Alex Houen
@alexhouen
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§ Academic @englishunicam § Co-editor of Blackbox Manifold https://t.co/d7fzhLJCHa § Poet https://t.co/decPscsLbm
Cambridge, England
Joined December 2015
I can’t take ‘X’ any more. I’ve always liked scrolling through posts of people I follow but 20% of my ‘feed’ is crap ads, I’ve had enough. I’ll retain this account and will check it occasionally, but I’ve moved to Bluesky @alexhouen.bsky.social. Hope to see you there 👋.
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I’m in #Sydney / Gadigal country, for the first time in years, staying near where I grew up. It’s wonderful to be back. Been sketching the view from my balcony to take it all in
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SEE YOU THROUGH, the poem-novel I wrote with Geoff Gilbert is now available for pre-order at a price cheaper than the RRP 🐙💐🙌 @brokensleep .
brokensleepbooks.com
Geoff Gilbert and Alex Houen’s See You Through: A Novel is a formally restless, genre-collapsing hybrid that inhabits the threshold between poetry and fiction. Structured around a shifting dialogue...
Am excited to have received proofs for the poem-novel, SEE YOU THROUGH, that Geoffrey Gilbert and I wrote together. It dances on the crack between unlived life & what happens 👻🐙🐠🌋🍸, and will be published by Broken Sleep Books @brokensleep in September.
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RT @anthro_poetry: Anthropocene editor Charlie has a poem in issue 34 of Blackbox Manifold 💔🧏🪬🧊🍷. The poem features alongside new work by b….
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RT @stephensunderla: So pleased to have four poems from my collection, STOAT, in this new edition of Blackbox Manifold! 🙏🖤🔆.
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⚡️BLACKBOX MANIFOLD 34 is now live!⚡️Poems by Kat Addis, Sascha Akhtar, @charliebaylis6, @imogen_cassels, Kimberly Campanello, Trevor Joyce, Corey Wakeling, G.C. Waldrep, and others. Reviews by Adam Piette, Olivia Boyle, and David Brazil.
blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Kat Addis Sascha Akhtar Annie Baker Charlie Baylis Linda Black Catherine Bither Iain Britton Kimberly Campanello Imogen Cassels Joel Chace Stuart Cooke Ken Evans Adam Flint Alexander Gaul Antony John...
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RT @magmapoetry: CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS!. @williekinardiii Lola Oh and @cloudscholar are excited to invite submissions for Magma 94: REMI….
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A really impressive story about foxes, including the intrepid fox ‘Romeo’ who lived in The Shard. Long live the foxes! 🦊✊.
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Foxes have ‘begun to dig burrows’ in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King’s Cross headquarters
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RT @charliebaylis6: Poets ! you have all got one week …the clock is ticking . sending my love to you 💚❤️💚.
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Am excited to have received proofs for the poem-novel, SEE YOU THROUGH, that Geoffrey Gilbert and I wrote together. It dances on the crack between unlived life & what happens 👻🐙🐠🌋🍸, and will be published by Broken Sleep Books @brokensleep in September.
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RT @_rob_scott: Looking forward to the Gillian Rose Memorial Conference next week at Swedenborg Hall, 18-19 June. Book here! .
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RT @pamenarpress: Lee Ann Brown reads from Thirdness with Katie Ebbitt and Ghazal Mosadeq.Wed 18 June, 6 PM.Meeting Room, 49 Great Ormond S….
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‘RAF surveillance aircraft have done more than 500 flights over Gaza since the war started. While they are officially concerned with searching for hostages, they have been particularly intense when the Israel Defense Forces are engaged in major offensives’
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US foreign policy is turning it into a global pariah – yet Labour’s strike on the Houthis represents a new level of support, says professor of peace studies Paul Rogers
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RT @And_OtherPoems: Friends, a little announcement: we’re now accepting submissions year-round for a new essays feature. We want this to b….
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RT @charliebaylis6: next tues week - @mariaxrose & i are reading poems at the iconic @BroadwayCinema for dandelion poetry. come and say hel….
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RT @mattbevis1: Poets at Keble presents. – a reading by Fred Moten.Monday 28th April, 6pm. Free entry, no booki….
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Yes, why not?!: “Since students make up 40% of total “immigrant” numbers, why not remove from the statistics all except those who eventually stay?”
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Beleaguered UK universities have a golden opportunity. If the government passes it up, it risks billions in revenue, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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I’m in Rhodes, Greece, and just convinced my daughter that these are some of the Parthenon marbles 💪#dadjokes
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