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🚨 Emergency demo - UPDATED LOCATION! Tomorrow's demo will now take place at Parliament Square! Join us in condemning nuclear-armed Israel's illegal attacks on Iran and to call out its nuclear hypocrisy! Read moret: https://cnduk.org/israel-must-stop-bombing-iran-de-escalation-is-critical/

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Elephants don’t belong behind bars. Not in zoos, not anywhere. They’re social, intelligent beings with deep family bonds - not entertainment 🐘 ✍️ Sign & share to END elephant captivity in the UK 🇬🇧 www.change.org/p/uk-...

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Mat, @nessalampert.bsky.social, Ian Parks and me. Free poetry event, Tuesday evening, sunny London. All welcome!

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New from Indigo Dreams Publishing, my second collection with them - Slow Migrations. The collection is an exploration of the West of England before it was English, seen through the lenses of Corinium Museum’s Neolithic gallery and the Roman baths at Bath.

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This has dispersed now. I shit you not the group that gathered thought they were targeting a mosque and left shortly after I clarified it was a pentacostal church.

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A poem a day keeps the doom-scroll away… Poetry Please & Toger McGough are back! 4pm @BBCRadio4 with a selection of listener requests curated by award-winning Cumbrian poet Jacob Polley @picadorbooks.bsky.social Producer Sally Heaven. Also @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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An #Otwituary for funk legend #SlyStone Who perfected the funk? I think I know; a stoned prince high on his own supply of uncut soul, wearing euphoria as a robe. Here you come with mud in your veins; thank you (falettinme dance again).

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The long overdue knighthood for Billy Boston is magnificent, but it highlights how poor Welsh rugby was on issues of race relations. The gap between Sir Billy going north and Mark Brown becoming the first black Welsh rugby union international was a time of shame for Welsh rugby

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This evening! Free poetry, online!

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This week in the poetry blogs w/ @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @burnedthumb.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/06/poet...

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Join Tara Bergin and Michael Schmidt this Wednesday for a fascinating in-depth discussion of the legendary American poet Emily Dickinson: www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo... @carcanet.bsky.social

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Head over to Shash Trevett's page on The Poetry Archive's website to hear her read some of her amazing poetry, which she recorded especially for them earlier in the year: poetryarchive.org/poet/shash-t... @shashtrevett.bsky.social

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My deepest gratitude to @gregfreemanpoet.bsky.social for his very kind words here about Saturday’s goings-on in downtown Doncaster. www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...

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Tomorrow night. 👇🏼

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It's not too late to book a place for the free online launch reading by @matthewepaul.bsky.social - Tuesday 10th June 7pm on Zoom, book via crookedspirepress.com/events - with guest readings by Cliff Yates and @shashtrevett.bsky.social

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"Tim Smith's music was such a strong influence, I found it very difficult writing music that didn’t just sound like crap Cardiacs. It took me about ten years really to figure out a way of having my own voice." Fascinating interview with @craigfortnam.bsky.social. budsandspawn.co.uk/craig-fortna...

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Worth noting LBJ used the National Guard to protect and expand civil rights; DJT is doing exactly the opposite.

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Launches. matthewpaulpoetry.blog/2025/06/08/l...

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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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Today, 2pm, Doncaster Brewery Tap. Poems and thunderstorms guaranteed.

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Ahead of my launch in Doncaster tomorrow pm, here's a poem (first published in Poetry Salzburg Review) from my new collection. My first collection included one about toads, sparked by a Gilbert White diary entry from 1768 & which you can read, and hear, here: wordsforthewild.co.uk/swallowing-t...

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In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

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This Saturday afternoon, the first of the launch events for my new poetry collection is happening in Doncaster. I’ll be reading, along with fab guests, @vickygwriter.bsky.social and Ed Reiss. Details here: crookedspirepress.com/the-last-cor...

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This week in the poetry blogs w/ @kent-nj.bsky.social @robinhoughton.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @shannacompton.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/06/poet...

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Let's start by saying this thread, although influenced by the tragic events in Liverpool this week, has been a long time in gestation. Can we talk about male rage and motor vehicles?

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Fabulous, Craig - thanks for my copy. Looking forward to the gig in Sheffield Sunday week.

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Matthew Paul will be launching his new collection The Last Corinthians (Crooked Spire Press) with readings in Doncaster, London and Nottingham, plus an online launch, over the next few months! First up: Doncaster Brewery Tap, Saturday 7 June More here: crookedspirepress.com/the-last-cor...

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Blog post on the writing and assembling of my new poetry collection: matthewpaulpoetry.blog/2025/05/29/o...

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Today’s the day for me. My 2nd collection is published after 10 years of me fighting with the manuscript. Copies available at crookedspirepress.com/shop/ or please DM me.

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Stuck on a call. A post with an excellent poem by @nessalampert.bsky.social with nods to Suzannah Evans, Kathleen Jamie, Lawnmowers and Ned's Atomic Dustbin matriches76.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/s...

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Lukaku was just too strong Napoli 2 Cagliari 0

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⚽️ Goal by Scott McTominay 🔵 Napoli 1-0 Cagliari 🔴 #SerieA #NapoliCagliari

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In Praise of Stuck open.substack.com/pub/suzannah...

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An #Otwituary for @privateeyenews.bsky.social columnist and cartoonist #BarryFantoni So, farewell then E. J. Thribb. ‘So, farewell then’, that was your catchphrase. Not very catchy, though Keith’s mum liked it, as did all your readers, who now will not know when someone has died.

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Huge congratulations to Deepa Bhasthi, Banu Mushtaq and fellow Sheffield publishers @andotherstories.bsky.social on their amazing Booker Prize win! 🥳🥳🥳

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A piece by me on a fantastic poem by @pamthompson240.bsky.social - matthewpaulpoetry.substack.com/p/on-pam-tho...

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I think the fact that a politician is even running for office when they're close to 80 is a red flag that something's wrong with them. Who wants a job when they're 80? I plan to be sitting in my recliner at 80,reading books through my bifocals & talking to my grandkids in the holosphere or whatever.

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Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry. The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale. Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs. 1/2

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Of course he is. He's been s nasty little fascist since school.

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It is summer and I am in the middle of my life. Linda Gregg

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The greatest of all football writers is no more. Brian Glanville had died, aged 93. A model, an inspiration, a mentor. Addio, Brian.

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Next to each other on BBC News website today

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“[Chalk streams] are globally significant ecosystems and are largely restricted to our shores. So we have a huge responsibility to protect them.” Really disappointing for this amendment I moved in the Planning & Infrastructure Bill Committee to be vetoed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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