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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · 9d

I'm shortlisted for the Wasafiri prize for one of my favourite projects, Songs of a Menoflân! Exploring what happens under the middle aged cloak of invisibility all women have and how it can make you into an avant-garde flâneuse.

Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 9d

We are thrilled to share the shortlists for the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged by Anton Hur (Fiction), @noreenmasud.bsky.social (Life Writing), and Yasmine Seale (Poetry), and chaired by Romesh Gunesekera.

Discover the shortlists in the full announcement here: buff.ly/KoSXsrb

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Aug 12

Come with me to the empty banks of the Thames when it runs through the parts of the city you didn't know were there!

Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 11

IN THE BLOOD by Dani Salvadori (@danisalvadori.bsky.social‬) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Aug 11

IN THE BLOOD out today from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social. Download at ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

In the Blood — Ghost City Press

In the Blood by Dani Salvadori Published August 11, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 14 Pages

ghostcitypress.com

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Aug 9

Coming on Monday ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Jul 3

Looks fab. So sorry I can't make it.

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Jun 19

Also The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo.

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Jun 19

The Long Take by Robin Robertson. Brilliant.

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · May 25

Thank you!

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Reposted by Dani Salvadori

Osmosis Press @osmosispress.bsky.social · May 25

This week, Osmosis is with Dani Salvadori in the poem At Rainham Marshes ‘where: / grasslands sweep over the landfill / mud is silvered by water / the A13 is dampened by flight / gravel pit chutes house the future / [and] lorries bring waste to waste’. In this immense and immersive (1/5)

incantation:
snow bunting | slavonian grebe
whooper swan | gannet
barnacle goose | fieldfare
slaty backed gull | white tail plover
whimbrel | bearded tits | whinchat
bittern | great white egret | peregrine
spoonbill | stone curlew | scoter
black swan | ring ouzel | laughing gull
glossy ibis | corn bunting | brambling
white stork | serin | serin | serin

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · May 22

I group the notes with other reading notes to get a synthesis on a subject in a different order of thinking and then sift that to write from.

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · May 22

Yes. It's very slow but it works. The writing is the easiest part. The note taking is where the thought happens.

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · May 22

Read/take notes/sift/rewrite notes/sift/write/repeat

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · May 11

A poem and a map. Published this week in www.bedfordsquarereview.com/dani-salvadori

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · May 1

8. In the 1980s there was a committee of British cartographers checking maps for correctness - in pursuit of the ethics of accuracy. This story may be apocryphal but think what they would have made of phone maps! (JB Harley Deconstructing the Map, 1989).

Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Apr 30

Yes and I cover that from a Glissant and embodied memory pov.

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Apr 30

And worm its way into the listeners memories and becomes their space and not the poet's

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Apr 30

7. There is trad narrative and metre in m nourbese philip's Zong!, you just have to find it. And yesterday I did. I'm even more impressed than I was before. Unless you can find it too you'll have to wait until I've written my essay to know where it is. (m nourbese philip, Zong! 2023)

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Apr 29

6. When societies collapse one of the first things that are born from their remains are new rituals. We need ritual! (Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember, 1989)

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Apr 23

I had the same issue with my mother's disability equipment (which she refused to use) and in the end found out that there was a joint service across three south London boroughs that handled it all. I think it may have been a local authority rather than nhs service.

Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Apr 23

5. How would you remember things if you couldn't write them down and there wasn't any paper anyway? Welcome to the Memory Palace, a house of many rooms housing your memories, a ruin now due to paper and the printing press. (Frances Yates, The Art of Memory)

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Apr 22

4. How you use the words space and place depends on your discipline. As there are more geographers, architects and planners around than literary critics space has come to mean the fixed site and place what happens there. Not much help to me though. (John Agnew Handbook of Geographical Knowledge)

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Apr 20

3. Some writers use place to mean the 'fixed' surroundings and space to mean where the action happens. And some transpose the meanings. Aargh! I'm looking at you Michel de Certeau. (The Practice of Everyday Life, 2002).

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Apr 19

2. It all changed in the 18th century, people could overcome nature and bio-politics was born. And look what good that did. From Foucault, La volonté de savoir (1976)

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Apr 18

1. Édouard Glissant describes the underwater signposts to the slave trade between the Gold Coast and the Leeward Isles created by the balls and chains left on the sea floor from drowned slaves. From Poetics of Relation.

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Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social · Apr 18

What I've learned on my PhD. An occasional and possibly random thread. I'm working on reading m nourbeSe philip's 'Zong!' as a map so don't expect hilarity. 🧵

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