PGR @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social is running a poetry drop-in today at Manchester Poetry Library. Got a project brewing, a poem in limbo, or just need to talk it through? Maybe you’re navigating the winding path of creative freelancing, or wondering what to read next? www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

New PhD app with Ghent University. PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities. co-supervised by Professors Marco Caracciolo, Stef Craps, and Elly McCausland - combining theoretical exploration with textual analysis. #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS381/p...

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

Me, BH and my PhD 🩷

Next week i’ll be presenting my research at MMU @dcahf-met.bsky.social. There will be maquettes, sonnets, feminist theory, my new theory, and my charity shop Louboutin shoes 🩷

Current PhD researchers @dcahf-met.bsky.social @centreplacewriting.bsky.social @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social and Anita Slater at RHUL presenting their papers at Hydropoetry in Practice organised by @brihughespoet.bsky.social and Dr Becca Drake.

apolitical nature writers suck

Later in the month one of South Korea’s most innovative and influential poets, Kim Hyesoon, & translator Don Mee Choi,will celebrate the UK publication of Kim's International Griffin Poetry-prize winning collection Autobiography of Death (And Other Stories). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kim-hyesoo...

Lovely English and humanities people at MMU @dcahf-met.bsky.social - if you are in uni next Tuesday it is the 3MT finals! Come and support the arts (me) because we all know THE ARTS ARE VITAL AND BRILLIANT 🩷

from 'Summertime' by Pablo Marín García '... Pablo’s lens imagines a new Dublin, a new Ireland. These scenes unfold like a conversation between seen and unseen – a choreography commanded only by sunlight....' (Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal) Featured portfolio in Issue 117 'WHICH IRELAND?' #outnow

Join us to celebrate the launch of @mayacaspari.bsky.social's Almost, with Tenderness on 3 April @burleyfisher.bsky.social Maya will be joined by @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social and Editor @aanaxagorou.bsky.social Free to attend, but please do register here: burleyfisherbooks.com/products/poe...

Sorry, what???? So our government are in the business of deporting top academics now? Just why? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

As part of Manchester Translation Series 2025, @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social chairs a conversation with Nashwa Nasreldin & @sanagoyal.bsky.social at Manchester Poetry Library on the role of translation in expanding literary landscapes. 18 March, 1pm GMT Tickets:

The Manchester Poetry Library's new programme of events has launched this week. We're excited for the Translation Series: In Other Words, including an event with @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social

The Poetry Library are running another brilliant series of events next week. Manchester Translation Series: In Other Words includes many great poets, including Centre for Place Writing PGR Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...

Two young sisters and their uncle ride a motorcycle into slapstick in this excerpt from Mridula Garg's novel, a finalist for the 2024 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation. Read it at the link in Aditya Vikram Shrivastava’s tranlation from Hindi:

Please get in touch if you happen to have an extra ticket for this event. Bluesky, please do your magic! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anne-carso...

There are many that-guy-in-the-MFA moments in the new Kendrick Lamar album. It’s good.

The audacity of autocorrect to change Payal to PayPal. Ugh.

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