I don't want privileged little pricks like Sunak, Johnson, Mogg and Cameron, who represent 6% of the population & have never done a day's graft in their fucking lives running the country.I want people like ANGELA RAYNER who know the reality of life. I love what she stands for.✊

#Thestarbeckorion Issue#3 No theme. Please contribute 3 poems/shortprose/artworks/hybrid. Closing date 7th June. Please send to [email protected] Those who didn't appear in issue #1 are featured here. I welcome others, too.

If a Tory MP sending pictures of his 'lad' to an 'unknown somebody' over the "World Wide Web"..then giving said 'unknown somebody' phone no's of other MPs so they could send him pictures of their 'lads' isn't misconduct in public office & a security breach, what the fuck is???.

"Penelope Shuttle’s 'big iron words' calling for the wellbeing of the animal – the anima – the planet – ­are amplified by her choice of publisher." — Karen Smith reviews 'Noah' by Penelope Shuttle. buff.ly/3VLbYku #TheFridayPoem Penelope Shuttle Broken Sleep Books

Ruth Stone, from *In the Dark* ☀️🌑 Copper Canyon Press

It's such a joy to be part of the judging team! 🌞 🖊 📖

For 15 years, Cornwall has been solely represented by MPs of the governing parties. And this is the legacy. They’ve done nothing.

On this day in 1305, Edward I granted the Tinners' Charter confirming the Stannary rights of Cornish tinners. The extraction of tin in Cornwall had been practised for 3,000 years prior to this. The Charter formalised the ancient customs and traditions of the Cornish tinners 〓〓

Running this Arvon residential course on how we connect what's inside us with what's out there in the world. With co-tutor Shazea Quraishi and Guest Reader Glyn Maxwell - click on link for more info: arvon.org/writing-course…

This will be a celebration #SoulFeast with editors Neil Astley and Pamela Robertson-Pearce Bloodaxe Books . and my new collection #ShadowReader. Join us in Hexham

Gem from Dr Jo Clement’s searingly brilliant debut collection, Outlandish (Bloodaxe, 2022).

I was complaining to my friend about how awful things feel and how hard it all is at the minute, and he said 'it's a period of deep moral injury for anyone with a thinking mind and a working heart,' and if that doesn't just hit the nail on the head I don't know what does.

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So excited for this book. Sasha Dugdale’s sixth poetry collection, The Strongbox. Always daring, always challenging, always technically excellent, this book is a real masterpiece; complex and rewarding in equal measure. ☀️☀️☀️

Galway Kinnell

guest editor poems from tomorrow on Anthropocene...smeone pls tell my phd supervisors I've been busy...propping up the bar 🍻 seriously cheers to top man Tom Branfoot for doing the hard yards for me

In today's very British news...

Israel has dropped almost 75,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 200 days, twenty times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war. It’s not war. It’s genocide.

Today on the 10th anniversary of the recognition of the Cornish people as a national minority under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the 120th since recognised as a Celtic nation, Celtic Congress Cornwall is rebranding as Celtic Nation Kernow

Spent the morning being videoed reading from Battery Rocks with Seren 🎥 Hard to choose just six poems 🌊