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Sasha Dugdale
@sashadugdale.bsky.social
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Poet and translator
Lurcher devotee
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KIA
Poem for #ArmisticeDay
poets.org/poem/kia
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Detail from a monumental terracotta krater, used as grave marker
ca. 750-735 BCE

The hourglass-shaped shields and chariots are typical of earlier Bronze Age, suggesting that it may memorialize ancestral glories.
A detail showing images of soldiers drawn in black lines against a reddish terracotta background. The figures are pared back, depicting the large hourglass-shaped shield and behind it only the tiny head and matchstick legs of warrior. They look like birds with only one eye to show they are in profile, and a little crest on their egg-shaped heads. Their legs look like the shanks of wading birds.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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I can’t believe this finally exists…
Cover of the uncorrected proofs of The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova tr. by Sasha Dugdale published by New Directions (US)
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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What a haul from New Directions Publishing. Details in the alt text. I’m so excited to have all these…
Book covers: Exophony: Voyages outside the Mother Tongue by Yoko Tawada tr. Lisa Hofmann-kuroda Natalja’s Stories by Inger Christensen tr. by Denise Newman The Painted Room by Inger Christensen tr. by Denise Newman Penitential Cries by Susan Howe Spadework for a Palace by László Krasznahorkai tr. by John Batki
November 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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A poem in answer to Charles Causley’s poem On All Souls Night – and also to celebrate the birth of my daughter on All Souls Day. From ‘Red House’ @carcanet.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Giacometti’s Homme qui pointe (1947) is on display at the Tate. Sartre thought he was 'always halfway between nothingness and being’.
Extremely elongated grey cast figure on a small block. Like a long shadow at sunset but vertical, he extends his right hand to point at something unseen and the left hand seems to beckon an unseen audience to view it.
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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This portrait of Akhmatova was painted by Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya in 1914. Come and hear Stephen Capus and I talk about Akhmatova at Ledbury Winter Poetry Festival on Sat 22 November: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/her...
A woman sits in profile wearing a dark dress with white collars and white material at the sleeves. She has a swathe of rust-red material over her shoulder. Her hair is dark and pinned back with a short fringe. She is looking down and her profile is notable for its aquiline nose and large eyes.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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This ink drawing (‘Untitled’) by Ruth Asawa is of her baby son Paul.
A drawing in black ink on an off-white paper with tiny strokes of black to indicate the weave of the blanket and a baby lying almost within the pattern – its head, arms and legs are left as un-inked spaces. It wears a cap in similar weave.
October 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Two pages from Scorched Glass @mptmagazine.bsky.social (see my previous post) with poems by Sabeer Haka, tr. by Nasrin Parwaz & Hubert Moore. The translators indicated censored words with brackets.
Page reads: Mulberries Have you ever seen mulberries, how their red juice stains the earth where they fell? Nothing is as painful as falling. I've seen so many workers fall from buildings and become mulberries. (God) (God) is a worker too. Welder of welders he must be. In the evening light his eyes are red; at night his shirt is full of holes. Gun If they had not invented the gun there would be fewer people killed at a distance, lots of things would be easier. It would be easier to force them to realize the workers' power. Page text reads: (God) is a worker too. Welder of welders he Must be
October 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Breakfast Not Toofbrush
Greyhound-type dog in shadow standing in kitchen and looking dejected
October 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Some rather exquisite gold-tooled book covers from the Library of Benjamin Guinness 3rd Earl of Iveagh @marshslibrary.bsky.social in Dublin
October 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Native to the waterways of Britain
September 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Grief makes us werewolves

‘In the Eyrie Room’ by Hilary Davies from her new collection Compass Light, published by Renard Press. Hilary is reading at Winchester Poetry Festival on 7 October at 7pm in the Railway Inn www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-pla...
September 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Getting the full thousand-yard lurcher stare
White fluffy lurcher lying on sofa and gazing towards me with black eyes
September 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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high energy holidays
Brindle long dog lying asleep on a sofa Fluffy white lurcher lying asleep on floor in sun spot
September 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Living the nature morte
Kitchen top with apples tomatoes grapes and pastry
September 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Nearly but not quite a contender
September 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Extract from ‘Cow’ – six poems by Uruguayan poet Claudia Magliano in @mptmagazine.bsky.social tr. Jesse Lee Kercheval & Jeannine Marie Pitas. Have a look! 🐄
August 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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‘And yet, the fascination with accomplishing that which is proven impossible stubbornly persists in the human imagination’
- from Alberto Manguel’s feature in @pnreview.bsky.social on libraries where the imagination feels at home.
August 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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I wrote this as a sort of reckoning with the past, and the various ways we consider recent history as it occurred and occurs to us. I compare Walter Benjamin’s time in Moscow in 1920s and my own in 1990s. Thanks @pnreview.bsky.social: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/benj...
Black and white street scene in Russia c. 1920s crowds waiting for a bus
August 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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The Syrian artist Walid El-Masri, whose beautiful tree became a cover for @mptmagazine.bsky.social is on hunger strike to protest the atrocities happening in Sweida’s current humanitarian crisis and the ongoing siege.
August 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Sitting on a stile watching the turn of the year
August 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Hogwash lane in Summer
A green lane under oak trees and between hedgerows
August 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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A page from Mrs Wobble the Waitress, an Ahlberg special from my childhood. I used to dream about waitressing in roller skates with a net to catch jellies and Victoria sponges
July 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Editing translation with help from clouds
July 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM