Kim Whysall-Hammond
@kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social
Poet, scientist, artist. Lifelong Science Fiction fan. SFPA. My debut pamphlet ‘Messages from the Road’ is available from Palewell Press. https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/lost-wellbeing/mftr/
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#DOTD 125 years ago today – Oscar Wilde’s death came on 30 Nov 1900.
Wilde, age 46, died from meningitis.
🎙️ 🎵 🎸 🥁 🎶 Malcolm McLaren discovered that Oscar Wilde discovered PUNK ROCK in the 1880s.
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Wilde, age 46, died from meningitis.
🎙️ 🎵 🎸 🥁 🎶 Malcolm McLaren discovered that Oscar Wilde discovered PUNK ROCK in the 1880s.
@kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @hdwp.com
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Remembering Oscar Wilde on November 30th
In 1882 the famous writer toured America beginning with a lecture in Manhattan
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November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
#DOTD 125 years ago today – Oscar Wilde’s death came on 30 Nov 1900.
Wilde, age 46, died from meningitis.
🎙️ 🎵 🎸 🥁 🎶 Malcolm McLaren discovered that Oscar Wilde discovered PUNK ROCK in the 1880s.
@kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @hdwp.com
substack.com/@greenwichvi...
Wilde, age 46, died from meningitis.
🎙️ 🎵 🎸 🥁 🎶 Malcolm McLaren discovered that Oscar Wilde discovered PUNK ROCK in the 1880s.
@kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @hdwp.com
substack.com/@greenwichvi...
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We’ll be highlighting a poem every day from Dust’s new issue, starting today
A Poem A Day from the new issue begins today with I Clean Up by Linda Laino: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/i-clean...
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We’ll be highlighting a poem every day from Dust’s new issue, starting today
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Kyiv is slowly coming back to life after the night’s attack.
My beautiful phoenix.
My beautiful phoenix.
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Kyiv is slowly coming back to life after the night’s attack.
My beautiful phoenix.
My beautiful phoenix.
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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An organisation that is there to help poets has just sent out rejections for an anthology- a mass email addressed “Dear Poets “. Soulless and dehumanising.
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
An organisation that is there to help poets has just sent out rejections for an anthology- a mass email addressed “Dear Poets “. Soulless and dehumanising.
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"To look at the animal is to confront another mode of existence, complete in itself and closed to ours." - José Ortega y Gasset
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"To look at the animal is to confront another mode of existence, complete in itself and closed to ours." - José Ortega y Gasset
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
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November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Enjoy Kaleidotrope's Black Friday sale—one day (and this thread) only!—all the stories and poems from the archive with the word "black" in the title! Now (and always) with no charge whatsoever!
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Enjoy Kaleidotrope's Black Friday sale—one day (and this thread) only!—all the stories and poems from the archive with the word "black" in the title! Now (and always) with no charge whatsoever!
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Learning how to
keep my cool
when tyrants continue
to pillage the world
is an ongoing, teeth-gritting
monumental task.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #learning #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
keep my cool
when tyrants continue
to pillage the world
is an ongoing, teeth-gritting
monumental task.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #learning #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Learning how to
keep my cool
when tyrants continue
to pillage the world
is an ongoing, teeth-gritting
monumental task.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #learning #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
keep my cool
when tyrants continue
to pillage the world
is an ongoing, teeth-gritting
monumental task.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #learning #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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To start the process of transforming the nightmare reality playing out in today’s headlines into a dream society that supports human happiness, we need only make a single, simple choice.
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
How to Transform the World with a Single Choice
A Holiday Conversation Starter, Courtesy of the Dalai Lama
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
To start the process of transforming the nightmare reality playing out in today’s headlines into a dream society that supports human happiness, we need only make a single, simple choice.
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
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Three Peeves and the Door They Guard
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#Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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#Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Three Peeves and the Door They Guard
Catherine catalogues three irritations – weaponised busyness, sensory-hostile spaces, tidy narratives – and discovers each is a mirror. Her standards have become walls. With Thanksgivin…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Three Peeves and the Door They Guard
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#Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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#Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Claro de luna y luces, Leon Spilliaert.
