BRITISH CULTURE

Here at Juvenile Arthritis Research, we love creative writing and poetry.
So we were absolutely thrilled to have been chosen as the children's charity that will benefit from the proceeds of The Dirigible Balloon 🎈 Balloon's new anthology of poems due to be released later this year.

YT Review - Zones of Discomfort: 'Enlarging the Tent' by Jonathan Doering & Nin Njuguna
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YT Poem of the Week: 'Great Expectations' by Doreen Gurrey The Poetry Business
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Poem of the Week - Children's Special: 'Orcadia' by Rachel Burrows Jonathan Humble 🎈
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The DB and Yorkshire Times Publishing have decided that profit from sales of the next anthology (out at the end of 2024) will be donated to Juvenile Arthritis Research (UK charity no 1091620).

I am on my way to Kendal Library (late shift tonight) with a massive smile on my face. Don't anyone do anything until I return this evening! #DirigibleBalloon #PoetryForChildren

“This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,”

Exciting News From The Balloon
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A call for help with our anthology ...
chris riddell Fred Blunt John Shelley🌿🎨🇪🇺 Fintan Taite
Jo Byatt Grace Sandford Chloe Douglass Tim Budgen ✐ Jim Field Benji Davies Alison Brown
Steve May Rikin Parekh🇪🇺💙☮️ Jason Chapman Colin West
#PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon

I’m very moved by the sequence Notes on Water, on loss and rebuilding, by Amanda Dalton from her forthcoming ⁦Bloodaxe Books⁩ collection Fantastic Voyage. This is an extract.

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Short🧵

Good for a chuckle.

During the Peninsular War (1808-1814) Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington allegedly wrote a letter to the British War Office after he/his staff were consistently pestered by staff officers wanting administrative details.

YT Poem of the Week: 'Off Duty' by Katie Donovan Bloodaxe Books
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The exceptional Ben Wilkinson.

Tom Paulin’s Heine is not a Tony Harrison fan then.

Bread & Roses: 'Jennie Lee' at Bingley Little Theatre Duncan Clarke PR
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Oh man.

Cunts, cunts, utter cunts. I despise these people.