markgranier.bsky.social
Writer and photographer. Fifth poetry collection, Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems, published by Salmon in 2017.
Sixth collection forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in April 2025.
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Thanks for the reminder. Poem below from my second collection, The Sky Road (Salmon, 2007):
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He’s already making dim-witted claims to Canada, Panama, Greenland, etc. May be performative attention seeking but it’s a taste of what’s in store. A possible flicker at the end of a v long tunnel is that he makes the US so FUBAR that people actually see what they voted for… but sadly probably not.
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I didn’t say that the “answer” is “compromise”. I merely noted that what you term “centrist spinelessness” (a term I disagree with) is immeasurably better than an autocrat & useful idiot who actively wants to dismantle democracy. That seems to me a no brainer.
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What amazes me (& everyone I know here in Ireland) is that America voted for a blubbering, incurious crybaby, a traitorous rapist & self-proclaimed dictator who “fell in love” (his words) with another dictator & expressed huge admiration for many more.
Give me “centrist spinelessness” any day!
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Don Paterson’s 101 Sonnets is excellent. Also Kay Ryan’s Synthesising Gravity and Simic’s The Life of Images.
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Beautiful. Farley’s reading of Clare’s The Nightingale’s Nest is a wonder:
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Strong stuff. I can feel it burning too.
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Partly because outlets like Fox & Joe Rogan gave people permission to believe whatever “theory” takes their fancy. Partly because ppl don’t want to bother. Partly because certain idiots have politicised the issue. Remember Ron de Santos losing his shit because the teenagers near him were masked?