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The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by @pcevans.bsky.social:

‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’

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Short Story of the Month, January: ‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’ by P.C. Evans
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by P. C. Evans.   The Attic Over the Weig…
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‘Journalists & poets work hard to access our inner world. Both employ word & image. The collection examines some of the ways that journalistic images capture reality & how they present or re-present that reality?’

@angelagraham.bsky.social discusses her new poems

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On Writing ‘Exposure’ / Angela Graham
I was a documentary maker for decades – images and truth my daily concerns in the business of representing the lives of other people. The three poems in my Poet of the Month feature appear in my ne…
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January 29, 2026 at 4:08 PM
‘Nicky finished up at the strip club at around one a.m. She got showered & dressed, said goodnight to the bouncer at the door, who opened it with a kindly smile & ushered her out into the night. She walked through the neon-lit crowd…. Her face was a rigid mask.’

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/04/s...
Short Story of the Month, January: ‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’ by P.C. Evans
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by P. C. Evans.   The Attic Over the Weig…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 29, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by The Lonely Crowd
‘Journalists & poets work hard to access our inner world. Both employ word & image. The collection examines some of the ways that journalistic images capture reality & how they present or re-present that reality?’

@angelagraham.bsky.social discusses her new poems

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/26/o...
On Writing ‘Exposure’ / Angela Graham
I was a documentary maker for decades – images and truth my daily concerns in the business of representing the lives of other people. The three poems in my Poet of the Month feature appear in my ne…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 27, 2026 at 8:16 AM
‘Journalists & poets work hard to access our inner world. Both employ word & image. The collection examines some of the ways that journalistic images capture reality & how they present or re-present that reality?’

@angelagraham.bsky.social discusses her new poems

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/26/o...
On Writing ‘Exposure’ / Angela Graham
I was a documentary maker for decades – images and truth my daily concerns in the business of representing the lives of other people. The three poems in my Poet of the Month feature appear in my ne…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Would you like to read something about Greenland that isn't about geopolitics, but is instead about love, and grief, and gyrfalcon nests? Here's a story I wrote once for @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social. richarddsmyth.com/2021/10/01/s...
Short story: Hannah Rensenbrink’s Postcards From Qasigiannguit
A story first published in The Lonely Crowd.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:52 PM
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by @pcevans.bsky.social:

‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/04/s...
Short Story of the Month, January: ‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’ by P.C. Evans
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by P. C. Evans.   The Attic Over the Weig…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 25, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The third & final poem by our January #PoetoftheMonth is now online.

See the site tomorrow for an essay by @angelagraham.bsky.social on her poems for this series.

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‘Bombarded City 3’ by Angela Graham
The air has changed. It shrinks from us when we emerge – the sun a shrivelled leaf, the air thinning. Even the ants limp and the cats are eating their own paws. Buildings lean on one another like e…
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January 25, 2026 at 5:34 PM
A crucifixion
but the cross is a threatened man.
A bleeding victim clings to him.
In the foreground another sprawls,
nearly dead, trying to rise.

Read @angelagraham.bsky.social, our #PoetoftheMonth

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‘Campaigners for Voter Registration, Mississippi’ by Angela Graham
A crucifixion but the cross is a threatened man. A bleeding victim clings to him. In the foreground another sprawls, nearly dead, trying to rise. The painter positions us face on to them in the fin…
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January 11, 2026 at 12:53 PM
‘…the sand feels nothing.

It was made to be moved.

Formed from the crushing of large things into small…’

A Plan for the Development of Gaza by @angelagraham.bsky.social

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/03/p...
Poet of the Month, January: Angela Graham
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish three new works by Angela Graham. The first of these, ‘A Plan f…
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January 7, 2026 at 8:19 AM
‘I exited the alley and passed by the church of Our Dear Lord in the Attic, and walked along the canal to the Mekhong River. Its name was imprinted in red Thai letters on the front of the white and green facade. I leant my shoulder into the door…’

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Short Story of the Month, January: ‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’ by P.C. Evans
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by P. C. Evans.   The Attic Over the Weig…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 7, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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‘What does the sand feel?

Dumped over bodies hustled into shallow graves,

hurled up to heaven by contemptuous bomb blasts,

blown across bulldozed olive groves…’

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/03/p...
Poet of the Month, January: Angela Graham
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish three new works by Angela Graham. The first of these, ‘A Plan f…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:10 AM
‘What does the sand feel?

Dumped over bodies hustled into shallow graves,

hurled up to heaven by contemptuous bomb blasts,

blown across bulldozed olive groves…’

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/03/p...
Poet of the Month, January: Angela Graham
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish three new works by Angela Graham. The first of these, ‘A Plan f…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Reposted by The Lonely Crowd
‘So a few nights later, Nicky finished up at the strip club at around one a.m. She got showered and dressed, said goodnight to the bouncer at the door…. She walked through the neon-lit crowd that trailed along the canal. Her face was a rigid mask.’

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/04/s...
Short Story of the Month, January: ‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’ by P.C. Evans
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by P. C. Evans.   The Attic Over the Weig…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 4, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by The Lonely Crowd
We will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish 3 new poems by @angelagraham.bsky.social .The first of these, ‘A Plan for the Development of Gaza’, is published today.

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/03/p...
Poet of the Month, January: Angela Graham
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish three new works by Angela Graham. The first of these, ‘A Plan f…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 4, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Reposted by The Lonely Crowd
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by @pcevans.bsky.social:

‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/04/s...
Short Story of the Month, January: ‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’ by P.C. Evans
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by P. C. Evans.   The Attic Over the Weig…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 4, 2026 at 8:51 AM
‘So a few nights later, Nicky finished up at the strip club at around one a.m. She got showered and dressed, said goodnight to the bouncer at the door…. She walked through the neon-lit crowd that trailed along the canal. Her face was a rigid mask.’

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/04/s...
Short Story of the Month, January: ‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’ by P.C. Evans
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by P. C. Evans.   The Attic Over the Weig…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 4, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by The Lonely Crowd
From my new collection‘EXPOSURE: war, media, democracy’ out Feb. c & d press. @poetryireland.bsky.social @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
January 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by @pcevans.bsky.social:

‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’

thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/04/s...
Short Story of the Month, January: ‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’ by P.C. Evans
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by P. C. Evans.   The Attic Over the Weig…
thelonelycrowd.org
January 4, 2026 at 8:51 AM