UPDATE: Basel Adra, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” says co-director Hamdan Ballal is receiving treatment in the hospital after being beaten by Israeli settlers, and then Israeli soldiers. Soldiers “left him blindfolded and handcuffed” at a base last night.

An eye witness account of the arrest of Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning “No Other Land”, after *he* was attacked by Israeli ‘settlers’. And lots on the USA’s security breach - as the lies become more blatant, so what’s left of accountability withers. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Alberto Burri, Città di Castello

Lucidity is stored in the balls

Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

Precisely my expectation: 1. Decimate the ranger personnel. 2. Watch the national parks deteriorate. 3. Declare only privatization can save them. 4. Put hand-picked companies in charge, which will 5. Start selling off land and mineral rights to "save" the parks.

This went out of print last year. Glad to say it is now back in print & available from Carcanet. www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

The raid on the Jerusalem Educational Bookstore and arrest of its workers/owners, Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna, is outrageous. It is the only bookstore specializing in issues of Palestine, Israel, and Jerusalem. It is an iconic store that preserves what little is left of Palestinian culture in the city.

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But when it comes to cutting aid budgets no one says “let’s spend less money on Israeli or Egyptian military capacity”. Instead you want to start by taking healthcare and education away from people who have been made vulnerable by the structural injustices you create and benefit from.

Dear All, we are hoping to raise £250 to publish Lee Duggan's pamphlet, ‘Via Settembre’. This is a link to the GoFundMe with more information about the project. Thanks for your support. gofund.me/42b1bd06

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I can't stop thinking about the totality of this - the very definition of genocide. Culture, homes, infrastructure, society, history - as well as lives, all destroyed, all in full view of the world

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Everything going well.

Good obit — though it leaves out Roubaud's many connections to US poetry & translation — by Adam Nossiter. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/b...

Huge respect for environmental campaigner Chris Packham so I'm reposting his message from the other side. Have to say I couldn't agree more. #loveactually @chrisgpackham.bsky.social #climatecrisis

Assisi illuminated

Wandering (sometimes fugitive) activists and poets, George and Mary Oppen, aboard the small boat they lived on in the 1930s. I'm (re)reading Mary Oppen's Meaning A Life.

Season’s Greetings 🎄

Foligno persimmons

Some day my prince will come…

Nothing like an achingly sexy sonnet translated from the long dead and crackling with long life: Peter Hughes rocking Cavalcanti @peterhughesumbria.bsky.social

"Hymns are songs of praise and ‘sound travels readily’" Ian Brinton reviews "European Hymns" by Andrew Taylor: www.littermagazine.com/2024/12/revi...

Litter reviews poetry collections by Peter Hughes, Sanjeev Sethi and Andrew Taylor: www.littermagazine.com/2024/11/revi...

'Jack Lentini & the Pirate Queen', my versions of 13th-century Sicilian poet Giacomo da Lentini, now available from KF&S. Here is poem 1.

When you neglect to mention the budget to the altar designer

A poem from 'Jack Lentini & The Pirate Queen' (versions of Lentini) now out from Knives Forks & Spoons Press

Olive harvest continues

Evening light, Spello