Delighted to share my poem about a Black actress in the 18th century who played Juliet. The poem's written in solidarity with the actress Francesca Amewudah-Rivers who's faced such online abuse. RTs appreciated.

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Corinna Board's (Corinna Board) poem 'Extinction Event', from Issue Three of And Other Poems.

This poem by ⁦Tom Sastry⁩ on ⁦Atrium Poetry⁩ today. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 atriumpoetry.com/2024/04/16/ret…

I will slow down on the Laura Jensen posting soon, I promise. but not yet

“Late in the winter of 1959, poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton were both auditing a creative writing seminar at Boston University led by Robert Lowell.” Steve Moyer explains the influence the poets had on each other. tinyurl.com/8ad8pnxt

New sonnet with references to Cairokee & Ziad. Don’t say we escaped, just that we too failed.

My gratitude to G. Calvocoressi for giving this one a home in Southern Cultures

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Jeremy Corbyn: I would like to make people's lives better
journalists: this mother fucker
Wes Streeting: I would like to make people's lives worse
journalists: this is a politician who values pragmatism over ideology and simply wants to make people's lives better

Poem by Séamus Fey
(from: decompose)

Edna St Vincent Millay is usually known for her petrarchan sonnets but this one is shakespearean and legitimately made me tear up on the train to teach in Bath!!

Some brilliant poems and poets in this issue. A joy to put together.

Check it out 🪟

'don't block arms factories - think of the workers!'
'don't protest mps houses - think of their families!'
'don't protest mps offices - think of the staffers!'

so many different words to say what these people really mean: 'don't do anything at all'

My 'didn't win with nepotism or bribes' t shirt is making people ask a lot of questions etc

[Private healthcare donations literally spilling out of my pockets]: the hard left simply cannot grasp the aspirational, centre-left values of Spire Healthcare Group PLC

It

Jack Spicer

i had this hala alyan poem on my fridge for so many years

Lovely poem

EASTER: BLOGS FROM THE ARCHIVE
'Good novels play on this unfolding process and the relationship between reading and thinking.' englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/why-engli…

‘Mischief Of One Kind And Another’ the latest Nine Series Anthology is full of poems that jump off from folklore, fairy tales and works of Art, like this brilliant piece from Jennie E Owen - poems also from Ben Tufnell & Jen Feroze 💙 - pick up a copy for only £5 from our website 💚

this poem does most of what I want from philosophy

here is Propel Magazine new issue out now & my poem
The Vogelherd Horse Begins His Dreaming Race Through Time
propelmagazine.co.uk/sarah-wallis-t…