A blurred image of a decomposing daffodil on a dark background held by a thumb to the right. In black across the daffodil are the words corpus tenebras Lux/sic : body map for vibrato On a yellow strip above the words clare archibald are written, and on a yellow strip below are the words Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, 31st March- 21st April, 2026

I have a new installation as part of Offerings, at Six Foot in Glasgow, running from 31st March until 21st April. Opening night Tuesday 31st 7-9pm.

corpus tenebras lux/sic : body map for vibrato is a multimedia installation exploring chronic illness, creative acts and connection, time, and archive

Same vibe

I would say 🤣 & get a grip but the man is dangerous.

Susan Morris - Pieced Work Silence (On Prepared Loom) In the summer of 2019 I was invited by Vivien Lovell of Modus Operandi Art Consultants to submit a proposal to make new work for the recently completed Library and Study Cen...

Piece two of Textile Message, series five, features artist Susan Morris’ ‘Silence (On Prepared Loom)’. This work, a set of six Jacquard tapestries, is permanently installed at The Library and Study Centre, St John's College, Oxford.
Read about Susan’s process here 👇

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This is how enjambment can work in a poem. Bridge 77 on the Macclesfield Canal allows a horse to cross the canal without having to untie it from the canal boat.

Kylie Mirmohamadi - Pieced Work I I sort through my memories. The jacket hanging in my cupboard; a Japanese-style grey coat that I found in a vintage shop during the melanoma year. I wore it to a restaurant one night not long after ...

Kylie Mirmohamadi’s graceful portraits launch Textile Message Series 5 ✨
Read here👇
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Join Our Independent Press Directory - The Broken Spine At The Broken Spine, collaboration and community have always been at the heart of what we do. We believe in uplifting fellow independent presses, writers, and

Small fee, big impact: Advertise your submission calls monthly for £3, and directly contribute to raising £5000 for our poetry-focused #BrokenSpineAward fundraiser:

SAVE THE DATE for AusArt Day to join EWF's new initiative and support us in raising our artist fees to make working as an emerging writer more accessible!

This is the best way for you to show your support for our festival’s work!
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🧅 beautifully put Caroline!

Ha! but also so many feelings reading this (surely not the point of The Onion?!)

EWF X Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion. This is an artist’s enquiry into significant clothes and other textile objects.
12/9 Naarm/Melbourne - info👇
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EWF X Textile Message: An Exhibition - Emerging Writers' Festival Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion.

This will be lovely 🤍 please join us — an exhibition curated by @cecarlin.bsky.social

Friday 12 September, 6:00PM, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne

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"Whoever's found out what location
compassion (heart's imagination)
can be contacted at these days,
is herewith urged to name the place;
and sing about it in full voice,
and dance like crazy and rejoice
beneath the frail birch that appears
to be upon the verge of tears."

~Wisława Szymborska

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In the battle with Google, I'm on team Fox. Go Foxes - make that ludicrously expensive roof paid for by this rampant monopolising techno-infestation smell of your rank wee.

Fiction Antigone Kefala is a writer of poetic intensity and integrity. During her childhood, her family fled Romania and arrived in Greece as refugees, before settling in New Zealand and Australia. Her writin...

‘Her peculiar vision is both austere and lyrical, elegantly fluent in the secret ways of the self.’

Isabella Gullifer-Laurie reviews Fiction by Antigone Kefala in The Saturday Paper.

Silence, you know, is something that can’t be censored. And there are circumstances in which silence becomes subversive. That’s why they fill it with noise all the while - John Berger

Silence, you know, is something that can’t be censored. And there are circumstances in which silence becomes subversive. That’s why they fill it with noise all the while

- #JohnBerger

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AP announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 🎉. This new award (with a prize of $1,000) is for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via their Social Media. The 2025 judge is Claire Gaskin

Bob Hoskins, Cher and the Trading Places Challenge — Caroline Collett

One day in 1992, I spent a highly-memorable day with Bob Hoskins, dressing him up as Cher. For the full story - which also stars Cilla, MC Hammer, Gazza, Rab C Nesbitt & Blur-dressed-as-Blondie - plus images by the late great Terry O'Neill, read on...
www.carolinecollettwriter.com/bob-hoskins-...

Out in July!

No one will tell our stories if we don’t 🌞 www.uapress.com/product/slee...

Launched next month, preorder this collection, which shines a light on works by a diverse group of contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora 💕

Edited by Holly Mason Badra

Episode 3: Porous media—Poetry, Dance & Photography with David Slattery What Moves Them: Conversations in Dance Writing · Episode

Episode 3 of What Moves Them has just dropped ✨🍃

In this episode, we speak to David H. Slattery, interdisciplinary artist & dance lover. He speaks about his new poetry/ dance/ photography project, Belle du Jour, and choreography project with Leila Lois.

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Early career and current creative practice doctoral researchers 👇