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James Mcconachie

@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social

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Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more. https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 2h

“If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.”
– Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 43m

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Sarah Jarosz - Cattails (Big Thief Cover)

YouTube video by Sarah Jarosz

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 15h

Curses to the foolish former me, who thought buying a flashy sports car in need of attention was a great plan.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 16h

Are they gonna make a hames of live-streaming the Forward Prize again?

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 19h

Write a YA Romantasy

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 20h

‘Con Franco se vivía mejor’

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 20h

If I sold the weed on my writing desk, I’d make more money.

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 23h

Somebody just asked me if I live off being a published poet...

a person is sitting on a chair in the middle of a field with trees in the background .

ALT: a person is sitting on a chair in the middle of a field with trees in the background .

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 22h

📢 This is your final reminder... Happening tonight! 📢

Please join us to hear some exceptional poetry. Zoom link from me if you want to join 🙏🏼

#poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 21h

🔥 La ultraderecha lo ha conseguido en Extremadura: enterrar la verdad y blanquear el franquismo.
Derogar la Ley de Memoria Histórica no es política, es negacionismo.
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#MemoriaHistórica #Extremadura #NoPasarán #Democracia #Vox #España

Kill It with Fire - Boston Review

In Spain, ultra-nationalist efforts to rehabilitate Franco extend the global right’s war on memory.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus

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US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

Keep breathin, keep smiling, @zackpolanski.bsky.social …then knock it outta the park. No pressure..

Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski is on Question Time tonight, a lone voice in a panel of right wingers. It will be interesting.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

‘Just like the bricks…they are the linguistic palette of the land and its lingering traces. They are the raw material from which the words arise, passed hand to hand through Roman Hispania, or the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba, proudly Mudéjar’

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Mudéjar

Bricks, tiles, colour and language palettes.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

A similar distance : Tortosa to Barcelona…and I just rocked up and bought a ticket, return= €25

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

The whole thing reeks of shit from one end to the other. The Devil’s work.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

It was considerate of them to touch down there, given the school’s name.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

Here he comes! The lone, enraptured male, over the hill. From Cambridge!

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

The problems with nature writing.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps these ‘luvvie’ degrees might throw up a comms team capable of spelling ‘Britain’

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a really great documentary about this incident.

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ARIEL PHENOMENON | Official HD Trailer (2022) | DOCUMENTARY | Film Threat Trailers

YouTube video by Film Threat

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, because ‘Britian’s’ need to take ‘are’ country back.

Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 2d

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

For @hool415.bsky.social and this week's #promptcombo #visitor from a ‘heroic’ crown of sonnets..about 👽..in this case the Ariel School incident. Look it up..😳

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll have a Muscat

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 3d

Take heart. Dip out of the din for a moment.

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Caroline Shaw - And the Swallow

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