🎶 half your brain just ain’t there 🎶

I had a full day of writing today and I’m so drained. And tomorrow is MONDAY 🙃🥲

no kings, no cops, no billionaires, no fascists, no enablers, no terfs, no bigots, no scolds, no joy thieves, no antisemites, no genocide apologists, no AI

Thanks!

Where’s your favourite place to buy secondhand books online?

Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done ‘incalculable’ damage to UK, economically and politically – UK politics live PM unveils new policies meant to drive down net migration by end of this parliament

Many things over the past decade have done or are doing incalculable damage to the UK. Immigration is not one of them. But this spineless rush to embrace xenophobic far-right rhetoric is. I'm speechless with anger at the utter disgrace of it.

Such a great read.

Picked up at Free Verse yesterday @prototypepubs.bsky.social and can’t wait to read it 💙

grave of the fireflies

princess mononoke

nausicaa of the valley of the wind

howl's moving castle

apropos of nothing but it's funny how certain folks will always try to chase the style of studio ghibli/miyazaki but only on a surface level and never tackle the themes of environmentalism, anti-war, and empathy i.e. the stuff that made those movies masterpieces

I can watch the forest greening from my window 🍃

Never forget you don’t need a mandate to do the right thing.

You can wear a mask and protect others.
You can get boosted.
You can help someone in need.
You can donate to mutual aid.
You can amplify voices different than your own.

Caring about one another IS a form of resistance.

Event poster with the book cover as background. Details include 25th March @ 6.30 pm - Stewart House Room 2/3, Senate House Library

NEXT WEEK Karan Chambers (one of my wonderful, talented MA poets) is launching her debut chapbook at our London Campus. Woman | Folk is published by Salò Press - an incredible micro-publisher! She’ll be joined by Wendy Allen, Galia Admoni, and fellow MA poets💙

A little reminder that we’re looking for submissions for our anthology! You can be based anywhere in the world 🌍 🩵

Thanks to the Poetry Book Society for choosing Troy Cabida’s “Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti” as their Spring 2025 Pamphlet Choice!

And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book.

Congratulations Troy!

If you’re dealing with Long Covid - there’s a chance you’re also dealing with MCAS and/or POTS/Dysautonomia.

They’re two of the most common comorbids - and can have a devastating impact on quality of life.

New allergies? Alcohol intolerance? Dizziness? Fatigue? Fainting?

A mega 🧵 of resources

Big news! We are excited to be partnering with @noemipress.bsky.social to extend the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize to writers of Arab heritage based in the UK from this September >>

Please share with your friends and networks! And thank you to @pairedaeza.bsky.social for use of this beautiful cyanotype image 💙

@jessicajlee.bsky.social

Please submit to our anthology!! You will be paid, retain rights to your work, and you can be based anywhere in the world!

I love this poem so much 🩵 little extract here:

Please share! A wee reminder to protect copyright so arts & culture sectors are not devastated by AI thieving our work! Emailing your MP & signing the statement just takes 2 minutes. Completing the survey takes longer but templates & help on the links below...
#HandsOfOurCopyright
#PayTheCreator

Got this beautiful zine today made by Black Lodge Press ✨🌱🍃

Never going to stop shouting about this. You need to buy trans books now. Especially in hardcopy or DRM free formats.

Don't say "it'll never happen." Look around. It's already happening.

I have to encounter the news but I don’t want to hear all the awful things but it’s important that I hear all the awful things but my mental health can’t handle it but I must see it and bear witness but I can’t process the levels of evil but i have to because not doing so would be self indulgent 😢😢😢

february has already blessed me with three beautiful sunrises: orange and golden, glowing, bare branches sculptural in the morning light 🌅

I’m facilitating this FREE workshop over the weekend, for Scotland based POC! Tell your friends and join us 💚✨

Here are the gorgeous books and pamphlets I used in my first ‘Working with the Words of Others’ class. By
Atef Alshaer
Maggie Nelson
@victoriachang.bsky.social
Nina Mingya Powles
@pairedaeza.bsky.social @alycia.bsky.social @jessicajlee.bsky.social

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Reading Joy Harjo and her poetry is absolutely transformative. ❤️‍🔥

If you cant afford art, or cant draw or whatever yourself, USE PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES

NOT AI.