Dr Laura Varnam
@lauravarnam
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Tutor in Eng Lit @UnivOxford. Church as Sacred Space 2018. Encountering Margery Kempe 2021. Primers 7 @NineArchesPress 2024. Writing a bk on Du Maurier. she/her
Oxford
Joined October 2009
IT'S PUBLICATION DAY!! So exciting!!!! ๐พ๐ฅ๐โจ Thank you to @halekatie @CommaJane & everyone who has supported my poetry! My family, my Univ family, my friends & mentors! (Incl. @BetaRish @poetclare ๐) Can't wait for my copies of the book to arrive & to meet Jade & Antonia irl!
Publication day for PRIMERS, our 7th nationwide #poetry search for new voices. Congratulations @JadeCuttle Antonia Taylor & @lauravarnam & special thanks to selecting editor @halekatie Explore myth, heritage & identity in poems by 3 distinctive writers ๐ https://t.co/SYoBTk1xoK
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One for you @neighbantz ๐
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Preached last week on "the church that ministers" and realized something: we've trained people to be efficient workers for God, but forgotten to teach them to be worshipers. Adoration isn't productivity. It's the restful acknowledgment that God doesn't need our resume - He
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We're very excited to welcome you to the St Cross Building (one last time) for our final Open Day on 19th September! Come along for talks, lectures and to ask any questions you have about studying English at Oxford ๐ #OxOpenDays #Oxford
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โOur ambiguously starred hotelโ ๐คฃ This was fantastic.
Come join us this week at Lassiter's for our Worldly Gems Exhibition ๐ (Where absolutely nothing will go wrong...)
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Scott Galloway explains his compelling thesis for investing in Andrew Yangโs Noble Mobile. @profgalloway
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Poem by Peter Levi who was a Jesuit priest as well as a poet. This is one of the last pieces in his Collected Poems 1955-1975, published by Anvil in 1976. (He left the priesthood the following year.)
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Updated #Neighbours poster by @bill_mcconkey now on the wall- complete with signatures! Elaine Smith (no28), Jacinta Stapleton, Kym Valentine, Charlotte Chimes. #SaveNeighbours
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Theyโre gorgeous little girls and so talented! #SaveNeighbours
We have to be allowed to watch these two adorable and talented girls grow up on our screens as Abi and Isla - no more time jumps where they come back as tweenagers! #Neighbours #SaveNeighbours
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The show may be coming up to an enforced rest BUT fandom WILL continue to support it & will fight to #SaveNeighbours Its NOT the end & we WILL turn this abomination of an axe around! Always have HOPE! Sending ๐as always to @neighbours cast & crew! We have your back! #Neighbours
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Just gorgeous ๐ I had the most wonderful time at Durham doing my BA. Best cathedral in the country!
Summer views from Observatory Hill ๐ Thank you to Kevin Edworthy for these photos ๐ท
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Exactly this ๐ #SaveNeighbours
An entire community built & now standing there empty. Talented actors & crew jobless, great characters ending and an audience crying our for more. Where is the sense? #NEIGHBOURS #SAVENEIGHBOURS
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Series 3 and look whoโs turned up in #Wentworth! Itโs Vera! ๐ Iโve also seen the actress who just popped up as Maxโs Mum in #Neighbours AND the actor who played IT guy Jeffrey!! ๐
May have just shrieked when I caught sight of none other than Tim Collins in #Wentworth! ๐ Hope we get an appearance in #Neighbours before Dec! #SaveNeighbours
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Gutted that weโll be facing another ending in December! But keeping everything crossed that someone #savesneighbours! Please!! ๐๐ป
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The open web was never meant to live in windows. Join us at TPAC W3C in Tokyo (Nov 11) as we reimagine HTML & CSS for spatial computing. For more details check out X.
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Dear friends, It's time to apply for the Primers poetry mentoring scheme. As a Primers graduate, I am indebted to @NineArchesPress for my early growth in confidence and skill as a writer. Big up!
Are you a UK poet looking for a publishing and mentoring opportunity? Enter PRIMERS. What's our selecting editor Laurie Bolger looking for? Read her blog for encouragement, tips & motivation: https://t.co/q98U2Hcfqp Full PRIMERS submission criteria https://t.co/suTDJV72Wg
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May have just shrieked when I caught sight of none other than Tim Collins in #Wentworth! ๐ Hope we get an appearance in #Neighbours before Dec! #SaveNeighbours
Fellow #Neighbees! I recently started watching #Wentworth and look who it is!! #Neighbours #SaveNeighbours
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Iโm so proud to be a Primers poet and I couldnโt recommend this mentoring scheme more! ๐ฉต Itโs been a game changer for me and Iโm so grateful!
Are you a UK poet looking for a publishing and mentoring opportunity? Enter PRIMERS. What's our selecting editor Laurie Bolger looking for? Read her blog for encouragement, tips & motivation: https://t.co/q98U2Hcfqp Full PRIMERS submission criteria https://t.co/suTDJV72Wg
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In tribute to the genius of the late, great Tom Lehrer: here are the two #OED entries which quote from his brilliant, evergreen songs.
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Doing some sorting out at home and found some Jackie & Fletch memorabilia! Many years ago a friend of my younger brother went to Aus (and did the Neighbours tour, I think?) and he also went to one of Fletchโs gigs, and got the autographs for me! So sweet!! #Neighbours
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The iconic view of Durham Cathedral ๐ ๐ท Graeme Hall
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