Issue 3 of Fallow, the journal I co-edit with my partner, is available to order now 🌹poems from @cmakris.bsky.social, Mira Mattar, Charlotte Buckley, as well as newly translated Katerina Gogou. Essays & fiction by Philippa Snow, Kevin Breathnach, Adrian Duncan, Alice Blackhurst &more fallowmedia.com

This is intentional destruction of spaces of freedom of expression and gathering, of local businesses supporting each other, and of an industry that refuses genAI & occupies the knowledge & creative spaces that the auto-correct machine wants to take over.

from Alaa Alqaisi's 'What Edward Said Teaches Us About Gaza' in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

the utterly heartbreaking, maddening tragedy that at the moment primo levi was writing the afterword to these extraordinary, worldchanging, mind-bending books (if this is a man & the truce), zionism was steadily ravaging palestine, already establishing the path that led to the gaza holocaust

so much of writing involves surrendering the fantasy of how you want it to sound for how it wants to come out

BREAKING: ALL OF THE FILTON24 ACQUITTED OF AGGRAVATED BURGLARY The Filton24 defendants have been formally acquitted of aggravated burglary, after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today offered no evidence for the charge. Support the Filton24 here: chuffed.org/project/filt...

from @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social's 'Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic' (April 2025), which I return to over & over @proteanmag.com shorturl.at/SYDkx

from Abdaljawad Omar's 'The Meaning of Love In Politics—a response from a conscious (non-nomadic) Pariah', July 23 2025, dabartis dabartis.com

A brilliant analysis of how sanctions have transformed the Iranian government into a Chicago School regime of austerity that benefits those attached to the regime, creates precarious labour, and rolls back all the redistributive and social measures of the past: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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