I had a full day of writing today and I’m so drained. And tomorrow is MONDAY 🙃🥲

no kings, no cops, no billionaires, no fascists, no enablers, no terfs, no bigots, no scolds, no joy thieves, no antisemites, no genocide apologists, no AI

Where’s your favourite place to buy secondhand books online?

Many things over the past decade have done or are doing incalculable damage to the UK. Immigration is not one of them. But this spineless rush to embrace xenophobic far-right rhetoric is. I'm speechless with anger at the utter disgrace of it.

Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done ‘incalculable’ damage to UK, economically and politically – UK politics live

PM unveils new policies meant to drive down net migration by end of this parliament

theguardian.com

Such a great read.

Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · last yr.

Great Vittles article on the commodification of Korean food in the UK & around the globe (& a call for 밥상 appreciation): "In the case of Korean food, this journey was curated by Hallyu and a set of hungry corporations, on a compressed timeline of about twenty years" open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

Picked up at Free Verse yesterday @prototypepubs.bsky.social and can’t wait to read it 💙

apropos of nothing but it's funny how certain folks will always try to chase the style of studio ghibli/miyazaki but only on a surface level and never tackle the themes of environmentalism, anti-war, and empathy i.e. the stuff that made those movies masterpieces

I can watch the forest greening from my window 🍃

Never forget you don’t need a mandate to do the right thing. You can wear a mask and protect others. You can get boosted. You can help someone in need. You can donate to mutual aid. You can amplify voices different than your own. Caring about one another IS a form of resistance.

NEXT WEEK Karan Chambers (one of my wonderful, talented MA poets) is launching her debut chapbook at our London Campus. Woman | Folk is published by Salò Press - an incredible micro-publisher! She’ll be joined by Wendy Allen, Galia Admoni, and fellow MA poets💙

A little reminder that we’re looking for submissions for our anthology! You can be based anywhere in the world 🌍 🩵

Silver Press@silver-press.bsky.social · last yr.

CALL FOR POETRY SUBMISSIONS! Seed/Spore/Rhizome: Ecopoetics of Community and Justice - a new anthology with fieldnotes collective, edited by @pairedaeza.bsky.social, Jessica J. Lee, @alycia.bsky.social & Nina Mingya Powles. Deadline 30/04/25. Guidelines here: www.silverpress.org/blogs/news/c...

Thanks to the Poetry Book Society for choosing Troy Cabida’s “Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti” as their Spring 2025 Pamphlet Choice! And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book. Congratulations Troy!

If you’re dealing with Long Covid - there’s a chance you’re also dealing with MCAS and/or POTS/Dysautonomia. They’re two of the most common comorbids - and can have a devastating impact on quality of life. New allergies? Alcohol intolerance? Dizziness? Fatigue? Fainting? A mega 🧵 of resources

Big news! We are excited to be partnering with @noemipress.bsky.social to extend the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize to writers of Arab heritage based in the UK from this September >>

Noemi Press@noemipress.bsky.social · last yr.

Noemi Press is excited to announce our partnership with Etel Adnan Poetry Prize co-editors and co-founders @joudahfady and Hayan Charara.

Please share with your friends and networks! And thank you to @pairedaeza.bsky.social for use of this beautiful cyanotype image 💙

Please submit to our anthology!! You will be paid, retain rights to your work, and you can be based anywhere in the world!

Silver Press@silver-press.bsky.social · last yr.

CALL FOR POETRY SUBMISSIONS! Seed/Spore/Rhizome: Ecopoetics of Community and Justice - a new anthology with fieldnotes collective, edited by @pairedaeza.bsky.social, Jessica J. Lee, @alycia.bsky.social & Nina Mingya Powles. Deadline 30/04/25. Guidelines here: www.silverpress.org/blogs/news/c...

I love this poem so much 🩵 little extract here:

Alycia Pirmohamed@alycia.bsky.social · last yr.

very glad to have a new poem in TPQ @tupelopress.bsky.social, especially right now when this amazing press is taking a firm and public stance against the appalling new NEA guidelines. if you enjoyed reading this poem/issue, consider making a donation 🫶🏽 www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/alyci...

Please share! A wee reminder to protect copyright so arts & culture sectors are not devastated by AI thieving our work! Emailing your MP & signing the statement just takes 2 minutes. Completing the survey takes longer but templates & help on the links below... #HandsOfOurCopyright #PayTheCreator

Jeda Pearl@jedapearl.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵Please share! Anyone can fill the consultation out - closes February 25th. The UK government plan to change copyright law so that AI companies can legally steal our work and further exploit us. Here's what you can do: ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta... #AIConsultation

Got this beautiful zine today made by Black Lodge Press ✨🌱🍃

Never going to stop shouting about this. You need to buy trans books now. Especially in hardcopy or DRM free formats. Don't say "it'll never happen." Look around. It's already happening.

Abra / Jessica Conwell, Littlest Big Trans Account 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻@pairofclaws.bsky.social · 2y ago

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

I have to encounter the news but I don’t want to hear all the awful things but it’s important that I hear all the awful things but my mental health can’t handle it but I must see it and bear witness but I can’t process the levels of evil but i have to because not doing so would be self indulgent 😢😢😢

february has already blessed me with three beautiful sunrises: orange and golden, glowing, bare branches sculptural in the morning light 🌅

I’m facilitating this FREE workshop over the weekend, for Scotland based POC! Tell your friends and join us 💚✨

Scottish BPOC Writers Network@scotbpocwriters.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please share: Last chance! Register for the 2-day nature poetry course tomorrow, including a workshop with fieldnotes collective (@alycia.bsky.social, @jessicajlee.bsky.social, @pairedaeza.bsky.social and Nina Mingya Powles) scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/our-time-is-...

Here are the gorgeous books and pamphlets I used in my first ‘Working with the Words of Others’ class. By Atef Alshaer Maggie Nelson @victoriachang.bsky.social Nina Mingya Powles @pairedaeza.bsky.social @alycia.bsky.social @jessicajlee.bsky.social 📚

Reading Joy Harjo and her poetry is absolutely transformative. ❤️‍🔥

If you cant afford art, or cant draw or whatever yourself, USE PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES NOT AI.

The Public Domain Review@publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2y ago

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

who’s the mage 🎶🧙 whose major itinerary 📋 is making all oz merrier ✨💚

lately I’ve really been enjoying: - bagels with cream cheese and Serrano chiles 🥯 - gathering, a really beautiful book of essays (pub. 404 Ink) ⛰️ - cold mist lit by orange street lamps 🕯️ - air’s cherry blossom girl 🌸 - my new tartan wool scarf 🧣 - your name (dir. makoto shinkai, 2016) ☄️

last night we had our little launch, people were so kind & supportive & really showed up for us 💕 feeling so grateful for our poetry community and to be in the room alongside such talented writers.