Bruise
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Let's write a better future. “Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." Rosa Luxembourg linktr.ee/BenBruges
Many thanks to @thelakepoetry.bsky.social for publishing my poem 'Bone Stories'. Bone Stories (Capela dos Ossos, Evora, Portugal) After worms and soil of decay had done their cleansing best, skeletons and skulls were stacked... www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry/ben-b...
The Lake - contemporary poetry webzine - Ben Bruges
New page
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I have a feeling I'm on some kind of list to be blocked. It would be nice if those maintaining the list or any of those following it would tell me their reason for blocking me. I won't hold my breath. The only reason I know, is because there's a @listifications.app that monitors.
This explains it all really…
My poem needs someone to read it! And, while you're there, subscribe to my Substack? open.substack.com/pub/benbruge...
A Tissue of Lies
How secure do you feel? A question posed by this poem.
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Vicky Wilson is going to stand as an independent candidate in May, supported by Hastings Peoples Party, starting with a community meeting to ask - should she stand? will the attendees help get her elected? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-will-s...
Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
End the sewage pollution scandal
We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...
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Roundabout - a poem about addiction and generation loops open.substack.com/pub/benbruge...
Roundabout
A poem about addiction and generational loops
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Hastings Housing Rebellion have occupied a family house to prevent private company Southern Housing from selling it off to the private market. Southern acquired the house with a covenant that they had to keep it for rented affordable accommodation. Please sign c.org/c2HSYmcbcv
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Southern Housing - stop selling off our social housing
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Why is engagement on Bluesky so low?! There are very many people following very many people, but there appears to be very little debate or exchange of ideas going on. Do you have any idea why that might be? I want to engage with a poetry audience who are up for challenging poetry. Any suggestions?
A new poem published by the delightful people at @ausauthora.bsky.social - I think of it as modern myth-making. See if it resonates with you?
Sharon's Mouthful
Modern myth-making in this newly published poem
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FILM NIGHT - to inspire and organise! Join Hastings People's Party for a community film night or short films and discussion, with contributions from local housing activists. Wednesday 11 February / 7pm / Quaker Meeting House, 5 South Terrace, Hastings
New poem published on new Substack. Read or read and follow. I've included an audio recording as well. open.substack.com/pub/benbruge...
Talking English
Are you interested in the meanings encoded in language?
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Excuse the bloody photo. You might like the poem that goes with it and the collection of poems that are available in a downloadable PDF. Enjoy! (And subscribe) From lovely people @thebrokenspine.co.uk open.substack.com/pub/benbruge...
'A Goring of Butchers'
A poem published in a downloadable PDF
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Give it another hour or so, and it'll be a year exactly since a WhatsApp message from my sister informed me that our father had died. Speaking of WhatsApp, here's a poem about my (largely textual) relationship with my dad, written roughly 14 months before he passed.
Are you interested in a free PDF of poetry to download? How about the latest edition of Harrow House Journal? substack.com/@benbruges/n... And also my new Substack account to follow.
Poetry by Ben Bruges (@benbruges)
Are you interested in a free PDF of poetry to download? How about the latest edition of Harrow House Journal? “Harrow House was born of a desire to create a healing space for poets to share works cen...
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It is an honor to have two new hyper vulnerable poems in the latest issue of SALAMANDER, a journal I’ve been trying to burrow into for a decade. If you need your Bell Jar fix, want to hear about my study abroad to France 20 years ago, or want a splitter explained, read these!
Walking down from the coastal path into Tenby, and came across this blue plaque. I thought I'd share.
If there was a justified humanitarian Zionist movement, it has mutated now into a monster. Perhaps ISIS began by feeding the poor. Perhaps the swastika used to mean "good luck" in Sanskrit but not today. Those who continue to describe themselves as Zionists are ignorant or guilty by association.
Attempting to start a Substack for my poetry. Please subscribe or follow. open.substack.com/pub/benbruge...
Abraham's Children
Maybe attempting to create hope is a revolutionary activity?
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