thinking about jennifer michael hecht as the month itself approaches…this last line is the stuff of legend to me

I'm launching Arthropod, my wriggly beast of a book that travelled back from the Netherlands with me. Reading and launching alongside other readers and launchers, do come along. death of workers whilst building skyscrapers @tom

This is precisely the kind of unsettling I was looking for this evening.

Make art that seeks to tear down empire, confronts it with honesty and teeth. Don’t glamorize empire, don’t assist it, don’t make it your muse or you will be its mule.

there are “there are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see” everywhere for those with eyes to see ✨

Few prime ministers have abrogated their responsibility or declared their incompetence so openly. But, having given him credit for admitting that, there is nothing else Starmer said or did that can in any way be considered to be the action of a responsible prime minister.

One of the best openings to a poem ever.

"I never saw light that way / again."

Such a stunning poem by Lucy Holme - Roberts published in The London Magazine 'the Basque summer ushered its stun of warm rain'

incredibly good poem by Dillon Jaxx Dillon Jaxxpoet , published in Passionfruit Review

In Search of Lost Time but every sentence ends with "lol" ... drive.google.com/file/d/1rrahfd…

Yes. Worth your reading glasses. Dense with pain and delight. Ay Dios mío de mi vida.

Lucille Clifton. From - How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (BOA Editions, 2020).

At 2pm on Sunday 20th October at Lancaster Library, we are delighted to be welcoming Polly Atkin Atkin to talk about her new book - The Company of Owls. You can attend in-person (£5) or watch online -live or on catch up- (£3). Book your tickets here: geni.us/PollyLFAW

it is blindingly obvious at this point that these LLMs are not just incredibly shoddy technology, they're also immoral. They steal work from authors, provide false information constantly, and are cooking the planet. There is no excuse for using them as an educator.

ICYMI for your weekend weird reading..

new poem out on iamb ~ poetry seen and heard after Van Gogh's 'Wheatfield with Crows'

There's only one thing to learn from Italy about the far-right

brilliant poem by Julie Runacres Running on Empty, commended in this year's Poetry Wales competition.

hired muscle clasping hands around the throat of a man calling out the sanctioning of genocide while some authoritarian-ass ghoul appears to condemn the concept of protest and an audience gleefully laps it up is such a great look!!!!! glad i didn’t vote for these scumbags