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BREAKING: A Florida meteorologist just went on air and said he can’t accurately report the weather anymore, because Trump’s DOGE cuts gutted the satellite data he relies on. We’re not just defunding science, we’re sabotaging public safety. And for what? So a billionaire

Remembering my friend and colleague, the Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead three years ago in Jenin in the West Bank. Israel has acknowledged that she was ‘probably’ shot by one of its soldiers, but no one has been prosecuted for her killing.

My next poetry collection, The Book of Jonah, will be out on September 4th, and the final cover is done! (With huge thanks to Ebruba Abel-Unokan and the Picador design team)

PRIMERS, the excellent mentoring and publication scheme from our good friends Nine Arches Press is back! ninearchespress.com/primers ⚡️⚡️⚡️There are a number of free entries available for writers on a low income.⚡️⚡️⚡️ Deadline: midnight BST on 9th September 2025 #poetry #mentoring

Utterly heartbreaking. This cannot continue. With no journalists allowed in that war zone, brave surgeons like Victoria Rose are saving lives but also acting as important witnesses. And their testimony is crucial.

If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

While people point out Greta was on the ship, it needs to be screamed louder that there was also a member of the European Union’s Parliament aboard: Rima Hassan Israel just kidnapped a foreign government official in international waters on humanitarian aid to a sovereign people.

By forcibly intercepting and blocking the Madleen, Israel has once again ignored its legal obligations towards civilians in the occupied Gaza Strip. The crew were unarmed activists and human rights defenders on a humanitarian mission. They must be released immediately and

🎙️ NEW PODCAST! The latest of our much loved Nothing But The Poem podcast casts its net into international waters and features a deep dive into the poems of Kenyan poet Ngwatilo Mawiyoo - hosted as always by Samuel Tongue @samueltongue.bsky.social scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/nothin…

Primavera. Thanks for having us.

The flotilla—like many civil society actions—does not threaten Israel’s security, but its impunity.

This is an Israeli paper saying this.

Like humans, there are many ways a sonnet can be. This fundraiser workshop led by myself will look modern and contemporary experiments in the ‘little song’ by a diverse range of poets including Bernadette Mayer, Diane Seuss and Nat Raha. eventbrite.co.uk/e/little-songs…

Every act of personal sacrifice is seen as performative to people like this because they can't conceive of doing a single selfless thing for another. Typing away from the safety of the home, their only material concern, a deadline. Rotten to the core.

More journalists killed in Gaza than World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, Yugoslavia & Afghanistan combined

The unveiling of new poetry inscribed stones at the Canongate Wall - Scottish Parliament Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone MSP with former Scotland national Makars Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Liz Lochhead.

Write to the leadership of the Co-op to call on them to implement the motion passed overwhelmingly at the Co-op AGM last month by ending the sale of all Israeli goods in Co-op stores: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/coop

How would poets regard this clause? The work in progress must be "Either under contract with a UK publisher with an advance against royalties of no less than £1,000 and no more than £15,000 OR not under contract, but you have previously received such an advance" Are you eligible?