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The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish three new works by Tim MacGabhann. The first of these, ‘A Winter Dedication’, is published today.
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Poet of the Month, May / Tim MacGabhann
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish three new works by Tim MacGabhann. The first of these, ‘A Winter De…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/poet-of-the-month-may-tim-macgabhann/
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‘Separate episodes at the panelbeater’s left his ninety-eight Fiat Punto a particoloured motley: red body, black bonnet, right front hub blue, the other cowled under dinted dirty white…’
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‘For My Cousin the Boy Racer’ by Tim MacGabhann
Separate episodes at the panelbeater’s left his ninety-eight Fiat Punto a particoloured motley: red body, black bonnet, right front hub blue, the other cowled under dinted dirty white. A Ferr…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/25/for-my-cousin-the-boy-racer-by-tim-macgabhann/
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Listen to the stories of Gaza's women to fully grasp the horrors Israel is inflicting on us | Olfat al-Kurd
I survived months of bombardment before escaping. The systematic dismantling of our home has harmed every aspect of women’s lives, says B’Tselem field researcher Olfat al-Kurd
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/25/stories-gaza-women-horrors-israel
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Gaza flotilla activists allege sexual assault and rape in Israeli detention
Israeli prison service denies claims of abuse during detention of 430 people trying to take aid to Palestinians
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/gaza-flotilla-activists-allege-sexual-assault-and-in-israeli-detention
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Flotilla video: Ben-Gvir’s template of televised abuse was honed on Palestinians
Targeting of foreign activists drew global outrage from governments that have not acted on extreme violence against Palestinian detainees
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/flotilla-video-ben-gvir-template-televised-abuse-honed-palestinians
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Israeli security minister stirs diplomatic outrage with flotilla activist abuse video
Far-right figure Itamar Ben-Gvir shares footage of himself taunting bound international detainees
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/20/israeli-security-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-stirs-diplomatic-outrage-with-flotilla-activist-abuse-video
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‘Chains of thrushes, flecked bellies uplit, heltered chittering through bright fog…’ Read Saint Julian in Winter by
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‘Saint Julian in Winter’ by Tim MacGabhann
Stood, leadenboned, before the bed-length grooved barrows. Lit rainwater brimmed there: the tombstone’s saddle-gloss became a font, and anima reglossed itself as that instant in the top room …
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/16/saint-julian-in-winter-by-tim-macgabhann/
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‘Saint Julian in Winter’ by Tim MacGabhann ‘Stood, leadenboned, before the bed-length grooved barrows. Lit rainwater brimmed there: the tombstone’s saddle-gloss became a font…’
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‘Saint Julian in Winter’ by Tim MacGabhann
Stood, leadenboned, before the bed-length grooved barrows. Lit rainwater brimmed there: the tombstone’s saddle-gloss became a font, and anima reglossed itself as that instant in the top room …
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/16/saint-julian-in-winter-by-tim-macgabhann/
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‘They lost a historic opportunity’: Ken Loach laments Your Party infighting
Film-maker and longtime Corbyn ally says ‘poor behaviour’ squandered chance to unite the left in fight against far right
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/17/ken-loach-your-party-infighting-jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana
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Alan Rusbridger
11 days ago
FInally, one regulator will look at Nigel Farage and his (changing) explanation of the secret £5m he pocketed. Even Ofcom has shown a twitch of life But the media regulator still doesn’t get it
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Farage and GB News have been getting away with it for too long
The Reform leader is finally under investigation by the parliamentary commissioner for standards over a £5m donation he failed to declare. But don’t hold your breath if you expect similar scrutiny of ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-gb-news-reform-ofcom-b2977400.html
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British Palestinians feel ‘gaslit’ and unable to speak out, says leading activist
Ahead of Nakba march, Sara Husseini says many feel they are being treated as suspects rather than victims of mass suffering
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/16/british-palestinians-feel-unable-speak-out-sara-husseini
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‘The Trampoline Act’ by Katherine Stansfield The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Katherine Stansfield.
