How To Be... Books Podcast 📚🎙🧠🌍

Podcast and site from journo @suswatibasu, reading incredible #books, interviewing authors to explore #SocialChange
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📣 New Podcast! "How to achieve clarity with author Jamie Smart" on @Spreaker #clarity #mentalhealth #performance #podcast #MadeByZencastr
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The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell
https://t.co/O6fpIWXbAD

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I wrote this poem for a magazine that had the theme of ‘devour’ this month. I think I was inspired reading Hekate.

#poetrycommunity
#IWD #motherhood
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A special poem for International Women's Day.

https://t.co/eSp2RyPxEI
#InternationalWomensDay
#Iran #IranWar

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It's been a while since I wrote something rather tongue-in-cheek…

https://t.co/HPi4jLE5la

#poetry #ValentinesDay #ValentinesDay2026

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I have read 50 of 50 books for the 2026 Reading Challenge! #goodreadsyearinbooks https://t.co/E5hSAThfyM #goodreads @goodreads

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This poem examines the difference between shared origin and shared care.

Content Warning: abusive family dynamics

#poetry #MentalHealthAwareness

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Check out #GoodreadsYearinBooks @goodreads to discover the 162 books I read in 2025! https://t.co/IksMtfRae4

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I need your help! I’ve had major writer’s block for a while, and I need your opinion on this. I have to read it at an open mic this weekend, and the theme is the 90s. I wrote this in 10 minutes.

https://t.co/eqcwnCllHX

#poetry #poetrycommunity #90s #nostalgia

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I haven’t written in a while, but this was written in memory of a friend who recently passed.

https://t.co/zrymp98hhm

#poetry #poem #Grief

[Suswati Basu @suswatibasu]

That was painful but finally done.

#HiddenBooksGame

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Following on from my previous post, this is one of the side effects...

https://t.co/e8htxMVjvK

#Poetry #MentalHealthMatters

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“To be sick is to suffer in the hands of the living.”
— Emily Dickinson

https://t.co/8icifRNGyx

#MentalHealth #poetry #poetrycommunity

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This is for all marginalised communities that have been hurt by hate.

CW: emotional manipulation, extremist communities, trauma.

https://t.co/YFmUgowJuB

#essay #WritingCommunity #Trauma

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This is probably relevant for every platform, but I can’t be the only one dying a death trying to keep up with social media...

https://t.co/6dah6d4vip

#essay #socialmedia #substack #WritingCommunity

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Inspired by Van Gogh’s Irises, painted during his time at Saint-Rémy. The poem reflects on the body as another kind of study.

CW: self-harm, mental health.

https://t.co/T0vzWl5XMV

#poetry #MentalHealthMatters

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Well, it wouldn’t be Halloween if we didn’t have something related to the season. But I’ve been thinking about the idea of witches for a while and what women have endured for centuries when accused. 

https://t.co/5OoFKplL8H

#poetry #Halloween #WitchWatch

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Inspired by the strength of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir, Nobody’s Girl. There's a content warning with this as a result.

https://t.co/iRR5ktJvD2

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #trauma #MentalHealthMatters

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I came across my old journals from more than ten years ago, and they read like some kind of Shakespearean tragedy. But it got me thinking about alternate realities.

https://t.co/O9Zt3INb3B

#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #MentalHealthMatters #Trauma

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Another short poem to untangle something in my head.

https://t.co/LqLMTjVHZf

#poetry #MentalHealthMatters

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A short poem in response to our current climate, with a subtle nod to a classic dystopian novel. This has a content warning related to war and state violence.

#poetry #peace #Gaza

https://t.co/JZ2Mcrc4vX