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Senior Lecturer. Research poetry manuscripts/ BBC/ Poetry on the radio/poetry about assisted reproduction. Often found dying of thirst in archives. 🏳️‍🌈

Cardiff
Joined March 2011
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Carrie Smith
7 years
I've been thinking about sharing some (very basic) advice from all the trips I have taken to archives of mainly 20th century papers, so here goes:
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Carrie Smith
1 year
*TOMORROW at 4pm* Free screening of Kirsten Johnson's funny, moving and highly original 2020 documentary Dick Johnson is Dead with Q&A at Taliesin Create, Swansea University. Register here- https://t.co/RVypXrn5IV
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Dementia is hard to talk about. For filmmakers, it’s proved even harder to represent without resorting to stereotypes and cliches. Whilst global cases of dementia are projected to triple to 152...
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Carrie Smith
1 year
Happy to see this one out in the world. Absolutely loved writing it. “[N]o branch, no leaf, no fruit”: Writing about Infertility and Assisted Reproduction in the Poetry of Monica Youn’s Blackacre (2016) and Allison Cobb’s Green-Wood (2010)
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Abstract. Barren, sterile, infertile. How does a female poet navigate these culturally inherited metaphors and descriptions of their bodies and experiences
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Carrie Smith
2 years
Happy to see this out in paperback! https://t.co/3eZfZxhUzs @LivUniPress
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Carrie Smith
2 years
This radical bookshop in Canton has introduced me to so many wonderful books that I wouldn’t have found otherwise. I hope it weathers the storm. So sad to see how hard it is for independents at the moment @shelflifecdf
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470 likes, 42 comments - shelflifecdf on March 6, 2024: "✨️ a little update ✨️ Just dropping in to thank you all for being patient with patchy opening hours over the last few weeks. I've been...
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News UK Archives
2 years
We are recruiting an apprentice. The successful candidate will learn on the job while studying for a Level 3 Library, Information and Archives Services Assistant Apprenticeship. No prior experience is required. For more information and to apply, visit https://t.co/c0Jn15CL3h
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Alix Beeston
2 years
I'm delighted to announce a funded PhD opportunity with me and Dr Jane Moore @CUEngCommPhilos open to people from groups underrepresented at university. Bridging contemporary and Romantic poetry, the project explores the work of Caleb Femi & William Blake:
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Image Works
3 years
We're delighted to present a series of free workshops connected to Garry Fabian Miller's Môrwelion/The Sea Horizon @Museum_Cardiff! Come and engage with this amazing photographic work through creative writing, led by @CUEngCommPhilos experts. https://t.co/bn6biin0HJ
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Carrie Smith
3 years
At @chaptertweets for Barbie. Looking forward to a q & a with @LisaRoseStead and @pixieglas afterwards!
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Diaries of Note
3 years
On this day in 1969, Dinah went to the arts centre.
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Carrie Smith
3 years
Beautiful afternoon teaching a class at @Lumb_Bank for the Arvon Foundation Plath and Hughes Summer School
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AgeingOnScreen
3 years
Its today! See you from 1.30pm @TaliesinSwansea
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Lisa 🏳️‍🌈
3 years
A week away now from the wee @AgeingOnScreen event I've put together @TaliesinCreate. (❤️ a roller banner 😉) Free screening, free cake, free hot/cold drinks & good company- we'd love to see you there https://t.co/SpX0UutGsU
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Christina Thatcher
3 years
This event is happening today at the @cardiffuni Centre for Student Life (Room 2.25)! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇿🇼 Come along to learn more about our projects for young women writers in Wales & Zimbabwe. Doors open at 6pm for wine & cheese. The panel discussion starts at 6:30pm. All free 🙂
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Kate North
3 years
Join us on May 31st for a panel discussion hosted at Cardiff University as we share the journey of two British Council funded international writing projects with @writetoempower @GodessRumbi https://t.co/ogL7wJAaFQ
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AgeingOnScreen
3 years
Can we have a real sexual adventure later in life? Why are older women so rarely depicted on screen? Discuss! We welcome you to a FREE film screening of Good Luck to You Leo Grande @TaliesinSwansea Sunday 4-June tea & talk!
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Sunday 4 June 2pm, Taliesin Cinema, Swansea Click to book your free tickets Can we have a real sexual adventure later in life? Do our desires change as we age, or are we still as lustful as ever? W…
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Lisa 🏳️‍🌈
3 years
The @AgeingOnScreen project is hosting a free screening of the sex-comedy drama 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande' @TaliesinSwansea Sunday 4th June. Come along for cakes, drinks, and chat with wonderful folks from @AgeCymru & @SUMediaComm All welcome! :) https://t.co/XwgHZ25NTo
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Rebecca Kavanagh
3 years
This article by @TamikaYNunley sets out all the facts. While married, Honeyhline & Jason Heidemann underwent IVF & froze two embryos. When they divorced, Ms. Heidemann petitioned the court to divide custody of the embryos & her former husband objected. https://t.co/cljAdxyDVZ
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New reproductive technologies are generating new questions. Resuscitating slavery-era laws isn’t the answer.
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Rebecca Kavanagh
3 years
A Virginia judge has ruled that human embryos "may be valued & sold & thus considered goods or chattels" based explicitly on pre-civil-war laws that defined enslaved people as property. The case arose from a dispute between a divorced couple, a White man & Asian American woman.
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Carrie Smith
3 years
Very pleased to have a poem published in @NineArchesPress Under the Radar issue on ‘Food’
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Alix Beeston
3 years
The advance copies of #Incomplete have arrived at the @ucpress offices!! I'll write more about the book's aims and what it's meant to me once I have it in my hands. In the meantime please consider preordering it at https://t.co/MCYi45fVOG - SAVE30 will give you 30% off 📖🎉📖🎉
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