Jill Abram
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Jill Abram is a poet, producer and presenter. Pronouns she/her. #ActuallyAutistic
Joined January 2015
If you want to buy my poetry pamphlet, you can order direct from the publisher @brokensleep here:
brokensleepbooks.com
Jill Abram’s Forgetting my Father is a poignant portrait of family life and a daughter’s bond with her ailing father. Abram’s poetry is warm and gentle, keeping a space for the moment: “I remember...
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*shakes head* 🧵
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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The word “directly” doing a lot of work here: Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims
bbc.com
The Reform UK leader was responding to reports he made racist remarks to his peers in school in the 1970s.
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As the England cricket team were so good at throwing away the game with utterly self-inflicted recklessness, maybe they’d like to form a left-wing party
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Doesn’t everyone you buy Christmas presents for deserve a poetry book? There are lots of great ones to choose from my publisher and keep them going! (I’m assuming you already have my pamphlet… 🤭)
We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding for 5 years of stability. It now means a rockier road ahead, but our commitment to ambitious, inclusive, working-class publishing stays firm. If you want to help: buy a book, spread the word, or donate: https://t.co/hDEODBYbkn
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...in which I pull together all the most noteworthy aspects of Sir Robbie Gibb's tangled life at the intersection of politics and journalism.
An inside job? Robbie Gibb’s campaign to rewire the BBC 🔗 @arusbridger
https://t.co/lOhBisIjXg
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An inside job? Robbie Gibb’s campaign to rewire the BBC 🔗 @arusbridger
https://t.co/lOhBisIjXg
observer.co.uk
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Ed Thomas's brilliant reports for BBC News on high street crime across Britain are a great example of why the BBC is without doubt the nation's greatest provider of revealing, intelligent and courageous journalism. We should "fight like hell" to keep it.
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EXCLUSIVE: Memo that sparked BBC’s worst crisis in a decade wasn’t 'internal'. It was written by lobbyist at firm paid by pro-Trump tech giants - including Oracle, whose billionaire founder joined Trump aides to undermine the 2020 election - @BylineTimes
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Catching up on yesterday’s edition of @R4TheVerb - @IMcMillan I can’t believe you did a whole programme on trains just to get the Paul Simon joke in 😁
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BREAKING: BBC director general Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness quit over Trump documentary edit row
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NOW with 100% more Ishion Hutchinson
With the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, we’re hosting an online reading to raise funds to help those affected Join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground https://t.co/2a6qgwia1L
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Sad Mary will miss it but I won’t! I’ll be there to read my poem - hope you’ll come along 🙂
Even though I can’t read my poem as I’m away, thrilled to be part of Louis De Berniere’s Six Things - with Poetry Plays- @ThePomegranateM and Theatre Voltaire! It’ll be an amazing evening book https://t.co/2XSmJBUGBH
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Even though I can’t read my poem as I’m away, thrilled to be part of Louis De Berniere’s Six Things - with Poetry Plays- @ThePomegranateM and Theatre Voltaire! It’ll be an amazing evening book https://t.co/2XSmJBUGBH
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Lucky @magmapoetry !
We are delighted to welcome Kathy Pimlott onto the Magma board of trustees as our new treasurer!
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Available to purchase now!! https://t.co/dQ8dNj3Spb Wayward Thoughts - Lutenist Sam Brown and poet Cheryl Moskowitz’s mesmerising set of poetry and lute music spanning from Elizabethan to modern, threaded through Moskowitz’s powerfully personal contemporary poetry.
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The Forwards doing things differently again 👏👏👏
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'a deeply moving, relevant, necessary collection of poems that meditates on identity and belonging.' - Rommi Smith We're thrilled that Vidyan Ravinthiran's third collection Avidyā has been named joint winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2025. https://t.co/0p7TdVqkZS
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