Pratyusha (she/her)
@pairedaeza.bsky.social
writer, poet, reader 🌿 southbank new poets collective / ledbury critic 🪻 🏳️🌈 pratyusha.co.uk
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happy silvester! @jessicajlee.bsky.social and @alycia.bsky.social and Nina & I wrote THIS TOO IS A GLISTENING and it’s the best thing that happened this year 🌷🌱🌻💫🪐
I had a full day of writing today and I’m so drained. And tomorrow is MONDAY 🙃🥲
July 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I had a full day of writing today and I’m so drained. And tomorrow is MONDAY 🙃🥲
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no kings, no cops, no billionaires, no fascists, no enablers, no terfs, no bigots, no scolds, no joy thieves, no antisemites, no genocide apologists, no AI
May 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
no kings, no cops, no billionaires, no fascists, no enablers, no terfs, no bigots, no scolds, no joy thieves, no antisemites, no genocide apologists, no AI
Where’s your favourite place to buy secondhand books online?
May 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Where’s your favourite place to buy secondhand books online?
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Many things over the past decade have done or are doing incalculable damage to the UK. Immigration is not one of them. But this spineless rush to embrace xenophobic far-right rhetoric is. I'm speechless with anger at the utter disgrace of it.
Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done ‘incalculable’ damage to UK, economically and politically – UK politics live
PM unveils new policies meant to drive down net migration by end of this parliament
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Many things over the past decade have done or are doing incalculable damage to the UK. Immigration is not one of them. But this spineless rush to embrace xenophobic far-right rhetoric is. I'm speechless with anger at the utter disgrace of it.
Such a great read.
Great Vittles article on the commodification of Korean food in the UK & around the globe (& a call for 밥상 appreciation):
"In the case of Korean food, this journey was curated by Hallyu and a set of hungry corporations, on a compressed timeline of about twenty years"
open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
"In the case of Korean food, this journey was curated by Hallyu and a set of hungry corporations, on a compressed timeline of about twenty years"
open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
Beyond Fried Chicken
The curious rise of Korean food in the UK. Words by Yuna Chang and Ha-Joon Chang. Illustration by David Huang.
open.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Such a great read.
Picked up at Free Verse yesterday @prototypepubs.bsky.social and can’t wait to read it 💙
April 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Picked up at Free Verse yesterday @prototypepubs.bsky.social and can’t wait to read it 💙
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apropos of nothing but it's funny how certain folks will always try to chase the style of studio ghibli/miyazaki but only on a surface level and never tackle the themes of environmentalism, anti-war, and empathy i.e. the stuff that made those movies masterpieces
March 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
apropos of nothing but it's funny how certain folks will always try to chase the style of studio ghibli/miyazaki but only on a surface level and never tackle the themes of environmentalism, anti-war, and empathy i.e. the stuff that made those movies masterpieces
I can watch the forest greening from my window 🍃
March 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I can watch the forest greening from my window 🍃
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Never forget you don’t need a mandate to do the right thing.
You can wear a mask and protect others.
You can get boosted.
You can help someone in need.
You can donate to mutual aid.
You can amplify voices different than your own.
Caring about one another IS a form of resistance.
You can wear a mask and protect others.
You can get boosted.
You can help someone in need.
You can donate to mutual aid.
You can amplify voices different than your own.
Caring about one another IS a form of resistance.
March 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Never forget you don’t need a mandate to do the right thing.
You can wear a mask and protect others.
You can get boosted.
You can help someone in need.
You can donate to mutual aid.
You can amplify voices different than your own.
Caring about one another IS a form of resistance.
You can wear a mask and protect others.
You can get boosted.
You can help someone in need.
You can donate to mutual aid.
You can amplify voices different than your own.
Caring about one another IS a form of resistance.
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NEXT WEEK Karan Chambers (one of my wonderful, talented MA poets) is launching her debut chapbook at our London Campus. Woman | Folk is published by Salò Press - an incredible micro-publisher! She’ll be joined by Wendy Allen, Galia Admoni, and fellow MA poets💙
March 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
NEXT WEEK Karan Chambers (one of my wonderful, talented MA poets) is launching her debut chapbook at our London Campus. Woman | Folk is published by Salò Press - an incredible micro-publisher! She’ll be joined by Wendy Allen, Galia Admoni, and fellow MA poets💙
A little reminder that we’re looking for submissions for our anthology! You can be based anywhere in the world 🌍 🩵
CALL FOR POETRY SUBMISSIONS!
