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putting this here as well <3 labour manifesto: labour.org.uk/manifesto/ campaign map: mycampaignmap.com canvassing guide: tiny.cc/94rrgz

I want so much long fake hair/ and I want to win a dance off Big fan of these three poems excerpted from Elaine Kahn [@p_splashartist]'s new ROMANCE OR THE END in Granta. I mean, of course I am. But also? I am. bit.ly/36RitFC

I have been so lucky to live with the poems from -'s extraordinary RENDANG for the last year. And today we get to give these poems to the world! Happy publication day and thank you Will for letting me share them. ⭐

In honour of Valentine's Day, please enjoy the poem 'FAO Barack Obama' by crispin best and take a moment to consider the implications.

here’s a compilation of all the useful covid related food advice out there, as well as why delivery companies still aren’t your friends. ft Ed Smith Vaughn Tan James Hansen @Angela_Hui The Food Programme and Eatlikeagirl vittles.substack.com/p/vittles-11

‘Of all American homicide victims killed by people they don’t know, approximately one-third of them are victims of the police.’ granta.com/violence-in-bl…

‘It is not informational, it is not a blameshift, it is not all-lives-matter top down and sideways blank.’ Poetry by Vahni Capildeo, originally commissioned by Poet in the City and the British Library for Collections in Verse. granta.com/windrush-refle…

My little offering of words. Some notes on what the first week was like in Minneapolis as we raged and burned and dreamed of a city free from white supremacist structures like the police. (1/2) newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

PDF of Angela Davis' phenomenally clear & profound 'Are Prisons Obsolete?' Available to all here - feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/upl… Imagining a world without prisons & police has to be our focus as a society if we're serious about equality.

We are thrilled to hear that RENDANG by - is shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prizes for Best First Collection! Read ‘Holy Man’, which appears in the collection, right here. granta.com/holy-man/

After nearly ten incredible years publishing poets @grantamag, I am leaving the magazine to begin teaching creative writing Queen Mary University of London ~ I am so grateful to all the poets who trusted me with their work – we made a beautiful space! My final issue was the 35th Granta I’d worked on.

Wrote about K Patrick’s novel Mrs S for the @lrb – it’s hot & butch & subverts the lesbian romance – there are literally no corsets

Our friend Gboyega Odubanjo is still missing. He hasn't been seen since Saturday morning. Please wrack your brain for anyone you know who might have been at Shambala and seen him.

Here is an updated photo of what Gboyega Odubanjo was last seen wearing, missing since @ShambalaFest. Please share and if you have any relevant information contact Northamptonshire Police on 101, quoting ref MPD1/2619/23.

For London Review of Books, wrote about Bryan Washington’s novels and trying to escape your family lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…