Reem M. Abbas

Reader & writer of poetry • PhD on Basil Bunting’s Persian influences • infrequent tweeter of highlights • not a Sudanese journalist

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

Update: I contacted a lawyer and spoke to my MP. Here’s hoping that this will take a turn for the better! 🙏🏽 I appreciate all your support and commiserations 🤗

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

@homeoffice_ukvi @DanielZeichner @JesusCollegeCam I am devastated by the news that my tourist visa to attend my PhD graduation @Cambridge_Uni has been rejected. I am the first in my family to achieve this milestone, and being denied after 5 years of study feels incredibly unjust.

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

@LOLandlord @homeoffice_ukvi @DanielZeichner @JesusCollegeCam @Cambridge_Uni I’m looking into it, thank you 🙏🏽

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

@homeoffice_ukvi @DanielZeichner @JesusCollegeCam I am devastated by the news that my tourist visa to attend my PhD graduation @Cambridge_Uni has been rejected. I am the first in my family to achieve this milestone, and being denied after 5 years of study feels incredibly unjust.

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

My whole family, my fiance, and my job are all in Saudi Arabia. I am actually heartbroken. I sacrificed 9 years of time with my family to achieve this milestone and I can't even go celebrate it. This is discrimination.

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

The rejection stated that I am unlikely to leave the UK after being granted entry, when my whole family and my fiance do not even live there. If I wanted to remain, I could have done that via the graduate visa route-- but I didn't.

[Poetry Translation Centre @PoetryTranslate]

If you haven't already check out this brilliant interview between @ReemAbbas and the writer of 'I Will Not Fold These Maps' @monakareem !

https://t.co/0NMjCxi7KD

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

@_siddharthsoni @QuantzJJ Yes!!

[Oksana Maksymchuk @ok_maksymchuk]

Tetiana Yablonska's "Summer" (1967), verdant & voluptuous.

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

"Written with flair and verve, Monstrous Archives is the love child of Borges and ChatGPT”

@_siddharthsoni has won the @ProfileBooks and @AitkenAlexander Ideas Prize for non-fiction for his proposal, Monstrous Archives.

Read here: https://t.co/QRAQJz8WlX

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

This has been so long coming: @_siddharthsoni ‘s brilliant work has finally been recognised for what it is. I am overjoyed. Congratulations 25 times over! 🎉🥹

[Siddharth Soni @_siddharthsoni]

Thrilled to share with the world that my writing has won the £25,000 Ideas Prize this year. My book 'Monstrous Archives'—a technological history of the archive—will be out with @ProfileBooks and I feel so touched by the generosity and faith people have shown in my work

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

@dillon_jaxx @Julwe1 Congratulations!! 🎉🎉

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

@eo_dema Eva! *you* brilliant thing! 🥹Thank you thank you thank you for sharing my joy ❤️❤️🌷🌷

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

@AllyLouks1 Ally 😭😭 it’s my privilege to be your friend and to watch you grow into the person you’re becoming, so so much love❤️🥰

[English Faculty Library @eflcam]

Absolutely delighted to see @ReemAbbas from @englishunicam shortlisted for @TheWhiteReview Poet's Prize!

Congratulations to all the nominees and their beautiful (powerful, strange, evocative) entries! 📚✒️♥️

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

@eflcam @englishunicam @TheWhiteReview Thank you so much! 🥰

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

@lrynanderson Lauryn!! My love, thank you 🥹❤️❤️

[Siddharth Soni @_siddharthsoni]

Invested in language(s) AS WELL AS the broken, fragmented, unjust worlds through which they come to take their form and meaning, Reem’s work is brilliant and full of empathy; ‘The Tyranny of the Pomegranate’ published here: https://t.co/aA5duWkSzu

[Dillon Jaxxpoet @dillon_jaxx]

I am beyond excited to be amongst these shortlisted poets! Thank you to the judges 🙏and @TheWhiteReview

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

@MariusGrose @CourtneyDuChen2 @dillon_jaxx Thank you!! 🥰 The form, the terseness, the way you made the words *work* 👌🤩

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

I have no cool and will therefore honestly say WHAT!!!!

[The White Review @TheWhiteReview]

The eight shortlisted poets are: @ReemAbbas, @AjokeBodunde, Courtney DuChene (@CourtneyDuChen2), @MariusGrose, Hasti, @dillon_jaxx, Yessica Klein and Lola Oh.

[Reem M. Abbas @ReemAbbas]

@CourtneyDuChen2 @MariusGrose @dillon_jaxx Your poem was devastatingly gorgeous--the ending!! 😍