Sasha Dugdale
@sashadugdale.bsky.social
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Sasha Dugdale
@sashadugdale.bsky.social
· Jun 16
Congratulations to Sasha Dugale (sashadugdale.bsky.social), who has been named the winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 with her collection The Strongbox!
Well done Sasha!! 🎉
Read the news here: www.carcanet.co.uk/sasha-dugdal...
Well done Sasha!! 🎉
Read the news here: www.carcanet.co.uk/sasha-dugdal...
Thanks @carcanet.bsky.social – delighted about this and very grateful to the Anglo-Hellenic league, @jhcreerw.bsky.social @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social & the judges of the #Runciman Award.
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On Wednesday 26 November, join us at 6.30pm at Manchester Poetry Library, where @francescabrooks.bsky.social and Martin Kratz will be introducing the life and work of Lynette Roberts, after Carcanet's recent publication of her Collected Poems.
Find out more:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-who-...
Find out more:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-who-...
Poets Who Stopped: Lynnette Roberts
Join us as we explore the life and work of poet Lynnette Roberts, delving into why she stopped writing and the impact of her legacy.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
On Wednesday 26 November, join us at 6.30pm at Manchester Poetry Library, where @francescabrooks.bsky.social and Martin Kratz will be introducing the life and work of Lynette Roberts, after Carcanet's recent publication of her Collected Poems.
Find out more:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-who-...
Find out more:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-who-...
Natalya Vorozhbit’s short play for this is a really great piece of writing. I hope it reaches people: www.arcolatheatre.com/event/ukrain...
Ukraine Unbroken - Arcola Theatre
Across five gripping plays by some of today’s most acclaimed British and Ukrainian writers, we explore the resilience of a nation determined to remain free.
www.arcolatheatre.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Natalya Vorozhbit’s short play for this is a really great piece of writing. I hope it reaches people: www.arcolatheatre.com/event/ukrain...
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Stability is what allows people to heal, learn English, find work and become part of their communities. The government must provide people with the security to get on with their lives. Read more here 👉 thetimes.com/article/6f83...
Refugees who were months away from settlement now face 15-year wait
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms will apply retrospectively, it has been confirmed — and it is claimed the bureaucracy will cost up to £1.3bn
thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Stability is what allows people to heal, learn English, find work and become part of their communities. The government must provide people with the security to get on with their lives. Read more here 👉 thetimes.com/article/6f83...
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Our new analysis shows once the system is fully operational, 1.66-1.9m reviews of refugee status would need to be done over the first decade, resulting in a total cost of between £1.1 - 1.27bn, depending on how many people lose their protection at review.
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Our new analysis shows once the system is fully operational, 1.66-1.9m reviews of refugee status would need to be done over the first decade, resulting in a total cost of between £1.1 - 1.27bn, depending on how many people lose their protection at review.
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The government’s plan to review refugee status every 30 months is unworkable and extremely costly - and applying it retrospectively to people already granted protection will make an unmanageable system even worse.
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The government’s plan to review refugee status every 30 months is unworkable and extremely costly - and applying it retrospectively to people already granted protection will make an unmanageable system even worse.
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The “deal” deprives Ukraine of everything it has won by withstanding Russian aggression and defending the borders of Europe.
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The “deal” deprives Ukraine of everything it has won by withstanding Russian aggression and defending the borders of Europe.
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
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'Far from a literary gimmick, the novel comes across as an urgent call to resist complacency and recover one’s vitality in the face of injustice. It’s a stunner.' @publisherswkly.bsky.social gives THE DISAPPEARING ACT by Maria Stepanova, tr. Sasha Dugdale: www.publishersweekly.com/9780811239400
The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova
In this captivating and capacious novel from Stepanova (In Memory of Memory), a 50-year-old novelist experiences a bizarre and l...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
'Far from a literary gimmick, the novel comes across as an urgent call to resist complacency and recover one’s vitality in the face of injustice. It’s a stunner.' @publisherswkly.bsky.social gives THE DISAPPEARING ACT by Maria Stepanova, tr. Sasha Dugdale: www.publishersweekly.com/9780811239400
This poem (from Brecht to Margarete Steffin) was featured in @mptmagazine.bsky.social 'The Constellation' in 2014 (translated by David Constantine) as part of a feature about the literary collaboration & relationship between Steffin & Brecht.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This poem (from Brecht to Margarete Steffin) was featured in @mptmagazine.bsky.social 'The Constellation' in 2014 (translated by David Constantine) as part of a feature about the literary collaboration & relationship between Steffin & Brecht.
Titian’s dog was apparently painted out by later generations who thought that it was undignified to have a dog lifting its leg in the presence of the adoring Magi and the tenderest of Holy Family scenes. But Titian knew…
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Titian’s dog was apparently painted out by later generations who thought that it was undignified to have a dog lifting its leg in the presence of the adoring Magi and the tenderest of Holy Family scenes. But Titian knew…
Mikhaïl Durnenkov’s play UTOPIA is having its English-language premiere this month at Yale University School of Drama. I translated this play, about the painful hold of history, a while ago – but it’s never felt so actual. Mikhaïl lives with his family in exile. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11...
REVIEW: In drama school’s ‘Utopia,’ a reckoning at a Soviet-era bar
The Russian play “Utopia” makes its English-language debut at the David Geffen School of Drama in a production running through Friday.
yaledailynews.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Mikhaïl Durnenkov’s play UTOPIA is having its English-language premiere this month at Yale University School of Drama. I translated this play, about the painful hold of history, a while ago – but it’s never felt so actual. Mikhaïl lives with his family in exile. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11...
