Reader & writer of poetry • PhD on Basil Bunting’s Persian influences • infrequent tweeter of highlights • not a Sudanese journalist
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Update: I contacted a lawyer and spoke to my MP. Here’s hoping that this will take a turn for the better! 🙏🏽 I appreciate all your support and commiserations 🤗
@homeoffice_ukvi @DanielZeichner @JesusCollegeCam I am devastated by the news that my tourist visa to attend my PhD graduation @Cambridge_Uni has been rejected. I am the first in my family to achieve this milestone, and being denied after 5 years of study feels incredibly unjust.
@homeoffice_ukvi @DanielZeichner @JesusCollegeCam I am devastated by the news that my tourist visa to attend my PhD graduation @Cambridge_Uni has been rejected. I am the first in my family to achieve this milestone, and being denied after 5 years of study feels incredibly unjust.
The rejection stated that I am unlikely to leave the UK after being granted entry, when my whole family and my fiance do not even live there. If I wanted to remain, I could have done that via the graduate visa route-- but I didn't.
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If you haven't already check out this brilliant interview between @ReemAbbas and the writer of 'I Will Not Fold These Maps' @monakareem !
bit.ly/3DP8qDC
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"Written with flair and verve, Monstrous Archives is the love child of Borges and ChatGPT”
@_siddharthsoni has won the @ProfileBooks and @AitkenAlexander Ideas Prize for non-fiction for his proposal, Monstrous Archives.
Read here: buff.ly/3MVJ2Aq
ALT Siddharth Soni smiling, wearing a black jacket and pale green scarf. Bookshelves are in the background.
This has been so long coming: @_siddharthsoni ‘s brilliant work has finally been recognised for what it is. I am overjoyed. Congratulations 25 times over! 🎉🥹
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Absolutely delighted to see @ReemAbbas from @englishunicam shortlisted for @TheWhiteReview Poet's Prize!
Congratulations to all the nominees and their beautiful (powerful, strange, evocative) entries! 📚✒️♥️
Thank you to everyone who entered this year's Poet's Prize, run in partnership with CHEERIO, and open, for the first time, to poets worldwide.
Today we're announcing the shortlist – a poem from each portfolio is available to read on our site.
thewhitereview.org/prize/the…
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I am beyond excited to be amongst these shortlisted poets! Thank you to the judges 🙏and @TheWhiteReview
The eight shortlisted poets are: @ReemAbbas, @AjokeBodunde, Courtney DuChene (@CourtneyDuChen2), @MariusGrose, Hasti, @dillon_jaxx, Yessica Klein and Lola Oh.
I have no cool and will therefore honestly say WHAT!!!!
The eight shortlisted poets are: @ReemAbbas, @AjokeBodunde, Courtney DuChene (@CourtneyDuChen2), @MariusGrose, Hasti, @dillon_jaxx, Yessica Klein and Lola Oh.
A HUGE congratulations to my fellow shortlisters @ajokebodune @CourtneyDuChen2 @MariusGrose, Hasti, @dillon_jaxx , Yessica Klein and Lola Oh 🎉💃🏻🥳❤️🌷🎉
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The White Review Poet’s Prize 2023, run in partnership with @CHEERIOPublish, is now open for entries, and for the first time, we are open to submissions from poets anywhere in the world.
thewhitereview.org/prize/the…
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Kilicdaroglu new campaign slogan: "Syrians will go"
Dear Turkish people. If we weren't chased by a mass murderer killing our children, raping our women, bombing our houses, gassing/Slaughtering /torturing /terrorizing/ taking our lands many of us would have stayed in our home.
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Poet, critic and reviewer @ReemAbbas interviews @monakareem on her upcoming dual-language release ‘I Will Not Fold These Maps’ (tr. @SaraFarag) on the PTC blog!
Read the interview now:
poetrytranslation.org/articl…
Reading @monakareem ‘s poetry through the words of @SaraFarag and then getting to walk inside of them in this conversation was pure, pure delight! Feast your eyes on this poetry collection as soon as possible, all! 🥳😍
Poet, critic and reviewer @ReemAbbas interviews @monakareem on her upcoming dual-language release ‘I Will Not Fold These Maps’ (tr. @SaraFarag) on the PTC blog!
Read the interview now:
poetrytranslation.org/articl…
Hi twitter folk. Something absolutely & genuinely mind-boggling happened. My Master's dissertation somehow won the Review of English Studies Essay Prize...! It's called 'A "Polyphonic Score": Basil Bunting's Persian Condensations' & you can read it here: academic.oup.com/res/advance…
It’s truly remarkable to me how easily and seemingly effortlessly a Persian bait (…or four) can adhere to one’s mind. The music and meter of the verse is something to marvel at.
Someone needs to pinch me bc my poem was published alongside @PhilipMetres, @pjoris, and so much non-tweeting poetic and critical literary talent 🥹
Now out, with contributions from Macherey, Balso, Lecercle, Beck, Montag, Apter, @banananongrata, @danieljhartley, JC Milner, North, K.S. Robinson
and poems from @ReemAbbas @PhilipMetres @pjoris
I’m so excited!! Come along & start your weekend with us 🫶🏽
Polylingual poems weaving English with Arabic, Mandarin, Hebrew, Spanish, Ukrainian, Persia, Taqbaylit and French infused Gordie.
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