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Reading writing | The Antiphon Blog
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Welcome to Antiphon’s blog. Our view of poetry. February 27, 2014. On Sunday I’ll be reading with a dozen other great poets at the Wordsworth Trust (the Jerwood Centre in the Wordsworth Museum at Dove Cottage, Grasmere). This is the grand climax of the Poetry Business’s Writing School, in which we graduate through a public reading of some of the poems we’ve written over the last eighteen months. Come along if you’d like to. It’s a public event, free, from 2.30 to around 3.30, Sunday 2. In such a context,...
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Re:defining liberalism: April 2012
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Thursday, April 26, 2012. Re)defining Liberal Values' - Stella Duffy, Novelist. I am a white, living-middle-class, raised-working-class, Labour-voting, feminist, lesbian, woman. And not one of these labels even begins to speak for me. I want change and an equitable society, and I don’t want a violent revolution to get there. I see no evidence that any revolution anywhere has ever worked. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Redefining Liberalism' - Gill McEvoy, Poet. Poetry Workshops with Poem Catchers. As a poet, I...
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Against Rape | Peony Moon
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A contemporary poetry blog. From 4 to 10 November, Peony Moon’s contents will deal with sexual violence. And rape and may be triggering to some people. If you would like to show your solidarity please join us on Twitter. We are all victims and survivors of rape culture: it affects how we interact with each other on a daily basis. It affects our languages as well as our bodies. As Andrea Smith says in her book Conquest. The language of colonisation is one of rape, with its references to penetrating virgin...
