esloudon.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, former charity consultant. Massachusetts for 25 years, now back in UK. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) 2024 SIBF award Best International Fiction. For poetry, see www.elizabethloudon.com. Not related to Bo.
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Yes please! I agree with the comment about writing sprints. They can start short (5 minutes?) - be prompted - be shared or not - grow to 30 minutes... also I'd love time for open discussion around themes: energy, daily practise, managing rejection, genre juggling, readings, etc.
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Oh what a lovely compliment to come across - thank you!
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It's gorgeous, and will send me back to the poetry too.
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Dear Rep Seth Moulton, some of your constituents live overseas (and some are serving overseas). Your form does not allow us to contact you as it demands a US format phone number. Hope you fix that soon so you can hear from all of us.
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There is no joy like a T K Maxx rack of 9.99 shirts, and no hangover like leaving with three of them.
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The published ones (also gulp) are on my website at www.elizabethloudon.com. You have to scroll down a bit. xxx
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I liked this, Marjorie. I’ve read and admired your work before and now you’ve given us all an excellent question to ask of our own work.
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My husband spent many months working in remote Chile when he was young and says it's the most beautiful place on earth. He wanted to take me but we aren't so young now and he's not so well. So I am loving your photographs instead. Thank you!
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I guessed that but wow, have those things faded into oblivion!
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I have no idea what this means.
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. @seanthomasd.bsky.social Sean Thomas Dougherty is a rare and authentic voice, so full of poetic and human experience. I'm so glad you found each other. Thank you everyone!
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Few things could cheer me today but this does. A journal that once said yes to my own work publishes @seanthomasd.bsky.social, a hard-working and generous poet I admire so much....
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He's the master of the elegant rebuff.
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Oh Anna - what wins and why - who knows? I was a reader for a fiction fellowship once, and after the first 20 or so entries, tbh I was too dazed and saturated to judge a dog waggy tail contest. And there was a deadline.... and you are brilliant - keep blazing.
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I've had cholera. You don't want it.
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Adorable, both of you!
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Anna I don't have a list of sponsors off the top of my head but I was a funding consultant for years, and this is doable. Start off by chatting to the charities that support carers/young carers. Do they want to partner? Who's the ideal headline sponsor: ethical, compassionate?
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I once read a great line in some American essay about the tension that arises when the kind of person who has three guns meets the kind of person who has three cats. Guess I know which type you are! xxxx
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This books sounds wonderful and I will share the good news with all my friends of/from Iraq! And read it myself! xxx
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Speaking as the daughter of the author of the still referenced Death In Childbirth I believe that black women in childbirth used to fare better in the south because posh doctors for white women knew better than black midwives, and did not, being cleanly folk already, wash their hands.
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Oh god that's so cute. And it's empowered me to think I can ask the same on behalf of my insanely friendly mostly-poodle.
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Just for you @dlbcarney.bsky.social.
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Oh god I knew there was something I was forgetting to do.
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He is. I so hope there's a heaven.
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Oh my. Haven't seen this before (maybe it's just appeared?). Speaking as a Hammersmith woman who's in love with Chekhov -- I feel - this is irrational -- jealous. You got him all to yourself, and you did it beautifully.
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Hottest picture ever.
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Ha ha don’t block me! I am a bit too medical sometimes!
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Ah and it only gets worse! xxx
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My commiseration! My daughter's a vet (and a great one I believe!) and I trust our vets, but it's awful to hand over our beloved pets for anaesthesia. All will be well!
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I’m envious. Whenever I’ve tried that cure I’ve been overcome with panicky worry about infection and a strong desire to read. My nails bear witness.
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I didn't know this poem by the outstanding Jericho Brown. Thank you so much.
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I read it three times in a row, I think - first time it rushed over me, with its late coming shock, second time I wanted to look at the seams and joints, third time just holding my breath in heartbroken awe.
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It's one of the most astonishing and heart breaking things I've ever read. So glad you are sharing it.
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The best poetry makes me go back and work harder on my own. I just strengthened something I'm about to submit, thanks to you, and in so doing came closer - as always happens - to what it is I actually have to say.
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Fantastic. Always a joy to find new work by you.
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Ok @alisongb.bsky.social you are not alone.
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I do it in public. You can also try doing it while sort of "singing" a slap-up protest song, like Mud, mud, glorious mud.
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It is funny. And also makes me praise the goddess of genetics that my own daughter loved the angora bunnies and lambs and never wanted to go on any ferris wheel like thing.
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Sweet little teeth.
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I love a Submittable screen shot! xxxx
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Never, ever have I seen her roll over.
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You got her number. She’s a bigger dog than she looks there too. She’s a formidable girl.