Dr Rachel Rankin
@rakelrank.bsky.social
Scottish poet | NOR-ENG Translator | Work in The Poetry Review / Modern Poetry in Translation / Magma / Gutter / The Scotsman | Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award 2019 | Grierson Verse Prize 2023 / Wigtown Poetry Prize Runner-Up 2023
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March 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Oh, to be a white cat in a sea of snowdrops 🤍🌿
February 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Oh, to be a white cat in a sea of snowdrops 🤍🌿
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the gutter.
February 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the gutter.
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Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
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Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.
February 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.
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Feeling this very much today. Via poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.
February 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Feeling this very much today. Via poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.
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Very pleased to share the news that @writerscentre.bsky.social has been awarded Place of Sanctuary status in recognition of our dedication to supporting individuals fleeing violence and persecution. Full story: buff.ly/42RhC8x
February 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Very pleased to share the news that @writerscentre.bsky.social has been awarded Place of Sanctuary status in recognition of our dedication to supporting individuals fleeing violence and persecution. Full story: buff.ly/42RhC8x
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⭐ Announcing the Longlisted & Shortlisted Proposals from our August 2024 Call for Submissions ⭐
@bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social
@catherineredford.bsky.social
@milenawilliamson.bsky.social
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social
🔗 READ MORE: https://buff.ly/3QeZYDU
@bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social
@catherineredford.bsky.social
@milenawilliamson.bsky.social
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social
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February 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
⭐ Announcing the Longlisted & Shortlisted Proposals from our August 2024 Call for Submissions ⭐
@bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social
@catherineredford.bsky.social
@milenawilliamson.bsky.social
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social
🔗 READ MORE: https://buff.ly/3QeZYDU
@bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social
@catherineredford.bsky.social
@milenawilliamson.bsky.social
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social
🔗 READ MORE: https://buff.ly/3QeZYDU
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Writers looking for opportunities! Last week's Five Things Friday is now available to free subscribers! 👀
Opps from @cbcreative.bsky.social @britisharts.bsky.social @writersandartists.bsky.social & more!
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Opps from @cbcreative.bsky.social @britisharts.bsky.social @writersandartists.bsky.social & more!
halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...
Five Things Friday: issue 11
A short story prize, a Scandinavian sailing adventure, and more!
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February 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Writers looking for opportunities! Last week's Five Things Friday is now available to free subscribers! 👀
Opps from @cbcreative.bsky.social @britisharts.bsky.social @writersandartists.bsky.social & more!
halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...
Opps from @cbcreative.bsky.social @britisharts.bsky.social @writersandartists.bsky.social & more!
halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...
Thank you so much to the American-Scandinavian Foundation for awarding me the 2024 Nadia Christensen Prize! This prize is for an outstanding literary translation from a Nordic language into English, and I was awarded it for my translation of Karoline Brændjord's 'Jeg vil våkne til verden'.
February 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Thank you so much to the American-Scandinavian Foundation for awarding me the 2024 Nadia Christensen Prize! This prize is for an outstanding literary translation from a Nordic language into English, and I was awarded it for my translation of Karoline Brændjord's 'Jeg vil våkne til verden'.
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I’m judging the Plough Poetry Prize this year, deadline 28 March, first prize is £1,000. Send us your best poems!
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...
The Plough Prize - 2025
International Poetry Competition Now in its twenty second year, the Plough Poetry Prize is an international open competition for poems in English up to 40 lines on any subject. The competition this ye...
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk
February 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I’m judging the Plough Poetry Prize this year, deadline 28 March, first prize is £1,000. Send us your best poems!
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...
