Horror at the genocidal violence in Gaza; disgust at the violence perpetrated on protesting students in the US; loathing of 'liberals' of my own age who default to authoritarian responses when their world-views are challenged. Especially those who call themselves 'educators'. 😠

Delighted to announce the program for the 2024 European Poetry Festival! June 19th - July 3rd. 10 events, over 100 new collaborations. Thanks National Poetry Library Rich Mix Writers Kingston HundredYearsGallery ACF London National Centre for Writing Open Eye Gallery europeanpoetryfestival.com/2024

Stop Redundancies of Creative Arts Lecturers at Edge Hill University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/yWp8NHW25w via Change.org UK

1/ Two years ago today, on 4/25/22, Twitter’s Board accepted Elon Musk’s offer to acquire the company at $54.20/share.

As an ex-director for civic integrity at Twitter, I’ve watched what Musk has done since then.

And today is my last post on this platform.

I’m leaving.
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experimental poetry film performance sent to me by AG Davis -- who we published recently at Ice Floe -
enjoy! Asked me to pass it on for viewing edification if I enjoyed it. x🔥🌟🖤
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Jerome Rothenberg 1931 - 2024, in memoriam stevenjfowler.com/blog/jeromerot…

Stephen Broomer’s Tondal’s Vision, viewable now on Vimeo.

Whilst we read submissions for issue #2 of Pissoir!, please do consider picking a copy of our weird little lit mag and support a tiny independent press 💜

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Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Untitled
1936

28 x 24.5 cm

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'But first we must accept what true authorhood actually is: a cloak thrown onto a hook where once hung Christ's post-resurrectional flesh; that is the true flesh which haunts the spectre of every torso lost to the imagination of God'

It's #nationalpoetrymonth -- in 2020 The Blasted Tree published my 'Flash Haiku' as an eenie-weenie 2.5'x2.5' limited edition leaflet : theblastedtree.com/blog/flashhaik…

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Here's what James Knight wrote about 'Enochian Alphabet' by Richard Capener. Get your copy here: timglaset.com/produktsida/ri…
'The Enochian Alphabet is a work of dark semiotic magic, hammered out on an old typewriter, in which clusters of upper-case letters seeth and swarm, =>

'Y' released 45 years ago today on April 20th 1979

'I am so proud of our first child' - Mark Stewart
April 16th, 2023

🖤👇these poems are speaking on behalf of me Dan Power

New arrival this morning from ⁦Tom Jenks⁩ and a beautiful book this is! Having had Leeuwenhoek & microscopes on my mind of late, couldn’t believe this opening poem, either 🖤 highly recommended!

#InThePost latest by Ian Seed Ian Seed, teaching me about flash fiction:

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'The result of the maxim 'To be absolutely modern' is , in Rimbaud's later poems, the result of almost the half-thought of some supreme legislator sent from eternity to re-awaken us from a stupor that all previous poetry had dropped us into'.

Publish Julia Rose Lewis's Book gofund.me/5fb687b0