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olive franklin retweeted
26 Feb 2025
an honour !!!
26 Feb 2025
Thanks to Oxford Poetry and Godelieve de Bree for reviewing With My Back to the World
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olive franklin retweeted
22 Jul 2024
‘Day’s End’ by Olive Franklin @usuallyolive
berlinlit.com/days-end/
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18 Jul 2024
so happy!!
17 Jul 2024
The Poetry Society is proud to have two excellent poets shortlisted for the Forward Prizes this year: Eve Esfandiari-Denney for ‘Nearly White Girl Girling on Behalf of Mammal’ and Tife Kusoro with ‘the only other dark-skinned girl’.
More: poetrysociety.org.uk/news/ev…
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olive franklin retweeted
7 Jul 2024
BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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26 Jun 2024
read two of my faves having a chat <3
18 Jun 2024
Thrilled to have interviewed Rachael Allen about heartbreak, horror movies and her newest collection God Complex for @portmagazine
port-magazine.com/literature…
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17 Jun 2024
catch me here!
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olive franklin retweeted
3 May 2024
We're shocked to hear that another @KingsCollegeLon alumnus-Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, head of orthopaedics at Al Shifa Hospital-was killed in an Israeli prison after 4 months of detention & torture. How long will KCL refuse to condemn Israel's genocide in Gaza & to stop its complicity?
Dr Adnan Al-Bursh. Murdered by the Israeli army while in detension.
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olive franklin retweeted
23 Mar 2024
Sweet twitter followers - I have a ticket to the LRB Anne Carson event at Conway Hall on Monday evening (25th) I am hoping to sell for bought price (£20!) - please get in touch if you, or anyone you know, might want it x
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olive franklin retweeted
21 Feb 2024
Enter our new challenge on Young Poets Network, asking you to write poems which reinvent your favourite myth (or myths!).
Free to enter and open to writers aged 5-25 worldwide. Winners will be published on Young Poets Network and receive poetry goodies ✨ bit.ly/YPNMyth
ALT How could you draw parallels between your life and a myth? bit.ly/YPNMyth
ALT The challenge: write a poem which reinvents a myth, or myths. Open to writers aged 5-25 worldwide. Entry is free; you can send in as many poems as you like. Deadline 7 April
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27 Feb 2024
so excited to be teaching this workshop, including poems by anne carson & natalie diaz this saturday!
15 Feb 2024
New (free!) poetry workshop alert 📝
To inspire you to enter the Reinventing Myth challenge on YPN, we're running a free online poetry workshop on Saturday 2 March.
Open to writers aged 14-25.
Reserve your space here: bit.ly/YPNMythWorkshop
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16 Feb 2024
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8 Feb 2024
New challenge alert 🪽
How could you draw parallels between your life and a myth?
Enter the Reinventing Myth Challenge by 7 April for the chance to be published & win prizes including books, stationery, and performance opportunities 💫
Find out more: bit.ly/YPNMyth
ALT The challenge: write a poem which reinvents a myth, or myths. Open to writers aged 5-25 worldwide. Deadline 7 April. bit.ly/YPNMyth The Reinventing Myth Challenge on Young Poets Network
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olive franklin retweeted
3 Feb 2024
"You are the sun",
Georgia O'Keeffe - 1977
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olive franklin retweeted
4 Jan 2024
Lieve @godelievedebree came up with Brokebutch Mountain on our writing retreat and to see it published months later in @fourteenpoems is so awesome. one of my favourites in an incredible issue go cop!! 💜💜💜
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olive franklin retweeted
16 Dec 2023
Day sixteen of The Poetry Society's #BooksOfTheYear Olive Franklin (@usuallyolive) reccomends Mary Jean Chan's (@maryjean_chan) 'Bright Fear' (@FaberBooks)
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olive franklin retweeted
29 Oct 2023
Was delighted to have written this review for @LAReviewofBooks about women in biblical narratives and how stories create realities!
29 Oct 2023
“Where Eve is gifted a rich internal life,” @godelievedebree writes in her review of Carmen Boullosa’s “The Book of Eve,” “Adam is one-dimensional and pathetic until he proves to be downright degenerate.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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olive franklin retweeted
1 Sep 2023
Gboyega’s family have released their statement below. They have started a Go Fund Me to support his final arrangements and to start The Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation. Please share and support. Gboyega is, and will continue to be, the best of us.
gofundme.com/f/gboyega-oduba…
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olive franklin retweeted
28 Aug 2023
If you’ve seen Gboyega Odubanjo since 26th Aug please reach out. Details below (clothing description is slightly wrong - he was wearing a red waistcoat).
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olive franklin retweeted
22 Aug 2023
“blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton
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