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perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 6h

PERVERSE is back with issue 9 starting on Monday - an email of five strange and unusual poems every week, and each poem posted here too. Sign up free at perverse.substack.com

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 8h

Congratulations to Andrea Brady, who has just received the Truman Capote Award for her tour de force book, Poetry and Bondage!

writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/about/annual...

Truman Capote Award

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 10h

Reform UK: Nigel Farage set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system” and accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids"
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#antifa #edchat

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Michael Egan @northernashes.bsky.social · 9h

I just changed the title of two of my unpublished novels - Goldy is now Nothing Gold, and Black Tarn Gap is now A Vanishing Point. So there you go!

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 9h

She’s putting on her autumn coat and a string of pearls and reading @poetrysociety.org.uk cafe on October 28th. Come along to celebrate the new @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social books by @natalie-whittaker.bsky.social and @marymulholland.bsky.social hosted by @alicehiller.bsky.social.

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 10h

Picture by @rondavies.bsky.social - sorry Ron just noticed I didn't credit you! Ron's not only a photographer he's a mega poetry fan, a winning combination for us at Poets' Corner 😊👏

Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Great evening of poetry at the lovely Mecycle cafe, bar and bike workshop in Ainsdale, #Southport last night, with poets Alison Chisholm, Phil McNulty, Callan Waldron-Hall and Jennie E Owen.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 15h

That one frog spawned an entire movement.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 16h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 14h

Glen Baxter

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 16h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 19h

Portland Frog! 🐸

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 21h

Claim and celebrate ALL the victories

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 14h

Reform UK on Staffordshire Council have decided to spend £142,000 on political assistants.

Here’s Reform Staffordshire’s Chris Large last month saying they were going to introduce a ‘headcount freeze’.

You can’t trust a Reform Councillor.

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 10h

Oh yes.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 19h

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the Nobel Peace prize committee meeting."

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 22h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 13h

Unfortunately still timely

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · Jan 20

Paul Hoover Alternative Press poetry postcard, 1990s

Paul Hoover Alternative Press poetry postcard reading “OPPRESSION STUDIES FIELD TRIP CANCELLED”

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 13h

Would love to hear Dominic at parties.

"So what do you do?"

"I'm an academic who specialises in killing children in British fiction"

Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · Jan 21

My book, Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit, is now out from @sunypress.bsky.social.

'An authoritative, acute, and insightful book...makes a powerful case for child killing as an index of our times' - @bobeaglestone.bsky.social.

sunypress.edu/Books/K/Kill...

Book cover with title 'Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit' by Dominic Dean. Cover image shows a seafront promenade with beach huts during dusk, with a sunset.

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 11h

It never occurred to me before: why was he knighted? (It's probably in his autobiog which I read when writing The Lores.

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 12h

From the Liverpool Daily Post on the 11th (no paper on the 10th - Sunday)

Newspaper extract headed A Shower Of Stones, Sir Oswald Struck on Temple. Article relates how the fascist Mosely arrived, mounted a platform to speak and was immediately hit by two stones thrown from the crowd.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 12h

From the Liverpool Daily Post on the 11th (no paper on the 10th - Sunday)

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 11h

FYI @lameorecords.bsky.social. Passed this in the street in Liverpool this morning. No idea.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 12h

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 11h

Now guess who's not going to be happy about that!

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 1d

Rewarding themselves while creating chaos for staff and students?

Vice Chancellor pay in Higher Education is out of control and must be stopped

Join us live tonight at 7pm as we expose the hypocrisy

UCU Live: youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0...

#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYes

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of the late Tony Harrison, his poem 'A Kumquat for John Keats' is featured this week on our Substack. The poem was originally published in PN Review 21, November - December 1981.

Read here:⬇️
open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

Mimi Khalvati in conversation with Vicki Bertram

PN Review 130, November - December 1999

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