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Let's write a better future. “Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." Rosa Luxembourg
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“This is precisely the time when artists go to work—not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That’s our job!
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
October 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work—not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That’s our job!
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
i knew my poem 'The Exhibit' has been published in Santa Fe Literary Review, but it was still a surprise that two copies came in the post. A real treat. Thank you @santafereview.bsky.social ! www.sfcc.edu/santa-fe-lit...
October 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
i knew my poem 'The Exhibit' has been published in Santa Fe Literary Review, but it was still a surprise that two copies came in the post. A real treat. Thank you @santafereview.bsky.social ! www.sfcc.edu/santa-fe-lit...
From the Irish Times - a couple of poems about how to write poems
September 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
From the Irish Times - a couple of poems about how to write poems
I handwrite so little! I thought I'd try writing out a short poem. My hands are tense! The full poem is here
benbruges.medium.com/so-where-can-i-read-your-poems-01619e190b6b and the forthcoming Poets Town anthology is available here amzn.eu/d/ghFkLJn
benbruges.medium.com/so-where-can-i-read-your-poems-01619e190b6b and the forthcoming Poets Town anthology is available here amzn.eu/d/ghFkLJn
September 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I handwrite so little! I thought I'd try writing out a short poem. My hands are tense! The full poem is here
benbruges.medium.com/so-where-can-i-read-your-poems-01619e190b6b and the forthcoming Poets Town anthology is available here amzn.eu/d/ghFkLJn
benbruges.medium.com/so-where-can-i-read-your-poems-01619e190b6b and the forthcoming Poets Town anthology is available here amzn.eu/d/ghFkLJn
“These poems hit you in the eye like an arrow. At turns funny, melancholy and celebratory - there’s all of life in these pages.” - Luke Wright
Release date September 10th Moth Light Press. Launch @ Hastings Book Festival www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/launc...
Release date September 10th Moth Light Press. Launch @ Hastings Book Festival www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/launc...
September 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
“These poems hit you in the eye like an arrow. At turns funny, melancholy and celebratory - there’s all of life in these pages.” - Luke Wright
Release date September 10th Moth Light Press. Launch @ Hastings Book Festival www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/launc...
Release date September 10th Moth Light Press. Launch @ Hastings Book Festival www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/launc...
Hastings is cooking up a new party of the left which aims to link up with the new national party spearheaded by Zarah Sultana & Jeremy Corbyn
Until then, the Hastings party needs a name and you’re welcome to join and help decide what it will be
Until then, the Hastings party needs a name and you’re welcome to join and help decide what it will be
August 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Hastings is cooking up a new party of the left which aims to link up with the new national party spearheaded by Zarah Sultana & Jeremy Corbyn
Until then, the Hastings party needs a name and you’re welcome to join and help decide what it will be
Until then, the Hastings party needs a name and you’re welcome to join and help decide what it will be
Tidying up, I came across this. I have no idea who the handwriting is or why they shared it. But it's always ok to share Jalaluddin Mohammed Balkhi, right?
August 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Tidying up, I came across this. I have no idea who the handwriting is or why they shared it. But it's always ok to share Jalaluddin Mohammed Balkhi, right?
For the asshole in your life.
July 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
For the asshole in your life.
Happy to get an honourable mention and (eventual) publication from the Dark Poets Club. In time, I'll learn which of the three poems I submitted has been selected. www.darkpoets.club/copy-of-edit...
July 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Happy to get an honourable mention and (eventual) publication from the Dark Poets Club. In time, I'll learn which of the three poems I submitted has been selected. www.darkpoets.club/copy-of-edit...
I'm really pleased to have a couple of poems included in this fabulous anthology of poets from Hastings, or who passed through, present and past. Released September 10. #poetry #WritingCommunity #writers #writing #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky #readapoem #BookSky
July 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I'm really pleased to have a couple of poems included in this fabulous anthology of poets from Hastings, or who passed through, present and past. Released September 10. #poetry #WritingCommunity #writers #writing #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky #readapoem #BookSky
HTS leader (Al Qaeda); the UN Special Rapporteur; Palestine Action - one of these three is known to have personally beheaded a man. The other two are doing all they can to stop a genocide. Which two of the three have the US and UK proscribed? Which one has it removed from the terrorist list?
July 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
HTS leader (Al Qaeda); the UN Special Rapporteur; Palestine Action - one of these three is known to have personally beheaded a man. The other two are doing all they can to stop a genocide. Which two of the three have the US and UK proscribed? Which one has it removed from the terrorist list?
From October 2023 to January 2025, Israel received at least six shipments of military-grade jet fuel from the US, delivered by tankers operated by Overseas Shipholding Group, a U.S. company that receives $6 million in U.S. subsidies each year. to wage an unprecedented bombing campaign in Gaza.
July 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
From October 2023 to January 2025, Israel received at least six shipments of military-grade jet fuel from the US, delivered by tankers operated by Overseas Shipholding Group, a U.S. company that receives $6 million in U.S. subsidies each year. to wage an unprecedented bombing campaign in Gaza.
Superb news. Time to bury Starmer and Farage and the rest of the corrupt Westminster politics.
#uk #politics #left #socialism #peace #justice @zarahsultana.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
#uk #politics #left #socialism #peace #justice @zarahsultana.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Superb news. Time to bury Starmer and Farage and the rest of the corrupt Westminster politics.
#uk #politics #left #socialism #peace #justice @zarahsultana.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
#uk #politics #left #socialism #peace #justice @zarahsultana.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
