Char Louise

Writer. Bookworm. Archivist. Creative Future Writers’ Award winner 2023 ✨ Usually found wandering in the hills. 🏳️‍🌈

[Dr Cajetan Niall @TradSkowronski]

It turns out that a fully funded patient killing service will take 4 years to implement because of its compexity and the strain it will put on the NHS and courts.
Imagine if those resources and that government time was put into improving palliative care instead.

[Char Louise @charlouwriter]

I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too?
https://t.co/Dn0Ap5h3Eo via @38degrees

[Playingitagain @AmeliaRocket1]

I still don’t fucking understand why Labour won’t just tax the super rich more 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Matthew Stewart @roguestrands]

There's a widespread misconception that a poem must make us work if it's going to be any good.

This implicit dismissal of the pleasure principle is a key reason why so much contemporary poetry fails to attract readers and then rails bitterly against its own irrelevance.

[The Notorious J.O.V. @whotfisjovana]

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[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

Nothing beats getting home from work, kicking off your shoes, pouring a glass and settling down with a good book

[ilana kaplan @lanikaps]

i know people always say "the most important thing is that you're safe" or "those are just things" but homes are full of memories and represent years of savings, hard work and stability for many. there's so much grief in that loss

[Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) @Annie_Wu_22]

this tweet is my roman empire

[Brecht De Poortere @brecht_dp]

My literary career so far in tiered rejections... 🤷‍♂️

[Mary-Ann Thorson𐃆 @NoctrnlValkyrie]

“I’ve often thought of the forest as a living cathedral”
― Richard Nelson, The Island Within

[sharine taylor @shharine]

Does anyone have/still have difficulty quantifying the time between the pandemic and now? In my head, 2019 feels very close despite being six years ago.

[Lousy Librarian @LousyLibrarian]

Approached a patron who was cooking a pot of ramen at a study table and said "I'm sorry but you can't do that in the library."
Indignantly they responded "Where do you expect me to do it? At my house?"
And I was like "Well when you say it like that it does sound unreasonable."

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Fantastic to welcome all of our returning and new Labour MPs today.

The work of change begins now.

[St Petrocs @stpetrocs]

#Truro and #Penzance we need your support- we've run out of sleeping bags in our resource centre!

Sleeping Bags are an essential resource which helps to keep our clients warm whilst we advocate and support with their housing cases.

Please consider donating your sleeping bags 💛

[Laura McKee @LauraMcKee_fyeh]

My favourite true story about the National Poetry Competition is that the year before he won it Wayne Holloway Smith had entered the exact same poem and got nowhere with it.

[Char Louise @charlouwriter]

Delighted to have won the Prole Laureate Poetry Competition! Thank you @Prolebooks!

[Prole @Prolebooks]

Prole Laureate Poetry Competition: congratulations to Charlotte Murray on being announced first prize.
Thanks to judge Maurice Devitt and all who entered.
The winning poems, judge's comments and highly commended can be read here:
https://t.co/pgkHBKvco3

[Ellora Sutton (she/her) @ellora_sutton]

I love sharing this poem, and World Poetry Day feels like the perfect opportunity!

[Char Louise @charlouwriter]

New poem ‘Watchers’ out with @GreenInkPress 🌿 #ecopoetry #environmentalpoetry

[Green Ink Poetry @GreenInkPress]

In celebration of the Equinox, Enclosure is now live on Amazon! We're absolutely delighted with the collection, and how engaged all of our poets were with the theme, and can't wait for everyone to share the joy!

You can find all the links here:

https://t.co/jPmV26hs0s

[Matthew Stewart @roguestrands]

Calls for poems requesting that the poet should have put their whole self into them..??!!

Apart from being impossible, this can't be desirable. Wouldn't be anything left to make a stew, play tennis or guzzle a glass of wine.

Which is what enables the next poem to be written.

[Clare Starling @Clare_Starling]

Up on the moors, unexpectedly, you can find a poetry postbox - spattered with rain and graffiti

The idea is to put a poem in, turn the handle and get someone else’s poem out

It’s so stuffed with poems that it doesn’t work any more - there’s a metaphor there somewhere…

#poetry