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James Mcconachie

@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social

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Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more. https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 57m

Keep breathin, keep smiling, @zackpolanski.bsky.social …then knock it outta the park. No pressure..

Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1h

Zack Polanski is on Question Time tonight, a lone voice in a panel of right wingers. It will be interesting.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 4h

‘Just like the bricks…they are the linguistic palette of the land and its lingering traces. They are the raw material from which the words arise, passed hand to hand through Roman Hispania, or the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba, proudly Mudéjar’

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Mudéjar

Bricks, tiles, colour and language palettes.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 6h

A similar distance : Tortosa to Barcelona…and I just rocked up and bought a ticket, return= €25

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 21h

Shirtless English guy in the supermarket (here in out of the way Spain)…When Nuria from checkout no.5 insisted that “NO se puede estar así, Caballero” I was very happy to step in and translate.- “She says no one wants to see your pink tits and spotty back, you slob”

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 21h

The whole thing reeks of shit from one end to the other. The Devil’s work.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

It was considerate of them to touch down there, given the school’s name.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

Here he comes! The lone, enraptured male, over the hill. From Cambridge!

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

The problems with nature writing.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps these ‘luvvie’ degrees might throw up a comms team capable of spelling ‘Britain’

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a really great documentary about this incident.

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ARIEL PHENOMENON | Official HD Trailer (2022) | DOCUMENTARY | Film Threat Trailers

YouTube video by Film Threat

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, because ‘Britian’s’ need to take ‘are’ country back.

Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

For @hool415.bsky.social and this week's #promptcombo #visitor from a ‘heroic’ crown of sonnets..about 👽..in this case the Ariel School incident. Look it up..😳

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll have a Muscat

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

Take heart. Dip out of the din for a moment.

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Caroline Shaw - And the Swallow

YouTube video by Anna Lapwood

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

In flares and Chelsea boots, no less.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh ffs.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 3d

Classy.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 3d

Where the f is Tadhg Hickey?

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 3d

[If you see this, post a random picture from your device without explaining it]

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 4d

Ting for the poetry mandem/gyal dem. MLE, isolated biophonies, the beat of walking and a sprinkle of the devil’s lettuce.

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Biophony

Finding your poetic beat in the soundscape.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, I’ve been around the block etc..have a longer arc to inform whatever I write, does that mean 20-something MFA grads have nothing to say? Obviously not. I’m not that convinced that age matters much, I certainly never feel like I’ve arrived late. I’ve arrived just in time. Who cares?

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 4d

Seeing as I’m feeling all opinionated this morning; I frequently come across bits, mostly on Substack about emerging ‘older’ writers, which I suppose means me, (I’m 57). I always greet these things with a shrug. I mean, who gives a shit? 1/

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