Jack Thacker
@Jack_Thacker
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Writer of peoms
Bristol, UK
Joined October 2011
‘I couldn’t do anything but be honest and truthful and follow my obsessions.’ If you missed @chris_power's wonderful conversation with Gerald Murnane for @BBCRadio4's Open Book last weekend, you can catch it today at 15:30 GMT 🏇 https://t.co/8CLJ6E8nDh
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In a rare radio interview, the Australian writer Gerald Murnane talks to Chris Power.
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Breaking my twitter hibernation to celebrate this. Yaaay!
We smashed it! Thanks so much everyone! We'll now get on with publishing it. Help us hit our stretch target to allow us to fund a Clearing prize, reward the contributors and print more copies!://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-clearing-1
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All farms have characters and stories behind them. This is a snapshot of ours, starring my late grandad. Thanks to @PippaMarland @PenandPlough for the invitation to write this and @Gallowaygrouse for the wise words that prompted some of these reflections.
New today, poet @Jack_Thacker 's beautiful meditation on the death of his grandfather and about the challenges of being a writer from a farming family: https://t.co/Z5qXoPJLAQ
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Thank you @YvonneReddick, @MayaChowdhry and @cherylmoskowitz for including a couple of my poems in the Anthropocene edition of @magmapoetry, alongside some stunning pieces of writing by some of my favourite poets. This little shell of mine was inspired by @LighthousePoole.
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Really pleased to have four poems in this eco-georgic edition of Ecozon@, edited by the wonderful @PippaMarland, Sue Edney and Philipp Erchinger. Thanks also to Damiano Benvegnù. Can't wait to read the rest of this timely and wide-ranging issue!
New special issue of Ecozon@ on eco-georgic now published and freely available online. A huge pleasure to work with Sue Edney and Philipp Erchinger on this! https://t.co/vLOoUWFwxo
@UoBrisCEH @LeverhulmeTrust @NFFNUK @PenandPlough
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I forgot to tweet about this when it launched, but I'm really pleased to have a poem in @interimpoetics in an issue which celebrates Alice Oswald and includes many other writers I admire. Thanks to @harbourbirds and @LighthousePoole for prompting this one:
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1 poem Dream Dive She floats on a surface high above a surface in which she does not see herself – body etherized, eyes staring down at the lake, level as mercury and as silver. She looks beyond...
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🤩 Our wonderful list of speakers includes @josiecgill, @MissChisomo, @sandeepbak and @KarmakarManali, @BenJamesDoyle at @BloomsburyAcad and @ThomasBray12 from @wellcometrust 🤩
Registration is now open for the 2021 BSLS Winter Symposium 'On Decoloniality in Literature and Science.' This virtual event will take place on the 20th of November and is free and open to all. You can check out our incredible lineup here: https://t.co/CpCVGpljOZ
@TheBSLS
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I'm not much of a swimmer, so it was Wildwood and Notes that seeded this poem.
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Here's my elegy for the evergreen Roger Deakin, who died 15 years ago today. Thanks to @tweetbytheriver for taking it and @RobGMacfarlane for giving it his blessing -
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This is tonight. Don't miss it!
Tomorrow from 7-8.30pm, explore queerness, care and freedom with writers Maggie Nelson and @seanehewitt in a free, online event. Part of the 2021 @CriticalPoetics Summer School with @TrentUni, @Nottm_Contemp and @NTUcreated. More: https://t.co/uJzBQysk56
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"Am I safe with you? Or like a baby crawling on the bumpy Carpet, am I my own Mother, actually?" - Bhanu Kapil Please join us tonight to hear Bhanu Kapil, @RaymondAntrobus & @fullnommunism discuss poetry and care. Thanks to @Nottm_Contemp, @NTUcreated & @TrentUni.
Tonight at 7pm, join three of the most exciting contemporary writers in the UK for this free, online event that explores the poetics of care. Part of the 2021 @CriticalPoetics Summer School with @TrentUni, @Nottm_Contemp and @NTUcreated. Details here:
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"The future is thawed, despatched into a white out.' - Maya Chowdhry. To hear @MayaChowdhry explore the futures of interspecies care with @IndigenousKnow & @evahaifa_ please join us at 7pm at https://t.co/VM1IEEH06P Free and open to all!
"My aim in posing the question 'What comes after entanglement?' is not to deny the entangled complexity of the world ... but to explore the possibilities for action amid and despite this complexity." - Eva Giraud
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"We say goodnight and goodnight and goodnight and use up all the words we know for goodbye." - Marion Coutts, The Iceberg Please join us tonight at 7pm to hear Marion read from and discuss her memoir. Thanks to @TrentUni, @Nottm_Contemp, @NTUcreated. https://t.co/pC1cwvFeYY
Tonight at 7pm - join writer Marion Coutts and Professor Laura Salisbury for a thought-provoking conversation on healthcare, waiting times and contemporary art. Part of the 2021 @CriticalPoetics Summer School with @TrentUni, @Nottm_Contemp and @NTUcreated
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'What can the dead teach us about their often inaccessible worlds... What can we, the living, give back?' Join us at 7pm to find out! (details below)
Tomorrow from 7-8.30pm, join cultural theorist @AstridaNeimanis to discuss care for the dead in the time of endings at this free, online event. Part of the 2021 @CriticalPoetics Summer School with @TrentUni, @Nottm_Contemp and @NTUcreated. More: https://t.co/CmxRe2LNR2
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LIVE NOW Join one of Britain's best loved authors @MichaelRosenYes for this free, online event that explores care in times of crisis. Part of the 2021 @CriticalPoetics Summer School with @TrentUni, @Nottm_Contemp and @NTUcreated. Watch Now:
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There is literally nothing negative in this review: 'It is, to use one last pun, contagious. After reading it, you will be seeing insects everywhere in art and literature.' Spread those wings @murrayrachel89 🦗🐞🪲🦟 !!!
The first review is out!
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A powerful sculpture with an important message, accompanied by Siegfried Sassoon's still haunting 'A Soldier's Declaration'. You can watch the full video here: https://t.co/vwc3FQIOZR. Please share.
Veterans for Peace UK and partners - Michael Rakowitz -were able to create an anti-war memorial in Margate. Daniel discusses his view on the illegality of the war on terror, and the issues veterans face with mental health. This is his line in the sand, and things need to change.
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Also thanks to @bapbray and @TheSuzieCross. Can't wait to see what comes next from this important project. Please share the film widely!
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It was a pleasure to take part in the #loveandsoil 'slow conversation' and this wonderful film. Thank you to the organisers, including @AmyJaneBeer and @PippaMarland, @NHeartlands, the filmmaker, and everyone involved. @JimScown also features in this!
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