The Poor Press

Literary venture promoting writers of original poetry and short creative prose, submissions to 'Small Mercies' open now. [email protected]

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Award this one to Mantel too? #folioprize

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Books chosen by critics and not publishers? Hm, interesting. #folioprize

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@Selected_Poems he knows me so well

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@Selected_Poems ha, very good. Our voices are quite distinct, I'm surprised that you can't tell.

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Travelling to London, have packed three books, a German dictionary and no socks. Worried am becoming eccentric.

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Seriously in love with Fran Lebowitz. "If you're really a truth-teller you'd better be funny because otherwise they will kill you."

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Fran Lebowitz on Austen, 'a book is not supposed to be a mirror, it's supposed to be a tour' http://t.co/MHi6vl09Sa

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Today only involves reading so have extravagantly lit the fire.

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Also for #WorldBookDay we'll begin long-listing submissions for our next edition, in preparation for arguing over by the eds.

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For #worldbookday I will finally put up and extra shelf for my poor books who have to live on the floor/in a large box

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To win this bundle of classics, RT and enter via the link by 3pm http://t.co/xR7QohxhwH #worldbookday

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RT@parisreview: Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.” —Don DeLillo http://t.co/UZ4VEGa5JL

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Get scribbling writers, tomorrow is the deadline for you to send your submissions to our second issue, 'Small Mercies'.

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RT@sixthformpoet: Show your staff they're more than just an employee by following them home and sending them love poetry.

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#fictionalcharactersIwanttomarry Sebastian Flyte. Always.

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Our editor! *pride* "@pauvrelapinou: Hey guys woah a poem of mine was longlisted for the National Poetry Competition this year"

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@Jo_Bell definitely worth a listen, agreed with the final vox pop that Mina Loy is better! #gertrudesteinislikebeetroot

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Was reminded of this @LettersOfNote to Stein from her editor, "having only one life I cannot read your M.S." http://t.co/GgkJzdAi9V

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"One can become deliciously bored when reading Stein. I think of it as a kind of sublime boredom"

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Surrealist women writers, from @forbookssake everyone should read The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington is a joy http://t.co/OYzxhZVcXw