This week in the poetry blogs w/ Alina Stefanescu Tresha Faye Haefner Victoria Moul robin glow-in-the-dark (Fae/ It/ He) Jon Stone Nigel Kent Dr Kim Moore Wendy Pratt Mee's Wood rob mclennan Rich Ferguson 1/2 vianegativa.us/2024/08/poetry…

For those who can't read Hebrew, Israeli media is reporting that the six Israeli hostages whose bodies were just recovered from Gaza were killed as a result of IDF bombing starting a fire that suffocated them with carbon dioxide: ynet.co.il/news/article/r…

Well done, Scots who voted Labour to "get the Tories out." I have some news for you. You didn't. theguardian.com/business/artic…

The core purpose of the various Of- agencies is to stand between the public and their elected representatives and foster the necessary illusion that the relentless wealth extraction typical of market democracy is being somehow restrained or managed in our interests.

New books from Sidekick on their way! More on this when I get back from my holiday ...

Everything you were warned about Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in Government is coming to pass, but for Liberal commentators to admit that & call it out, would mean the ‘Cranks & Corbynites’ might have been right. So, they’ll double down & bury their head in the sand instead.

The sad thing is, when Keir Starmer fails, people are going to claim it was left wing politics failing. When it's just right wing politics failing again.

Israel killed Medo Halimy in his tent with an air strike. the young man who showed us what life in a tent refugee camp was like. planted a garden around his tent. and loved swimming and drinking coffee with his friends.

Some rollers in a Helsinki playpark reminded us of Jon Stone's wonderful pamphlet SANDSNARL ⏳ 'The breweries were jammed. The ponds were filled. / The market stalls and fairs – dishevelled, overrun with sand.' Only £3.50 now in our Summer Sale: buff.ly/4dY59C8

Everything he says here, about Obama, applies to Starmer, Harris, Schultz, Macron, all of them. The future for us, if we follow the just keep voting types is this forever, teetering on the brink of fascism, never progressing, never escaping.

In the 60s, the top UK tax rate was 90%. In the 70s it was 75%. Now it is 45%. More and more money is being concentrated in the hands of the rich and Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are refusing point blank to turn this around. Inexcusable. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Freya and Dan have organised another great topic/location for an FK event -- let's hope the weather holds up!

An exciting week for us -- our first new titles in two years are out, in the form of four new exciting, highly collectible anthology books: the Ten Poets series. We'll be talking a lot more about these in the coming weeks, but for now, dive on in: sidekickbooks.com/booklab/produc…

PREORDER (31.10.2024): RADIOACTIVE DREAMS, HALLUCINATED MEMORIES, LOVE SONGS TO THE SWAMP. brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/e…

Had great fun writing what turned out to be a prose poem for this, out now from Sidekick Books. Huge thanks to 🎙Kirsten Irving (she/her) 📖 and Jon Stone for commissioning me!

received this today and have already had a quick first read through- it's sumptuous and gorgeous and so much fun- there's a bonus game in the appendix. Go get it from Sidekick Books Thank you so much Jon Stone and 🎙Kirsten Irving (she/her) 📖 for including my love letter to Pythagoras❤️‍🔥

They get it. They just don't want you to have access to those things, because it's competition for your attention. The only things you're allowed to consume and enjoy are what they can sell you.

While we're at it, what happened to lunatic asylums, lobotomies and electro-shock therapy? Something fishy going on here!

In case you want to be sure how fucking genocidal Zionists are, here's the two from that horrifying clip last weak explaining they're not genocidal, they just think violently exterminating all Palestinians is perfectly normal & almost all their Zionist Israeli friends agree.