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‘The Trampoline Act’ by Katherine Stansfield
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Katherine Stansfield. I. Storm Suri Peter has t…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/the-trampoline-act-by-katherine-stansfield/
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‘How do I dream myself back to sleep? Rehash a moody Norse fable, maybe, mutter about how ink and pigments were rendered from seawater brimming on obliterated moraines…’ –
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Poet of the Month, May / Tim MacGabhann
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish three new works by Tim MacGabhann. The first of these, ‘A Winter De…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/poet-of-the-month-may-tim-macgabhann/
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‘How do I dream myself back to sleep? Rehash a moody Norse fable, maybe, mutter about how ink and pigments were rendered from seawater brimming on obliterated moraines…’ –
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Poet of the Month, May / Tim MacGabhann
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish three new works by Tim MacGabhann. The first of these, ‘A Winter De…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/poet-of-the-month-may-tim-macgabhann/
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‘The Trampoline Act’ by Katherine Stansfield The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Katherine Stansfield.
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‘The Trampoline Act’ by Katherine Stansfield
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Katherine Stansfield. I. Storm Suri Peter has t…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/the-trampoline-act-by-katherine-stansfield/
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Rico Charges
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really don't have words for how happy it makes me that this poem exists or how grateful I am for the countless hours of intensive blather it describes.
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‘The Trampoline Act’ by Katherine Stansfield The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Katherine Stansfield.
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‘The Trampoline Act’ by Katherine Stansfield
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Katherine Stansfield. I. Storm Suri Peter has t…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/the-trampoline-act-by-katherine-stansfield/
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Sarah Turner
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‘The talk sinks deliciously towards truth’: If you only read one poem today, read this one, by Tim MacGabhann
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‘That 3am turn for the worst has me crediting the old myth of how fog rose from the sky-god’s tears so he could play pretend that his solitude was eternal…’ Read A Winter Dedication by
@elfodongo.bsky.social
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Poet of the Month, May / Tim MacGabhann
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish three new works by Tim MacGabhann. The first of these, ‘A Winter De…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/poet-of-the-month-may-tim-macgabhann/
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The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish three new works by Tim MacGabhann. The first of these, ‘A Winter Dedication’, is published today.
thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/p...
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Poet of the Month, May / Tim MacGabhann
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish three new works by Tim MacGabhann. The first of these, ‘A Winter De…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/poet-of-the-month-may-tim-macgabhann/
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‘A lot of my work is nature themed, exploring and reflecting on ecocentrism. As a child, I spent hours drawing, writing and making things, collecting details even then from simply observing the minutiae of everything around me.’
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Poet of the Month Essay / April / Lorraine Carey
A lot of my work is nature themed, exploring and reflecting on ecocentrism. As a child, I spent hours drawing, writing and making things, collecting details even then from simply observing the minu…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/25/poet-of-the-month-essay-april-lorraine-carey/
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Gwen John
The Green Hour: A Short Story
https://jomazelis.substack.com/p/gwen-john?utm_medium=web
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‘It looked like an old tool box, handmade from planks, screwed together at the corners. A cloth cover, stiff with grime, failed to contain the disconcertingly sweet reek of rotting meat…’
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Short Story of the Month: ‘Tricklebones’ by David Frankel
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by David Frankel. It looked like an old tool box…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/short-story-of-the-month-tricklebones-by-david-frankel/
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‘Distance’ by Lorraine Carey
My dreams are dark as peat. They’re fen and flush, hillock and hollow under orange glow. Pyres of wood scraps and tractor tyres sate the soot-black sky. Cut grass sugars the ring wormed gate…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/25/distance-by-lorraine-carey/
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‘My dreams are dark as peat. They’re fen and flush, hillock and hollow under orange glow. Pyres of wood scraps and tractor tyres sate the soot-black sky…’
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‘Distance’ by Lorraine Carey
My dreams are dark as peat. They’re fen and flush, hillock and hollow under orange glow. Pyres of wood scraps and tractor tyres sate the soot-black sky. Cut grass sugars the ring wormed gate…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/25/distance-by-lorraine-carey/
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‘A lot of my work is nature themed, exploring and reflecting on ecocentrism. As a child, I spent hours drawing, writing and making things, collecting details even then from simply observing the minutiae of everything around me.’