This festival of displaced musicians and composers takes place in January: anothermusicfestival.com
Another Music Festival | DISPLACED - 18, 21, 23 January 2026
DISPLACED - 18, 21, 23 January 2026
anothermusicfestival.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This festival of displaced musicians and composers takes place in January: anothermusicfestival.com
A beautiful reading by @notjustdancing.bsky.social tonight for the launch of Hotel Amour. As @serenbooks.bsky.social editor @zoebrigley.bsky.social said, it's a beautiful brilliant book, full of nearly unbearable grief and nearly unbearable joy. www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-a...
Hôtel Amour - Seren
“Extraordinary in its formal conception and emotional accuracy…” – The Telegraph “This is simply extraordinary writing, laced with wonder and devastation…” – Joanna Klink A sequel to her T. S. Eliot P...
www.serenbooks.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A beautiful reading by @notjustdancing.bsky.social tonight for the launch of Hotel Amour. As @serenbooks.bsky.social editor @zoebrigley.bsky.social said, it's a beautiful brilliant book, full of nearly unbearable grief and nearly unbearable joy. www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-a...
For our forest’s night…
‘Shrub & Willow’ by @notjustdancing.bsky.social
‘Shrub & Willow’ by @notjustdancing.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
For our forest’s night…
‘Shrub & Willow’ by @notjustdancing.bsky.social
‘Shrub & Willow’ by @notjustdancing.bsky.social
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Cover reveal! ✨
MPT ‘The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus’, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, posts to subscribers and all pre-orders on 28 November.
Cover image: from the Aigis (goatskin, pen), 2015 by Phoebe Giannisi
MPT ‘The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus’, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, posts to subscribers and all pre-orders on 28 November.
Cover image: from the Aigis (goatskin, pen), 2015 by Phoebe Giannisi
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Cover reveal! ✨
MPT ‘The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus’, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, posts to subscribers and all pre-orders on 28 November.
Cover image: from the Aigis (goatskin, pen), 2015 by Phoebe Giannisi
MPT ‘The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus’, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, posts to subscribers and all pre-orders on 28 November.
Cover image: from the Aigis (goatskin, pen), 2015 by Phoebe Giannisi
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The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
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We’re looking forward to the online launch of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social tomorrow night, 18 November, from 7pm. It’s not too late to register for the link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765466972.... Deryn will be reading alongside @oliviamcc.bsky.social & Menna Elfyn.
November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We’re looking forward to the online launch of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social tomorrow night, 18 November, from 7pm. It’s not too late to register for the link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765466972.... Deryn will be reading alongside @oliviamcc.bsky.social & Menna Elfyn.
‘The cold of anxiety is very real’ - an endlessly relevant detail from Louise Bourgeois’s 1996 work ‘Cell’.
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
‘The cold of anxiety is very real’ - an endlessly relevant detail from Louise Bourgeois’s 1996 work ‘Cell’.
Kate Antoniou is a brilliant history teacher and a really passionate and informed person to discuss history with. She teaches adult courses by zoom and as she did all her study and research later in life she really ‘gets‘ lifelong learning: kateantoniouhistory.co.uk
Kate Antoniou History
Explore History with Passion
kateantoniouhistory.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Kate Antoniou is a brilliant history teacher and a really passionate and informed person to discuss history with. She teaches adult courses by zoom and as she did all her study and research later in life she really ‘gets‘ lifelong learning: kateantoniouhistory.co.uk
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Join us for an online book launch on November 18th at 7pm — #mennaelfyn #oliviamccannon #derynrees-jones #HotelAmour
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Join us for an online book launch on November 18th at 7pm — #mennaelfyn #oliviamccannon #derynrees-jones #HotelAmour
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...
Жизнь—вокзал, скоро уеду, куда—не скажу.
Life is a station, I depart soon – but where to, I won't say.
Marina Tsvetaeva wrote this on a form sent to her by Pasternak for inclusion in a Soviet biographical dictionary.
Life is a station, I depart soon – but where to, I won't say.
Marina Tsvetaeva wrote this on a form sent to her by Pasternak for inclusion in a Soviet biographical dictionary.
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Жизнь—вокзал, скоро уеду, куда—не скажу.
Life is a station, I depart soon – but where to, I won't say.
Marina Tsvetaeva wrote this on a form sent to her by Pasternak for inclusion in a Soviet biographical dictionary.
Life is a station, I depart soon – but where to, I won't say.
Marina Tsvetaeva wrote this on a form sent to her by Pasternak for inclusion in a Soviet biographical dictionary.
Larissa Sansour is a bit of an art hero. There's a recent introductory video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mobV...
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Larissa Sansour is a bit of an art hero. There's a recent introductory video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mobV...
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Philip Guston, Box and Shadow, 1978
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135327
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135327
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Philip Guston, Box and Shadow, 1978
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135327
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135327
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PITYSAD sequence of poems by @sashadugdale.bsky.social were my way of turning my thoughts towards veterans and their families
#PTSD #poetry
#PTSD #poetry
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
PITYSAD sequence of poems by @sashadugdale.bsky.social were my way of turning my thoughts towards veterans and their families
#PTSD #poetry
#PTSD #poetry
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If you’d like to learn more about Mary Bishop & her extraordinary work, I wrote this for The Wellcome Collection in 2023.
But more than that, I would recommend looking for yourself at some of her work which is available to view online through their catalogue
wellcomecollection.org/stories/mary...
But more than that, I would recommend looking for yourself at some of her work which is available to view online through their catalogue
wellcomecollection.org/stories/mary...
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If you’d like to learn more about Mary Bishop & her extraordinary work, I wrote this for The Wellcome Collection in 2023.
But more than that, I would recommend looking for yourself at some of her work which is available to view online through their catalogue
wellcomecollection.org/stories/mary...
But more than that, I would recommend looking for yourself at some of her work which is available to view online through their catalogue
wellcomecollection.org/stories/mary...