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Time for ploughshares | damagnifyingless
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Up close and poetical. God is great, and resides within you →. April 13, 2015. Today, protesters from across the British Isles converge on our shame. I would, were it not for family commitments. I was lucky enough last weekend to join thousands of protesters in George Square calling for an end to nuclear weapons. Here’s a poem I wrote last week after the rally, as an act of virtual solidarity with my comrades in Argyll today. Gaun yersels. Continuous at sea defence. At sea aaryt – but whit. Scatter da th...
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damagnifyingless | damagnifyingless
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Up close and poetical. I live in Glasgow, and express myself through poetry, film, photography and my blog at https:/ damagnifyingless.wordpress.com. December 24, 2015. Here a poyim ta shiv in your pipe Indicator I caught Santa, nudging out onto Byres Road near the height of the seasonal panic and topical flim flammery. Half a Pall Mall threatened to crumble its ash … Continue reading →. November 27, 2015. God is great, and resides within you. November 20, 2015. April 13, 2015. Today, protesters from acr...
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arthur+martha: September 2016
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Thursday, 15 September 2016. There are just four more days for you to see the exhibition 'The Homeless Library' at Royal Festival Hall, part of the Festival of Love. It's open from 11am to 8pm everyday. In October it's moving onto a showing in Glasgow as part of the Outside-in / Inside-out. A festival of outside and subterranean poetry. A free ebook The Homeless Library can be downloaded here. The Homeless Library project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Monday, 12 September 2016. In their own ...
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arthur+martha: October 2016
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Friday, 14 October 2016. Jack Quashie, Trafalgar Square. Photo, Paul Jones. It is with great concern and grief that we hear Jack Quashie will soon be deported from the UK. We have never written a blog about one person before. But then we have never had a member of our group, a person who has made such a positive impact on so many others, receive a date for his deportion from the UK. Jack Quashie, 2016. For The Homeless Library project. Jack stitching a page for the Homeless Library. Currently on exhibiti...
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Be not afraid | damagnifyingless
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Up close and poetical. First days →. September 15, 2014. At the very beginning of this whole thing (no, not two years ago when we starting preparing ourselves – six weeks ago) the debate was framed around the Salmond Darling debate. Every yesser I knew (and there were a whole lot less yes back then there is now believe me) was confident about the big debate. You felt sorry for him going in, the Darling delighted. Not one effort has been made to present a positive case for remaining in the union. The ...
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First days | damagnifyingless
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Up close and poetical. Time for ploughshares →. September 22, 2014. Scotland, 2014. What a place. These weeks have been the most intense, exciting, difficult and optimistic times of my life. Pretty damn close to interesting. I believed, always have believed and always will believe that Scotland should be an independent country. We came so close. How could what we did together, and how we did it, possibly not be enough? Except Yes isn’t going anywhere. We can’t unlearn this behaviour of connecting, ca...
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Events – Newcastle Poetry Festival
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Skip to Main Content. Newcastle Poetry Festival presents readings and workshops from some of the most distinguished international voices in contemporary poetry, alongside poets based in the North East and some of the very best emerging poets from the UK. An eclectic festival that brings together the likes of Carolyn Forché. The festival also offers a weekend of exhibitions, discussions and prize-givings. Download the programme here. Unless specified, all events take place at Northern Stage. 2014), shortl...