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Poet of the Month Essay / April / Lorraine Carey
A lot of my work is nature themed, exploring and reflecting on ecocentrism. As a child, I spent hours drawing, writing and making things, collecting details even then from simply observing the minu…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/25/poet-of-the-month-essay-april-lorraine-carey/
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Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says
Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/israeli-soldiers-using-sexual-assault-to-force-palestinians-out-of-west-bank-report-says
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You set off with a duck stance, feet snug in fins and an underwater camera strapped to your freckled brow. You turn with a double thumb gesture, then slip under like a cormorant…
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‘Playback’ by Lorraine Carey
You set off with a duck stance, feet snug in fins and an underwater camera strapped to your freckled brow. You turn with a double thumb gesture, then slip under like a cormorant. I abandon my book …
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/17/playback-by-lorraine-carey/
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‘The mountain light’s a beautiful bruise. Ling, bell and cross leaved heath brush hills burgundy and damson. Snow cloud pillows fill sky with slate, marl and gunmetal slush…’ Lorraine Carey is our
#poetofthemonth
. Read A Year of Mountain in full here:
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Poet of the Month, April: Lorraine Carey
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For April, we are delighted to publish three new works by Lorraine Carey. The first of these, ‘A Year of…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/poet-of-the-month-april-lorraine-carey/
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‘It looked like an old tool box, handmade from planks, screwed together at the corners. A cloth cover, stiff with grime, failed to contain the disconcertingly sweet reek of rotting meat.’ Read our
#shortstoryofthemonth
by
@daveyfrankel.bsky.social
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Short Story of the Month: ‘Tricklebones’ by David Frankel
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by David Frankel. It looked like an old tool box…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/short-story-of-the-month-tricklebones-by-david-frankel/
about 2 months ago
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David Frankel
about 2 months ago
I love
@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social
. Since they started a few years ago, they've published some fantastic writing, so I'm delighted that my short story, 'Tricklebones' is their new story of the month. Free to read on their website, so fill yer boots! 👇👀👇
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Short Story of the Month: ‘Tricklebones’ by David Frankel
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by David Frankel. It looked like an old tool box…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/short-story-of-the-month-tricklebones-by-david-frankel/
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The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by David Frankel.
thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/s...
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Short Story of the Month: ‘Tricklebones’ by David Frankel
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by David Frankel. It looked like an old tool box…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/short-story-of-the-month-tricklebones-by-david-frankel/
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Poet of the Month, April: Lorraine Carey The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For April, we are delighted to publish three new works by Lorraine Carey. The first of these, ‘A Year of Mountain’, is published today
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Poet of the Month, April: Lorraine Carey
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For April, we are delighted to publish three new works by Lorraine Carey. The first of these, ‘A Year of…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/poet-of-the-month-april-lorraine-carey/
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Media association condemns ‘violent assault’ on CNN crew by Israeli soldiers
CNN team detained while reporting on aftermath of attack by settlers in West Bank, Foreign Press Association says
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/28/israeli-soldiers-cnn-crew-west-bank-foreign-press-association
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Christopher Cornwell Tribute: ‘Incomplete Text’ by John Lavin
(For Chris) ‘Brilliance is a category of exclusion as much as any other abnormality’ – Christopher Cornwell I don’t complete poems very often – and never quickly – So ple…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2024/04/19/christopher-cornwell-tribute-incomplete-text-by-john-lavin/
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Unbelievably, it’s two years since our friend, the talented poet Chris Cornwell left us. Here are some of the tributes that other writers paid him at the time. Photo by Jo Mazelis.
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A Tribute to Christopher Cornwell
Christopher Cornwell’s dazzling debut collection, Ergasy, was published by The Lonely Crowd. Here, his fellow writers pay tribute to an exceptional talent who will be sorely missed by all who knew …
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2024/04/19/a-tribute-to-christopher-cornwell/
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Mike Fox
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Hugely grateful to John
@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social
for featuring my Gwen John story this month. Please do give it a read if you have time. Just discovered yet another GJ biography (Susan Chitty). Not that I'm obsessed or anything...
