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The Washington Post just released an in-depth investigation on Israel’s assault on the al-Shifa hospital. The Post analyzed open-source visuals, satellite imagery and all of the publicly released IDF materials. Highlights from the investigation: 1/5

136 of our colleagues in Gaza have been killed in 75 days – something we have never seen in United Nations history. Most of our staff have been forced from their homes. I pay tribute to them & the thousands of aid workers risking their lives as they support civilians in Gaza.

Growing up in Hillsborough I got a pretty deeply instilled feeling of how unspeakable and devastating the loss of 97 lives is to a community. That a loss of that scale is occurring daily in Palestine, swept under the carpet, cast as 'regrettable', is horrifying beyond words.

Those who were once oppressed have stepped up to help those being oppressed. The rest of us are shamed.

'a book that displays linguistic deftness, dexterity and confidence. It's crime-poetry; it's forensic-lyricism; it's sensual, creepy, insistent, revealing. It takes stock of us.' v generous and thorough review of ISDAL by Tara Bergin in PNReview

Noor, my daughter, was the only one who held my heart in this world. Her story was different from other girls. Noor Al-Fara, 13 years old. She had dreams for the future and was planning to achieve things beyond her age. She lived in her own world, with thoughts and interests

On #Palestine and speaking up, publishing and prison, and some important writing by Khawla Ibraheem, Ahed Tamimi + @dena, and three from Hajar Press: a piece I've been working on since June 2023. With thanks to Palestine Festival of Literature, WordsWithoutBorders, Tara Tobler wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

We are devastated to be marking 150 days of genocide. As of today, 30,631 people, including 12,000 children, have been murdered by the Israeli military. We will always bear witness. We will never forget. Ceasefire NOW!

🚨Calling UK writers, illustrators, and translators! Join the May 2 EGM vote we’re bringing to @thesocietyofauthors, on fossil fuels divestment and the genocide in Gaza! More in comments ⬇️ and in our bio - it’s time to act collectively to make our industry take a stance 🌏🍉

🚨🚨URGENT 🚨🚨 The The Society of Authors have just informed us that membership applications must be submitted by MIDDAY TOMORROW (Fri 26th) to be processed in time to vote in the EGM. Please share and spread the word. If you are planning to join & vote, but haven't yet, do it NOW.

My statement on the Hay-on-Wye literary festival👇🏾

#ShamiChakrabarti will no longer be appearing at the Hay Festival because of the investment portfolio of sponsors Baillie Gifford - read her statement here, with support from Fossil Free Books open.substack.com/pub/caseforthe…

BREAKING: Hay Festival have dropped sponsor Baillie Gifford ✊This shows the power we have when we unite as workers, and remain steadfast in our solidarity with Palestine. Our statement below 🧵 ⬇️

On friday, I went on BBC Radio 4's World at One to talk abt Fossil Free Books's call for asset manager & literary festival sponsor, Baillie Gifford, to divest from companies complicit in human rights abuses, incl in Palestine. Pls listen & share. Below is a 🧵w further thoughts

🧵 BREAKING: New data reveals Baillie Gifford holds £61million in Babcock, an arms company significantly involved in arming Israel. Writers Against the War on Gaza Naomi Klein Palestine Festival of Literature

‘Nothing [...] is coyer than men’s poetry.’ In his essay in the Summer issue, Joey Connolly revisits his childhood diary and poems by John Ashbery and Elizabeth Bishop to examine gender identity and desire in modern poetry. Buy the issue: poetrylondon.co.uk/shop/summer-20…

My first book was part of the Books3 data set, used to train some major commerical AI models. I'm probably very successful at hiding it but I'm kind of a computer nerd as well as a poetry guy, so I wrote in depth on why poets have nothing to fear from AI pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe…

KNEECAP STATEMENT: They want you to believe words are more harmful than genocide. Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral