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06.12.2025 08:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Welcome meeting for Gaza NextGen language project yesterday

All respect & gratitude to Programme Director Amani, co-admin Aliya and 🙏 to all the participating students & tutors ❤️‍🔥

06.12.2025 08:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Thematically-focused online poetry courses HYPER FOCUS Four months, four themes: grief - parents - eros - resistance NEW FOR 2026 Spanning four months, Jan-April 2026, with eight of the UK's best tutors, the courses will draw on four concentrated themes: GRIEF, PARENTS, EROS and RESISTANCE. outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus Each month, two leading poets will focus on a specific theme across four generative Tuesday evening workshops. Classes are designed for all levels, offering key insights and prompts into how we can write in and around each theme. You can either select a course that relates to you and your existing work, or register for the whole set.

Thematically-focused online poetry courses HYPER FOCUS Four months, four themes: grief - parents - eros - resistance NEW FOR 2026 Spanning four months, Jan-April 2026, with eight of the UK's best tutors, the courses will draw on four concentrated themes: GRIEF, PARENTS, EROS and RESISTANCE. outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus Each month, two leading poets will focus on a specific theme across four generative Tuesday evening workshops. Classes are designed for all levels, offering key insights and prompts into how we can write in and around each theme. You can either select a course that relates to you and your existing work, or register for the whole set.

We’re excited to let you know about the new HYPERFOCUS thematically focused four-week online poetry courses launching January 2026.

Over four months, eight talented tutors will draw on four concentrated themes - Grief, Parents, Eros & Resistance.

outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

26.11.2025 15:41 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Delighted to be a tutor for this exciting new course from @outspokenpress.bsky.social

26.11.2025 15:53 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Thematically-focused online poetry courses HYPER FOCUS Four months, four themes: grief - parents - eros - resistance

Thematically-focused online poetry courses HYPER FOCUS Four months, four themes: grief - parents - eros - resistance

Register for one, or save on bundle registrations for multiple. Gift option available.

Registration is now OPEN - find out more outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

26.11.2025 15:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
GRIEF Consider the different ways poems can help get between the feelings of grief and loss and look at how to ensure a poem remains artful while also true to its emotional life and sensibility. Both Emily Berry and Pascale Petit have written extensively on the theme of grief using metaphor, allegory and anecdote and will be guiding poets through a range of tips and prompts aimed at enhancing their skillset and thinking around the kind of poetry they want to write. 6-27 JANUARY 2026 TUTORS: PASCALE PETIT, EMILY BERRY WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK HYPERFOCUS grief: outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

GRIEF Consider the different ways poems can help get between the feelings of grief and loss and look at how to ensure a poem remains artful while also true to its emotional life and sensibility. Both Emily Berry and Pascale Petit have written extensively on the theme of grief using metaphor, allegory and anecdote and will be guiding poets through a range of tips and prompts aimed at enhancing their skillset and thinking around the kind of poetry they want to write. 6-27 JANUARY 2026 TUTORS: PASCALE PETIT, EMILY BERRY WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK HYPERFOCUS grief: outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

HYPERFOCUS - parents How do you write about a problematic parents)? How best could you navigate a complex upbringing? How do you handle the sheer awe and panic of being a new parent? How do you write about the loss of a parent? In this second segment of Hyperfocus, join poets Caroline Bird and Jack Underwood as they look at ways we can write poems that draw from the multilayered experiences of having parents and being a parent. 3-24 FEBRUARY 2026 TUTORS: CAROLINE BIRD JACK UNDERWOOD WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK PARENTS outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

HYPERFOCUS - parents How do you write about a problematic parents)? How best could you navigate a complex upbringing? How do you handle the sheer awe and panic of being a new parent? How do you write about the loss of a parent? In this second segment of Hyperfocus, join poets Caroline Bird and Jack Underwood as they look at ways we can write poems that draw from the multilayered experiences of having parents and being a parent. 3-24 FEBRUARY 2026 TUTORS: CAROLINE BIRD JACK UNDERWOOD WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK PARENTS outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

EROS Love, desire, lust, eros and longing are all part of March's Hyperfocus. Participants will be looking at what makes an erotic poem... erotic. How does one write erotica without sounding crass or twee, how can we express notions of longing or desire for another person and not make the poem feel like it's over-reaching or performative and if we are to write sex how much does that involve the body. How do sexuality, ability and gender impact the way we write into these themes? 3-24 MARCH 2026 TUTORS: KIM ADDONIZIO OLUWASEUN OLAYIWOLA WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK HYPERFOCUS eros outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

EROS Love, desire, lust, eros and longing are all part of March's Hyperfocus. Participants will be looking at what makes an erotic poem... erotic. How does one write erotica without sounding crass or twee, how can we express notions of longing or desire for another person and not make the poem feel like it's over-reaching or performative and if we are to write sex how much does that involve the body. How do sexuality, ability and gender impact the way we write into these themes? 3-24 MARCH 2026 TUTORS: KIM ADDONIZIO OLUWASEUN OLAYIWOLA WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK HYPERFOCUS eros outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

HYPERFCCUS resistance 7-28 APRIL 2026 TUTORS: JOELLE TAYLOR ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK Writing poems that talk truth to power or address the state of the nation can often be tricky to navigate. Either a poem is so direct it ends up feeling didactic or it's so subtle it doesn't have the push and bite it needs to make its case. Over the course of the four weeks participants will explore what it means to write a poem that is concerned with the world, injustice, oppression, trauma and witness. RESISTANCE outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

HYPERFCCUS resistance 7-28 APRIL 2026 TUTORS: JOELLE TAYLOR ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU WORKSHOPS: TUES 7-9PM UK Writing poems that talk truth to power or address the state of the nation can often be tricky to navigate. Either a poem is so direct it ends up feeling didactic or it's so subtle it doesn't have the push and bite it needs to make its case. Over the course of the four weeks participants will explore what it means to write a poem that is concerned with the world, injustice, oppression, trauma and witness. RESISTANCE outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

January - Grief with @no1emily.bsky.social & @pascalepetit.bsky.social

February - Parents with @carolinebirduk.bsky.social & Jack Underwood

March: Eros with @kimaddonizio.bsky.social & Oluwaseun Olayiwola

April: Resistance with Joelle Taylor & @aanaxagorou.bsky.social

26.11.2025 15:41 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
Thematically-focused online poetry courses HYPER FOCUS Four months, four themes: grief - parents - eros - resistance NEW FOR 2026 Spanning four months, Jan-April 2026, with eight of the UK's best tutors, the courses will draw on four concentrated themes: GRIEF, PARENTS, EROS and RESISTANCE. outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus Each month, two leading poets will focus on a specific theme across four generative Tuesday evening workshops. Classes are designed for all levels, offering key insights and prompts into how we can write in and around each theme. You can either select a course that relates to you and your existing work, or register for the whole set.

Thematically-focused online poetry courses HYPER FOCUS Four months, four themes: grief - parents - eros - resistance NEW FOR 2026 Spanning four months, Jan-April 2026, with eight of the UK's best tutors, the courses will draw on four concentrated themes: GRIEF, PARENTS, EROS and RESISTANCE. outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus Each month, two leading poets will focus on a specific theme across four generative Tuesday evening workshops. Classes are designed for all levels, offering key insights and prompts into how we can write in and around each theme. You can either select a course that relates to you and your existing work, or register for the whole set.

We’re excited to let you know about the new HYPERFOCUS thematically focused four-week online poetry courses launching January 2026.

Over four months, eight talented tutors will draw on four concentrated themes - Grief, Parents, Eros & Resistance.

outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

26.11.2025 15:41 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

🇯🇲🙌🏾 Thank you to all who joined us online last night to raise funds for Jamaica, beautiful gathering of poetry and music and community and connection, loved it, love you, @outspokenpress.bsky.social here’s to more of this good stuff soon! BIGlove Xx

20.11.2025 10:34 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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You can still DONATE to help those in Jamaica affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastation & WATCH the recording of last night

With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry

melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

20.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser:
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

06.11.2025 14:26 — 👍 20    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
Post image In Simon Maddrell’s wide and bracing world, childhood orbits the voice of a distant and sometimes dangerous parent. Memories of sex parties, dead friends and estranged lovers straddle the spaces between feeling and thought, loss and fatalism. lamping wild rabbits is a brave and expansive multiverse, exploring sexuality, queer desire, memory recall and testimony. With poems that pay homage to the late Derek Jarman, to verses which situate themselves in and around the Isle of Man, exploring Britain’s colonial presence through the subverted interplay of English and the Manx language. A poly-vocal and multifaceted debut which is unafraid to confront the shame and stigma of HIV, while never allowing the poems to lose shape or pace, altering the lens to bring the reader’s attention to birdsong and the queer body in nature. Maddrell has achieved a distinct and totally convincing sound through the literary geography of lamping wild rabbits, one that gives the impression it’s been everywhere and returned because it survived.

In Simon Maddrell’s wide and bracing world, childhood orbits the voice of a distant and sometimes dangerous parent. Memories of sex parties, dead friends and estranged lovers straddle the spaces between feeling and thought, loss and fatalism. lamping wild rabbits is a brave and expansive multiverse, exploring sexuality, queer desire, memory recall and testimony. With poems that pay homage to the late Derek Jarman, to verses which situate themselves in and around the Isle of Man, exploring Britain’s colonial presence through the subverted interplay of English and the Manx language. A poly-vocal and multifaceted debut which is unafraid to confront the shame and stigma of HIV, while never allowing the poems to lose shape or pace, altering the lens to bring the reader’s attention to birdsong and the queer body in nature. Maddrell has achieved a distinct and totally convincing sound through the literary geography of lamping wild rabbits, one that gives the impression it’s been everywhere and returned because it survived.

Delighted to share the cover and publisher blurb for my debut poetry collection – out Feb 12th but available for pre-order from @outspokenpress.bsky.social

www.outspokenldn.com/shop/rabbits

03.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Poets Read For Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser An online evening of poetry, raising funds for Food for the Poor and Support Jamaica to support those affected by Hurricane Melissa.

excuse the typo, here's that link again, thanks for your solidarity and help xx www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

04.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
ocean and yellow poster, text reads: POETS READ FOR HURRICANE MELISSA RELIEF FUNDRAISER WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025 INTRODUCTION BY AKALA ROGER ROBINSON / MALIKA BOOKER / KEITH JARRETT RICHARD GEORGES / SAFIYA SINCLAIR / ISABELLE BAAFI RAYMOND ANTROBUS / ANTHONY VAHNI CAPILDEO KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF / COURTTIA NEWLAND COURTNEY CONRAD / MUNI PILGRIM / DZIFA BENSON SHANNON SMITH-MEEKINGS / ANTHONY JOSEPH CASEY BAILEY / SALENA GODDEN KARIM KAMAR ON PIANO / HOSTED BY LEONE ROSS Raising funds to support the Jamaican Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund and Food for the Poor Jamaica's Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund. All donations will be split equally between these funds, and any additional organisations added. OUT SPOKEN PRESS ONLINE / DONATION TICKETS 7-9PM UK / 2-4PM EST melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

ocean and yellow poster, text reads: POETS READ FOR HURRICANE MELISSA RELIEF FUNDRAISER WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025 INTRODUCTION BY AKALA ROGER ROBINSON / MALIKA BOOKER / KEITH JARRETT RICHARD GEORGES / SAFIYA SINCLAIR / ISABELLE BAAFI RAYMOND ANTROBUS / ANTHONY VAHNI CAPILDEO KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF / COURTTIA NEWLAND COURTNEY CONRAD / MUNI PILGRIM / DZIFA BENSON SHANNON SMITH-MEEKINGS / ANTHONY JOSEPH CASEY BAILEY / SALENA GODDEN KARIM KAMAR ON PIANO / HOSTED BY LEONE ROSS Raising funds to support the Jamaican Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund and Food for the Poor Jamaica's Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund. All donations will be split equally between these funds, and any additional organisations added. OUT SPOKEN PRESS ONLINE / DONATION TICKETS 7-9PM UK / 2-4PM EST melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

04.11.2025 15:54 — 👍 22    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0
POETS READ FOR HURRICANE MELISSA RELIEF FUNDRAISER WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025 INTRODUCTION BY AKALA ROGER ROBINSON / MALIKA BOOKER / KEITH JARRETT RICHARD GEORGES / SAFIYA SINCLAIR / ISABELLE BAAFI RAYMOND ANTROBUS ANTHONY VAHNI CAPILDEO KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF / COURTTIA NEWLAND COURTNEY CONRAD / MUNI PILGRIM / DZIFA BENSON SHANNON SMITH-MEEKINGS / ANTHONY JOSEPH CASEY BAILEY / SALENA GODDEN KARIM KAMAR ON PIANO / HOSTED BY LEONE ROSS Raising funds to support the Jamaican Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund and Food for the Poor Jamaica's Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund. All donations will be split equally between these funds, and any additional organisations added. OUT SPOKEN PRESS ONLINE / DONATION TICKETS 7-9PM UK / 2-4PM EST melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

POETS READ FOR HURRICANE MELISSA RELIEF FUNDRAISER WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025 INTRODUCTION BY AKALA ROGER ROBINSON / MALIKA BOOKER / KEITH JARRETT RICHARD GEORGES / SAFIYA SINCLAIR / ISABELLE BAAFI RAYMOND ANTROBUS ANTHONY VAHNI CAPILDEO KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF / COURTTIA NEWLAND COURTNEY CONRAD / MUNI PILGRIM / DZIFA BENSON SHANNON SMITH-MEEKINGS / ANTHONY JOSEPH CASEY BAILEY / SALENA GODDEN KARIM KAMAR ON PIANO / HOSTED BY LEONE ROSS Raising funds to support the Jamaican Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund and Food for the Poor Jamaica's Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund. All donations will be split equally between these funds, and any additional organisations added. OUT SPOKEN PRESS ONLINE / DONATION TICKETS 7-9PM UK / 2-4PM EST melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

The evening will be hosted by Leone Ross, with an introduction from Akala, a piano recital from Karim Kamar and readers too many characters to list but in the flyer >>

04.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The evening will be raising funds for Food for the Poor Jamaica’s Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund and the Jamaican Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund. Donations will be split between the funds, & any additional organisations added.

04.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
POETS READ FOR HURRICANE MELISSA RELIEF FUNDRAISER WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025 INTRODUCTION BY AKALA ROGER ROBINSON / MALIKA BOOKER / KEITH JARRETT RICHARD GEORGES / SAFIYA SINCLAIR / ISABELLE BAAFI RAYMOND ANTROBUS ANTHONY VAHNI CAPILDEO KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF / COURTTIA NEWLAND COURTNEY CONRAD / MUNI PILGRIM / DZIFA BENSON SHANNON SMITH-MEEKINGS / ANTHONY JOSEPH CASEY BAILEY / SALENA GODDEN KARIM KAMAR ON PIANO / HOSTED BY LEONE ROSS Raising funds to support the Jamaican Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund and Food for the Poor Jamaica's Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund. All donations will be split equally between these funds, and any additional organisations added. OUT SPOKEN PRESS ONLINE / DONATION TICKETS 7-9PM UK / 2-4PM EST melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

POETS READ FOR HURRICANE MELISSA RELIEF FUNDRAISER WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025 INTRODUCTION BY AKALA ROGER ROBINSON / MALIKA BOOKER / KEITH JARRETT RICHARD GEORGES / SAFIYA SINCLAIR / ISABELLE BAAFI RAYMOND ANTROBUS ANTHONY VAHNI CAPILDEO KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF / COURTTIA NEWLAND COURTNEY CONRAD / MUNI PILGRIM / DZIFA BENSON SHANNON SMITH-MEEKINGS / ANTHONY JOSEPH CASEY BAILEY / SALENA GODDEN KARIM KAMAR ON PIANO / HOSTED BY LEONE ROSS Raising funds to support the Jamaican Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund and Food for the Poor Jamaica's Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund. All donations will be split equally between these funds, and any additional organisations added. OUT SPOKEN PRESS ONLINE / DONATION TICKETS 7-9PM UK / 2-4PM EST melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

With the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, we’re hosting an online event to raise funds to help those affected

Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground

melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

04.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Cover of lamping wild rabbits by Simon Maddrell: title in off white block condensed sans serif caps, over a sketched black rabbit, on blue

Cover of lamping wild rabbits by Simon Maddrell: title in off white block condensed sans serif caps, over a sketched black rabbit, on blue

In Simon Maddrell's wide and bracing world, childhood orbits the voice of a distant and sometimes dangerous parent. Memories of sex parties, dead friends and estranged lovers straddle the spaces between feeling and thought, loss and fatalism. lamping wild rabbits is a brave and expansive multiverse, exploring sexuality, queer desire, memory recall and testimony. With poems that pay homage to the late Derek Jarman, to verses which situate themselves in and around the Isle of Man, exploring Britain's colonial presence through the subverted interplay of English and the Manx language. A poly-vocal and multifaceted debut which is unafraid to confront the shame and stigma of HIV, while never allowing the poems to lose shape or pace, altering the lens to bring the reader's attention to birdsong and the queer body in nature. Maddrell has achieved a distinct and totally convincing sound through the literary geography of lamping wild rabbits, one that gives the impression it's been everywhere and returned because it survived.

In Simon Maddrell's wide and bracing world, childhood orbits the voice of a distant and sometimes dangerous parent. Memories of sex parties, dead friends and estranged lovers straddle the spaces between feeling and thought, loss and fatalism. lamping wild rabbits is a brave and expansive multiverse, exploring sexuality, queer desire, memory recall and testimony. With poems that pay homage to the late Derek Jarman, to verses which situate themselves in and around the Isle of Man, exploring Britain's colonial presence through the subverted interplay of English and the Manx language. A poly-vocal and multifaceted debut which is unafraid to confront the shame and stigma of HIV, while never allowing the poems to lose shape or pace, altering the lens to bring the reader's attention to birdsong and the queer body in nature. Maddrell has achieved a distinct and totally convincing sound through the literary geography of lamping wild rabbits, one that gives the impression it's been everywhere and returned because it survived.

We’re delighted to share with you the cover for LAMPING WILD RABBITS, the debut collection by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social forthcoming 12 February 2026.

PRE-ORDERS are up now / outspokenldn.com/rabbits

03.11.2025 12:50 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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The Scotsman's Poem of the Week

'Scene 4. Lisa Simpson Interrogates the Untranslatability of the Joke' by Juana Adcock.

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On Sunday, the Forward Prize winners will be revealed!

In the run-up to the announcement, we’re exploring some of the books nominated in the Best Collection category: first up, Juana Adcock on how she wrote I SUGAR THE BONES: lrb.me/098c4c

@forwardprizes.bsky.social @outspokenpress.bsky.social

21.10.2025 11:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire <article data-history-node-id="430306" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-four-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-raids-one" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-four-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-raids-one" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">Israeli forces carried out multiple raids across the occupied West Bank&nbsp;on Friday dawn, arresting four Palestinian youths in separate incidents in Nablus and Tulkarm.</p> <p>In Nablus, soldiers infiltrated al-Makhfiyya neighbourhood, followed by the entry of military vehicles. They raided a home and fired live bullets inside, injuring Ehab Abu Rayala in the leg before arresting him. A second young man was also detained during the operation, according to the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa).</p> <p>Meanwhile, in the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarm, Israeli forces arrested Ahmad Saif Fuqaha and Fares Ayman Najjar after storming their homes.</p> <p>These arrests come amid ongoing Israeli military operations and heightened tensions across the occupied West Bank.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-four-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-raids-one

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Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support. Donate today: https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need

Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support. Donate today: https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need

The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help...

“Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”

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It’s wonderful to see this collection continue to gain deserved recognition 🩵

outspokenldn.com/shop/fadyjoudah

17.10.2025 05:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Black and white head shot of poet Fady Joudah, a man with stubble and a bald head. Banner at bottom reads: Fady Joudah, 2025 Winner, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

Black and white head shot of poet Fady Joudah, a man with stubble and a bald head. Banner at bottom reads: Fady Joudah, 2025 Winner, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

announcing The 2025 Recipients of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the James Laughlin Award academy of american poets

announcing The 2025 Recipients of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the James Laughlin Award academy of american poets

🌟 Huge congratulations to Fady Joudah, recipient of the 2025 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded by the Academy of American Poets, for the most outstanding poetry published in the United States in the previous year for [...]

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Submissions are still open for the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! Get your manuscript in by Wednesday October 15th!

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‘An alarmingly accomplished debut. A long way now from traditional elegy, Kruhly’s poems speak of nourishment and squalor, palliative care and dirty linen, tenderness and harm. Their unnerving domestic noire is both off-kilter and riveting: one dare not look away.’ —Fiona Benson

‘An alarmingly accomplished debut. A long way now from traditional elegy, Kruhly’s poems speak of nourishment and squalor, palliative care and dirty linen, tenderness and harm. Their unnerving domestic noire is both off-kilter and riveting: one dare not look away.’ —Fiona Benson

Cover of To my father, now dead in room 318 by Madeleine Kruhly. An anatomical heart in black on a textured beige background

Cover of To my father, now dead in room 318 by Madeleine Kruhly. An anatomical heart in black on a textured beige background

‘An alarmingly accomplished debut. A long way now from traditional elegy […] off-kilter and riveting: one dare not look away.’ —Fiona Benson

✨ It's publication week for Madeleine Kruhly's To my father, now dead in room 318 ✨

Out on Thurs > outspokenldn.com/shop/room318

13.10.2025 08:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀

$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press

Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com

13.10.2025 06:09 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

This also marks our first Eliot shortlisting as a Press which feels like a milestone. Shoutout to our editor @aanaxagorou.bsky.social for his vision and conviction 💙🥳

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TS Eliot Prize 2025 shortlisted collections: Gillian Allnutt Lode Bloodaxe Books Isabelle Baafi Chaotic Good Faber & Faber Catherine-Esther Cowie Heirloom Carcanet Press Paul Farley When it Rained for a Million Years Picador Poetry Vona Groarke Infinity Pool The Gallery Press Sarah Howe Foretokens Chatto Poetry Nick Makoha The New Carthaginians Penguin Books Tom Paulin Namanlagh Faber & Faber Natalie Shapero Stay Dead Out-Spoken Press Karen Solie Wellwater Picador Poetry

TS Eliot Prize 2025 shortlisted collections: Gillian Allnutt Lode Bloodaxe Books Isabelle Baafi Chaotic Good Faber & Faber Catherine-Esther Cowie Heirloom Carcanet Press Paul Farley When it Rained for a Million Years Picador Poetry Vona Groarke Infinity Pool The Gallery Press Sarah Howe Foretokens Chatto Poetry Nick Makoha The New Carthaginians Penguin Books Tom Paulin Namanlagh Faber & Faber Natalie Shapero Stay Dead Out-Spoken Press Karen Solie Wellwater Picador Poetry

Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025 - Natalie Shapero, Stay Dead

Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025 - Natalie Shapero, Stay Dead

Big news. Big. Huge. 🌝

Delighted that Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025

🙏 to the judging panel & congratulations to all shortlisted poets. We hope this recognition can bring her work to more UK readers 🙏

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HUGE congratulations to Natalie Shapero on the shortlisting of STAY DEAD for this year’s @tseliotprize.bsky.social !!!

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We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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