Thank u!

‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins

So lLooking forward to coming to #WigtownBookFestival tomorrow. Just hope the next storm doesn’t mess around with the railways

Wonderful!!

Our author, Andrei Gomez Suarez (@andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social) is speaking at the Beyond Borders International Festival event in Scotland next week!

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Reading tonight on Greece but in Kentish Town: at the Owl bookshop with Julian Hoffman with his lovely new book on living in Greece

Tonight at @owlbookshop.bsky.social in London's Kentish Town I'll be speaking with the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social to start my book tour for Lifelines!
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#Lifelines author @julianhoffman.bsky.social will be travelling to the UK in June for a series of brilliant events!

Based in London? You can catch Julian and @ruthpadel.bsky.social in-conversation @owlbookshop.bsky.social on 11th June.

🎟️: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...

Quick reminder that I'm popping up tomorrow morning alongside Imtiaz Dharker and Seni Seneviratne, as part of Khushwant Singh Literary Festival London, to help launch The Poetry Archive's poetry of South Asia collection. It'd be grand to see you. Tix are free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/khushwant-...

I just did not expect the catastrophic insight into Turkey’s policy in the 30s - terrifying

In today’s Half-Life on BBC Radio 4, @joedunthorne.bsky.social follows in his great-grandfather's footsteps to Turkey where he was employed, it seems, making gas masks

Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Its an amazing story and you have done it so well!

Israeli Forces Said They Killed a ‘Terrorist.’ He Was 14 Years Old.

We cannot be supporters of this Israel. We assume some—possibly even many—Israelis agree. We’d like to hear from them.❤️❤️❤️

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/w...

Thank you, @ebbooksellers.bsky.social, for keeping us informed about the ongoing travesty and censorship of the current administration. #censorship, #writingcommunity, #litsky, #poetrysky

🎨 Offering Tobacco and Coffee to the Foreign Ambassador Waiting at the Chamber of the Chief Scribe (Reisülküttab) in the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, c. 1800

Graphic which reads '100 Days of Clean Energy'

🧐 Did you know that in July 2024, California hit a huge milestone by supplying its electricity demand with 100% clean energy for 100 days? 🧵 #california #energysky

@thirdactorg.bsky.social template for contacting US Senators re: the damaging budget bill. @billmckibben.bsky.social @votersoftomorrow.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @envirovoters.bsky.social
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Cool bewildering May

Fab evening at Cheltenham Poetry Festival last night with @ruthpadel.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social and Pat Edwards. Support the Festival. A great programme. @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social #poetry

Ruth Padel reading from Girl, Lucy Heuschen reading from Daughter of Fire, Pat Edwards reading from Hail Marys and Monica Piercey reading poems of Polish folklore.

Thank you Anna, Zoe & the @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social team for an amazing opening night! An honour to witness @ruthpadel.bsky.social's stunning reading from "Girl". @patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social cast her keen eye over Marys of religion, myth and history. Monica Piersky, fascinating folkloric poems.

Lost in Stories Our narratives enable us to make sense of the world. From setting the scene and providing a means to understand what is happening, to placing ourselves at the centre of our own life's story,…

Should we see ourselves as trapped by our narratives as much as we are dependent on them to make sense of the world? | iai.tv/video/lost-i...

Join Matthew Beaumont, @ruthpadel.bsky.social , Theodore Dalrymple, and host Myriam François to discuss the power of narratives.

#langsky

Happy Birthday Seamus Heaney! If he was born in Yorkshire, this would read:

If we can winter this out
Summer will kill us no doubt.

Wow - so honoured! 💃💃💃

Cover of Angel, a poetry collection by Ruth Padel.

Bookplate from the American Library, Angers, France

I love beautiful coincidences. One of the poetry inspirations for Daughter of Fire, my poetry collection about Margaret of Anjou, was @ruthpadel.bsky.social. I recently found a copy of Ruth's 1993 collection Angel & its bookplate was from a library in Angers (Margaret country)! #Poetry #MedievalSky

Wow!!!!!!!!!

The wonderful @patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social is on Bsky! Pat is inspirational - I'm currently reading her book Hail Marys and loving it 😍 @annasaund.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social @ruthpadel.bsky.social

I would absolutely love to see you at @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social this May - our line up absolutely wonderful with some very fine poets and performers. They include @ruthpadel.bsky.social #MichaelSymmonsRoberts #SeanBorodale - read more
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'Permissions and Omissions'. I'll be talking to the Friends of Little Gidding on 14 May at 2.30 about my experience of editing poetry anthologies. - 'if you came this way', you'd be very welcome.
#poetry

Could not be more excited for this #Poetry reading, alongside poetry goddesses @ruthpadel.bsky.social and Pat Edwards. I'll be writing more in the coming days about what Ruth's writing has meant to me. #FeistyFemales #MythicalWomen

The covers of Lifelines and Ruth Padel's Girl on an event poster.

So excited to be joining the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social at London's @owlbookshop.bsky.social on June 11th for stories and poetry from Greece, on what will be the first stop of my book tour for LIFELINES this summer. Details and tickets via the link: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...