Seed/Spore/Rhizome: Ecopoetics of Community and Justice - a new anthology with fieldnotes collective, edited by @pairedaeza.bsky.social, Jessica J. Lee, @alycia.bsky.social & Nina Mingya Powles.
Deadline 30/04/25. Guidelines here: www.silverpress.org/blogs/news/c...
Seed/Spore/Rhizome: Ecopoetics of Community and Justice - a new anthology with fieldnotes collective, edited by @pairedaeza.bsky.social, Jessica J. Lee, @alycia.bsky.social & Nina Mingya Powles.
Deadline 30/04/25. Guidelines here: www.silverpress.org/blogs/news/c...
March 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A little reminder that we’re looking for submissions for our anthology! You can be based anywhere in the world 🌍 🩵
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Thanks to the Poetry Book Society for choosing Troy Cabida’s “Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti” as their Spring 2025 Pamphlet Choice!
And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book.
Congratulations Troy!
And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book.
Congratulations Troy!
January 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thanks to the Poetry Book Society for choosing Troy Cabida’s “Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti” as their Spring 2025 Pamphlet Choice!
And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book.
Congratulations Troy!
And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book.
Congratulations Troy!
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If you’re dealing with Long Covid - there’s a chance you’re also dealing with MCAS and/or POTS/Dysautonomia.
They’re two of the most common comorbids - and can have a devastating impact on quality of life.
New allergies? Alcohol intolerance? Dizziness? Fatigue? Fainting?
A mega 🧵 of resources
They’re two of the most common comorbids - and can have a devastating impact on quality of life.
New allergies? Alcohol intolerance? Dizziness? Fatigue? Fainting?
A mega 🧵 of resources
December 7, 2024 at 3:28 AM
If you’re dealing with Long Covid - there’s a chance you’re also dealing with MCAS and/or POTS/Dysautonomia.
They’re two of the most common comorbids - and can have a devastating impact on quality of life.
New allergies? Alcohol intolerance? Dizziness? Fatigue? Fainting?
A mega 🧵 of resources
They’re two of the most common comorbids - and can have a devastating impact on quality of life.
New allergies? Alcohol intolerance? Dizziness? Fatigue? Fainting?
A mega 🧵 of resources
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Big news! We are excited to be partnering with @noemipress.bsky.social to extend the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize to writers of Arab heritage based in the UK from this September >>
March 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Big news! We are excited to be partnering with @noemipress.bsky.social to extend the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize to writers of Arab heritage based in the UK from this September >>
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Please share with your friends and networks! And thank you to @pairedaeza.bsky.social for use of this beautiful cyanotype image 💙
February 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Please share with your friends and networks! And thank you to @pairedaeza.bsky.social for use of this beautiful cyanotype image 💙
Please submit to our anthology!! You will be paid, retain rights to your work, and you can be based anywhere in the world!
CALL FOR POETRY SUBMISSIONS!
Seed/Spore/Rhizome: Ecopoetics of Community and Justice - a new anthology with fieldnotes collective, edited by @pairedaeza.bsky.social, Jessica J. Lee, @alycia.bsky.social & Nina Mingya Powles.
Deadline 30/04/25. Guidelines here: www.silverpress.org/blogs/news/c...
Seed/Spore/Rhizome: Ecopoetics of Community and Justice - a new anthology with fieldnotes collective, edited by @pairedaeza.bsky.social, Jessica J. Lee, @alycia.bsky.social & Nina Mingya Powles.
Deadline 30/04/25. Guidelines here: www.silverpress.org/blogs/news/c...
February 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Please submit to our anthology!! You will be paid, retain rights to your work, and you can be based anywhere in the world!
