@hannahl1n
Poet Devon, UK 1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html
Looking forward to celebrating International Women's Day with the women who collaborated with @gillcresearch.bsky.social Safety in Numbers anthology tonight... poem chains in response to other women's poems. Glorious. Happy Women's Day everyone.
A red square with a white banner at the top reading 'International Women's Day'. Beneath this is the description from ‘Joan of Arc Gives Me A Buzz Cut, or Lux Venit in Nomine Vocis’ by Anna Westwig', followed by the text: Can you cut my hair for me, I ask. I hand her the razor, buzzing like a prophecy, my first flammable question. My hair shifts and weeps like goldenrod as the light comes through in the name of the voice. It is cut with tenderness. She is nineteen and a pillar of ash. I am seventeen and begging to catch flame.' In the bottom right hand corner is a drawing of a pair of hair clippers. In the bottom right hand corner is the text 'Winner, Remixing History Challenge, Young Poets Network.'
A yellow square with a drawing of a black tree branch in the top left hand corner. The text reads 'from 'Daphne' by Ellora Stutton'. The text of the poem reads I watched you wend away. Barbed-wire in the breeze my teeth rattled their applause. My heart went last, an agate of sap and fury. I have never been more powerful. I have never been more myself.' At the bottom of the square is the description 'Winner, Carol Ann Duffy Challenge, Young Poets Network'.
A bright blue square with text reading 'The women of my kin sewed long cotton print skirts in the sixties calculated how much meat and goats went into the soup when a couple of hundred people or more came to an extended family get-together.' Beneath this is a drawing of a dining room table. Above the table is a description of the poem, 'from 'The Women of My Kin' by Kristiina Ehin, translated by Ilmar Lehtpere.' At the bottom of the image reads the text 'The Poetry Review, Summer 2021'.
Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate, here are extracts from some incredible poems we've published celebrating exceptional women, whether they be historical, mythical, or familial.
Mike Ferguson, Eoin Flannery, Ewen Glass, Stephen Grant, Colin Griffin, Oz Hardwick, Ann Howells, @hubbsd.bsky.social, Colin James, @thmazing.bsky.social, @suzchef.bsky.social, Sam Kerbel, Ken Kesner, Ophelia Knight, BEE LB, Donna J Gelagotis Lee, Charles Leggett, @hannahl1n.bsky.social, ...
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It’s okay to take time out from writing, to just live and rest, do other work, let your imagination breathe.
Delighted to be included in a wonderful line up of poets published by London Grip today. Thanks so much for including my poem Michael Bartholomew-Biggs.
londongrip.co.uk/2026/02/lond...
Delighted to be included in a wonderful line up of poets published by London Grip today. Thanks so much for including my poem Michael Bartholomew-Biggs.
londongrip.co.uk/2026/02/lond...
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
Some fine poets included in this new anthology... if you're near Bath, this would be well worth your time.
What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion
Thanks Julia x
Love this poem by Hannah Linden.
Wonderful poem Hannah!
Thanks so much Julia. x
I have a poem up on @theprosepoem.bsky.social site. It's one of my Mr Green poems and was longlisted in their competition in 2024
theprosepoem.com/mr-green-is-...
I always find it fascinating when poets talk about how they wrote a poem. I love this poem so it's wonderful to hear @julwe1.bsky.social talk about the background of this poem in her latest collection.
Equality and Human Rights Commission Dear Your Freedom of Information Request FOI Reference: 15238932 Date: 16 February 2026 Thank you for your request, detailed below, which we received on 19 January 2026. "1) Does the EHRC hold minutes for meetings with any trans-led or trans- focused groups (excluding general LGBTQI+ groups) in the last 5 years. For clarity, these could include but are not limited to: - TransActual - Translucent/Steph's Place - Scottish Trans - Trans legal project - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective - Trans Safety Network - Trans Solidarity Alliance - Trans Resistance Network - Trans Exile Network If so, could you a) break down how many sets of minutes were recorded per year. (Here 1 "set of minutes" means "minutes for 1 meeting") And b) name which trans-led or trans-focused organisation these are with." This request is being handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Response Following a search of our records, we have determined that the information you have requested is not held by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. While the Commission regularly engages with a wide range of stakeholders, including trans-led and trans-focussed civil society organisations where relevant to our work, we do not hold any formal minutes of meetings with the organisations listed in your request within the timeframe specified. T: 0161 829 8100 E: foi@equalityhumanrights.com Arndale House, The Arndale Centre Manchester, M4 3AQ equalityhumanrights.com T: 0161 829 8100 E: foi@equalityhumanrights.com Arndale House, The Arndale Centre Manchester, M4 3AQ equalityhumanrights.com
FOI reveals the EHRC holds zero minutes of meetings with trans-led organisations in the past 5 years.
This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.
Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.
I love your work here. 'Time is flickering/ each pointless promise counting as a curse'.... hit so deeply! Bravo.
Excited to publish this beautiful project today, thank you to all involved 💙
Love your artwork and your poem Keren 'fallen and shifting amongst the debris/ of what used to be a life'... wow.
Thanks so much. So happy to be included in this stunning and important project.
Very happy to share the @acropolisjournal.bsky.social new project, Time as Falling Atoms: A poetic exploration of time in relation to experiences of disability, chronic illness, mental health and neurodiversity. I have 4 poems included. acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/projects/pro... Click on image.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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
Wow what an incredible interview. Watch the whole thing... it's really timely, too. Don't want to give anything away but it's well worth your time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2R...
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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
I took a long break from general submissions last year, so very happy to report my first acceptance from this year's submissions is from the wonderful London Grip. Will post a link to the poem when it is published later this month.
Have an ekphrastic poem on @afterpoetry.com that I forgot to share.
The painting that inspired it is here: www.pictorem.com/2214/office/
Thanks so much, Julian. Hope you're keeping well. xx
Fabulous poem.
[and just noting, with rage, the fact that we have to keep saying "not all men" tells you that la luta continua...]
