charlotte
@tambourine.bsky.social
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sick poet / library mole
london
sick poet / library mole
london
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charlotte
@tambourine.bsky.social
· May 30
i have a short story in minor lits! about surgery histories and reciting verse. would love if you read it
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Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right
The lengths the British government will go to please the Israeli government.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Sally Rooney books may be pulled from UK, court told
Normal People author Sally Rooney's books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to "uncertainty" caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the British High ...
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right
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A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
It Starts With a Whisper
A celebration of the strength, wisdom, beauty and humour of Native women; of Native culture and people, surviving and thriving.
vucavu.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
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One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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do you think anyone else has attempted to read the twentieth century poet kenneth hopkins’s poetry in the last thirty years. me neither. don’t recommend it. some of it is making me laugh though.
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
do you think anyone else has attempted to read the twentieth century poet kenneth hopkins’s poetry in the last thirty years. me neither. don’t recommend it. some of it is making me laugh though.
do you think anyone else has attempted to read the twentieth century poet kenneth hopkins’s poetry in the last thirty years. me neither. don’t recommend it. some of it is making me laugh though.
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
do you think anyone else has attempted to read the twentieth century poet kenneth hopkins’s poetry in the last thirty years. me neither. don’t recommend it. some of it is making me laugh though.
don’t you think it’s lucky that we’re the right size for cats to comfortably sit on
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
don’t you think it’s lucky that we’re the right size for cats to comfortably sit on
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A lovely (and funny) anecdote out of Ronald Johnson’s 1976 Vort interview, conducted by Barry Alpert (reprinted in _Ronald Johnson: Life and Works_ (National Poetry Foundation, 2008)). I would love to read a collection of the letters exchanged between Ian Hamilton Finlay and Johnson.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A lovely (and funny) anecdote out of Ronald Johnson’s 1976 Vort interview, conducted by Barry Alpert (reprinted in _Ronald Johnson: Life and Works_ (National Poetry Foundation, 2008)). I would love to read a collection of the letters exchanged between Ian Hamilton Finlay and Johnson.
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Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
it’s my five year cancerversary today! (since i was given my diagnosis, that is, the surgery anniversary is next February)
very odd to be five years on. it feels like a long time in the abstract, but very little time at all in terms of memories/feelings/etc
very odd to be five years on. it feels like a long time in the abstract, but very little time at all in terms of memories/feelings/etc
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
it’s my five year cancerversary today! (since i was given my diagnosis, that is, the surgery anniversary is next February)
very odd to be five years on. it feels like a long time in the abstract, but very little time at all in terms of memories/feelings/etc
very odd to be five years on. it feels like a long time in the abstract, but very little time at all in terms of memories/feelings/etc
having a lot of fun with demonschool. also their teacher is a very weird and compelling videogame dreamboat tbh
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
having a lot of fun with demonschool. also their teacher is a very weird and compelling videogame dreamboat tbh
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here’s another by Silvia Dobson. think a lot of this poetry is pretty fine. someone could do worse than finding out who is the executor of these writers’ estates (i know at least Oswell must have someone, he’s had stories reprinted recently) and republishing some of their poetry.
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
here’s another by Silvia Dobson. think a lot of this poetry is pretty fine. someone could do worse than finding out who is the executor of these writers’ estates (i know at least Oswell must have someone, he’s had stories reprinted recently) and republishing some of their poetry.
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Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
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That shirt, tho.
He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement
Librarian vows to stop invasive ed tech after ending lawsuit with Proctorio.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
That shirt, tho.
read James Hanley’s (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H... ) short story ‘The German Prisoner’ last night. incredibly bleak piece of WWI writing. not sure I’d recommend but it’s well-written and really fascinating. not at all the dominant type of even anti-war writing remembered now
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
read James Hanley’s (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H... ) short story ‘The German Prisoner’ last night. incredibly bleak piece of WWI writing. not sure I’d recommend but it’s well-written and really fascinating. not at all the dominant type of even anti-war writing remembered now
Karloff asking to be played by George Clooney here
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Karloff asking to be played by George Clooney here
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Had a rather mixed experience yesterday with local history some of which Beryl and myself do not intend to repeat.
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Had a rather mixed experience yesterday with local history some of which Beryl and myself do not intend to repeat.
i think i’ve got flu (tom had flu this week, according to flu tests, and now i am sick too). i don’t like it
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
i think i’ve got flu (tom had flu this week, according to flu tests, and now i am sick too). i don’t like it
well, I’ve just seen it. back to sleep. hopefully I’ll forget
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
well, I’ve just seen it. back to sleep. hopefully I’ll forget
managed to track down a copy of the Visual Editions version of Tristram Shandy for £15. not bad! condition isn’t perfect but it’s pretty damn good apracticeforeverydaylife.com/projects/the...
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
managed to track down a copy of the Visual Editions version of Tristram Shandy for £15. not bad! condition isn’t perfect but it’s pretty damn good apracticeforeverydaylife.com/projects/the...
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Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire
Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire
‘The world thinks Palestinians don’t need help any more,’ aid organiser says, despite desperate need as winter nears
Fundraisers collecting for Palestinian civilians in Gaza are seeing a “catastrophic” drop-off in donations since the ceasefire was announced in October.
Donations collected by volunteers and funnelled to needy families living in temporary shelters and struggling with illness, hunger and malnutrition have been harder to raise since then, according to organisers, many of whom have been running volunteer initiatives for Palestinians in Gaza on third-party crowdfunding platforms over the past two years. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire
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time to sleep, but in spring 1951 max chapman and oswell blakeston published a poem each in poetry quarterly, and they shared a page. oswell’s poem is dedicated to max.
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
time to sleep, but in spring 1951 max chapman and oswell blakeston published a poem each in poetry quarterly, and they shared a page. oswell’s poem is dedicated to max.
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looking at a poetry anthology from 1947 at the British Library, obscure enough that I had to ask them to cut some of the pages (!)
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
looking at a poetry anthology from 1947 at the British Library, obscure enough that I had to ask them to cut some of the pages (!)
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
a world without trans people has never existed and never will