Led By Donkeys: “We’ve done, I reckon, 25 or 30 projections since we’ve been going. Often the police come along and we have a chat to them, and they even have a laugh with us and occasionally tell us to not do it. But no one’s been arrested before” - for your “Actually worse than Tories” folder

I rarely share organizations in Gaza because it’s too hard to verify that they are doing the work they say they are but I know multiple people who were able to evacuate through the people working on this fund who are funding trips out of Gaza City (it’s $2100 a trip for 16 people).

In this month's long read, Sally Button writes via the underground, the city and the landscape to reflect on moving from London to the northwest of the northwest, finding fragmented artistic community in and around Lancaster and Morecambe, exposing interiority and accessing space:

Another beautiful exhibition that I got to write about for Corridor8

Splendid news! It’s the 73rd anniversary of the premiere of John Cage’s 4'33", guaranteed, even now, to make people very, very angry

Kenneth Rexroth (I memorized this poem when I was young. I can still recite it.)

'To write about a biennial from this perspective is a step outside of the tempo and often placeless perspective of the art reviewer who jets into a city and takes from it only what they need.' Read Liverpool resident Laura Harris, reflecting on the civic, emplaced and social nature of biennials.

Extract from ‘Cow’ – six poems by Uruguayan poet Claudia Magliano in @mptmagazine.bsky.social tr. Jesse Lee Kercheval & Jeannine Marie Pitas. Have a look! 🐄

It's disgusting that this even needs to be said, but there is no law compelling Americans to have any form of ID on them while walking the streets.

thanks so much to everyone who's signed - 300 signatures in less than 3 days and climbing. this programme is one of the best things about UoB and the very least of what the university owes the broader region

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Came across this MacCaig poem by chance and bloody hell, amazing

'Paz’s works, some completed, some in fragments, were strange, shimmering, mutable forms, as though the images were conjured from memory — part-seen, part-imagined.' Susannah Thompson responds to Alicia Paz's Women in Print residency at Artlab Contemporary Print Studios in Preston 🧜‍♀️ 🐚 🐟

Morton Feldman. Intersection +, 1953

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Every diaspora Palestinian I know has been living with survivor’s guilt for 655 days. Guilt & shame for every glass of water, every bite of food, every shower, every daily annoyance, every moment of joy, every booboo we can kiss better, every sleep in our own beds. Our people are being slaughtered.

Starving people is in itself a #massacre.

I just donated to this in support of @eligoldstone.bsky.social Olivia Sudjic and Jack Underwood’s hunger strike for Gaza chuffed.org/project/help...

This is a really difficult read by Ruwaida Amer in Gaza. I just can't anymore with the barbaric Israeli state. www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...

UN says starvation in Gaza is man-made as families in the besieged territory endure ‘catastrophic hunger’.

I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.

David Bromige

This was really quite beautiful tonight. The visuals were mesmerising. I think there's one more performance tomorrow! You should go

What happened in June, you ask? Fear not, all is here! Catch up with the free-to-read activity on our site in this recent newsletter, delve into our paid long read on the Substack from @pdkmitchell.bsky.social‬, frolic in the summer fields of art writing from the top half of England, etc, etc:

In 1982, The NY Public Theater presented a "Language/Noise Festival." RIchard Foreman introduced a small group of poets c. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, including Bruce Andrews, James Sherry, Hannah Weiner, & me. In this post: audio + transcription of Richard's intro. Goto: jacket2.org/commentary/l...

is that / not love? Carl Phillips

With 38 hrs to go to the EHRC consultation deadline I'm seeing posts from people feeling bad they're too stressed to engage. The GLP⬇️has removed all but the last step, a general comment box. This is a far easier task. I hope it helps those who want to, to get their voice heard without too much pain.

Why and how Paul Celan's poems are so satisfying is a lovely mystery (trans Felstiner)

Tom Pickard

From Lenora Carrington’s estate, the girl and her snake:

If you do one thing in London this weekend please go see the UK’s AIDS Quilt in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall.

The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it. Here’s what this means for Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra... #Palestine #Israel

Hello do you want my job ! I will not need it any longer I'm going to do a PhD ! The job is good and sweet and poems in Manchester why don't you take a little looksy

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo... Live updates

Israel’s Defense Minister has once again threatened unlawful force against civilians, attempting to justify violence with baseless smears. We will not be intimidated. The 'Madleen' is a peaceful civilian vessel, unarmed and sailing in international waters with humanitarian aid and ...2/

A rare thing to see in the wild these days: a Creative Writing lectureship (fixed term) at the University of East Anglia vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

I really loved working on this piece by Eloise about Emily Speed's practice, it's a beautiful imaginative surreal dreamy text which you should definitely spend some of your Sunday with

Annea Lockwood got a beautiful article in The New York Times Incl. A mention of Bayou-Borne, for Pauline, which was performed beautifully by MAZE www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a...

We are all breathing here together, are we not? We are all leaking our in- formation, our attentiveness. I do not want to look away, I will not look away, I want to promise, I will be saturated ‘When the World Ended’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

i wrote about some of the strangeness from my life for the last ten years, working for arts organisations, universities and other institutions on temporary contracts all over the north of england, in the style of a terribly sincere personal essay, and that's VERY interesting

Alice Notley got it. She GOT it.

🚨 Important Action 🚨 Here is a brand new draft letter to your MP, which you should absolutely be sending, based on yesterday's statement from UN experts. Please send and share!

UN: Despite the statements, no aid has yet reached the residents. The aid and food that did enter are still stuck at the Kerem Shalom crossing.

A favourite poem by Alice Notley.

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/qiSx3j8