Shani Cadwallender
@overleaf.bsky.social
Intersectional educator, word nerd. Poet- PhD student at Birkbeck, working on trees and marginal identities in C19th women’s poetry.
Working-class, mixed, bi, AuDHD, RRMSer. She/her. Loves beer, records, trees and dogs.
Working-class, mixed, bi, AuDHD, RRMSer. She/her. Loves beer, records, trees and dogs.
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hey all - the wonderful publishing house I co-founded and direct, @the87press.bsky.social, is now on here. Please help us make the transition from the other place! Add us to all book related starter packs!
November 20, 2024 at 11:44 AM
hey all - the wonderful publishing house I co-founded and direct, @the87press.bsky.social, is now on here. Please help us make the transition from the other place! Add us to all book related starter packs!
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I LOVE @overleaf.bsky.social's writing, both critical and creative. Now you can read it too! Her article is now out OA, exploring C19 poet Eliza Cook, the Slaugham Yew, and their C21 traces/resonances. doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... #19thcentury #poetry #ecopoetry #arborealhumanities #academia
doi.org
October 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I LOVE @overleaf.bsky.social's writing, both critical and creative. Now you can read it too! Her article is now out OA, exploring C19 poet Eliza Cook, the Slaugham Yew, and their C21 traces/resonances. doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... #19thcentury #poetry #ecopoetry #arborealhumanities #academia
Chuffed to be in vol.2 of @plantperspectives.bsky.social.
Thanks to all at the journal & @rbgkew.bsky.social for including my weird little piece about working-class C19th poet Eliza Cook, trees, illness& intertemporal weirdness.
Read it here:
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
Thanks to all at the journal & @rbgkew.bsky.social for including my weird little piece about working-class C19th poet Eliza Cook, trees, illness& intertemporal weirdness.
Read it here:
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
October 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Chuffed to be in vol.2 of @plantperspectives.bsky.social.
Thanks to all at the journal & @rbgkew.bsky.social for including my weird little piece about working-class C19th poet Eliza Cook, trees, illness& intertemporal weirdness.
Read it here:
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
Thanks to all at the journal & @rbgkew.bsky.social for including my weird little piece about working-class C19th poet Eliza Cook, trees, illness& intertemporal weirdness.
Read it here:
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
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There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems
June 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems
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Statistically in Britain if you are a cis man and you rape someone you are overwhelmingly likely to get away with it, there is a vanishingly small likelihood that you will be convicted. That is a feminist issue. Trans women wanting to use women’s toilets or play women’s football: not so much.
April 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Statistically in Britain if you are a cis man and you rape someone you are overwhelmingly likely to get away with it, there is a vanishingly small likelihood that you will be convicted. That is a feminist issue. Trans women wanting to use women’s toilets or play women’s football: not so much.
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this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
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Brexit cost me my job. Now Trump’s tariffs could take the next — and once again, it’s working people who pay the price
Brexit and Trump – stealing jobs from working class Brits
Brexit cost me my job. Now Trump’s tariffs could take the next — and once again, it’s working people who pay the price
northeastbylines.co.uk
April 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Brexit cost me my job. Now Trump’s tariffs could take the next — and once again, it’s working people who pay the price
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Ted Lasso was great when the show’s thesis was that relentless positivity is a thin veneer over a desperate, near-nihilistic sadness, but that it may nonetheless still be the “best” available option in an otherwise heartless world.
March 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Ted Lasso was great when the show’s thesis was that relentless positivity is a thin veneer over a desperate, near-nihilistic sadness, but that it may nonetheless still be the “best” available option in an otherwise heartless world.
Look at this big handsome bastard. I nickname him ‘Creeper’.
NB: this windowsill is much shadier than the picture makes it look. Also, am almost as excited about this plant as I would be about a new kitten.
NB: this windowsill is much shadier than the picture makes it look. Also, am almost as excited about this plant as I would be about a new kitten.
March 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Look at this big handsome bastard. I nickname him ‘Creeper’.
NB: this windowsill is much shadier than the picture makes it look. Also, am almost as excited about this plant as I would be about a new kitten.
NB: this windowsill is much shadier than the picture makes it look. Also, am almost as excited about this plant as I would be about a new kitten.
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'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'
February 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'
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Whenever I speak up about being working-class in the arts, or share my experiences, I always get some classplaining back. People who aren't working-class keen to tell me how I should feel or tell me they're middle-class but have 'struggled with money' in the past
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Who is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts?
Prominent figures in the arts say class is a key factor that determines who can make it in the creative industries
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Whenever I speak up about being working-class in the arts, or share my experiences, I always get some classplaining back. People who aren't working-class keen to tell me how I should feel or tell me they're middle-class but have 'struggled with money' in the past
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept???
Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy
Byron: I don’t get it
Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy
Byron: I don’t get it
Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
February 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept???
Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy
Byron: I don’t get it
Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy
Byron: I don’t get it
Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
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This is happening, right now.
The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct.
Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope.
🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.
The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct.
Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope.
🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.
February 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is happening, right now.
The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct.
Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope.
🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.
The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct.
Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope.
🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.
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1825: Saw a large bunch of blue violets in flower & a root of the Bedlam cowslip
February 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
1825: Saw a large bunch of blue violets in flower & a root of the Bedlam cowslip
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I was planning my Arvon Masterclass on pacing this afternoon.
Got quite excited, as it isn't something I've taught exactly like this before.
Still places available for Friday. Why don't you join us?
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
@arvonfoundation.bsky.social
Got quite excited, as it isn't something I've taught exactly like this before.
Still places available for Friday. Why don't you join us?
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
@arvonfoundation.bsky.social
Masterclass: Pacing Your Fiction | From breathless plotting to breathtaking details | Arvon
This Masterclass with Toby Litt, author of the daily Substack A Writer’s Diary, will be a practical, craft-based look at the best ways of keeping your reader alongside you – whether you intend to whir...
www.arvon.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I was planning my Arvon Masterclass on pacing this afternoon.
Got quite excited, as it isn't something I've taught exactly like this before.
Still places available for Friday. Why don't you join us?
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
@arvonfoundation.bsky.social
Got quite excited, as it isn't something I've taught exactly like this before.
Still places available for Friday. Why don't you join us?
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
@arvonfoundation.bsky.social
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'On the nights she struggled to breathe, she was forced to stay awake and hold the mask to her face in the dark. The NHS’s solution?...one assessor suggested her 14-yr-old daughter fill in as a child carer...being on call for the ventilator throughout the night.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
'On the nights she struggled to breathe, she was forced to stay awake and hold the mask to her face in the dark. The NHS’s solution?...one assessor suggested her 14-yr-old daughter fill in as a child carer...being on call for the ventilator throughout the night.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’m fascinated by the ‘shrinking’ quality of the stanza used by Robert Burns in which longer lines give way to shorter ones in a kind of funnel for the celebration of smallness. A nice example here by Norfolk dialect poet John Kett, on looking at the stars someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/wee-sleeket
January 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I’m fascinated by the ‘shrinking’ quality of the stanza used by Robert Burns in which longer lines give way to shorter ones in a kind of funnel for the celebration of smallness. A nice example here by Norfolk dialect poet John Kett, on looking at the stars someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/wee-sleeket
I was recently diagnosed with MS; a relapse has kept me from working. It’s made me ponder my profession’s overemphasis on ‘productivity’, & the lack of (self) compassion that attends it.
Managed to read this morning for the first time in weeks- fitting that the book is about ‘generous relenting’.
Managed to read this morning for the first time in weeks- fitting that the book is about ‘generous relenting’.
January 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I was recently diagnosed with MS; a relapse has kept me from working. It’s made me ponder my profession’s overemphasis on ‘productivity’, & the lack of (self) compassion that attends it.
Managed to read this morning for the first time in weeks- fitting that the book is about ‘generous relenting’.
Managed to read this morning for the first time in weeks- fitting that the book is about ‘generous relenting’.
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collections often are criticised for “unevenness” but isn’t that also part of their charm? that the workings of a poet “becoming” are also on the page, next to poems that feel crystallised? don’t we love process and learning and error more than the language of product & perfection? or shouldn’t we?
January 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
collections often are criticised for “unevenness” but isn’t that also part of their charm? that the workings of a poet “becoming” are also on the page, next to poems that feel crystallised? don’t we love process and learning and error more than the language of product & perfection? or shouldn’t we?
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I have a piece up for The Bookseller today, in which I consider how major publishers can create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat.
www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...
What big publishers can do for small presses
How can major publishers create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat?
www.thebookseller.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I have a piece up for The Bookseller today, in which I consider how major publishers can create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat.
www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...
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Massive away win for the little fella.
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Massive away win for the little fella.
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I heard there was a secret mash
That turned into a graveyard smash
But you don't really care for monsters, do you?
That turned into a graveyard smash
But you don't really care for monsters, do you?
October 28, 2024 at 2:28 AM
I heard there was a secret mash
That turned into a graveyard smash
But you don't really care for monsters, do you?
That turned into a graveyard smash
But you don't really care for monsters, do you?
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Saying ‘Happy National Poetry Day’ to strangers just to feel something
October 3, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Saying ‘Happy National Poetry Day’ to strangers just to feel something
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"tits or ass"? bro, the undeniable passion she has for her special interests in the face of a world which tries to kill that spark
September 25, 2024 at 9:46 AM
"tits or ass"? bro, the undeniable passion she has for her special interests in the face of a world which tries to kill that spark