the World over at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 📚
No wonder the orange toddler is unhinged once again.
The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not on the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot.
Repost this if you agree they are AMAZING and an inspiration!
Great to see a steady flow of poems finding their way to our submissions inbox. You've til midnight Sunday night if you've something you'd like us to look at...
Yes, it should.
It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
have you found any new-to-you poets recently? maybe through a literary journal? maybe one who doesn’t have a full length book out yet? I would love love love to be introduced to some new writing
William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
Novak Djokovic to Rafa Nadal after losing to Alcaraz in the Australian Open final
£500 given out to a working class writer every month.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Vintage book stall at Greenwich Market
Cutty Sark, Greenwich
What a brilliant poem, Troubleshooting by @rachaelclyne.bsky.social in Issue 2 of Aftershock Review @maxwallis.bsky.social
Today I want to #LiftToTheSky @victoriaspires.bsky.social
for her beautiful, thought-provoking poetry and the work she does for the poetry community.
#poetry #blueskypoets
So looking forward to reading as part of the open mic #NotJustPretty
Thank you @victoriaspires.bsky.social fir bring such a brilliant host!