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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

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J. H. Prynne, The Art of Poetry No. 101 “Writers had better not be too cocksure that they’ve got inspiration on their side.”

Very sorry to hear of JH Prynne's death.I was sent to him for my u/g dissertation on Wm Cowper, 1990. He was brilliant, warm and kind, & talked about poetry as if he was there, somewhere along the chain of its making, speaking from inside as well as outside it. www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6...

Standing by the window I heard it,
while waiting for the turn. In hot light
and chill air it was the crossing flow
of even life, hurt in the mouth but
exhausted with passion and joy -

RIP J.H. Prynne

Sorry to hear this news. I was lucky enough to have seminars with Prynne both on Ezra Pound and on American literature… I never quite got to grips with his own poetry but he was a wonderful teacher, clarifying and enthusing

I, too, would like to be buried with the nerdiest passage of my favourite book.

You should write it then x

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Quite literally Nazi propaganda.

Reading 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' by Robert Browning Part two

PART TWO of my readalong now up! Venture with me into the toxic manosphere of ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ by Robert Browning open.substack.com/pub/clarespo...

So Palantir are like Fascist fascists i see yeah maybe we shouldn’t integrate the nazi computer into the NHS

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Not new, but so perfectly put.....

TONIGHT. Tickets are free but the bookshop is small so booking recommended. we will be talking about Ancient Greek tragedy and Phoebe’s ‘goatself’, join us for a glass of wine and a poetic start to the weekend 🐐🍷🐐

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

Unspeakably evil. I cannot believe Israel has so normalized this there’s barely any outcry. War crimes every day www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Picture of Clare Pollard, the cover of her book "Lives of the Female Poets," and promotional text for the QPL virtual program National Poetry Month: Literary Thursdays: Clare Pollard, Author of "Lives of the Female Poets."

Our Literary Thursdays series continues with @poetclare.bsky.social, the author of "Lives of the Female Poets."

Join us on April 16 at 6PM!
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#NationalPoetryMonth

Conversation: Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi w/ Brian Sneeden & Clare Pollard Friday 17th April 6.30-9pm The ancient Greek word for tragedy (τραγωδία) is a compound of goat (τράγος) and song (ᾠδή). In Phoebe Giannisi’s Goatsong, translated by Brian Sneeden, the seam that connec...

I’m chairing this tomorrow at Burley Fisher, talking about Phoebe Giannisi’s incredible collection GOATSONG 🐐🐐🐐

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Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.

Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.

This is what corporate greed looks like.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'

IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated

W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

What‘s up? THIS IS WHAT’S UP. Could you all just fucking concentrate?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reading 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' by Robert Browning Part One

New readalong on Robert Browning’s ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ clarespoetrycircle.substack.com/p/reading-ch...

While the US is floundering under this incoherent oil-obsessed old man, the rest of the world is scrambling to reduce its dollar dependency and transition to a Chinese green energy stack. Trump’s most lasting damage to the US may be making the Rmb the new global reserve currency

Claims and ideas which happen to favour the ruling class don't dominate public life by accident. They're paid for by oligarchs and corporations then promoted by media outlets other oligarchs and corporations own. Once they've been drummed into our ears enough, they're internalised as "common sense".

Text of William Wordsworth’s Daffodils poem

Photograph of a host of golden daffodils

…beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side... as we went along there were more & yet more… & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

#otd 15 April 1802 - Dorothy Wordsworth’s journal

‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists who’re sick of the pressure to promote on social media From Stewart Lee in his wolf costume to Werner Herzog’s big steak sizzle-up, artists are now under huge duress to ‘chase the algorithm’ and reach audiences. Many of them are hitting burnout – and hitt...

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THIS THURSDAY 6pm EST

James Bembridge on X: Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

the most evil guy in the country wants to feed everything you've ever done into a machine that replicates you so he can eliminate you, and some people still walk around saying "well, there ARE some uses for this technology"

"Which country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? It's not Iran, it's Israel... Which country in the Middle East attacked six countries last year? It wasn't Iran, it was Israel."

From my Piers Morgan debate with Israeli spokesman Doron Spielman.

Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkk1...