No matter how technologically advanced a space or a demon race is, they always seem to need human slaves to chop and carry rocks.

Tonight: take a poem to the movies. Sit in the dark, let the soundtrack drown out your breath.

#howtopoem #poetry #poem

Black Iris Issue 5 is a real banger. And I'm not even saying so just because I'm in it. Read the whole thing. Start here: www.blackirispoetry.com/man-or-bear

#poetry #poems

Having spent a snowless Christmas in Finland, here's my message to past self: "Haha - you fool for thinking London winter is dark! Remember where you come from, girl."

Rewatching Buffy and school - what a way of life! Spending the day with BFFs learning biology, then a bit of maths, then geography... I'd even gladly try out some new sport in PE. And SOMEONE ELSE has planned and organised all this - all you have to do is show up! Why can't adults have this?

I've never read it, but as a lit student, feel like I know it inside out and that it has a key role in my life. A recurring motif, if you will. 😄

There's a lot of enshittification going on but the way MS has fucked up "new" Outlook continues to blow my mind every day. Over twenty years I've been relying on this tool and now it can barely send an email. I am truly curious as to how this was achieved.

Over the course of history many have tried this and always find it's not a long term strategy. Because everyone ends up sick or dead and can't really spend money on the poison lettuce anymore. Being a disaster capitalist is hard.

Tonight: get angry with a poem. Open the windows and shout all the words.

#howtopoem #poetry #poems

This is on tomorrow!

I was up at 7am so can confirm that the so-called day is only getting darker. Expect complete darkness by 1pm aka 1300hrs.

Good show, London winter, just as promised.

Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Mr Poirot in Mischief on the Nile SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP

Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Little Kiss Marple in Muddle at the Vicarage SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP

this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time

HAHAHAHA Poets - our time has come! Victory is within our grasp!

#poetry #poetryprompt #PoemIsMightierThanLLM

⚠️ We are witnessing a dangerous – and often highly secretive – increase in surveillance of the UK population.

We refuse to sleepwalk into a surveillance state.

Donate now to protect your right to privacy: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou...

Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

Reasons to write happier poetry: editing wouldn't be so goddamn harrowing.

#ThisPoeticLife #poetry #writing

🤣 no, Netflix

We lost one of the people off the coach so we had to leave them behind. We waited an hour, and informed the police. Hope you are feeling better.

the BBC should apologise with a montage of all the times Trump showed support for 6 Jan and they should get the person who does the end of World Cup montage to do it

fucking boosts

The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer

‘If the BBC was able today to report what it thinks, it would say this: there has been a coup’

The Observer view: political interference at the BBC

https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA

on these new insomnia meds and the pharmacist gave me a very dire warning that they can cause night terrors, anyway last night I dreamt Macho Man Randy Savage shared my poems online and said I was a COOL DUDE

Next Poetry School MA reading is on Weds 26 Nov at The Cheshire Cheese WC2R 3LD - update your calendars & see you there!

#poetry #PoetryReading #events #LondonEvents

From Mamdani speech from: "And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together." to: "And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do."

Hope over big money and small ideas.

From Mamdani speech: "In this new age we make for ourselves, we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate to pit us against one another."

Labour, please, please, please take notes.

Segment from Mamdani speech from: "Now, I know many have heard our message only through the prism of misinformation. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality ..." to "We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore. They can play by the same rules as the rest of us."

Preach.

"too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why they've been left behind"

This is how you bring people together instead of bowing to division.

This is what hope and visionary leadership sound like. Amazing speech.

Tonight: hide in the dark with a poem. Listen to it breathe. Whisper each stanza.

#howtopoem #poetry #poems