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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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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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