I love this poem so much 🩵 little extract here:
February 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I love this poem so much 🩵 little extract here:
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Please share! A wee reminder to protect copyright so arts & culture sectors are not devastated by AI thieving our work! Emailing your MP & signing the statement just takes 2 minutes. Completing the survey takes longer but templates & help on the links below...
#HandsOfOurCopyright
#PayTheCreator
#HandsOfOurCopyright
#PayTheCreator
🧵Please share! Anyone can fill the consultation out - closes February 25th. The UK government plan to change copyright law so that AI companies can legally steal our work and further exploit us. Here's what you can do: ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta...
#AIConsultation
#AIConsultation
Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
- Intellectual Property Office
- Citizen Space
Find and participate in activities run by Intelluctual Property Office
ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Please share! A wee reminder to protect copyright so arts & culture sectors are not devastated by AI thieving our work! Emailing your MP & signing the statement just takes 2 minutes. Completing the survey takes longer but templates & help on the links below...
#HandsOfOurCopyright
#PayTheCreator
#HandsOfOurCopyright
#PayTheCreator
Got this beautiful zine today made by Black Lodge Press ✨🌱🍃
February 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Got this beautiful zine today made by Black Lodge Press ✨🌱🍃
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Never going to stop shouting about this. You need to buy trans books now. Especially in hardcopy or DRM free formats.
Don't say "it'll never happen." Look around. It's already happening.
Don't say "it'll never happen." Look around. It's already happening.
On that note:
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"
So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
February 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Never going to stop shouting about this. You need to buy trans books now. Especially in hardcopy or DRM free formats.
Don't say "it'll never happen." Look around. It's already happening.
Don't say "it'll never happen." Look around. It's already happening.
I have to encounter the news but I don’t want to hear all the awful things but it’s important that I hear all the awful things but my mental health can’t handle it but I must see it and bear witness but I can’t process the levels of evil but i have to because not doing so would be self indulgent 😢😢😢
February 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I have to encounter the news but I don’t want to hear all the awful things but it’s important that I hear all the awful things but my mental health can’t handle it but I must see it and bear witness but I can’t process the levels of evil but i have to because not doing so would be self indulgent 😢😢😢
february has already blessed me with three beautiful sunrises: orange and golden, glowing, bare branches sculptural in the morning light 🌅
February 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
february has already blessed me with three beautiful sunrises: orange and golden, glowing, bare branches sculptural in the morning light 🌅
I’m facilitating this FREE workshop over the weekend, for Scotland based POC! Tell your friends and join us 💚✨
Please share: Last chance! Register for the 2-day nature poetry course tomorrow, including a workshop with fieldnotes collective (@alycia.bsky.social,
@jessicajlee.bsky.social, @pairedaeza.bsky.social and Nina Mingya Powles) scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/our-time-is-...
@jessicajlee.bsky.social, @pairedaeza.bsky.social and Nina Mingya Powles) scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/our-time-is-...
Our Time is a Garden v. 2
SBWN is excited to announce our first of a series of short courses: a 2-day programme on the theme of nature poetry.
scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org
January 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I’m facilitating this FREE workshop over the weekend, for Scotland based POC! Tell your friends and join us 💚✨
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Here are the gorgeous books and pamphlets I used in my first ‘Working with the Words of Others’ class. By
Atef Alshaer
Maggie Nelson
@victoriachang.bsky.social
Nina Mingya Powles
@pairedaeza.bsky.social @alycia.bsky.social @jessicajlee.bsky.social
📚
Atef Alshaer
Maggie Nelson
@victoriachang.bsky.social
Nina Mingya Powles
@pairedaeza.bsky.social @alycia.bsky.social @jessicajlee.bsky.social
📚
January 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Here are the gorgeous books and pamphlets I used in my first ‘Working with the Words of Others’ class. By
Atef Alshaer
Maggie Nelson
@victoriachang.bsky.social
Nina Mingya Powles
@pairedaeza.bsky.social @alycia.bsky.social @jessicajlee.bsky.social
📚
Atef Alshaer
Maggie Nelson
@victoriachang.bsky.social
Nina Mingya Powles
@pairedaeza.bsky.social @alycia.bsky.social @jessicajlee.bsky.social
📚