Considerations – Peter Raynard
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These people have no plan or endgame.
The U.S. State Department is set to fund MAGA-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to spread the Trump administration’s policy positions.
We eagerly await the patriots'/sovereignists' strong indignation and their demands for investigations to be carried out! 🕵️
Follower of Rembrandt van Rijn, A Man Seated Reading at a Table in a Lofty Room, ca. 1628-30
Atrium Poetry @atriumpoetry.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
The arms trade is a root cause of human suffering, facilitating deadly conflict and the suppression of human rights around the world.
Quakers joined other peace campaigners in two days of protest to draw attention to the SDSC-UK arms fair hosted by Birmingham's NEC.
Video credit: Zoe Broughton
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Warm air masses in the atmosphere rise upward, causing cooler air from neighboring areas, sometimes from the arctic, to rush in. This is how atmospheric heat powers storms. In other words, global warming causes colder, more intense winter storms. www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxo...
Wonderful
Screenshot of a NewsWire post on X displaying a headline stating that U.S. vaccination rates are declining and that no county in Idaho, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, or Wisconsin has reached kindergarten herd immunity. The headline cites The Washington Post and appears on a plain background without an accompanying photo.
Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives.
Dog looking at a pair of twats.
What really scares me about Reform is the way their heads are all mutually interchangeable.
Burgundy background with a night sky running down the centre. Fir boughs decorated with red and gold ribbons, berries and bows adorn the corners. Text overlaying the night sky reads: On The Seventh Day of Christmas. What the Woodcutter Knows About Midwinter Penny Blackburn The Approach of the Cailleach Fiona Larkin At the year’s midnight Ruth Higgins
On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you @pennyblackburn.bsky.social , @fionalarkin.bsky.social, @ruthhiggins.bsky.social.
Read their work here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/on-the-seven...
#InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem #ChristmasPoem #12DaysOf
Thanks so much for that!
Poet & @poetrylondon.bsky.social editor Niall Campbell was @robinhoughton.bsky.social & @peter-kenny.bsky.social's guest on the Christmas edition of @planetpoetry.bsky.social. He was reading from and discussing his 3rd collection The Island in the Sound.
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Do hope so. Happy Christmas!
Congratulations Gill!
It’s a privilege and lovely to be featured on the Two Way Poetry podcast by Chris Jones, poet & Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University.
You can find us here, talking Kimiko Hahn, the Japanese zuihitsu form, and many other things poetry!
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Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Christmas 1984 by Moira McPartlin
The Mistress Replies – Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social
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Thanks for publishing this one, Atrium!
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
A gift for the season 📖 💝 🎁
Our Christmas and winter anthology.
Get it now, before Christmas! Hardback and paperback versions. 🦌 ❄️ 💫
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Delighted to have my sightly ranty poem about being a difficult woman over at Atrium today!
Are you afraid you might be difficult? – Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social
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"More winter rain has flooded makeshift tents housing displaced families in Gaza as Israel continues to restrict the entry of aid into the strip"
Structural engineer Roma Agrawal & historian of sex @k8lister.bsky.social share A Good Read with @harriettsg.bsky.social 3pm @BBCRadio4 - The woman who took on Georgian Britain's worst husband and won; an artist's childhood & a novel about a Sri Lankan architect. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Don't forget our poetry open mic at 7.30 pm tomorrow (Wednesday 19th November) in The Saint & Sinner, St Albans, when our featured poet will be Estelle Price. It's free and open to all. Sign up on the night from 7.00 pm, if you want to read.
“And what is home if not the choice – over and over again – to stay?”
Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland
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The first poem in PERVERSE 9F is 'The leaflet with the lightbulb says do not swallow' by Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9f
If you want – need – an argument as to why Reform and this incarnation of the Tory party are just horrible, look no further than this: they want shot of Poems on the Underground: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
