Jazz

writer / photographer / owner of one busy brain.

[Jazz @jazzfarndon]

Trying to negotiate two versions of truth, be patient and kind and inspired all at the same time.

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

Elena Ferrante:

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

speechless.

Raymond Carver

[Ben Purkert @BenPurkert]

sure I guess you *could* get an MFA, orrrrr you could just take a minute with this paragraph on Sharon Olds

[Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr]

Gorgeous, fizzing poem by HLR @HLRwriter highly commended in the 2024 Free Verse Prize ❤️‍🔥

[Caroline Bird @CarolineBirdUK]

‘when I pray although I do not pray I think of her’

- Charlotte Shevchenko Knight, from ‘Food for the Dead’ @shevchenkonight

[matthew leger @lightumbreIla]

Caroline Bird ~ I found a ring on the road, which I put on my hand.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Newcastle Bristol Lewisham Brighton....
Just some of the places where thousands turned up tonight to show that far right thugs are not the majority @AntiRacismDay 👋👋

#Ukriots #FaragesRiots

Shame on Robert Jenrick and dog whistling Tories and Reform politicians

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Here’s just a few examples of Daily Mail headlines that have fanned the flames of hate and normalised Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric #GMB

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Palestinians will be in grief for a long time

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

The announcement that the UK will renew UNRWA funding is massive.

The success of independents & Greens at the GE means we are beginning to see the glimmers of a policy on Gaza that is independent of Washington.

I wrote about a surprising development.

https://t.co/NbuVFDS7kB

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Just submitted the @ALCS_UK survey on AI and again struck by how little we are speaking about the absolute devastation being wreaked by big tech. This is more than about remuneration to writers and licensing. It's about our entuire planet!
#ecocide

https://t.co/0Lghcngj4g

[darryl li @dcli]

a few notes on al-mawasi and what makes it special beyond the massacres in the headlines, because i so very much hate the way these place names become decontextualized signifiers of horror and atrocity.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Breaking: Twelve dead and dozens injured have arrived at Al-Awda Hospital following an Israeli airstrike targeting a UN school sheltering displaced persons in Al-Nuseirat.#GazaGenocide

[Electoral Commission @ElectoralCommUK]

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Don’t have ID?🤔
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📅 The deadline to apply is 5pm this Wednesday (26 June) if you live in England, Scotland or Wales and by midnight if you live in Northern Ireland.

[Mandy McHugh @WriterACMcHugh]

Joy Sullivan 💔

[Tara Skurtu @TaraSkurtu]

Poem by Najwan Darwish.

[Jazz @jazzfarndon]

@shevchenkonight Just read Selva Almada’s Not A River which was great

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

An Israeli airstrike hit a UN school in Gaza this morning, killing dozens of women and children.

The school had become a shelter for Palestinians already displaced by Israeli bombing.

It is a disgrace that British-made weapons could be being used to commit crimes like this.