Neil Martin 💙💛

Poetry type. Lives in UK, stands with HK 🇭🇰 Where Else? An international Hong Kong poetry anthology @VervePoetryPress || @RialtoPoetry || The North magazine

[Jennifer Wong (she/her) @jennywcreative]

Have you got a ticket yet for the Where Else HK poetry anthology event at @natpoetrylib 2 Aug? @myetcetera @IanHumphWriter @helen_bowell Kavita Jindal & Q&A Rsvp https://t.co/MBNWjGf9ch

[Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 @benedictrogers]

Wow - some very rare good news from #HongKong. I salute the judges who courageously exercised some independence and common sense.

#GloryToHongKong

BREAKING: Hong Kong court rejects gov’t application for ban on pro-democracy protest song https://t.co/XNiqZEBNEd via @hkfp

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Today's Poetry Thread: ANIMALS

I'll never forget exactly where I was when I first read this poem. Feel free to add poems.

[Dr. Aaron Thierry @ThierryAaron]

1/ This is the UK's Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.

He's bullshitting you.

Let's debunk his nonsense line by line...🧵

https://t.co/hzFqvMfZ05

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

@VKennefick @Carcanet Je vous en prie! It’s a brilliant poem

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

As the Tour de France 🇫🇷 rolls into Paris, here’s one of my favourite poems about the city - ‘Paris Syndrome’ by @VKennefick from her collection ‘Eat or We Both Starve’ published by @Carcanet

#tdf #PoemADay #poem #tourdeverse

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

“There is much danger in such buoyance: / the pressure can blind you.”

From ‘Champagne’, by Michael McFee

#tdf #stage20 #tourdeverse #poem

https://t.co/jwnKTyk1Aq

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

Such a moving and sad but ultimately hopeful poem (even if the hope is for the ‘tricks and alchemies’ of science)

From ‘A Recipe for Water’ published by @Carcanet

For stage 18 of le Tour de France as it leaves the Alps #tdf #tourdeverse #poem

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

Mont Blanc

“It shines from afar, white and cautious, / like a lantern for shadows.”

Adam Zagajewski
(trans. Clare Cavanagh)

For stage 17, le Tour de France #tdf #poem #tourdeverse

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

“Terrible Clock! God without mercy; mighty Power!”

From ‘L’Horloge’ by Charles Baudelaire
translated by Edna St. Vincent Millay

For today’s time trial of Le Tour de France #tdf #PoemADay
#tourdeverse #poem

https://t.co/ptlUudio0p

[t @myetcetera]

𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖, we'll be publishing a joint review of:
𝑊𝐻𝐸𝑅𝐸 𝐸𝐿𝑆𝐸 (Editors: Jennifer Wong, Jason Eng Hun Lee, Tim Tim Cheng) and 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒: 𝐴 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑟𝑡 (Editor: Nicolette Wong) at @asiancha.
。。。。。

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

From ‘Sonnet On Approaching Italy’

For stage 14 of #tdf #poem #PoemADay #tourdeverse

Read in full:
https://t.co/ouQGTr0SvX

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

Poème for #bastille day & stage 13 of #tdf is ‘Liberté’ by Paul Éluard, written in 1942 when Éluard was a member of the Resistance. Thousands of copies were dropped by parachute by the British Royal Air Corps to rouse the people to the Resistance cause.
#14juillet🇫🇷 #tourdeverse

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

Poem crush.

By the aptly named Shane Book.

For stage 12 of #tdf which finishes in the beautifully named Belleville-en-Beaujolais today #poem #poemoftheday #tourdeverse

Read it on @poetryfoundation here:
https://t.co/r8p6dz9r8H

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

“If the stillness is Volcanic
In the human face
When upon a pain Titanic
Features keep their place — ”

Emily Dickinson, “I have never seen "Volcanoes" — (175)

For stage 11 of #TDF2023 as the still and pained faces move through the land of dead volcanoes #poem #tourdeverse

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

@IrigarayJulie Merci! I’ll order it at the bookshop this weekend

[Neil Martin 💙💛 @NeilMartinPoet]

Cécile Coulon

‘A too blue sky is enough
to kill a poem’ (my translation)

For stage 10 of #TdF2023 through the Auvergne, where Coulon is from #tourdeverse #PoemOfTheDay

[City Lights Books @CityLightsBooks]

“All books in this window have been censored or suppressed.”

Our newest storefront window features books that have been targeted by book bans. #UniteAgainstBookBans