Elaine Beckett
@Elaine__Beckett
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Poet: Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body (2021) @VervePoetryPres Faber New Poets 13 (2016 @FaberBooks @elainebeckett.bsk.social
Joined March 2016
Suggest read today's @nytimes front page article by Henry J Farrell 'Strategising where Trump is Vulnerable'. Explains how to stand up to Trump's accelerating attempt to seize power that he is not entitled to. How to stop 2 + 2 equalling 5, how to halt authoritarianism.
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Tomorrow 7.30 Humans will be reading poems at this brilliant community pub @Rachel__Curzon @VervePoetryPres @gretastoddart @PoetryAldeburgh @Poetry_London @PoetrySociety
Looking forward to this
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Brave man, brave musician. We mustn't forget him
An Israeli conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov has been arrested at a protest near the Israel-Gaza border. Last week, a clip of him at the Royal Albert Hall condemning Israel’s actions in the almost two-year long war in Gaza went viral.
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Holywells park for peace of mind, great coffee, kindness, and community spirit ! Thankyou Ipswich Borough Council
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Great seminar this morning with Don Paterson.Thanks to @NorthSeaPoets
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Sending support for this family by posting. US immigration: Harjit Kaur's ICE arrest stirs Sikh community - BBC News
bbc.co.uk
Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old who unsuccessfully applied for asylum, was arrested by immigration authorities last week.
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⚡️JUST IN: Over 40 celebrities including Billie Eilish, Finneas, Cillian Murphy, Joaquin Phoenix, Steve Coogan, Annie Mac, and Peter Gabriel, appear in a Together for Palestine video calling for a Gaza ceasefire, released ahead of today’s benefit concert in London.
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I've never felt so ashamed of my country as I feel right now; government and so called royalty pandering to the only tyrant in the world who has the power to stop the bombing and starvation of Palestinian families and their children. As for my vote, @UKLabour just lost it.
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In a state of grateful overwhelm about this, to be honest. Just the biggest thanks to @Poetry_London and to @VKennefick. It means such a lot to be read by people I admire so hugely.
Lastly, it is an absolute privilege to announce that the winner of the 2025 Poetry London Prize is Rachel Curzon (@Rachel__Curzon) for her poem ‘There are enough poems about birds, and here is another one’
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This is gender apartheid by the Taliban. Women aid workers are banned. Men are not allowed to treat women. That means women and girls are left with no care, and they die from preventable causes.
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Always, always brilliant:
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The Supremes · The Supremes Sing Holland, Dozier, Holland · Song · 1967
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We are delighted to announce the first of our 2025 festival readers. Taking the stage for our gala reading on Saturday night will be the incredible Richard Scott. His latest collection, That Broke into Shining Crystals, is a Poetry Book Society Choice @FaberBooks
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We are delighted to announce Clare Pollard as the second of our 2025 festival readers, taking the stage for our gala reading on Saturday night. Clare’s eagerly-awaited sixth collection, Lives of the Female Poets, is due from Bloodaxe, probing the idea of the ‘Poetess’ over time.
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We’re delighted to announce that Fiona Benson will be reading as part of our Sunday afternoon final event. In her thrilling new fourth collection, Midden Witch, she enters the world of familiars, fables and hedge-magic and focuses on superstition, fear & witchcraft. 6-9 Nov.
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Wishing each and every 4 year old a very happy 1st day at school
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I Can’t Look Away From This Poem About Looking
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Our critic A.O. Scott gazes into a well with Robert Frost.
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