A reminder that Israel has dropped 70,000 tonnes of explosives on Gaza killing 34,000 people - inc. 14,000 children - and displacing 85% of the population. None of the bombs (many of which were dropped with the support/funding/sales from US govt & UK companies) were intercepted.

If you want to know more about race politics in the UK in the 60s, 70s, 80s and Asian resistance to the far right, this is a great thread by Preeti Dhillon. Her book The Shoulders We Stand On, from Dialogue Publishing is also excellent.

Columbia University Human Rights Fellows renounce their affiliation with the university. docs.google.com/document/d/16F…

Boston University students walked out of class today to protest the arrests of 100+ pro-Palestinian student demonstrators at Columbia University yesterday. Students at Harvard and MIT are also walking out today.

'In the end I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who secure this privilege for themselves can arrange stories about others pretty much where, and as, they like.'

~ Chinua Achebe, 'Home and Exile.'

'in living a life that flourished through contradiction & multiplicity – H.D. is also a fascinating subject for readers interested in what it takes to live, thrive, and create through cataclysmic social & political change.'
Reaktion Books Naomi Milthorpe
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Students at Columbia University showing all the adults in the country how to oppose a genocide.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

—James Baldwin

Might the future of a queered ecopoetics be not green but blue?

Co-editor Dr Willo Drummond & I talk about this, language (its borders & constraints), the ethics of care & more in our PlumwoodMountain Queering Ecopoet(h)ics editorial, which you can read here plumwoodmountain.com/poem/introduct…

Thrilled to make the LL for #themichaelgifkinsprize thanks to Text Publishing, the Gifkins family and the judges (who I apologize for making read my work two yrs in a row) Good luck to all LLers.
NZ Society of Authors
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great poem by Michelle Cahill :
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I was lucky enough to be interviewed by the marvel that is Sarah Kanowski. What a treat 🩵 abc.net.au/listen/program… via ABC Australia

Co-editor Stuart Barnes and I had a few things to say about queer histories, bodies and desire in the more-than-human world in the latest issue of PlumwoodMountain , ‘Queering Ecopoet(h)ics’. You can read our thoughts here plumwoodmountain.com/poem/introduct…

Really loved talking with @IndranAmirthanayagam about my work (& about The School on the Coast Road, which Red River in New Delhi have published so beautifully). Thank you, Indran! youtu.be/Nhqk1S4f-yY

‘Queering Ecopoet(h)ics’ edited by Dr Willo Drummond & Stuart Barnes is now live!

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Featuring 27 extraordinary poems that showcase a vibrant multiplicity of queer subjectivities & express radical care for our entwined human & more-than-human worlds.

I wrote about the two winners of the Novel Prize (Jonathan Buckley's Tell and Anne De Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over) in The Conversation: theconversation.com/more-weird-boo…

I had such a great time talking with Robert. Relive the magic (not-so-subtle Houdini reference)! Thanks Paperback for being so welcoming and for this neat little memento.

Catch David Owen Kelly discussing his new book 'Host City' with Fiona Kelly McGregor at Better Read Books on Saturday, May 4th at 6PM! Get your tickets now: bit.ly/4b01phN

Pick up a copy of 'Host City' on our website: puncherandwattmann.com/product/host-c…

I am very excited to be doing this in-conversation event with Gail Jones about her excellent new novel, One Another, at Fullers Bookshop in Hobart tomorrow. fullersbookshop.com.au/event/one-anot…

My collection of poems picked up from post office. 'Gold 4WD' is about our love/hate relationship w machines. $10 ea, will be selling copies at Petersham Bowlo on Thurs from 6.30pm.