Disability Rights UK are working with BBC Newsnight on a programme on carers, DWP and overpayments.

If you are an affected carer willing to talk, please email:

[email protected] for details.

how can we write about our friends? join me for the Bristol Bristol Folk House workshop THE POETRY OF FRIENDSHIP this Sunday 5th at 10am-1pm! ✨✨✨✨✨🖊️🖊️ more here (concessions available): bristolfolkhouse.co.uk/courses/the-po…

Students of the University of Bristol have established an encampment jn protest of the university's complicity in Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Come join us at Royal Fort Gardens! #FreePalestine #UniversityofBristol #ArmsOffCampus

Isabel Galleymore in Bristol! 29 May! come one come all! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

Do you identify as a flâneur (my new favourite word) and wish you could write about it? Suzannah V. Evans will show you how, and in the beautiful Somerset House no less! #poetry #london

Bristol friends, Bollywood dance clases in Bristol (they sure don't have them in Bath when I last checked)? I'm not sure I could attend regularly, but I'd like to know what's out there. #bollywood #dance #Bristol

Many thanks to david gaffney for this 'spotted in the wild' photo of Grief's Alphabet (@SerenBooks) at Poetry Pharmacy 🚑💊📚🇪🇺--and thanks, too, for buying it! What great company with Andrew McMillan and Katy Evans-Bush, among others! 😍😊🥰

excited to be taking part in this! 🌿🍃🌊

Electric prisms, 1914, by pioneering Ukrainian-French artist Sonia Delaunay #WomensArt

ace!! + then sign up for my Bristol Bristol Folk House workshop LUNCH POEMS on Sunday 2 June exploring O'Hara + city wandering! 🍟☀️bristolfolkhouse.co.uk/courses/lunch-…

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h… Ho ho ho, I'm on the ol wireless again! This time I got to host the utterly brilliant Rachel Matthews, Anna Muggeridge, and Sarah Ward Clavier, all doing blinding research on what the local means across the postal service, councils, and newspapers

friendship! poetry! next Sunday Bristol Folk House! sign up here: bristolfolkhouse.co.uk/courses/the-po…

Come work School of English; looking for a fab novelist or short story writer to join the CW team. Lovely students, supportive department, great city. Share! Apply! 🤓✨

Love this short essay on #criptime and how it echoes much of my own experiences of multi-dimensions of time distortion I write about in Some of Us Just Fall #Chronicity #TheChronicLife

“It’s the hardest thing to do, to see a book that no one has ever seen before except its author, to say something about it, to investigate it and solve its poetics to your own satisfaction.” —Helen Vendler

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The Trades Union Congress (Trades Union Congress) has responded to the UK Government’s violations of Disabled People’s rights:

“UN report paints a “damning picture” of life for disabled people”

Read their full response below 👇

tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-un-re…

Let’s remember this is a situation that was entirely overlooked at the start of the pandemic, largely dismissed & ignored in the middle of it, and now treated as if the cause is historical & not ongoing.

So, yeah, it’s a public health failure.
#LongCovid theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

'Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, including some bound and stripped of their clothes.'

I do not understand why more people are not talking about this. I do not understand any of this at all.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

“If five years ago, we were to imagine that a completely new disease, which for some can cause medium- to long-term, and potentially disabling symptoms in approximately 3% of the population, which is what the new figures suggest, we would be enormously concerned.”
#LongCovid

Our gates are open! We're excited to welcome more visitors back to the yard - a huge step on our road to recovery since the fire in May last year.
With such solid support from local residents, our volunteers, visitors and businesses, we feel like we have our character back.