Alison Smith
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Literary scribbler | poet | writer | Creative Writing PhD candidate (poetry) @unilincoln | Editor-in-Chief: @lincoln_review | Editor: The Big Walk, JAM/LIAS
Joined December 2019
Our submission window is still open for Issue 7 of The Lincoln Review https://t.co/IkmTLJ8qXL until the 1st March! Please send us your finest fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, photography and art #writingcommunity #writers #litmags #collageart #vispo @lincoln_review
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"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." The story behind Dylan Thomas's iconic poem and a rare recording of the poet himself reading it
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“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
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If your work carries a question, a memory, or a voice that insists on being heard, we hope you’ll send it to us. 🔗 Submit to The Lincoln Review at https://t.co/A2G2R6ofit
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Partially serialised in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday.
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🖋️ Our submission window is still open. Poetry Fiction Creative Nonfiction Translations Art Submit to The Lincoln Review at https://t.co/A2G2R6nHsV
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The snowdrop is a messenger of the seasons, the darkest moment of winter has passed. It is a messenger of hope. #January1st #NewYearsDay Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Single Snowdrop, 1777 #womensart
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Poem of mine from the latest issue of Poetry Review.
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'When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire, The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches, In windless cold that is the heart’s heat, Reflecting in a watery mirror A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.' — Little Gidding #Wintersolstice
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The ancient O Antiphons of the last days of Advent are best known today in the form of the hymn 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel'. But centuries earlier they also inspired an Anglo-Saxon poem, which meditates on their rich imagery and powerful sense of longing. https://t.co/RhIYvHa0gw
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"The Return of Richard Siken" "For an artist who has built such a reputation for shutting down intimate questions, Siken’s newest collection is bracing in its openness and self-reflection." Read here: https://t.co/pWHr38OfA9
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After achieving a rare crossover hit with 2005’s Crush, the poet rebelled against public attention. With I Do Know Some Things, he splays himself open for his readers.
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Submissions are still open for Issue 7 of The Lincoln Review. Check our website to submit your work. https://t.co/A2G2R6ofit Thank you for considering The Lincoln Review. ••• #poetry #prose#art #photography #fiction
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This year's literature laureate László Krasznahorkai gave his Nobel Prize lecture earlier today and spoke about hope and angels. Read his full lecture: https://t.co/6s2W6wAHpV
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“Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.” Mary Oliver's advice on writing
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“Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.”
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The Advent season has many rich and ancient hymns of its own - songs of prophecy, hope, light and life springing up in the dead of winter. Here's one for a moonlit night: the beautiful 'Creator of the stars of night', translated by medieval English poets https://t.co/FzkwW17fMC
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