sometimes it’s not a poem or an essay but a secret third thing

Really excited about this book. Can’t wait to share with you. Thank you Penguin Books UK and DGA Aparna Kumar for believing in my writing. Thank you to my first readers for going with my ideas. The New Carthaginians is about to take flight. #poetlife #makethetea

- James Baldwin talking about Love.

It was so great to see Hanan Issa in Cardiff who so kindly let me use part of her poem The Unsung (written to mark the 75th birthday of the National Health Service) in #Unheard. Hanan is a brilliant writer, friend and National Poet of Wales no less! 👇🏽 literaturewales.org/lw-news/nation…

[looking at a newborn baby] she doesn’t even know Viggo Mortensen broke his toe while filming The Two Towers 🥲

Sinwar's last weapon being a stick reminds me of Refaat Alareer saying he'd throw markers if the IDF ever forced their way into his class

That feeling when you need to write but can’t stop thinking about trying to draw the xenomorph Alien Queen as Botticelli’s Venus to accompany a poem you wrote…

If you had to lipsync an entire film as best as you can, which would it be? Ill go first: Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom

Read an open letter signed by hundreds of authors pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions. lithub.com/hundreds-of-au…

I have all but stopped bringing up Sudan in polite company. They ask, how are you, and I smile and say fine, because how do you say ‘my uncle escaped a massacre last night’.

My son’s first poetry lesson of Yr 8 and guess what they did…

Are you learning Welsh to a higher level and want to learn more about the ancient craft of the cynghanedd?  🪄 Join the masters and #getwriting at Tŷ Newydd tynewydd.wales/course/welsh-l…

I don’t understand what happened today at Harvard Bookstore, but the room and shelving spaces were filled with people. I even saw some people watching outside from behind the glass. The books sold out and people asked me to sign on a piece of paper or on a notebook they had.

Had a great time performing in Llanelli today at peoplespeakup - Felt important after the tensions we’ve seen here. Left with only gratitude for a beautiful space doing important work to support local refugee communities Thanks Eleanor & Steve for all the work you do ❤️

Thank you @HafsaHalawa for articulating this so well 💔

Hello! My show is coming to King's Head Theatre in #london in 2 weeks and here’s why you should come

Hopping back on to share this and hoping the RighT person will see it as a ‘F you’ for their racist whining 🤡

✨CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS✨  We're inviting submissions in fiction, life writing, and poetry on the following themes until Friday, 22 November. ✏ Community, Solidarity, Justice  ✏ Healing & Repair  ✏ Dystopias & Aftermaths Submit your work: wasafiri.org/about/submit/

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