…a daffodil voluntary, and an abrupt reduction in the apparent height of an arch on the famous Tay railbridge (the ither one, the one that’s still there) - it’s the #DundeeRenga for Aprilios! (2/2)

Imaginary collective nouns available today in the #DundeeRenga for April: a comparison of rains, an understudy of celandines… (1/2)

🤓Tickets are on sale for Newcastle Poetry Festival 2024! #NPFP24 📚Please join us for 3 days of readings, panels, workshops, commissions, performances and school events 9-11 May Northern Stage Newcastle University

Booking info here 🎫newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk

I’m not sure how to tell you this, Small Multi of Bureaucratic Dreams, but I don’t think that robotic giraffe likes you.

Never mind, you shall forever stand (and be pecked) in #VirtualDundee .

All we are saying is give pease pudding a chance.

- Look it’s that Simon Barraclough!
- Where?
- I’m pointing right at him, well, the post about him.
- I can’t see your finger.
- Are you wearing your Obtuseness Shades again?
- They make me look cool!
- How would you know?

Mute your pettifogging inner dialogues with #DivineHours !

Sonnet #5 by Ian Duhig opens the second ‘quatrain’ of our corona with a note of hope:

Yet hope may nest in some page’s white space,
waiting for the language that makes war fail.
Its inkwell would mean more than any Grail.

#PeaceSonnetChain #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

One for GhostFurnitureCatalogue, especially if you imagine all the voices are moths or ghosts or ghosts of moths, all of whom hang out together to talk about the light fittings.

#GhostFurnitureCatalogue

TOMORROW NIGHT!

We’re delighted to be working with one of our favourite indie publishers - AND OTHER STORIES - to launch two of their brilliant new titles: Manya Wilkinson’s LUBLIN and Jessi Jezewska Stevens ’ GHOST PAINS. Manya and Jessi will be in conversation with Tara Tobler.

🎫👇🏻

If you're interested in Japanese culture, taking a deep dive into haiku, and enjoy practicing mindfulness, please join me and host, Kate Oldfield, next Friday The Writing Well for this Spring-inspired workshop!
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If Kathryn Maris tells you something is good, then just sell the rabbit and use the proceeds to snap it up.

Hell, sell all the rabbits, you were never going to eat them anyway!

Simon Barraclough #DivineHours

PREORDER (30.06.24, Simon Barraclough)

Divine Hours is a collection of poetry which has that intangible sense of being in the presence of a master craftsman, showing us the possibilities of language at its most inventive, and its most necessary.

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#LeonoraCarrington :

‘The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit…the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.’

#MichaelHoffman finds of course the perfect quote from #KarlKraus to finish this elegy for our careers.

A quote from #JennyUglow ’s marvellous Mr Lear, re Millais’s habit of getting others to do things for him:

‘The next day…Millais cajoled Lear into carrying the cuttlefish shells that littered the beach: ‘“He doesn’t carry his own cuttlefish” passed into a proverb amongst us.”’’

Here’s another #PublicArt project I’ve been working on for #VirtualDundee , if by ‘working’ we mean staring into the distance and wondering how far away it is:

A large giraffe’s head and neck to protrude from the waves at the Stannergate, staring intently south.

#GiraffeNecks

Newcastle artists ❤️ #Gaza #Palestine
On now High Bridge Works: Crowdfunder Art Exhibition, Family Open Day TODAY: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ncamap
11 May: Music Fundraiser Star & Shadow Cinema cinema
starandshadow.org.uk/programme/even…
23 May: 4 Palestinian creatives w/us, Free:
ncl.ac.uk/ncla/events/ev…

And... we're back! Counting down the days until 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus is here to read and celebrate the life of Benjamin Zephaniah w/ Newcastle University English at Newcastle's Dr Shalini Sengupta Dr Shalini Sengupta. Free 25 April, 6.30-8pm! ncl.ac.uk/ncla/events/ev…
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One for GhostFurnitureCatalogue in the surprisingly well-stocked category of #EdibleFurniture .

#GhostFurnitureCatalogue

From listening to the oak roots call to the wandering hills of Angus, it can only be the #DundeeRenga for the month of the excitable hare: