A seemingly modern moment of abstraction in a medieval manuscript, representing silence as a yellow rectangle: publicdomainreview.org/collection/yel… “And when he opened the 7th seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour” (Silos Apocalypse, BL Add MS 11695)

This video was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Blue Danube.

Indulge in a Poetry Retreat Day at the Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire, with Roz Goddard & Jane Commane guiding you through creative workshops and sharing poems. Be inspired. Book your place for Sunday 2nd November here: poetrypharmacy.co.uk/pages/events-i…

🧵Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

First, a bit of backstory. This spring, I started tracking the times immigration agents detained American citizens I spoke to experts who warned that the scattered cases I initially found would only grow as Trump's aggressive deportation plans took shape propublica.org/article/more-a…

Woman of the Day physicist Marguerite Perey, born OTD in 1909 in Seine-Saint-Denis, achieved two firsts. In 1939, she discovered the second-rarest but most unstable naturally occurring element on Earth, rarer by a long chalk than the fact that a man took credit for it and it took

🎧A brilliant listen, here's Erica Hesketh & Jenny Pagdin talking about the Poetry of Motherhood for the National Centre for Writing #podcast: shaping their stories, exploring memory and experimenting with form, sharing poems and connecting with readers. nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/th…

Our Masterclass Webinar series on getting your #poetry published starts on Monday 17 November. Sign up for this course of three weekly sessions led by Jane Commane, for just £45. Recordings sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live. eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-maste…

One of my favorite short lectures by Anne Carson.

So happy to have my #poem ‘To Put the Words In Place’ shortlisted by the The Bridport Prize & many many congratulations to the commended & winning #poets & #writers.

This made me smile: ‘Did #WilliamBlake Foresee the Louvre Heist!” Source: #Londonist share.google/4uhvJyX1vy2LV7…

They’re literally shouting it out loud! Their plan to overturn the constitution and democracy. They’re not hiding it. They’re bragging about it. And the media are just ignoring it, or worse normalizing it; the biggest story perhaps in modern American history. Kill. Me. Now.

Beast is six months old today! Published 24 April. Thank you to Bloodaxe Books my dream publisher, and to everyone who reviewed & interviewed, stocked it and the many launch event organisers who welcomed my 9th collection. More events to come! Special thanks to all the readers

The East Wing Obscenity - Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies - an exquisitely written piece. Must read! therickwilson.substack.com/p/the-east-win…

Embroidery by the first hunger striking suffragette, Scottish artist Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864-1942) #WomensArt

Woman of the Day suffragist and lawyer Belva Ann Lockwood, born OTD in 1830 in New York, was the first woman to be admitted to the bar at the US Supreme Court. That was in 1879 but let me tell you about the manmade obstacles she had to overcome - many, so many - before her

❤️ to the #Writers Who Hear, See, Say & Inspire Anew Like #DavidBowie Richard Skinner Pádraig Ó Tuama #danobrien Ilya Kaminsky Paul Watson #MartinMalone Ruth Padel Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 #amyferris Dorothy Oger CommaJane Caroline Bird Sarah Smith #JoBell Brandon Watson #DavidBowieArchives

#Hugs & ❤️ & Gratitude to the #Writers Who Know No Human Is Illegal Paul Dornan David Barker 📕 Pax & The Missing Head out now Karen Hamilton Robert Harper Laurie Garrett Sarah Kendzior vayunaiduauthor Helen Young @RebeccaAyarsPr Paul La Rosa Patrick, not Pat

#Love & #Gratitude to #Writers Who Know The Time for Loving Is Now!! Paul McVeigh Writer Niamh Mac Cabe #JessKidd Emma Flint (flint.writes on Threads)📚💀🖤📚 Ruth Geldard Sonya Hundal MargateBookie Tracy Fells Rose McGinty Antonia Honeywell Gillian Anton #elizabethrosner Annabel Abbs soniaboue

#Love to the #ImpossiblePoets Whose Work & #Words Help Me to Face the World Imogen Forster Sarah Smith Jessica Boatright tor Neil Gower Charlotte Baldwin Helen Frame Heidi Beck #EveEllis CommaJane Caroline Bird Ian Stevens #WriteOn