🖼️ Claro de luna y luces, Leon Spilliaert.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Goodnight.
🖼️ Claro de luna y luces, Leon Spilliaert.
🖼️ Claro de luna y luces, Leon Spilliaert.
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#PoetryCommunity
🖤 As I was reading the poem "End of Season" by Julie Goldman, diagnosed at 31 yrs old with breast cancer in 1994, I knew a remarkable voice had been silenced.
@kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @pixieb.bsky.social
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🖤 As I was reading the poem "End of Season" by Julie Goldman, diagnosed at 31 yrs old with breast cancer in 1994, I knew a remarkable voice had been silenced.
@kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @pixieb.bsky.social
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End of Season by Julie Goldman - Rattle: Poetry
Washed and dried, my laundry smells “Spring Fresh,”
but to touch, it’s cooling, like autumn.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#PoetryCommunity
🖤 As I was reading the poem "End of Season" by Julie Goldman, diagnosed at 31 yrs old with breast cancer in 1994, I knew a remarkable voice had been silenced.
@kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @pixieb.bsky.social
rattle.com/end-of-seaso...
🖤 As I was reading the poem "End of Season" by Julie Goldman, diagnosed at 31 yrs old with breast cancer in 1994, I knew a remarkable voice had been silenced.
@kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @pixieb.bsky.social
rattle.com/end-of-seaso...
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Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library.
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library.
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
@morselya.bsky.social
We are in the Netherlands in November at the SF Cafe and at a significant birthday party at the Kotter. Really looking forward to catching up with lots of Dutch and Belgian SF fans.
#sciencefiction
#worldcon
We are in the Netherlands in November at the SF Cafe and at a significant birthday party at the Kotter. Really looking forward to catching up with lots of Dutch and Belgian SF fans.
#sciencefiction
#worldcon
November 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
@morselya.bsky.social
We are in the Netherlands in November at the SF Cafe and at a significant birthday party at the Kotter. Really looking forward to catching up with lots of Dutch and Belgian SF fans.
#sciencefiction
#worldcon
We are in the Netherlands in November at the SF Cafe and at a significant birthday party at the Kotter. Really looking forward to catching up with lots of Dutch and Belgian SF fans.
#sciencefiction
#worldcon
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October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Let there be light
October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Let there be light
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Kim Whysall-Hammon explores the jumbled confluence of our past and present lives in today's poem. @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social
Kim Whysall-Hammond – “School Reunion”
School Reunion The one who organises Poetry Festivals in Scotland and her no longer identical twin, the newspaper editor who found us all, tracked us down including the Sound Engineer who lives off grid on a canal boat avoiding The Man. The one who ran towards me declaring friendship, she bullied me in Second Form. The old friend who's also my husband’s third cousin…
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October 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Kim Whysall-Hammon explores the jumbled confluence of our past and present lives in today's poem. @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social
I’m delighted to tell you that my poem, School Reunion, is now up at Black Nore Review.
Many thanks to Ben Banyard for publishing this poem. It describes a reunion I and my husband attended a couple of years ago. blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/k...
Many thanks to Ben Banyard for publishing this poem. It describes a reunion I and my husband attended a couple of years ago. blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/k...
Kim Whysall-Hammond – “School Reunion”
School Reunion The one who organises Poetry Festivals in Scotland and her no longer identical twin, the newspaper editor who found us all, tracked us down including the Sound Engineer who lives off…
blacknorereview.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I’m delighted to tell you that my poem, School Reunion, is now up at Black Nore Review.
Many thanks to Ben Banyard for publishing this poem. It describes a reunion I and my husband attended a couple of years ago. blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/k...
Many thanks to Ben Banyard for publishing this poem. It describes a reunion I and my husband attended a couple of years ago. blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/k...
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Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social.
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social.
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
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