Cindy Sherman. Untitled #105. 1982.

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. 🧵 1/12

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.

Q: What do you call a Mercian king who has reduced his prices? A: Special Offa

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!

by Gwendolyn Brooks ❤️‍🩹

We never knew how good he was

I feel they have misunderstood this expression:

James Merrill, born 100 years ago today

Pinch punch first of the month. I realise now I shouldn’t have tried that in the queue at the bus stop.

Apart from being not topical, I had to pull an earlier draft, because of bad proofreading

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."

Francopomes: EFFING AWFUL ashortspell.com/francopomes-...

Seems like overreach from the former Poet Laureate

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

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.

'I want that fable on my desk, AESOP!'

'A Real Birmingham Family' sculpture by Gillian Wearing #womensart

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

He kept a tally of his height. His brother kept a shorty of his height.

Clarice Cliff (1899-1972), regarded as one of the most influential ceramics artists of the 20th Century #WomensArt

Gertrude!

happy birthday to one of my favorite poets of all time, William Bronk

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.

Alice Notley

Time’s long rubber band Stretching through millennia; Hope it never snaps.

Louis Armstrong, Paris, c. 1934

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.