Line Stockford
@linecaro.bsky.social
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Turkish poetry translator Poetry/writing/& zine-ing Cymraes (Welsh) https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/human-rights/wtwt/ Poetry translations: [email protected] Consultant on Turkey & FoE
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linecaro.bsky.social
Was very inspired by the Get a Word in Edgeways storytelling festival. Not seen so much talent in one space before - musicians , performers, singers, tellers, did some myself too. Nourished by food, love and art.
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The Red Poppy
Louise Glück (in memoriam)

Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again? Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot
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romanbone.bsky.social
Joan Crawford illustration by D. B. Holcomb, 1935.
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linecaro.bsky.social
I’d be tempted to gender neuter it :) and put a word in the translator’s notes. It is a dilemma though, of the sort when unacceptable phrases or idioms pop up that are racist or homophobic. There’s a whole book of poems by one poet I don’t translate from because I’m ashamed of his racist book title
linecaro.bsky.social
Is a person a spiritually free being? ? I feel ya. 😁
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bookshop.org
$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.
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brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
To everyone who’s bought a book from us recently: thank you.

We’re reaching for just 10% of our subscribers and followers to buy a book from us, which would sustain our work in a big way.

If you haven’t yet, and you can, we’d love your support.

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A minimalist digital graphic on a white background. Bold black text at the top reads 'What if just 10% bought a book?' Beneath it is a simple open book icon, followed by smaller black text saying, 'Your support changes everything.' In red text below, it reads, 'To everyone who’s already bought a book—thank you.' At the bottom, the website 'brokensleepbooks.com' is displayed.
linecaro.bsky.social
norskpen.no/eng/author-y...

Our latest trial monitoring report of PEN Norway from Istanbul concerning the ongoing trial of author Yavuz Ekinci.
There is no freedom of expression or freedom of the media in Turkey, huge oppression and vast inflation reigns. Erdoğan is a despot and not a peace maker.
Author Ekinci appears before the court for the fourth time - PEN Norway
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linecaro.bsky.social
edit: *I'm performing a tale... (a dialogue/interview/with poetry)
linecaro.bsky.social
📯Looking forward to performing at this great festival on Saturday. I'm tale of my human rights work in Turkey told through the poetry of Turkish and Kurdish poets and my own poems on trial monitoring in Iğdır and Istanbul.

To follow I'll be running a druidic workshop creating four Winter Mantras. 🪄
linecaro.bsky.social
Dear Work Mode, I know things have been bumpy between us this summer, but how about we give it a go again? We really had something intangibly brilliant, like a faulty wire of billions of watts, flashing on and off. What do you say to constancy, this Autumn and Winter? It's the only way.. you know.
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natacha.bsky.social
The Starmer government is REALLY running scared of this petition, now at 2.75 million, to the extent that it has responded 3 months early, in a transparent attempt to spike it.

So please, under no circumstances should you sign it and share it widely. Starmer & his boss McSweeney would not like it.
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
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goldsmithsprize.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!

Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
linecaro.bsky.social
Flashback to when the world was new 🐶
linecaro.bsky.social
This is actually a tragic picture of a tree in an abandoned Kurdish village high in the mountains.Blackened by a chemical attack in the nineties. We really need to stop freshening wounds of generations to come. I think we are all sick of war and deprivation, ecocide. Boycott, strike, spend wisely? 🌻
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littledeercomics.bsky.social
Delivery Day! Also: October 1st! A new month means new rent due! We pay rent on the 11th of each month so we’ve got that many day to make over €2000 in sales!

Or 10 people could sign up for our 12 month subscription and we’d be all set!
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