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I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.) There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/ Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
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I finally did a new Class Notes, and it's not even really a Notes at all but just a suggestion that you come to the online launch for Éireann Lorsung's 'Pattern-book' this evening. I think you should come to the online launch this evening, 7pm, by the way. open.substack.com/pub/classnot...

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People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because

submitted 17 days ago • 46 comments

This will be great and you should join us Or this will be great and you could join us It would be great, I think, if you would join us Éireann's book is great! Why don't you join us? Pattern-book is great so come and join us Patterns as poem-making and poems as joiners - 28th May. Great. Do join us.

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What's the word for when you go round for ages telling people that a new book is going to be great and then it shows up as an Observer Book of the Month? The opposite of schadenfreude, I guess. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Think of the least time it's ever taken you to say yes to an invitation, and know that I said yes to this invitation in half that time. My venn diagram with "cycling" and "writing" is a perfect circle, even Mr Venn would be like, what, this isn't what I meant

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Some guy says "these are poems conducted at ground level, at walking pace, attentive to the changing of the light, of the seasons, of the certainties we thought we were growing up with" and although I'm pretty sure there's a comma splice in there I think it's all true. This book is great.

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TFW it's open mic night down at the local but you didn't bring the casio with you

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The Platform Conference for Writers of Colour is back on Sat 5th April. Join us for this day-long event, which aims to support and encourage with advice and inspiration. Check out the programme and book your ticket: middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-con...

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Anyone who actually thinks there are any public services left to cut has surely not used public services for a very long time. The policy should be: Get more taxes, make things better, hurry up. It's really not complicated.

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70 year wait is over for Newcastle fans. What a result. If only jamal khashoggi was alive to see it.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Nottingham is about as far as you can get from the sea in the UK, which makes it the perfect place to talk to Xiaolu Guo about whaling, 19th century girls who disguise themselves as cabin boys, Taoism, and her new Moby Dick book, 'Call Me Ishmaelle.' Come and join us, ye landlubbers!

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Staat er honig nog steeds voor eten? En zal er vis bij de visdeurbel zijn?

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Not all resignation letter are worth the time but this one absolutely is. Astute & thoughtful. It lays out with clarity the big decision the country faces: how do we pay for the newly insecure world: by cutting investment and our social safety net, or through fairer taxes and smarter borrower rules.

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The New School of the Anthropocene is a radical, trans-disciplinary, low-fee experiment in higher ed. I'm proud to teach there & to think together with students from Gaza, Ukraine & beyond. Applications open for 25-26: virtual/in-person More on our ethos/apply here: nsota.org/home @nsota.bsky.social

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🖊️📚🧠 Our Arts Council England project WRITE IN THE HEAD is featured by the BBC in this excellent and deeply human article interviewing stroke survivors about our online creative writing programme for people with acquired brain injury. See: www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Moby Dick, but with a Kentish lass who disguises herself as a cabin boy and runs away to sea, ending up in New York where she joins a whaling ship led by Captain Seneca, a Black free man of heroic stature? Also with Taoist monks? YES PLEASE XIAOLU! fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/an-ev...

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Going to stick my neck out here and agree that first you defend the jobs, and then later you argue the case for better pay. But first you defend the jobs.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. Please share our statement below widely.

submitted 116 days ago • 5 comments

With the beatific Stax-inspired "Knowledge," @edwyncollins.bsky.social lets go of his "old self" in favor of who he is today. I spoke with him and his wife/manager Grace Maxwell about aphasia, optimism, Orange Juice, and more for my newsletter.

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