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Jodie Young, verray jangleresse
@jangleresse.bsky.social
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Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia
Poetry, books, art, history.
Resisting the urge to despair.
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Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social · Nov 24
I've created a start pack of Aus Poets I've found so far.

Please let me know if you'd like to be added or can suggest some poets
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luaz.bsky.social
In light of all the huge and rather horrific news, this is quite small, but my book Becoming Altar has moved to the "New Releases" page at asterismbooks.com -- I can use something to celebrate in the midst of this migraine. 💜
screen shot of new releases at Asterism
December 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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alycia.bsky.social
I think writing poetry allows me to shapeshift the truth of myself, and that’s why it’s so alluring
January 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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annelouiseavery.bsky.social
Wonderful, exciting news – my Reynard the Fox is now an audiobook! Completely unabridged and read by the perfect narrator, Joseph Edward Degnan. It's available now at all the usual places, see below for links and a clip!
theaudioagency.bsky.social The Audio Agency @theaudioagency.bsky.social · 6d
Sometimes the Maleperduys kitchens were cold and bare,
with only potage and pea soup and coarse dark bread and lean
scraps of bacon and dull, cheap dishes like peas-on-a-stick...

The new #audiobook of #folktale Reynard the Fox, by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 🦊

➡️ lnk.to/Reynard
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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mishasolomon.bsky.social
Today (Dec. 10) is my 35th birthday, which feels like an apt time to share some inconceivably kind and generous and astute things four of my favourite writers said about my book (Mar. 17).
Profound gratitude to Danez Smith, Liz Howard, @lisarichter.bsky.social, and @helloiamben.bsky.social!
December 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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djvorreyer.bsky.social
So honored to be in this company. Thank you so much!
shopoetryjournal.bsky.social Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 5d
Announcing our nominations for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award!
Dorsey Craft @dorseycraft.bsky.social
Maja Lukic @majalukic.bsky.social
Nina C. Peláez @ninacpelaez.bsky.social
Jessica Nirvana Ram @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social
Jeddie Sophronius
Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social
Shō Poetry Journal's nominees for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award. Three different Sho Poetry Journal covers in a vertical column on the left. Listed in a wider column on the right are the nominees with circle-cut author photos, poet names, and poem titles.
December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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amartinsorensen.bsky.social
I just read The Universe box by @michaelswanwick.bsky.social . One of the best collections of stories I’ve read in quite a while. Comes out in February from @tachyonpub.bsky.social . Mark your calendars. Highly recommended.

#booksky
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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dnmcinnis.bsky.social
🚨 Help our State Library!

Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.

They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.

www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
We made final decisions on our Summer 2025 #Competition & notified all entrants today.

In 2026, we'll publish work by
@ronanmurphymusic.com
@lozzakidwriting.bsky.social
@belrimmer.bsky.social

The standard was phenomenal across the board, but these three truly stood out. Congratulations to all!
kermit the frog is leaning against a railing with the words `` we proud of you '' written on it .
ALT: kermit the frog is leaning against a railing with the words `` we proud of you '' written on it .
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December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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One of absolute favorite poems, by my favorite poet: poets.org/poem/failing...
Failing and Flying
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew
poets.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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whaleroadreview.bsky.social
Happy 10-year anniversary of Whale Road Review! Thank you to all who have contributed and to the peer reviewers who have spent countless hours reading and shaping this journal with me. Here’s another fantastic winter issue that we’re excited to share!

www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41
The cover of Whale Road Review's Issue 41, winter 2025, which features an image of Tower 10 with ocean waves in the background at Mission Beach in San Diego.
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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annaleen.bsky.social
Ahhhh! Automatic Noodle is one of Kobo's best science fiction books of the year!! I'm so proud of these humble, noodle-making robots. www.kobo.com/us/en/p/best...
Best Science Fiction Books in eBooks of 2025 | Rakuten Kobo United States
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December 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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daydreamacademy.bsky.social
Nine years ago, I got up and read a poem in public for the first time, and I can remember it vividly.

I'd never have thought that I'd end up running a poetry society.

No matter what we achieve, we must always remember offer support to others starting out.

#poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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mailbykite.bsky.social
Beautiful to have a new poem in the PRECARIOUS Issue of Cordite Poetry Review: cordite.org.au/poetry/preca...

Tx to Editor Andy Jackson. From his editorial: ‘The poems needed to themselves be teetering, staggering, bedridden or exposed.’ #CripLit
praise poem for these girls i was
who rake the floor with want clawing wood with blunt nails asking for rest in bold italicised underlined, cursing subsequent void vomiting false diagnoses in each day, a new house of panic a prayer…
cordite.org.au
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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hanvanderhart.bsky.social
I did an accessibility course today at work re digital content, and was reminded that alt text replaces the image, & is not description—& wow. More of that.

Not “this is x poem” but the poem text.

Not “a painting” but what the viewer sees.

Not “a graph of x” but what information is communicated.
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
🚨GIVEAWAY time!🚨

To celebrate #nationalillustrationday @caspargeon.bsky.social / @tomtoner.bsky.social has 1 author-illustrated copy of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN to giveaway.

Open to entrants anywhere in the world. Like, repost, follow & drop a 🌠 in the comments to enter. Ends 23:59 GMT 1st Dec 25.
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Happy Holidays! Every day until Christmas, I'll use this thread to rec a book to help you with your gift list. Let's start with THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN by Giorgio De Maria, translated by Ramon Glazov, and republished with a foreword by moi. Buy from your fav indie. (Alt text = more detail.) 1/?
Cover of Twenty Days of Turin, with text in white showing foreword by Jeff VanderMeer, author Giorgio De Maria, Translated by Ramon Glazov centered down the middle over black and white art Satan Sowing the Tare by Felicien Victor Joseph Rops, a Belgian artist of the late 1800s. Description of the novel: In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the city’s occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: what’s shared can never be unshared. An allegory inspired by the grisly neo-fascist campaigns of its day, The Twenty Days of Turin has enjoyed a fervent cult following in Italy for forty years. Now, in a fretful new age of "lone-wolf" terrorism fueled by social media, we can find uncanny resonances in Giorgio De Maria’s vision of mass fear: a mute, palpitating dread that seeps into every moment of daily existence. With its stunning anticipation of the Internet―and the apocalyptic repercussions of oversharing―this bleak, prescient story is more disturbingly pertinent than ever.
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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sarabandebooks.bsky.social
When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.
"Your project to promote 'gender ideology' unfortunately does not align with our priorities." —NEA Notice of Termination Sarabande is exceedingly proud to be misaligned with this administration's vision for the arts. We refuse to become demoralized, soft-pedal our values, or sell out our authors for federal funding. We know you share our values and determination. Help us bridge the gap left by the NEA with a recurring monthly donation or gift of any size.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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warmaiden.bsky.social
I am so excited - the first personal essay/CNF piece I've written in more than 10 years was just picked up by Unleash Lit (www.unleashlit.com). "Corkscrew Willow Women" will come out in January!
#writing 📝 #booksky 📖 #nonfiction 💙📚
Unleash Lit | Substack
Our mission as a holistic arts organization is to support storytellers. We bring the joy of creativity to a diverse and inclusive audience of artists, writers, and readers through workshops, publicati...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding, it would've meant 5 years of stability. It’s a blow, and it 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:

ko-fi.com/brokensleepb...
Dear friends, I’m writing with some difficult news. We recently applied for long-term revenue funding through the Books Council of Wales, support that would have secured stability for Broken Sleep Books for the next five years and helped us continue publishing the ambitious, risk-taking, inclusive work we believe in so deeply. Unfortunately, we were not successful. It’s disappointing, of course. We put forward a strong application, had a positive interview, and genuinely believed our publishing programme where we champion low socio-economic status authors, working-class authors, and marginalised authors, while widening access to the arts and degentrifying the arts, reflected the cultural values Wales should be proud to support. Clearly, our idea of cultural value doesn’t fully match the Books Council’s. Sometimes decisions go another way. What hasn’t changed is our commitment. Broken Sleep Books will carry on publishing with the same determination, ambition, and care that has always sustained us, just with fewer resources and a much harder road ahead. If you value what we do, there are meaningful ways you can help us weather this moment: 📚 Buy a book, or a few Every purchase directly supports the press. Browse the catalogue here: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/books 🎁 Consider our books as gifts With the holidays approaching, this makes a real difference. 💬 Spread the word Tell a friend, share our books online, recommend us to a bookshop, or forward this newsletter. ❤️ Make a donation (if you’re able) Some readers have asked how they can help directly. If you’d like to support our work with a small donation, we’ve set up a simple option here: https://ko-fi.com/brokensleepbooks (Please only give if you’re in a position to do so, we know times are hard for many.) Broken Sleep has always been a community effort, powered by readers, writers, booksellers, and supporters who believe in literature that takes risks and makes space for voices that don’t always find a home elsewhere. Thank you, sincerely, for sticking with us. Your support means everything, especially right now.
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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lawrencemoore.bsky.social
Really enjoyed tonight's zoom launch of This Joyful Interlude! ❤
Thank you everyone who came along, you were very supportive and I loved all your performances too - so many highlights!

#poetry #poetrycommunity
This Joyful Interlude, a poetry collection by Lawrence Moore, illustration by Jane Cornwell.
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
⚠️

Our online issues will always remain free BUT...

for all you who prefer physical media, you can now purchase a modified PRINT COPY of Issue 6: yarn on Amazon: buff.ly/Wq6Up6n

"Modified" bc it wasn't originally formatted for print---margins & fonts are a bit different.
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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vickymackenzie.bsky.social
I am in love again.
Book: MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY by Mary Ruefle
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM