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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · May 29

'Leeks' is not just a poem—it’s a protest, a diary, a hunger. In the doing, in the smiling, in the not-quite-enough. @eloisearmary.bsky.social weaves scarcity into art, survival into verse.

Watch here
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#InkSweatandTears #Submission #Filmpoem #PoetryCommunity

Leeks

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Mar 3

Submit your creative and critical international responses to the rise of the Far Right : to be published in Interfere Journal. I am co-editing the issue

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Interfere Journal Call for Papers Revised Deadline | CAPPE

  Siamo tuttx antifascistx(Taken from the Italian 1920s slogan “siamo tutti antifascisti” (masc.), contemporary activist literature uses the...

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Feb 5

Loving these interviews xx

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Feb 3

my poem "Mustard," published in @berlinlit.bsky.social

"I will say no to God the way a red flag unravels"

Mustard

It’s not enough that I’m alive
I must also have a massive hamburger
crisp lettuce tomatoes wide as the wheels
of my son’s Tonka dump truck I must
witness a chef dip like a layman
a stiff brush into a vat of salted butter
and glaze my hamburger roll with strokes
gentle as a finger comforting a weeping toddler’s cheek
and if it is raining let it be two drum stores fist fighting
and if it is spring let it be the gloomiest spring
let the mud spray its blood through the air
and the tulips pushing through the earth
are just the broken crowns of fallen kings
I want a beer that will get me so drunk
tomorrow will arrive windblown and out of breath
like an ex begging to get back together
I will say no to God the way a red flag unravels
I will adorn the mirrors in their best little black dresses
When I say we’re going out I mean we are
going anywhere but inward—oh father
I thought I’d built in me a lake cottage
where your death could live I thought
I’d taken the correct measurements
poured my grief into a solid foundation
What I made was too small way too small
And now your huge death is knocking
What if I set the house on fire

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Jan 29

look at this found poem/form from a drone review!!

a chart of wind speeds where increasing wind speeds are described poetically, such as “the smoke rises straight” for 0 mph or “Umbrellas are hard to touch” for 10-14 mph

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · Jan 27

That's it. Far and away the best thing I've done on here, a #StarterPack now completely full of great #writers looking for #agents Now let it do its work. Please share widely and help these fine people, all worth a follow, to get known and represented.
Agents, it's over to you...
#writingcommunity

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · Jan 26

This poem made me stop in my tracks.

The Day of Our Divorce Hearing

you treated me to lunch, a spaghetti place.
We had never been so kind to each other.
When you said I'm still a slob we laughed.
After lunch we stood in the parking lot.
You said, You have the last word but I said, No, I'm tired of being the one who sums things up.
You get the last word.
But you couldn't think of one.
So off you went to our silver car, I to our red one.
It's three years later.
And even that's just a story now.
Lately I don't feel as if I lived with you.
But I remember our kindness that day, when it no longer mattered.

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 26

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · Jan 26

exactly 🧡💚💙

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 26

I’ve thought thoughts this week. Read them below

#writer

Timothée, Bob & doppelgängers

Films, books, exhibitions I’ve fed myself with

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 25

Thanks for organising this Paul!

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 25

Could I be added? Thanks!!

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · Jan 25

A new #StarterPack of writers, well worth following, who are also seeking an agent. If you want to be included, then like, share, follow, ask in the chat, and I'll include you. And to writers/readers in general, please share so we can include more fine talents here
#booksky #writing #writers #agents

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 24

Got a funding rejection that was going to reboot my poetry podcast 😢 life as a creative, eh

Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 24

Amazing news Charlotte!

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 23

was already obsessed with Timothée Chalamet but his performance of Bob Dylan is next level

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · Jan 23

Timothée Chalamet's performance as Bob Dylan in 'A Complete Unknown' is a magic trick — and when he brings that trick to the 'SNL' stage as musical guest, it will represent a new frontier in Oscar campaigning

Chalamet Goes Electric

Twenty years ago, nearly to the day — on Jan. 22, 2005, at 11:30 p.m. ET — the great Paul Giamatti was midtown hosting Saturday Night Live. The actor was there to do all the “normal” ostensibly fun sh...

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · Jan 23

The #Oscars nominees for Best Picture are…

Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked

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kyah ♡ @kyahreads.bsky.social · Jan 20

As the U.S. shifts into a volatile political landscape targeting critical thinking, I want to share an important reminder to the #booksky community:

The only way to preserve literature is by collecting physical copies.

I know, Kindle users, it sucks—but your digital copy can be deleted any time.

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Roxi Wheels @roxiwheels.bsky.social · Jan 20

Today and in the coming days, remember

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 20

#booksky see what I’ve been reading last week below. Now reading Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 19

What I’ve been reading, watching, writing this week ft David Lynch, TS Eliot Prize winner Peter Gizzi and a whooping 3.5/5 on my writing goal

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This week’s dose of culture

Hey friends,

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 20

hello #booksky welcome to this sweet space, I’m a poet and below is a poem of mine

Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Nov 25

hi bluesky here is my collage love poem (cento) published in Young Poets Network @poetrysociety.bsky.social

I wrote it by cutting extracts of printed love poems on a small table at my school day job

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 19

What I’ve been reading, watching, writing this week ft David Lynch, TS Eliot Prize winner Peter Gizzi and a whooping 3.5/5 on my writing goal

open.substack.com/pub/eloisear...

This week’s dose of culture

Hey friends,

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 14

Editing the first two pages of my verse novel (weekly writing goal 1 of 5)

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Karen Costa (she/her) @karencosta.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is one of my favorite resources that I'm sharing with students so far. From Slow Factory. There are so many ways we can contribute. Our activism doesn't have to look like their activism.

#HigherEd
#FacDev
#ClimateAction

Callings and Roles for Collective Liberation includes a list of ten possible roles including Analyst and Writer.

Callings and Roles for Collective Liberation includes a list of ten possible roles including Abolitionist and Healer.

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Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary @eloisearmary.bsky.social · Jan 12

starting strong! writing week: 5/5

I almost didn’t write on a long work day, then reminded myself that it’s only ten minutes so I did it. simple. no promise of result just that I am sitting there with my pen my notebook sometimes my laptop