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Don't forget our poetry open mic at 7.30 pm tomorrow (Wednesday 19th November) in The Saint & Sinner, St Albans, when our featured poet will be Estelle Price. It's free and open to all. Sign up on the night from 7.00 pm, if you want to read.
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Don't forget our poetry open mic at 7.30 pm tomorrow (Wednesday 19th November) in The Saint & Sinner, St Albans, when our featured poet will be Estelle Price. It's free and open to all. Sign up on the night from 7.00 pm, if you want to read.
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“And what is home if not the choice – over and over again – to stay?”
Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland
writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...
Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland
writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...
Marjorie Lotfi | WritersMosaic Magazine
Forward Prize winner 2024 for The Wrong Person to Ask, Lotfi moved to Tehran as a baby from the US and fled during the Iranian Revolution
writersmosaic.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“And what is home if not the choice – over and over again – to stay?”
Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland
writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...
Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland
writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...
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The first poem in PERVERSE 9F is 'The leaflet with the lightbulb says do not swallow' by Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9f
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The first poem in PERVERSE 9F is 'The leaflet with the lightbulb says do not swallow' by Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9f
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If you want – need – an argument as to why Reform and this incarnation of the Tory party are just horrible, look no further than this: they want shot of Poems on the Underground: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
'TfL 'splurges £72,000 on poetry in Tube carriages instead of driving down fares
EXCLUSIVE: Transport for London has defended the ‘Poems on the Underground' scheme despite criticism over spending priorities.
www.express.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you want – need – an argument as to why Reform and this incarnation of the Tory party are just horrible, look no further than this: they want shot of Poems on the Underground: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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SO THRILLED to be in the ‘poetry rupture’ that is The Aftershock Review Issue2. Thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
SO THRILLED to be in the ‘poetry rupture’ that is The Aftershock Review Issue2. Thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social
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I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here.
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
“The Nobel Prize is fitting, if anything: Alfred Nobel established the prize out of guilt as a 'death merchant,' and now our greatest novelist of decay and destruction has been given the dynamite money.”
Evan Grillon on Krasznahorkai
clereviewofbooks.com/laszlo-krasz...
Evan Grillon on Krasznahorkai
clereviewofbooks.com/laszlo-krasz...
Tiny Apocalypses: On László Krasznahorkai's "Herscht 07769" - Cleveland Review of Books
His books have prophesied dooms big and small for forty years now, much to the annoyance of our century's chummy optimists and milquetoast novelists obsessed with their own private misery and campus p...
clereviewofbooks.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here.
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
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But nothing to see here if your news comes from the UK media….
In the last 72 hours or so Donald Trump has:
• Demolished a large section of the White House
• Posted a video of himself dropping shit on the American people
• Demanded a $230 million payout from his own Department of Justice
Also the federal government is still shut down, but, y’know…
• Demolished a large section of the White House
• Posted a video of himself dropping shit on the American people
• Demanded a $230 million payout from his own Department of Justice
Also the federal government is still shut down, but, y’know…
October 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
But nothing to see here if your news comes from the UK media….
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Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
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Reposted by Ruth Higgins
Words and music for a wounded network – Dominic Fisher @domfishpoet.bsky.social
atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/14/w...
atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/14/w...
Words and music for a wounded network – Dominic Fisher
Words and music for a wounded network . . Dominic Fisher lives in Bristol, was a co-editor of Raceme magazine, was highly commended in Poetry Wales Award 2025, is widely published, and sometimes br…
atriumpoetry.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Words and music for a wounded network – Dominic Fisher @domfishpoet.bsky.social
atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/14/w...
atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/14/w...
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This... try reading it out loud to yourself. Fantastic work @leiabutler.bsky.social 👏
October 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
This... try reading it out loud to yourself. Fantastic work @leiabutler.bsky.social 👏
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Haven't read anything by László Krasznahorkai (yet!) BUT I can recommend The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus by Gábor Schein from Seagull Books' Hungarian list, also translated wonderfully by Ottilie Mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
10mh.net/2020/07/08/t...
10mh.net/2020/07/08/t...
The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus review - 10mh.net
The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus review: from Seagulls Books, Gabor Schein's book is translated by Ottilie Mulzet and Adam Z. Levy
10mh.net
October 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Haven't read anything by László Krasznahorkai (yet!) BUT I can recommend The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus by Gábor Schein from Seagull Books' Hungarian list, also translated wonderfully by Ottilie Mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
10mh.net/2020/07/08/t...
10mh.net/2020/07/08/t...
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"Three years ago, after a difficult state legislative session in TX that aimed to restrict access to books and disparage the work of librarians, I recognized the urgency of helping my community understand how our libraries operate." - San Antonio school librarian Lucy Podmore
https://bit.ly/4nEV0iQ
https://bit.ly/4nEV0iQ
Walk with a Purpose | American Libraries Magazine
Instead of simply highlighting censorship statistics or bemoaning what we can’t read, the Freedom Walk celebrates our right to read.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Three years ago, after a difficult state legislative session in TX that aimed to restrict access to books and disparage the work of librarians, I recognized the urgency of helping my community understand how our libraries operate." - San Antonio school librarian Lucy Podmore
https://bit.ly/4nEV0iQ
https://bit.ly/4nEV0iQ
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Thank you for sharing today's poem - A Celebration by Roy Marshall
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Thank you for sharing today's poem - A Celebration by Roy Marshall
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Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Sonnet for Perimenopause by @victoriaspires.bsky.social
Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social
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Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires
Sonnet for Perimenopause . . Victoria Spires is published in Berlin Lit & The London Magazine. She has been commended/shortlisted in: Ledbury, TPW Prize, Aesthetica Arts, Artemesia Arts, Plough…
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October 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Sonnet for Perimenopause by @victoriaspires.bsky.social
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Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - UFO by @em-words.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - UFO by @em-words.bsky.social
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Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem -
brassband by @niaandthepoems.bsky.social
brassband by @niaandthepoems.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem -
brassband by @niaandthepoems.bsky.social
brassband by @niaandthepoems.bsky.social
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Single harebell on a hilltop today. #WildflowerHour
September 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Single harebell on a hilltop today. #WildflowerHour
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If there are ANY tickets left for this, I advise you to snap em up.
Standing ovation on the first night.
It’s feckin brilliant.
Caroline Bird’s THE LAST STAND OF MRS MARY WHITEHOUSE
nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/the-l...
Starring Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett.
Mind blowing.
Standing ovation on the first night.
It’s feckin brilliant.
Caroline Bird’s THE LAST STAND OF MRS MARY WHITEHOUSE
nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/the-l...
Starring Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett.
Mind blowing.
September 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If there are ANY tickets left for this, I advise you to snap em up.
Standing ovation on the first night.
It’s feckin brilliant.
Caroline Bird’s THE LAST STAND OF MRS MARY WHITEHOUSE
nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/the-l...
Starring Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett.
Mind blowing.
Standing ovation on the first night.
It’s feckin brilliant.
Caroline Bird’s THE LAST STAND OF MRS MARY WHITEHOUSE
nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/the-l...
Starring Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett.
Mind blowing.