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The Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize opens now, closes in June. The prize supports writers who have not published book-length works, no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)
Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Since its inception fifteen years ago, the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize has awarded some of the most exciting new voices in life writing, poetry…
www.wasafiri.org
February 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize opens now, closes in June. The prize supports writers who have not published book-length works, no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)
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Oh I'm sorry, are you crying? Are you crying because your plagiarism machine that made stuff by copying everybody's stuff was used to train another machine that made stuff by copying stuff? Are you going to cry? Cowards, losers, pathetic
January 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Oh I'm sorry, are you crying? Are you crying because your plagiarism machine that made stuff by copying everybody's stuff was used to train another machine that made stuff by copying stuff? Are you going to cry? Cowards, losers, pathetic
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Q: Who'd have predicted that an underfunded HE system where unis could overrecruit domestic students on fees fixed for decade - and was thus reliant on international visitors - would have been skewered by a combination xenophobic policies, inflation, and excessive building projects?
A: EVERYONE.
A: EVERYONE.
This is huge: a Russell Group uni making such severe cuts shows the extent of the crisis in HE funding.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Q: Who'd have predicted that an underfunded HE system where unis could overrecruit domestic students on fees fixed for decade - and was thus reliant on international visitors - would have been skewered by a combination xenophobic policies, inflation, and excessive building projects?
A: EVERYONE.
A: EVERYONE.
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January 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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How depressing. Was contacted about a possible book translation last year. Today they got back in touch to ask if, instead of translating the book, I'd be interested in editing the machine translation.
I am SO BORED of talking about AI. It's BORING. Give me work and cash!!!!!!
I am SO BORED of talking about AI. It's BORING. Give me work and cash!!!!!!
January 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How depressing. Was contacted about a possible book translation last year. Today they got back in touch to ask if, instead of translating the book, I'd be interested in editing the machine translation.
I am SO BORED of talking about AI. It's BORING. Give me work and cash!!!!!!
I am SO BORED of talking about AI. It's BORING. Give me work and cash!!!!!!
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We’re mourning the loss of the wonderful Michael Longley, who has died in Belfast aged 85. A Vice President of The Poetry Society, we were proud to publish him in our magazine The Poetry Review throughout his long career. Sharing below a 2014 poem which celebrated his long marriage to Edna Longley.
January 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
We’re mourning the loss of the wonderful Michael Longley, who has died in Belfast aged 85. A Vice President of The Poetry Society, we were proud to publish him in our magazine The Poetry Review throughout his long career. Sharing below a 2014 poem which celebrated his long marriage to Edna Longley.
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The great Michael Longely has died. We have lost a poet of immense stature. This recent BBC doc will give you a flavour of how he made made words sing: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Michael Longley - Where Poems Come From
A film profile of Belfast poet Michael Longley, offering insights into his work, friendships, working process, the places that have inspired him and his relationship with the natural world.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The great Michael Longely has died. We have lost a poet of immense stature. This recent BBC doc will give you a flavour of how he made made words sing: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Join us next week for the lunchtime* launch of MPT 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on #Catalan'
Tickets are free / pay what you can, and we're joined by contributors Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
(*UK lunch time, 1-2pm)
Tickets are free / pay what you can, and we're joined by contributors Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
(*UK lunch time, 1-2pm)
Online launch – MPT Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan
Join us online to celebrate the latest issue of MPT. With Editor Janani Ambikapathy and guests Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo.
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January 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Join us next week for the lunchtime* launch of MPT 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on #Catalan'
Tickets are free / pay what you can, and we're joined by contributors Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
(*UK lunch time, 1-2pm)
Tickets are free / pay what you can, and we're joined by contributors Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
(*UK lunch time, 1-2pm)
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Shout out to all poets, writers, artists, activists, if you'd like us to boost your new books, music, art, fundraisers & community projects for 2025 please add to this thread, we're just making a list for our 1st show of the year & will share @roaring20sradio.bsky.social #sohoradio thank you
January 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Shout out to all poets, writers, artists, activists, if you'd like us to boost your new books, music, art, fundraisers & community projects for 2025 please add to this thread, we're just making a list for our 1st show of the year & will share @roaring20sradio.bsky.social #sohoradio thank you