to be at one with the void ⚫️

Marie Lambert examines books that focus on translators: "The powerful historical analogies these novels set up leave little room to imagine language learning or translation outside of the colonial dynamics" https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-translation-fiction-and-the-comfort-of-monolingualism/

it’s autumn again (basically) and i want to wear a big coat and stomp around on leaves and post on my Substack again (maybe)

A really good opportunity here to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia: the Birch Family Scholarship is available to a home fees applicant who has applied for a place on the Poetry MA and identifies as a writer of colour. Deadline: 30 May. Please RT! www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Recently: for Oxford Poetry 98 I reviewed Sascha Aurora Akhtar’s poetry collection The Grimoire of Grimalkin (published by @prototypepubs.bsky.social).

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Free Mahmoud Khalil

what are your favourite literary mags publishing good poems that make you go Wow

writing the same poem over and over again because ive never got over anything ever <3

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only alive 4 soup

good books I read this year - thread (over the next few days)

legend has it im sleepy and cold and want to nap all the time

love being a curly girl I feel Different when my hair is not curly

goodreads sometimes ruins my perception of reading

Today is publication day for 'this too is a glistening' (Bitter Melon Press) by me, Pratyusha, Nina Mingya Powles & @jessicajlee.bsky.social 💜

Thanks to @jaygao.bsky.social for this amazing blurb!

Last copies of our first print run are avail at bookstores & bittermelon.weebly.com/store/p13/th...

nothing I want more today than to be horizontal in my bed

november 17th: i keep believing the trees will always be like this

just a girl with a blue sky dream