Sarah O'Connor
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Writer, Poet, Theatre goer, Music lover, Irishwoman abroad she/her
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I'm thrilled to see my name on the pamphlet prize shortlist. Thank you
@cripticarts.bsky.social
@spread-the-word.bsky.social
for seeing something in my work 🙏📚💙
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I didn't realise I needed to read this article today but I did 🙏❤️
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Michael Rosen
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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/we-covid-doctors-knew-who-would-pay-the-price-for-johnsons-inertia
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I read this cover to cover today and it is just as beautiful, present & moving as I thought from Natalie's reading. Full of life and language and craft ❤️📚💙
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Tonight I heard Natalie read from this & it was wonderful. Really looking forward to reading the whole book ❤️🙌
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Atrium
3 months ago
Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
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Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires
Sonnet for Perimenopause . . Victoria Spires is published in Berlin Lit & The London Magazine. She has been commended/shortlisted in: Ledbury, TPW Prize, Aesthetica Arts, Artemesia Arts, Plough…
https://atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/03/sonnet-for-perimenopause-victoria-spires/
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A reminder of what can happen when politicians are led by policy not popularity 🙏🙌
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Jim Pickard
4 months ago
this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine
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Mike Brooks
4 months ago
Go on, stick yer name on.
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Naomi Alderman
4 months ago
I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
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Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
4 months ago
Please read this timely and excellent opinion piece by our
@irishpen.bsky.social
Board member
@cauverymadhavan.bsky.social
Cauvery Madhavan.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When I left India, Ireland welcomed me in. I won’t let bigotry destroy the country we love | Cauvery Madhavan
People from the Indian community, and others, are facing violence that was once unthinkable. We must not give in to the racists, says novelist Cauvery Madhavan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/08/ireland-india-racism-bigotry-country-attacks-violence
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Nikita Gill
4 months ago
So utterly sick of politicians saying the most unfathomably cruel things because they want to be treated like a celebrity with controversial opinions and not a public servant, which is what they are elected to be.
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So my final stack for
#TheSealeyChallenge
I got to 23 rather than 31 but given the number of collections & a few languages scattered through I'm more than happy. Some excellent writers discovered & the realisation there are loads of pockets of time in my day for
#MorePoems
#SealeyChallenge
#Booksky
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Vicki Ziegler
5 months ago
"Could the rain-carried pain be my banshee's caoineadh, soothing my homesickness in its own morbid way?"
#TodaysPoem
#poetry
I can't reach the greengage and my tomatoes are blight-ridden. by Sarah O’Connor (
@sarahocwrites.bsky.social
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@anthro-poetry.bsky.social
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2 poems by Sarah O’Connor
After the funeralyou set the tablefor one place less. Not waitingto be asked, for once.You take down a bottle of regret,pop the cork, and pourus all a glass.Deep draughts keep us eachafloat, or some s...
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My favourite book of 2024 now available as audio 📚🎧🙌❤️
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Sylvia de Mars
5 months ago
The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/
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+ poetry 🤩 = Colour me excited 🤗
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Méabh de Brún
5 months ago
Advanced capitalism has exhausted us. We can only see the “labour” in “labour of love”. Instead of a lessening of burdens, we’re being offered a tool to remove that labour. But this labour is synonymous with the love. This work is the work of being alive. Don’t settle for outsourcing your life.
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Maria Farrell
5 months ago
"People do not want the messy, uncomfortable truth that disabled people know—that we are all only one infection or accident away from disability. That disability is not a choice, but a natural variation of existence." Every single word. Why do editors keep getting taken in? Because they want to.
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The Green Party of England & Wales
5 months ago
Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.
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Claret Press
5 months ago
Now that’s a cover.
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Jolene (Bardcore | Medieval Style)
YouTube video by Hildegard von Blingin'
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Adam
5 months ago
Channel 4 News – full segment on DecodeME results (9 mins) — the world’s largest genetic study of
#MECFS
— identifies eight genetic differences. Includes interviews with Prof Chris Ponting, a patient participant, Sonia Chowdhury, and MP Tessa Munt.
youtu.be/c5i_K3QEbCI?...
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Channel 4 News DecodeME results
YouTube video by Broken Battery
https://youtu.be/c5i_K3QEbCI?si=sDBQk5I1fbrRi907
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In a fit of over enthusiasm I've decided to take on the
#SealeyChallenge
this month! One book in and what a heartbreakingly beautiful, crafted collection this is ❤️📚💙
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Polly Atkin
6 months ago
I've made a new list on
@bookshop.org
of books that explore nature / walking / the outdoors by disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill writers - Nature Beyond Cure - aka our own narratives are messy and complex. Do share!
#BookSky
#DisabledWriters
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Nature Beyond Cure: Disabled Perspectives
Books that explore nature and living with disability and illness from disability perspectives. No magical cures here!
https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature-beyond-cure-disabled-perspectives
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London Review of Books
6 months ago
‘Many of Kneecap’s international fans, before listening to them, hadn’t realised that the Irish language exists at all – and that far from a dialect of English, it has roughly the same lexical distance from it as Russian.’
@naoisedolan.bsky.social
on the blog:
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Naoise Dolan | Take these yokes
An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, too....
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/july/take-these-yokes
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George Monbiot
6 months ago
One of the astonishing aspects of our times is that once-progressive parties are rushing us towards dystopia almost as fast as the far right is. This week's column is about what we might now face and how to contest it.
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Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but this repressive government is | George Monbiot
With their illiberal attitudes and ever more draconian use of technology to crack down on protest, it is ministers who now imperil our rights, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/04/palestine-action-british-democracy-government-technology-protest-rights?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Frances Ryan
7 months ago
It’s great to see investment in the NHS, social housing, and free school meals. But it makes no sense to cut disability benefits at the same time. Making disabled people sicker and poorer will only increase pressure on the NHS, push them out of independent homes, and deprive their children.
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Rishi Dastidar
7 months ago
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The leader of the opposition is not speaking
A poem “Kemi Badenoch has said she will not speak to women wearing burqas in her constituency surgery...” - The Guardian, 8 June 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/whatisinfinitylike/p/the-leader-of-the-opposition-is-not?r=aii
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Wendy Allen
7 months ago
And just like that … we launched our book Art Sundays
@salopress.bsky.social
with readings from
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
and her debut book Soi-même
@salopress.bsky.social
and it was a beautiful evening
@poetrysociety.bsky.social
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Jolyon Maugham KC
7 months ago
The EHRC Guidance is a wicked exercise in removing rights from trans people - and is bad too for employers and service providers, those outside gender norms, people with disabilities and the economy. We've created a tool to make it easy to respond. Please use and share.
goodlaw.social/9e59e9
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How to respond to the EHRC consultation
Good Law Project has taken advice from a leading public law King’s Counsel on how to respond to the EHRC’s consultation. What follows is a form which, after you complete it, will automatically be sent...
https://goodlaw.social/9e59e9
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A gorgeous evening at the launch for Art Sundays from
@wendycaitlin.bsky.social
@galiamelon.bsky.social
@salopress.bsky.social
Read it - it's brilliant!
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Wendy Allen
8 months ago
There’s a bank holiday sale
@serenbooks.bsky.social
and you can grab a copy of my book for less than a flat white 🩷 she’s a perfect size for a picnic lunch, or bath, or afternoon on settee.
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Frances Ryan
8 months ago
Every minister should read this. 👇 If the government actually cared about disabled people being in work, they would reform the chaos of Access to Work.
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The Guardian
8 months ago
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/my-island-of-strangers-poem-michael-rosen?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1747462491
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Naush Sabah
8 months ago
PBLJ11 is out now at
www.poetrybirmingham.com
. Have a look, have a read, buy a copy. Over 200 pages and full of interesting things. I think it's pretty good and want to know what you think. Write me and let me know 🤓
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London Writers Centre
10 months ago
Congratulations to our
#DisabledPoetsPrize
winners! Winner of Best Single Poem - Oli Isaac with ‘to whom / it may / concern’. Winner of Best Unpublished Pamphlet -
@thewordtinker.bsky.social
with HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON. Announced earlier today at
#DeptfordLitFest
.
@cripticarts.bsky.social
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Out-Spoken Press
10 months ago
✨✨✨Happy Publication Day to
@mayacaspari.bsky.social
whose brilliant debut pamphlet, ALMOST, WITH TENDERNESS, is out today ✨✨✨ Order your copy here:
outspokenldn.com/shop/almost
And join us at
@burleyfisher.bsky.social
on 3 April to celebrate the launch (registration link below)
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Frances Ryan
10 months ago
At the heart of every attack on disability benefits is the myth disabled people “get perks”: a free car, loads of cash, a life off work. It misrepresents the reality of disability, whilst exploiting low wages and high living costs to make the public envy people in daily pain.
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Rishi Dastidar
10 months ago
Endless talk about people being too sick to work. Absolutely nothing about why work might make people sick.
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Frances Ryan
10 months ago
If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from
@sensecharity.bsky.social
you can use:
t.co/E8QB6EDi9o
Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
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Martin Doyle
10 months ago
The 100 best Irish fiction books of the 21st century so far: No 100 to No 51. We assembled a panel of 60 experts – writers, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers & journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of 2000-2025
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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The 100 best Irish fiction books of the 21st century so far: No 100 to No 51
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts – authors, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers and journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of the years...
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/03/13/the-100-best-irish-fiction-books-of-the-21st-century-so-far-no-100-to-no-51/
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Kit de Waal
10 months ago
Try writing the body from a 'crip' lens in a special festival edition of CRIPtic Spread the Word Salon with a workshop on writing the body & open mic session. Free. 29 March at 5.30pm Online, relaxed with breaks programmed in. Captioned and BSL interpreted. Details in link. Please share :)
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Festival Edition: CRIPtic x Spread the Word Salon
Join Jamie Hale for an online workshop followed by poetry readings from Gayathiri Kamalakanthan and Susie Wilson and an open mic.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/festival-edition-criptic-x-spread-the-word-salon-tickets-1146754827559?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios
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London Writers Centre
11 months ago
Join us ONLINE to find out the Disabled Poets Prize 2025 winner, followed by readings from the poets in each category. 🗓️Sat 29 Mar, 12pm 📍Online (captioned) 🎟️
eventbrite.co.uk/e/disabled-poets-prize-2025-winners-announcement-tickets-1146266125839
#DeptfordLitFest
#DisabledPoetsPrize
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Kathryn Bromwich
11 months ago
Really proud of this piece. Grateful to Avalyn, Rowan and Sarah for sharing their stories. It's a national scandal that long Covid patients have been forgotten by the government, employers & society at large. The least we can do is keep talking about them
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‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten
Five years on from March 2020, millions of people still face debilitating symptoms, with huge repercussions on public health and productivity. But politicians are starting to pretend the pandemic neve...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/02/were-losing-decades-of-our-life-to-this-illness-long-covid-patients-on-the-fear-of-being-forgotten
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RSPB
11 months ago
How different birds would act on a first date...a thread. (From us to you this
#ValentinesDay
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Irish Literary Times
12 months ago
A Cleanse for Imbolc by
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I'm thrilled to see my name on the pamphlet prize shortlist. Thank you
@cripticarts.bsky.social
@spread-the-word.bsky.social
for seeing something in my work 🙏📚💙
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Rue Collinge
12 months ago
Absolutely over the moon to announce that my pamphlet ‘How to train your Dragon’ has been shortlisted for the
#DisabledPoetsPrize
2025!
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Jessica Boatright
12 months ago
Being shortlisted for this prize has been a lovely little glimmer of joy within such a tough month. I'm delighted! 😊❤️
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I'm thrilled to see my name on the pamphlet prize shortlist. Thank you
@cripticarts.bsky.social
@spread-the-word.bsky.social
for seeing something in my work 🙏📚💙
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Laurie Ogden
12 months ago
Submissions are still open for Issue 6
@andotherpoems.bsky.social
- send us your poems!
andotherpoems.com/submissions/
#poetry
#poets
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