Gboyega Odubanjo is our feature poet for issue 13. The issue will feature two poems from his forthcoming collection, ADAM, which will be published by Faber later this year. We love and miss our friend. We can’t wait for you to read the issue 🦆

They say that tomorrow is Eid, summer is gone, winter has arrived, then New Year, then summer again, Ramadan and Eid, and I stumble every day in a whole world designed from my nightmares.

There are a thousand soldiers and a thousand shells between me and my home.

🚨 We’ve got 12 days to get this urgent petition to 100k signatures. We know we can do this!

We need a Gaza Family Scheme that would reunite families & offer sanctuary until it is safe to return.

Sign + click on the link sent via email after to confirm: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

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'Near the town you lived in, there might have been grasslands and birch trees, neighbouring lakes, mesmeric gardens, and long stretches of canola fields, but amidst all the space, there was not even one single mosque.'

Trigger Notebook, my new piece in @criticalmuslim no. 49

Thanks so much to Natalie Linh Bolderston for reviewing #ignitionpress pamphlets by Fahad Al-Amoudi and Laboni Islam in the latest issue of Under the Radar from Nine Arches Press! Read the reviews online now: x.com/NineArchesPres…

I was honoured to review these brilliant pamphlets for Under the Radar ☀️ You can now read the full review online 🌟

another one for Manchester friends, and one I’m particularly proud to have helped organise — Mary Jean Chan, Rachael Allen and Katie O’Pray reading PoetsandPlayers x Burgess Foundation on 23rd March — it’s going to be an amazing event poetsandplayers.co

Over 30 thousand are dead and 72 thousand brutally injured. Over 170 journalists, poets, scholars and thinkers, gone. Over 12 thousand bairns taken too soon.

When will this be over?
We need a #ceasefirenow

Thank you Book Workers for a Free Palestine
#LBFVigil #LBF24

We are asking all Book Workers for a Free Palestine supporters to share and repost these graphics in solidarity using the hashtags #LBFVigil , #LBF24 and #ceasefirenow .

Poetry workshops with Natalie Linh Bolderston coming up 🖋🖋

Can’t believe my new pamphlet COLOURS OF MOURNING Guillemot Press is now out 😭😭

The poems are inspired by my grandfather’s paintings & each copy of the book comes with postcards of the artworks I write about 👇

guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/maia-el…

More on mothers: ‘Notes inside a Balikbayan Box’ by 🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡 (from Antiemetic for Homesickness)

If World Book Day won’t make a statement, we as children’s authors will🇵🇸🙏🏾

Reading is all about empathy and we should use that to stand firmly with Palestine ALL the children deserve to be happy, well fed and live long fulfilling lives. We must never forget them.

Congrats to Creative Future's new Stoke-On-Trent Writer in Residence Natalie Linh Bolderston! These workshops look proper mint!

Super excited to be running 2 poetry writing workshops in #StokeOnTrent this April, at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery & Drop City Books! Booking link below 👇
Please share with anyone who may be interested 🪷
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Meet our Stoke-On-Trent Writer in Residence, Natalie Linh Bolderston ✨

Natalie will be running two poetry workshops in April & open days at Drop City Books & @potteriesmuseum where you can drop in & have a go at a writing prompt 😊

Find out more 👇
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this poem / is a political poem / is a war poem

—Lucille Clifton

Do not let these actions go in vain. Speak up, protest, boycott, share resources, donate if you can, refuse to stand for genocide against palestine.