All #Public #Libraries closed by successive Brit. gvrnmnts (lack of imaginative) policies, starting with the Carnegies for a theme & ending at the Edward Edwards memorial - who is definitely turning in his grave over the shredding of his public libraries vision that was the origins of the 1850 Act ⚡

@rachelmcw.bsky.social

Is it an external journey to the end of the night?

"As Apollinaire describes in Zone, on a morning walk: 'You read the handbills the catalogues the singing posters / So much for poetry this morning and the prose is in the papers". #TIPL

Chuck us on there eh?

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Assume you are familiar w the work of Every Library www.everylibraryinstitute.org ?

Guerilla poetry library at your service 🫡 Please whack us on this so we can be of use :-)

Can you whack us in there Valued Non Patron?

We still ploughing our itinerant poetry furrow: 2026 is our 20yr anniversary (😱)...hope2make it back2San Fran where we've left 388 Valued Library Patrons; or indeed Vancouver (55), Leipzig (105), Helsinki (29). We remain free, for all, & always "reaching the parts other libraries have yet to reach".

Time and the universe being what it is, we are delighted to announce that after much searching this item has come back into our collection, so in celebration of #NPD Hurrah! #NationalPoetryDay #LibraryWallOfShame

Thank you kindly for the heads-up, and therefore see* you there! (*We'll be sending The Librarian's dogsbody in our actual personhood absence as we don't intend to guerilla library at this event but she'll take notes on this topic on our behalf!).

Sending you best library love and auspicious literary vibes ♥️ for these days ahead!