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On the Fossil Free Books ControversyToby Litt

Toby Litt — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 10:18:12 +0000

A couple of days ago, our editor Toby Litt published a poem on his Substack, A Writer’s Diary. It was a response to criticisms of the Fossil Free Books campaign. Since then, the controversy over Fossil Free Books has become even more divisive. Many but definitely not all of the members of Writers Rebel [...]

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In Memory of Snow, February 2040John Barron

John Barron — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:24:02 +0000

1st Snow was a kind of hand-wringing heat; mine burned psychedelic red with it. Where your footsteps trod, it cast blue shadows like a methane fire. Crystals, so many I couldn’t get the maths straight in my head, falling feathery, light … FeatherLite, my nan’s eiderdown, all put away now inside some cupboard. We [...]

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Q&A with Vik SharmaToby Litt

Toby Litt — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:00:38 +0000

How did the collaboration between you and Ruth Padel on 24 Splashes of Denial come about? The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was the beginning. Its release was shocking and psychically disturbing for many of us. Inaction felt like a betrayal of everything I loved, believed in, [...]

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The Two UnseensBrandon Ra Pestano

Brandon Ra Pestano — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:00:29 +0000

Brandon Ra Pestano is a 26 year old poet of mixed Guyanese and English heritage from Brighton, England. He has represented the South of England in spoken word at the National Portrait Gallery, as well as performing his poetry at Greenwich West Gallery and having a short poetry film exhibited at the Institute [...]

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The Month of Emergencies – poemRebecca Faulkner

Rebecca Faulkner — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:00:31 +0000

7.9 inches of rain fell in Central Park last night dead cicadas on the crosswalk their bodies bunched in brittle knots sticky candy sky bright with grief branches submerged by the weight of our silence a letter unread a door closed firmly & [...]

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Duino – poemPatrick Mackie

Patrick Mackie — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:00:27 +0000

Whether you can get there from here or wherever depends on whether you are there already, on whether you will find that you are already standing amidst the outspread hands of its stones, and their misty grey dawns, on whether indeed the arcs and folds of that sky really can make all location moot [...]

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Diver Overview – PoemSebastian Schloessingk

Sebastian Schloessingk — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000

The Great Barrier Reef diver/cameraman ‘cried in my mask’, to see the bleaching. Mankind is beginning to take creaky baby steps towards being able to live forever. Just when there’s no more forever to live in. There is a shock that sidles from the phrase ‘humans were rare,’ as applied to time in [...]

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The Names of TreesKillian Faith-Kelly

Killian Faith-Kelly — Thu, 27 May 2021 08:00:54 +0000

The Names of Trees I I should know the names of trees and birds, and where to find them. I should have this, poised to give, to any who might need it. Dirt should sit, be lodged, tattooed, beneath my fingernails. And I should know its feel, and warmth, and temperament [...]

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Threading Our WayCeó Ruaírc

Ceó Ruaírc — Thu, 27 May 2021 08:00:35 +0000

Threading Our Way Peace River territory The Peace purls a ripple stitch across the Rockies down through fertile valleys air shimmers in waves over the hot road to Hudson’s Hope glistening fish hide in hollows fishers patient hopeful on the farm Grandma weaves a sheaf of wheat into wreathes [...]

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