Two buses, a hike and a train. At least it’s not raining. Reading Neuromancer by Gibson at the bus stops.
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Turkish poetry translator Poet, writer Cymraes she/they Caroline Stockford https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/human-rights/wtwt/ Poetry translations: https://estoniacordfrock.wordpress.com/
Accurately depicts the sea outside my window today.
Njal Nova@njalnova.bsky.social · 14h agoBroken Water: Twenty Nordic Seas (1862–1970) 3. Peder Balke – The Tempest (c. 1862, Norwegian)
Writers, artists, gamers, creators and lovers of all the above, please sign this petition to make AI companies disclose what their tools have been trained on to make their ghastly generative voices/art/books etc. There’s just over a fortnight to go. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Fighting AI and corporate greed tonight by going to a northern soul do.
@linecaro.bsky.social - Friday's Weekly Round-Up - Lowell Celebrates Kerouac - Kerouac, Ginsberg and John Lennon's birthday, today on the Allen Ginsberg Project - allenginsberg.org/2026/10/f-o-9/
PREORDER: '1996' by Ryuichi Sakamoto The late composer's '96 album hearing performances of career-spanning compositions returns. www.normanrecords.com/records/1483...
Çağdaş edebiyatımızın en büyük isimlerinden Yusuf Atılgan’ı ölümünün 37. yılında eserleriyle anıyoruz.
Congratulations to Anne Carson on the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature! Not that we could have known about it in advance, but @uofmpress.bsky.social had been planning to celebrate Carson's work with a second title in the Under Discussion Series. More details here: press.umich.edu/Books/A/Anne...
Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 6d agoCanadian Anne Carson awarded Nobel Prize in Literature Carson, 76, has previously won several prestigious literary prizes www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Read Anne Carson in Granta as a gift, no paywall. Good news for poetry is good news for the world. Xxx
Granta@grantamag.bsky.social · 5d agoWe congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages. granta.com/contributor/...
My next translation is out this month from Faber Books! Minihorror is good as hell, and perfect for Halloween (and for all-year-round creepiness).
Faber Books@faberbooks.bsky.social · 6d agoA guest at a New Year’s Eve rooftop party finds a parallel universe in the building next door. A woman discovers her boyfriend's family are all made of cookie dough. Minihorror, the darkly surreal short story collection from Barbi Marković and translated by Jen Calleja is out this month 📚
Help save Pothole Studio, a much-loved local resource. We need 2,000 supporters before the end of today. One click and you'll feel good for the rest of the week. Sign here: www.change.org/p/save-our-p... Thank you! #ceramics #pottery #davidandgoliath #urbanarts #cultureforall #Londonarts
Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.
Poetry, pottery - one immaterial, one material - almost the same thing - dreams fed to shapes! Would you sign this quick? It is to protest the closure of a community pottery, much valued place. Around 100 more signatures & they can appeal the decision. Details in the description, thanks!
David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · 7d agoWe're now on 1,883 signatures. One more push! And think how good you'll feel, and you'll have taken a stand for something special. www.change.org/p/save-our-p... Please re-post to your followers!
Wow! I just made a complicated phone call to Student Finance co. using my Welsh. When it’s your 2nd language you’re referred to as a ‘learner’ rather than ‘speaker’(for life). To take charge & opt for the Welsh telephone line is a shove back against those (dead imperialists) who banned it. 😆
After Rilke’s sudden death at the end of 1926, Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva wrote two works addressed to Rilke that sit among the great European modernist poems. You can read my translations of them and a creative essay in Tsvetaeva ‘27 @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
Pavilion Poetry@pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 2w agoLearn more about each of these exciting new collections in our announcement: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2026/10/01/a...
who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
Want to feel like a good person today? For once?? 😆🫶🏽💛 then sign this to save a pottery. 👍🏽 c.org/tRnxG99x7x
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Urgent! Last day to do this! Just 137 more signatures needed to reach 2,000 and send a powerful message to Haringey Council (London Borough of Culture 2027). Save Pothole Studios! Please sign and widely share. Thank you! www.change.org/p/save-our-p...
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David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · last wk.Just 199 signatures more and we reach 2,000! Plus many powerful statements uploaded by supporters which will add to a strong case when Pothole meets the Council this Thursday for what will be a last-ditch attempt to keep things going. PLEASE SUPPORT and PLEASE SHARE. www.change.org/p/save-our-p...
“…language, in refusing transparency, only ever shows itself as the possibility, and not the guarantee, of communication and of truth.” Read some of my thoughts on a couple of my obsessions: Václav Havel and Wim Wender’s Until the End of the World.
Frank Garrett@frankgarrett.online · 2mo ago"It’s bad enough when historians read Benjamin!" Watch me, as the kids say, go off: heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/04/f.... Thanks to the lovely & talented @matthewkinlin.bsky.social for asking me hard questions and making me think, and to @hfr.bsky.social for publishing our conversation.
There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea
Happy release day to A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL! 🥳 This unique horror follows Thamarai as she learns about the supernatural entities that fill her school 👻 OUT NOW! 🎉