Rue Collinge
@thewordtinker
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Storyteller & Poet up North • Semi-finalist in BBC Words First 2021! 🦓 #EDS
North East, England
Joined August 2018
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week! Let’s be honest, it should be 52 weeks of the year. A poem from your friendly wordtinker - if you like it, make it your midday mental health break! Share it, make your mates watch it... Be someone's Saturday sun. Big love, Rue
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Well, well, well, look who's back - it's only TWOOMPH! The online open mic with oomph returns with headliner Kathryn O'Driscoll and regular host @thewordtinker, so grab your free ticket and jump on for excellent words and halftime shenanigans galore! https://t.co/CHwQ8ing7H
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Want a quick poem to get you through your Thursday? Read by me, with a heavy cold, haha! Enjoy!
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Let's go! Submissions now open for ISSUE FIVE of The Willowherb. Writers of colour on nature, place, and environment, full details are here: https://t.co/rXSazRIwWk Deadline: 30 June at 23.59 BST
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Yippeee! Can’t wait to perform for this next Wednesday. What an honour to be invited alongside such incredible artists!
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You do not want to miss @Seunspeakss at TWOOMPH next Tuesday! Gets yourselves a ticket now!
On Tuesday we welcome journalist & performance poet Seun Matiluko to TWOOMPH! She's appeared in @galdemzine @Independent and been part of @ApplesAndSnakes Writing Room - not to be missed! https://t.co/luFJBMMuNB
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Meet Arfur - cause he’s ‘alf a tree! 😂 He’s the squiffiest soul, but he is also little enough to fit in our lounge, and we are very thankful to have found him today in our belated bedecking of the house. 🎄
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Got my jacket on as the outgoing champion for @OoohBeehive , as we race to crown this year’s Grand Slam Champ! With the likes of @ourweekathy73 , @PoetryOD , and MANY incredible voices I can safely say I’m grateful just to be a judge this time around.
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Snowy weekend ☃️ we've been reading the new @FragmentedVoic1 big book! 🤗 I didn't take part in the editorial process for this anthology because I took a short break to finish my dissertation, but it's fab to enjoy the stories inside, well done @thewordtinker and @natalienera 💜
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A snippet of my moon poem, which I totally forgot was coming out today! Absolutely stunning issue - sink into the soft dark with these writers. Thanks again for publishing my piece - and to @errormessage for their incredibly atmospheric photo!
Acropolis Journal: Issue Two “They lie, fish-silver, gleaming in the sullen dark as the moon mouths”. MOSI–OA–TUNYA by Rue Collinge @thewordtinker
https://t.co/JJ8TnL67zn
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This gig was a SUPER special night, and I even made it into the @the_Crack! I’ve made it peeps - or at least, I’ll take a name check. 😆 With thanks to @downbytheriver9 for asking me, and the fantastic performers I got to share the stage with. 🔥
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The weather’s pretty grim where I am, but it’s certainly improved by a cracking dose of poetry!
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@IsawNickDrake @TERNSVenue @georgian_stcktn @ClaypathDeli @IndieDurhamCity Thanks and love to those brilliant musicians and spoken word artists who performed at these gigs - you were all fab. @KatherinePriddy @ljwilliamsmusic @GeorgeBoomsma @Ceitidh_Mac @HectorGannet @JulieEasley @thewordtinker and Beano from @ProjectsRt
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‘I have high hopes, but then I'm a romantic, and I always have high hopes. It's much more fun that way.’ #joyceforPM
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‘Does expensive paper come from more expensive trees, or do they just make it differently?’ #mondaythoughts
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Reading #themanwhodiedtwice and I think I want to marry Joyce. Or listen to her Ted Talk. She is a fount of wisdom. ‘By and large, the corpses will still be there in the morning, and you mustn't let it spoil your Domino’s.’ #wisdom
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