Ira Lightman
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Cindy Sherman. Untitled #105. 1982.
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Canadian History Ehx
5 days ago
It is International Women's Day. There have been many, many amazing women who have shaped Canada's history. I have chosen to feature ten of those women. These are their amazing stories. đź§µ 1/12
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Who's one to say – just from the Chalamet comment that ballet and opera are minority art – that Timothee C C C see me C is no true artist? His version of gist, wince and miserabilist enforced whim does the self sum execration for him opinion alone can't improve upon.
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Louie Stowell
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Q: What do you call a Mercian king who has reduced his prices? A: Special Offa
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Ian McMillan
7 days ago
Good to go to the theatre in Doncaster and home again on the X19. That bus is a good link along the old A635. Let’s have more buses in the evenings and at weekends please!
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Pam
8 days ago
by Gwendolyn Brooks ❤️‍🩹
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Ian Dennis
8 days ago
We never knew how good he was
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Terry Stiastny
10 days ago
I feel they have misunderstood this expression:
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phillip crymble
10 days ago
James Merrill, born 100 years ago today
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Ian McMillan
12 days ago
Pinch punch first of the month. I realise now I shouldn’t have tried that in the queue at the bus stop.
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Apart from being not topical, I had to pull an earlier draft, because of bad proofreading
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Best for Britain
17 days ago
Stephen Githens MP: "Nigel Farage told us the UK will not be the last member to leave. No one left, and more members are seeking to join." "Now, are there any colleagues from Reform today? None." "Now, there are some from the Conservatives, and I can never quite tell who's in and who's out."
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Francopomes: EFFING AWFUL
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Francopomes: EFFING AWFUL - a śort spel
My poem 'Effing Awful,' with reference to an article by Ira Lightman, and with thanks to Anita Formosa for bringing it to my attentioon
https://ashortspell.com/francopomes-effing-awful/
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Jeremy Noel-Tod
17 days ago
Seems like overreach from the former Poet Laureate
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Motion demanding release of Andrew documents expected to pass without vote, says Badenoch – UK politics live
Tory leader says all MPs agree with Lib Dem motion to force release of documents relating to his role as trade envoy
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/feb/24/peter-mandelson-ex-prince-andrew-labour-keir-starmer-uk-politics-latest-news-updates
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Kate Davis
17 days ago
Watched Ch4's Dirty Business. Sadly I'm not shocked- it's been going on for decades & getting worse. Will anyone be prosecuted? No. I caught paralytic polio in the sea 70yrs ago. Maybe they didn't know as much on how polio/infections spread in 50s? We know now. They'll let us die to make more money
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There is an intervention by poets to be made, into the fiction-led "should writers read" debate and the "should writers read for pleasure" sequel. It should have something particular, and only concerning that poets don't get paid very much.
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Douglas Cheape
18 days ago
'I want that fable on my desk, AESOP!'
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18 days ago
'A Real Birmingham Family' sculpture by Gillian Wearing
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Nicolas Gastineau
over 1 year ago
J'ai rencontré un type fascinant, Simon Weckert, qui s'est baladé dans les rues de Berlin avec une brouette remplie de smartphones. Ce qui a causé des bouchons virtuels et ainsi vidé de leurs voitures des rues entières. Derrière ce hack rigolo, il nous fait réfléchir à notre dépendance à GoogleMaps
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Ian McMillan
20 days ago
He kept a tally of his height. His brother kept a shorty of his height.
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24 days ago
Clarice Cliff (1899-1972), regarded as one of the most influential ceramics artists of the 20th Century
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Gertrude!
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Tom Snarsky
24 days ago
happy birthday to one of my favorite poets of all time, William Bronk
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Ian McMillan
26 days ago
The moon’s Night shift Never ends. It’s the world’s Security guard. Self-employed. Its torch As bright As itself. Its yawn As wide As the sky.
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Alice Notley
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Ian McMillan
about 1 month ago
Time’s long rubber band Stretching through millennia; Hope it never snaps.
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The Fake History Hunter
about 1 month ago
Louis Armstrong, Paris, c. 1934
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This is superb. Yes, it has a "best line", but I'm not going to quote it because it's part of the garden and shouldn't be plucked.
add a skeleton here at some point
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