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Ukrainians discussing internal politics / Ukrainians when trump insults zelensky

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“For the time being, Ukraine and the rest of Europe will be consulted in the way the residents of a village are consulted before it gets demolished to make way for a new airport.” James Meek spot on in Trump’s approach for the latest @londonreview.bsky.social blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

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seagull swooped over me yesterday and thwacked me in the chest with a whole fried chicken drumstick

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Lana’s latest instagram post has awakened something primal in me. deeply sad, deeply tumblr

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i have many recurring nightmares but my most boring one is where i keep opening spam emails and clicking on the links even though i know they’re spam. my dream self can’t help her dream self, she NEEDS free solar panels

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“When we say small, we often mean less. When Dickinson says small, she means fabric, Atoms, the North Star.” this article by Jen Bervin on Emily Dickinson’s sense of scale makes me want to cry. so much care put into understanding Dickinson like this! www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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fun news to kick off the week — as part of my new role as a Manchester City Poet, i’ll be taking part in an artist exchange with Nanjing, and will be travelling to China next month to begin collaboration! i’m thrilled and can’t wait to get started 🌸 www.manchestercityofliterature.com/news/six-art...

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blows my mind to find out Emily Dickinson’s brother was called AUSTIN. dude should’ve been surfing in Cali not living a Victorian life in Amherst. wtf

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phd funding needs to include an extra month to account for the amount of time spent purely on microsoft authentication

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i’m a big Tove Ditlevsen fan and was really excited to read a new translation of her poetry by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell. needless to say i was not disappointed. here’s a banger taken from her poem ‘Afterthought’

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revisited Franz Ferdinand’s debut album this morning and found myself swearing aloud at how very good it is. dadcore 2025

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happy monday www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49009/...

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me when a man mentions Simone Weil

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noticed a resurgence of men in their 20s wearing fedoras

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“I am the centre Of a circle of pain Exceeding its boundaries in every direction” i wish i could write the body like Mina Loy could www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/145363...

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really looking forward to being in conversation with my dear pal Misha for York Literature Festival this March. come hear our poems and gossip! tickets.41monkgate.co.uk/events/1b61f...

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inspired by Anne Carson, i am taking up “boxercise”. perhaps this could become a new poet stereotype — can’t drive, can punch? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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keep trying to watch Aftersun (2022) in fifteen-minute increments stretched out over the past two weeks because i find it all excruciatingly familiar. the viewing experience the director always intended, i’m sure

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it only took me 28 years but i’ve just realised everything is going to be okay 🩷🌞

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some happy news to kick off the weekend! i’m now a Manchester City Poet. really grateful for this opportunity to be working with UNESCO and Manchester City of Literature on a set of commissions throughout 2025. watch this space ❤️ www.manchestercityofliterature.com/news/manches...

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visited the Freud Museum in London yesterday to see their Women & Freud exhibition — really moving and serene! i recommend — a couple of highlights below (Sarah Lucas and Emily Berry)

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Han Kang — beginning writing by making a list and sifting its words through yourself to let sentences ‘shiver out’.

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Anne Carson sporting boxing gloves for her LRB lecture last night 🥊

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“my black bag of desire / where can i go / barefoot / without you” — sharing my fave Lucille Clifton poem today 🖤 poets.org/poem/poem-my...

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currently reading….we begin in 1910. i have a bad feeling about these Futurists…..

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Roland Barthes welcomes you to modern times:

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i was gutted to have missed the Women In Revolt! exhibition held at Tate Britain last year. but i’ve just found out it’s being shown at the Whitworth in Manchester this spring!!!!!!!! www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

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drove home last night followed by an enormous orange moon, woke this morning to a fine pink fog hanging over the house, i’m convinced it’s David Lynch’s sky ❤️‍🩹

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man i might not be cut out for marking. keep bursting into tears reading my students poetry portfolios because im so proud of them lmao

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i’ve been reading Lacan on feminine sexuality and i’m really enjoying it but more as like, an object of sci-fi than actual theory. kind of amazed that people gave him as much time as they did when he was lecturing. dude’s whole thesis is like “if women are real then how come i’m so lonely?”

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“This is also about conversations with the dead / the only honest definition of silence” having a happy little weep this morning listening to Peter Gizzi read his poetry youtu.be/ADm3MnXxwTQ?...

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how i feel editing my personal essays in a coffee shop

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trainline sale is such a funny premise. you’ve been to London before haven’t ye? how about going on a random fucking monday?

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amazing choice!!! ❤️‍🔥

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finally got round to watching Daisies (1966) — it’s so radically joyful and saturated and i’m absolutely ravenous now — i wish tumblr were still a thing because i’d be posting so many screenshots rn if that were the case — peak girlhood movie

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i read this poem by Olive Franklin yesterday and woke this morning with its lines ringing around my head. it’s that good. give it a read www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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absolutely tickled to find the earliest depiction of Joan of Arc was this — sketched in the margins of a daily register of events kept by a secretary of the Parliament of Paris, upon learning of Joan’s victory at Orleans

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So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages. www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

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