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Poet behind beloved classics like 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022, @thwupbooks.bsky.social). 'Sick Power Trip', July 2025. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids. 📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch http://www.erikkennedy.com
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One of the best ones yet.

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air

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Update on this. I have *not* gone up to my shins in mud tonight, and I think I prefer it.

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Callaghan Innovation confirms 67 more potential job cuts as it disestablishes

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it’s genuinely pretty insane that elon musk is openly using his platform he owns as a child rearing operation

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I think I underestimated Eisgruber (Princeton). Glad to be wrong.

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nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/04/15/p...

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One lesson I have learned from accidentally stepping into a big puddle of mud tonight is that people mostly don't look at your feet. If you act normal, you are normal, despite your appalling shoes.

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one thing 2025 doesn't have yet, but could benefit from, is a mysterious constant worldwide noise. the noise will start out very quiet and get louder incrementally

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Happy space battle over Nuremberg day to all who celebrate @edmundgriffiths.bsky.social

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“No single decision is to blame” for UK universities' dire financial situations, writes @rostaylor.bsky.social. “But many trace [the crisis] back to a decision made by chancellor George Osborne in December 2013.” www.prospectmagazine...

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In case you missed it this morning...

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NEW POEM #224: "We’ve All Been There" by Erik Kennedy (@erikkennedy.com) "I stored my plan for world peace safely in my coat pocket, and then I washed the coat." stonecirclereview.com/weve-all-bee... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

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There was a time in my life when I wanted to *be* Berryman. Glad that's past, but I still desperately need to read this, and so do you. This is a publishing event.

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Gilliam's Brazil is shockingly prescient.

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Explain it to me like I am five. Why do I need a remaster of a track I love as it is, the way I have always heard it?

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think what this could have done for people who lack access to justice

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Holy shit, a good thing may actually happen in this world.

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The National Library of Ireland is a treasure house of Yeats manuscripts. The Library of Trinity College, just down the road, less so. How did this come about? It was down to George Yeats (who was keeping all the manuscripts, a foot deep, in the house). Then along came the young Jon Stallworthy:

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Well, this takes me back.

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They started with Critical Race Theory Then Wokeness Then Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Now Empathy www.salon.com/2025/04/11/m...

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I mean, this is why we do it, right? All of literature. So our English teachers eventually say 'You fucking crushed it'.

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I have to say, I am a hardened old so-and-so, but reading a message from one of my old English teachers congratulating me on my new book has made me cry a bit.

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It is indeed a Wonderland day! I’m so thrilled to see this lovely book making its way into the world. Thank you @hissingswan.bsky.social and The Cuba Press for a dream assignment, the great conversations, and utterly wonderful characters. And look at that cover! #pukapuka

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via https://queenoliviastredfern.tumblr.com/post/780046091869683712

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