Ben North

Palliative treatment for terminal brain tumour|20yrs UK publishing as copywriter, art director, CD|2018 Bridport Poetry Prize shortlist|IG:inkynorth

[Ben North @inkib]

My first public poetry collection is now available to buy (the colour on the back cover image is far from accurate but at least the copy’s readable). If ya liked my stuff at all you may enjoy it. It’s genuinely been a labour of love. Get it here https://t.co/6FdfNC11Fq

[Ben North @inkib]

I'm truly overwhelmed by the kindness of both friends and strangers here. I wish I could reply to every message but know that I've seen them all and they mean the world to me. And to those sharing their own losses: I'm so sorry, you're all in my thoughts. Lana (@LanaBeckwith) xxx

[Ben North @inkib]

I am heartbroken to tell you that our beloved Ben died early this morning, as I held his hand and told him how loved he was. Thank you for your incredible support throughout this journey. How less bright the world will be without him. How lucky we were to have him. Lana xxx

[Ben North @inkib]

I’m now in palliative treatment for my two brain tumours. That means very little carefully crafted tweeting from me, the odd ‘like’, and, eventually, you you know, death. It’s been a pleasure. B~

[Getty Publications @GettyPubs]

Happy #bookbirthday 'William Blake: Visionary'! 🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈Organized by theme, it explores Blake’s imaginative world, and his astonishing creativity. #williamblake #ArtBook #bookstagram

[Ben North @inkib]

Damn right

[Dignity in Dying @dignityindying]

“We can’t ever delete these memories, and I’m not the same person that I was.”

Every day people like Emil are watching their loved ones die in agony.

An assisted dying law would allow them to die on their own terms, in their own homes.

[Dignity in Dying @dignityindying]

“As a home carer I have seen what cancer can do to people in their last weeks and days.

The idea of being sedated for days on end, and my family seeing me like that, terrifies me."

All @big_british wants is control over her own death.
https://t.co/24p6lJkEyQ

[Steve Lyons @Steve_Lyons_]

“The easiest deal in history”

[Love and Rockets 𝔹𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕫𝕒! @LandRBonanza]

Beto’s early design for issue one (LOVE & ROCKETS SKETCHBOOK, #Fantagraphics, 1989).

#GilbertHernandez #LoveandRocketsComic #LosBrosHernandez

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

“The Southern oligarchy, which has so much power in Washington ... was created by my labor and my sweat, and the violation of my women and the murder of my children. This, in the land of the free and the home of the brave.“

Happy birthday, James Baldwin
https://t.co/vYWNyVMgYm

[Susie Steiner @SusieSteiner1]

Having a bit of a funny turn

[Daniel Benneworth-Gray @gray]

All rise for the national anthem. #YorkshireDay

[Ben North @inkib]

Carefully

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

"We’ve been reassured that the government has successfully secured contracts for 30 million doses of flu vaccine. Given the recent governmental track record—many GPs are feeling less than confident" @HelenRSalisbury https://t.co/nxRLgm5ejN

[The Kynd @KyndThe]

Getting started into Memory Songs by @jamesbpcook of @FlamingoesHQ - a band we loved and a writer we admire....

[Simon Prosser @HamishH1931]

85 today 🧡

[Megsie @warriormegsie]

Hey fellow writers in the #cancer community...@ElephantsTea is calling for #writing submissions!
@fschmnn @MelissaMBlank @JNeurman @inkib

[Ben North @inkib]

@Anthony_Etherin Niiice

[Ben North @inkib]

‘I mean come *on* guys ... it’s like 3 in the morning here ...’

[Ben North @inkib]

Quite

[The Pink Smoke @thepinksmoke]

All technical refinements depress me. The perfection of photography, the big screens, the stereo sound, all of it makes possible a servile reproduction of nature; & that reproduction bores me. The artist's personality interests me more than the copying of an object.

~Jean Renoir

[dave @beesandbombs]

:)