I really am very proud of these poems. Thank you, Robin @makinabooks , for such a beautiful thing. Pre-order ‘Grief Stitches’ today 🪡🧡 (and for the first time in my Twitter life I can be retweeted!)
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“It renders Winehouse a barren void, reducing her lost potential to that of failing to fulfil her feminine duty rather than that of more life, more art and the peace she so sorely deserved.”
jolene is about the pleading, the desperation, the borderline homoeroticism of it. you take all of that out?? you replace begging with warning? you stop talking about how hot jolene is to talk about your man, your man, your man?? ugh. booo booo tomatoes
Everyone on the longlist wrote a poem that stood out to the judges, Will Harris, Clare Pollard and Jane Draycott, out of over 19,000 other works.
(2/4)
Israel has killed over 11,500 Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th, when 36 Israeli children were killed.
It’s impossible to imagine that number. This is what it looks like. A line 5km long.
(Location: Bournemouth Beach)