Tom Sastry
@SastryTom
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Poet, speaking loosely. You have no normal country to return to - published April 2022 Find me at https://t.co/uo5lvWZYyu
Joined June 2019
If you want to lower your toxic positivity score, I strongly recommend sharing news of my book.
🥁Excited to reveal the brilliant cover of Life expectancy begins to fall by @SastryTom, artwork by @tom_denbigh .Out in March.'This may be the most important - and certainly the most entertaining - book about subjects like the end of the world I've yet found' - Jonathan Edwards
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If you need distracting from the news, here's my news. .
March 2025 will bring a third poetry collection by Tom Sastry - Life expectancy begins to fall, a book about 'how it feels to normalise an apocalypse, examining the weight we all carry in an age of perma-crisis'.
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RT @PoetrySociety: The Autumn issue of The Poetry Review is out now. Read new poetry from Forrest Gander, Hera Lindsay Bird and Forward Pri….
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RT @NineArchesPress: We'd added a new curated BOOK BUNDLE to our range of offers, Space & Speculative is a #poetry trio care of @HarryManTw….
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I agree - although I would talk about changing rather than getting better. I envy my new writer self the ease with which he began new work. It was brilliant for open mics, always having something new to share. I am better than he was at working a poem until it's publishable.
The most difficult thing about teaching writing, I think, is the utter inability to convey to students that as you get better at it, it gets harder, not easier--that composition *slows*, instead of speeding up. Close to the exact opposite of acquiring athletic or physical prowess.
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The problem with winning elections is that the people who strategised the last win can get too invested in trumpeting their own genius. That's a real danger for Labour. The idea that there's no signal about the weakness of their present base of support in the numbers is bizarre.
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Opinion or misinformation?. How many net millions of votes are we supposed to believe labour lost through tactical voting?. Wasn't it the main challenger in more seats than anyone else?. Didn't it campaign on the basis that you had to vote labour to beat the Tories?.
It seems to me that the portrayal of the Labour win as shallow because of the vote share is misleading. This was a ‘get the tories out’ election. For different people that generally meant voting Labour, Lib Dem, Green or Reform. But in doing so they all knew they’d get a Labour.
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RT @LitWorks: 📅 Some new things from our events calendar:. The Live Poetry Book Club returns, this time with a @SastryTom live set. Also Mo….
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Welcome to The Live Poetry Book Club, a summer book club exploring and celebrating live readings from black + mixed heritage writers. For those who love nothing more than reading […]
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I'm pretty sure this is too good to be true but how about we just go along with it?.
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A summer poetry book club celebrating black & mixed heritage writers with live performances + free books.10th August
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RT @anthro_poetry: Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @SastryTom 🍄🗺️🎨.
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The consumer as lonely kingThe shout goes up. It's all about you.I'm holding a cheap crown. Advertiserstell me it's mine. Others accuse meof believing them. I’m always tired.I want to say You’ve got...
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RT @MalaikaKegode: OUTLIER. Last year we wondered if our journey was over after disappointing funding news and a theatre landscape that fel….
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RT @AllianceWalking: It's a shame this free 'active travel support' has nothing to support walking.@BristolCouncil @travelwestEng.Walking i….
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We can help you reduce your car journeys with free cycling trials, eScooter credit and bus taster tickets. The council has funding to help people travel more sustainably. We can all help red
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RT @WasafiriMag: Wasafiri stands in solidarity with the novelist, journalist, and activist Arundhati Roy, who – along with professor Sheikh….
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Nerdy opinion polling question: when the Green Party is shown at 5% in poll, does that mean that 5% of the UK sample are planning to vote for the Green Party of England and Wales or that 5% are planning to vote for either GPEW or the Scottish Green Party?.
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RT @LitWorks: 📅 From our Events calendar:. The Live Poetry Book Club, a summer book club exploring and celebrating live readings from black….
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If I am reborn a hundred times the superpower I hope to acquire is the ability to tell a middle class English person that the very loud announcement we both just heard means they are not entitled to my seat because seat reservations have been cancelled.
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RT @ClimateHuman: I've long said we're at risk of losing essentially everything due to global heating - all of modern life, much of life on….
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RT @anthro_poetry: Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @JlmMorton 🌧️🌞🌧️.
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squabbling over directions we pull up / to the burial ground and find the stone interred in leaves / my father the winter bulb / hollowed of his green fuse /I store him in the organ of my memory /...
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