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‘She loved the forest. It contained her spirit. In the unshielded open, vividness was everywhere, and crowded in.’ Don’t miss
@polyscribe70.bsky.social
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#shortstoryofthemonth
about Gwen John, ‘A More Interior Life.’
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Story of the Month, March: ‘A More Interior Life’ by Mike Fox
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Mike Fox. Gwen awoke to the rustle of leaf mu…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/06/story-of-the-month-march-a-more-interior-life-by-mike-fox/
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Our Poet of the Month for March is Nigel Jarrett. Here, Jarrett discusses his approach to the creative process.
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Poet of the Month / Essay: Nigel Jarrett
Our Poet of the Month for March is Nigel Jarrett. Here, Jarrett discusses his approach to the creative process. It’s often easier to define what poetry is by adducing examples of what it isn&…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/20/poet-of-the-month-essay-nigel-jarrett/
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Al Jazeera English
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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says torture 'has effectively become state policy' in Israel
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Poet of the Month / Essay: Nigel Jarrett
Our Poet of the Month for March is Nigel Jarrett. Here, Jarrett discusses his approach to the creative process. It’s often easier to define what poetry is by adducing examples of what it isn&…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/20/poet-of-the-month-essay-nigel-jarrett/
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Through the window and as still as a fist pulled and held in abeyance, the old pithead is an ink drawing beside her framed print of Klimt’s The Kiss and above that photo of the survivors he’d dragged from the roof fall, the matchstick props...
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‘Cymmer’ by Nigel Jarrett
Through the window and as still as a fist pulled and held in abeyance, the old pithead is an ink drawing beside her framed print of Klimt’s The Kiss and above that photo of the survivors he&#…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/13/cymmer-by-nigel-jarrett/
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‘Cymmer’ by Nigel Jarrett
Through the window and as still as a fist pulled and held in abeyance, the old pithead is an ink drawing beside her framed print of Klimt’s The Kiss and above that photo of the survivors he&#…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/13/cymmer-by-nigel-jarrett/
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Kieran Wyatt
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A beautiful piece by Mike
@polyscribe70.bsky.social
. Found the opening especially vivid. I hadn’t seen Gwen John’s work before, so it was interesting reading this without context and then searching online. Another great story on The Lonely Crowd.
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The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish three new works by Nigel Jarrett. ‘Deluding the Hens’ is published today, with the next two poems to follow throughout the month.
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Poet of the Month, March: Nigel Jarrett
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish three new works by Nigel Jarrett. These poems are all meditations on th…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/06/poet-of-the-month-march-nigel-jarrett/
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The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by
@polyscribe70.bsky.social
Painting: ‘Street at Night, Meudon’ by Gwen John (National Gallery of Art)
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Story of the Month, March: ‘A More Interior Life’ by Mike Fox
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Mike Fox. Gwen awoke to the rustle of leaf mu…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/06/story-of-the-month-march-a-more-interior-life-by-mike-fox/
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Mike Fox
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Very honoured that my Gwen John story, A More Interior Life, appears today as
@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social
Story of the Month. A favourite, this one. Am hoping to get to her current exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff.
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The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish three new works by Nigel Jarrett. ‘Deluding the Hens’ is published today, with the next two poems to follow throughout the month.
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Poet of the Month, March: Nigel Jarrett
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish three new works by Nigel Jarrett. These poems are all meditations on th…
https://thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/06/poet-of-the-month-march-nigel-jarrett/
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The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by
@polyscribe70.bsky.social
Painting: ‘Street at Night, Meudon’ by Gwen John (National Gallery of Art)
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Story of the Month, March: ‘A More Interior Life’ by Mike Fox
The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Mike Fox. Gwen awoke to the rustle of leaf mu…
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The final poem from our February Poet of the Month
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‘Gulls’ by Amanda Rackstraw
From beneath the cliff, a sudden din and these flattery-chatterers take off, thicken the channel with threads. A black lace veil lifts and swirls in the glare, risking scorched feathers. Fro…
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The second new poem by our
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‘The Dish’ by Amanda Rackstraw
I broke a dish today, a little blue dish just large enough to hold in the cupped palm of my hand. The colour, soft aqua blue. A good colour, cool yet warm to receive yoghurt, soup, all kinds…
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