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Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder

Poetry etc. Here on behalf of the etc. Views my own. Community gardening. Wild things. Islington in Europe.

Joined November 2009
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John Keats@KeatsFound
17 Feb 2025
Take part in this year’s Keats conference this May at @KeatsHouse London. Deadline for proposals is Friday 21 February, 12 noon UK time. We just need a 200-250 outline. More info here: keatsfoundation.com/conferen…

Conference - The Keats Foundation

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John Keats@KeatsFound
10 Jan 2025
Ah, bitter chill it was! Get ready for the Eve of St Agnes - Monday 20 January. We have a special online event featuring poet Helen Farish @BloodaxeBooks, Prof Nicholas Roe and a relay reading of Keats’s chilliest poem. Free tickets here: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/v…

Visions of Delight: Poems for The Eve of St Agnes - The Poetry Society

  A special event with Helen Farish, Nicholas Roe and friends for St Agnes’ Eve, the bitter chill night celebrated in John Keats’s famous poem, when you might see visions of future lovers.   Helen...

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‘Brain Rot’ is OED’s word of the year 2024 theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Siân Boyle

‘Brain rot’ is the Oxford word of the year – a fitting choice, given the startling impact the internet is having on our grey matter, says journalist Siân Boyle

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Another Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree has been lit and feted with a new poem. Thank you Valerie Bloom and the children of St Vincent’s primary. It may have been the WETTEST event in living memory but we had great fun. @PoetrySociety @TrafalgarsTree
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It’s Christmas Tree day in London! The Norwegian Trafalgar Square tree will be lit at 6pm this evening. Looking forward to the brass band, the drummers, the choir and ⭐️the new poem⭐️ commissioned for the ceremony. (rain please delay your arrival). See you later @TrafalgarsTree
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Fàilte! Congratulations to @PadraigMacaoidh (Peter Mackay) appointed the new Scots Makar, National Poet for Scotland.
Judith Palmer@WasThatThunder
6 Nov 2024
Poetry in the sister languages of Gaelic and Irish from Pàdraig MacAoidh and Eoin P. Ó Murchú at @ScotGovLondon. Interesting discussion mourning the loss of the cultural connections and networks with the other minoritised languages of Europe since Brexit.
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'Enshittification' selected as word of the year by Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary. “We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening” Cory Doctorow canberratimes.com.au/story/8…

'Enshittification' selected as word of the year

The Macquarie Dictionary has chosen "enshittification" - a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services...

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Poetry in the sister languages of Gaelic and Irish from Pàdraig MacAoidh and Eoin P. Ó Murchú at @ScotGovLondon. Interesting discussion mourning the loss of the cultural connections and networks with the other minoritised languages of Europe since Brexit.
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Westminster Abbey today for annual Keats commemoration. “If I should die, said I to myself, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory”
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In Moorgate, London, a new sculpture commemorating John Keats, at the place he was born. Bust by Martin Jennings based on Keats’s life mask made by Hayden in 1816. With lines from Ode on Indolence.
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The original life mask made by Keats’s friend Haydon is at @keatshouse Hampstead. The new commemoration, unveiled yesterday by the Lord Mayor of London is at the site of the Swan and Hoop livery stables on the corner of Moorgate and London Wall.
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Mapping the Future mapped, Complete Works community celebrated @RSLiterature - wonderful readings and inspiring intros @BernardineEvari @Natteitler @arshi_mona @KMcCarthyWoolf @NickMakoha @YomiSode @soshunetwork @BloodaxeBooks
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Thanks for a stimulating day of eco-poetic discussions and readings @poetryschool today at Leeds University.
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At the Laurel Prize for nature and environmental poetry at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. John Burnside awarded the main prize with prizes to @shevchenkonight and @HCopley
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At the Leeds Corn Exchange as @tombranfoot and @sarahkdawson create cut up poetry
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Extra time, extra points
Arsenal
@Arsenal
28 Sep 2024
A BIG THREE POINTS AT EMIRATES STADIUM ❤️
Full Time: Arsenal 4-2 Leicester City

ALT Full Time: Arsenal 4-2 Leicester City
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Arsenal
@Arsenal
28 Sep 2024
LEOOOOOO! Trossard slots in our second just ahead of the interval 2️⃣ 🔴 2-0 🔵 (45 1)
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The sun shone for the #RejoinEUMarch today
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Up to Liverpool tomorrow night to see Martin Crimp’s Play House at the @LivEveryPlay directed by Eira Murphy. Have cleaned my fridge in anticipation. everymanplayhouse.com/whats-…
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Craig Bennett@CraigBennett3
20 Sep 2024
Great interview with @TonyJuniper Good to see him offering strong support for #Wildbelt, as proposed by the @WildlifeTrusts and many others... theguardian.com/environment/…

‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve

In a Guardian interview, Tony Juniper says housebuilding plans could be an opportunity to create ‘wild belts’ around cities to help habitat and species recovery

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