Here in Hastings, the Gaza genocide is personal - friends and colleagues are being killed. "One of the recent detainees is Hana Al Bidaq, a woman who helped with the thobe show at Hastings Palestine on the Pier 2022, ...." hastingspeoplesparty.uk/just-because...

#HPP activists are involved in local campaigns. Grace Lally, HPP member and secretary of the local branch of @unitetheunion.bsky.social , writes in Hastings' local community volunteer-run paper about the situation in the care industry. www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/articles/com...

We in YP need to build a culture of development. In Hastings we're doing what we can.

Fragmented Voices (who I don't think are on bs, let me know if they are) have published a poem of mine celebrating working class history and bigging up my mum for her past activism. fragmentedvoices.com/2025/11/07/a...

By definition a landlord is a paradise, surely? And the fact that apparently 1 in 20 homeowners in the UK is now a landlord is not something to celebrate.

A puzzle, to me at least. I thought Stockfish was all-knowing. Here the fish tells me I should save the knight instead of castling. I assumed I should ditch the knight and castle, because if I don't I certainly lose one rook and probably the other as well. Can you help? #chess

An aside to my previous post. I'd recommend something like Linktree as your email signature etc. I was once convinced that Medium was the right fit for me so used a page on there as my 'fixed link' as it were. A landing page. Which I'm still using, but I've otherwise given up on Medium for poetry.

I set up this page as a test. I'm considering Opol, but can find nothing about it on the web - no reviews etc, from other sources. See thoughts below. But any thoughts about Opol? Any thoughts from poets or poetry readers, specifically, on Opol? opol.space/@ben-bruges

GM Target Applied Materials Conoco Meta Nestle Accenture Spirit Air Starbucks Ford Salesforce Paramount Kroger Just some of the mass-layoff announcements of recent weeks. Here's a handy tracker: intellizence.com/insights/lay...

... and the full version. youtu.be/crCZXwO4OEY?...

Corbyn came to Hastings. Short video filmed and edited by yours truly. Please like and share.

A new publication, please support. open.substack.com/pub/gazapoet...

On Sunday, Your Party held our first regional assembly in Norwich. Hundreds of members came together to build a new kind of political party from the ground up. Be part of it. Join as a member at yourparty.uk/join youtu.be/L4rWZOilaH8?...

Fight for a different future. For your class. For your community. Become a member of Your Party now!

Hastings People's Party activists are working with others to see if there is an appetite to stand a community-based candidate for the only local election we're likely to see until 2027 (given 're-organisation' in our area, aka 'closing down local democracy'). Oct 16th 7pm @ The Hastings Centre

"Your Party" is coming to Hastings! Jeremy Corbyn will be here, along with Hastings People's Party and others. Make sure you sign up here www.yourparty.uk/hastings/#// for free and join in building the national grassroots party.

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work—not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That’s our job! ​ There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. ​

Is time to accept the UK has anti Muslim hatred problem?The Met Police braced for a documentary showing officers and staff allegedly being supportive of the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, making anti-Muslim comments and using excessive force against suspects www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

i knew my poem 'The Exhibit' has been published in Santa Fe Literary Review, but it was still a surprise that two copies came in the post. A real treat. Thank you @santafereview.bsky.social ! www.sfcc.edu/santa-fe-lit...

The Stupidest Speech in UN History! “Everyone’s saying so,” writes @billmckibben.bsky.social “the shots of delegates looking on in disbelief as Trump vented about broken escalators, MAGA hats, & his general greatness for nearly an hour (ignoring the 15min time limit…)” Global embarrassment. Joke.

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

After Steven Miller's speech there is no longer any question the GOP is a Nazi-Party, he voiced Joseph Goebbles rhetorics like it is Nuremberg 1938 applauded by the Republican Elite and their Congress. This is not America, it's Anti-America, Anti-Progress and Anti-Humanity.

Exactly this

This Tuesday! Anyone in the Hastings area, a meeting not to be missed. Both speeches and an assembly meeting. Local activity working together to build Your Party and local grassroots networks. hastingspeoplesparty.uk/your-party-h...

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

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dear hive mind, the #poetry #WritingCommunity #writers #writing #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky #readapoem #BookSky #aloadofpoets #poemsabout #PoetTown #HastingsPoets bit of the hive mind. I have a poem 'A Psalm to Gaza' that seems impossible to get published.

From the Irish Times - a couple of poems about how to write poems

Eep eep eep, y'all! My novel, Armadillo Massacre Number Three, has won the #PetrichorPrize for Finely Crafted Fiction and will be coming out from the amazing @regalhouse.bsky.social in fall 2027! A comedy about family, greed, murder, and love that lasts forever. I'm sooo excited!!💙📚 #Booksky #LitFic

A podcast from the wonderful Padraic O Tuama (beautiful voice) that starts with a great explanation for why you would write poetry, reads an Ada Limon poem, discussed it, then reads it again. Superb. Recommended. open.spotify.com/episode/4anB...

Whoa.

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

From Banksy

I've got a writing book problem: When I have a book writing problem, I pick up a writing book, and since writing is hard I've read dozens of writing books in the last decade. This is my attempt to make sense of them. #writing #booksky 💙📚

I handwrite so little! I thought I'd try writing out a short poem. My hands are tense! The full poem is here benbruges.medium.com/so-where-can-i-read-your-poems-01619e190b6b and the forthcoming Poets Town anthology is available here amzn.eu/d/ghFkLJn

This is beyond a joke now. And sick while a Genocide Minister is welcomed by the government, while they criminalise those who are protesting genocide. Source: Sky News search.app/J9K26

Starmer and Lammy belong in prison.

The "just following orders" defense didn't work at Nuremberg. The Met is making themselves complicit in the genocide instead of doing everything they can to stop it.

While true that we have funded Israel since 1948- a fact many people are unaware of - Biden sent more military aid to Israel in 2024 alone, than Trump in both terms . I loathe Trump but the libs have enabled this mess every step of the way . It’s a bipartisan Genocide

My painting GIRL WITH A MUG

“These poems hit you in the eye like an arrow. At turns funny, melancholy and celebratory - there’s all of life in these pages.” - Luke Wright Release date September 10th Moth Light Press. Launch @ Hastings Book Festival www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/launc...

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton