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

Lovely poem from a fellow #Hastings #poet, as part of #PoemsAbout #Riots @thebrokenspine

How to Riot From a Wheelchair—in remembrance of those who've gone before & that acts of rebellion are not about the body's agency alone. Even while we – #disabledcommunity – become targets of successive governments #PoemsAbout #Riots @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity

Check out my poem in the very first issue of the @radicalcatalyst.bsky.social‬ Journal. My poem 'Black Smoke' celebrates a victory against the poll tax in the UK as we need to celebrate our victories, particularly at this time. And remind that protest works. radicalcatalystjournal.org/index.html

Superb engaged poem.

Best author photo? Corsair to publish Sophie Dumont's debut poetry collection share.google/o8B2r9PqBEbw...

Bad health is a deliberate political choice thebeemagazine.com/class-and-th...

The fact that Reform were trying to run a person who had been dead for six months as their Croydon Mayoral candidate is proof if it were needed that they are not a serious party. It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.

"Our minds work in snapshots. We remember moments, not monologues. Poetry matches this memory style — it compresses insight into something instantly felt." Dr. Lena Hirsch, a cognitive psychologist and poetry researcher

Stunning

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Hastings is cooking up a new party of the left which aims to link up with the new national party spearheaded by Zarah Sultana & Jeremy Corbyn Until then, the Hastings party needs a name and you’re welcome to join and help decide what it will be

Powerful

If anyone wants to help shape the local part of the new party, and have a say on the name etc, do sign and come to the members meeting Sunday next week and have a say and a vote. Be good to more people from Hastings involved from the start and help build this thing. linktr.ee/hastingsnewl...

I have found that sometimes saying too much about a #Poem can weaken its power. So I let this #DoubleCherita speak for itself. #PoemsAbout #Chandeliers @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoetsSupportPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky #StayCreative

burning leaves all day long the eagle circles - Deborah A. Bennett Hedgerow Poems, Issue 134

it's like only the dumbest people alive are in favor of a computer thinking for them, they've already proven their own thinking can't be trusted just by being in favor of a computer thinking for them

Recommend reading thread! 📚 📖 📙 📘 📕 📗 I'll continue to add to this thread. Feel free to contribute.

You are supporting the genocide by attacking people who take a stand and act to stop it. You hasbara trolls don't get to decide or lecture about what people can and can't do to end one of the great atrocities of this century. You are morally bankrupt individuals, supporting genocidal ideology

Outsourced Mitie workers at Sellafield are fighting for fair pay, while their CEO earns £14.7 million - 575 times the average worker's salary! Can you sign the worker's petition? www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/su...

Take the hint. #abolishthemonarchy www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Yvette Cooper facing contempt of court allegations over Observer article Cooper made allegations in her Observer article that may prevent a fair legal process for Palestine Action - and clearly thought she could get away with it. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Diplomacy doesn’t leave men looking like corpses. Blackmail does. Betrayal does. Nuclear whispers do. Here are 5 nightmare scenarios from the Alaska summit.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

The Royal Family walking around with Billions in stolen land and property while taking hundreds of millions of pounds a year more, and never paying tax on any of it. Just shouldn't be a thing in the 21st Century. It's disgusting, and they are slum landlords too.

she is the fighter we need www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/zarah-sult...

Christians, Muslims and Jews have lived in the Middle East for generations. No one is “an invader.” The only invaders now in the Middle East is Israel.

The right to withdraw our labour wasn’t handed down to us by benevolent liberals, it was fought for. By uncompromising strike action. It is our only means of defence and always has been.

'a load of poets' was a full and deeply attentive audience and readings on a surprisingly wide range of styles and subjects. I missed the second half, so hopefully they'll return on another occasion. thank you all #aloadofpoets

We think we are different than the past. We're not. We think we have no power. We do. We think that some are safer than others and don't want to risk that. It's not true. We are one world, and when some of us are trapped by hate, we all are. Our small voices and actions are big, together.