Cult of the Spiny Hog #25: April – June 2024 – NOW OPEN

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3 Months of Competitions, Challenges, Oodles of Downloads and a posh box of books or eBooks delivered to your door.

Seriously.

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A weekend of poetry news starts here.

The third release of Mark Antony Owen's is available to read from today. Do drop in and find out what I've been working on since Release Two back in 2021.

subruria.com/release-three

April is National Poetry Month. Each day during #NationalPoetryMonth Muse-Pie Press will celebrate by highlighting a poet and poem from one of our digital journals. April 11, Marian Christie, The Fib Review Issue #36, 'Crochet', musepiepress.com/fibreview/issu…

Considering solar panels for your home? Not sure where to start? Join 24,000 Kent households in going solar with Solar Together backed by the council.

#Mali : Junta suspends political Parties, associations, a move that reflects its relentless crackdown on peaceful opposition. Authorities should lift the suspension, allow political parties to operate freely, commit to upholding fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch
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Margaret Royall Anna Saunders Wonderful news, Margaret🌟

📚So excited! Time to reveal my poetry news. My new wee collection, ‘Hemlock & Honey’ will be published in July by Impspired. Already Steve has a delightful cover proposed. Poems of challenge and rapture, Flashback and Prolepsis, with sonnets inspired by classes with Anna Saunders

Although the link between fair livelihoods & peace is well-established, there is a lack of comprehensive evidence or best practices. Read Interpeace new paper: #Livelihoods4Peace , which proposes a theory of change, principles and key entry points.
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Sudan: A Year of War crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-af… via @crisisgroup

This night the terrorist russia completely destroyed the largest power generating facility of Kyiv region - the 1.8 GW Trypilska thermal power plant located 45 km from Kyiv. The plant was running on coal and gas.

The destroy our energy system.

WE NEED AIR DEFENSE NOW

When your mail is typically nothing but bills and circulars, a day like today is a good mail day. Many thanks to Nine Pens Press and Flight of the Dragonfly Press for this wonderful pair! Looking forward to reading Jen Feroze 💙 and Phil Vernon in particular.

Shout out to the poetry editors who do it out of love and passion because I can tell you from first hand experience it’s certainly not done for money - because there is none. All income goes back into publishing the books, running the websites, ISBN, paying illustrators etc.

Thank you ⁦Phil Vernon⁩ for this copy of ‘Guerilla Country. We need to read this in the current climate. As my endorsement reads ‘This is a brilliant collection. Go buy a copy’. ⁦Nigel Kent⁩ ⁦Margaret Royall⁩ ⁦Jessica Mookherjee⁩ #Peacemaking

Interesting read- but “Abiy can have a voice in this process, but it cannot be louder than others’” seems like a very high hurdle