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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

6 months

Three poems across a great expanse of time in conversation with each other. Emily Dickinson, Refaat Alareer & Fady Joudah make up this beautiful, chilling triptych.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

1 month

Boycott Eurovision.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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5 months

So we can't fund the NHS, schools, universities, libraries, transport systems, refuge centres or food banks, but we can spend billions bombing Yemen for trying to prevent a genocide, while also sending insane amounts to our allies. There’s always money for wars.

Sky News

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"We need to do more" says PM Rishi Sunak as he announces the single biggest package of defence aid to Ukraine since the war began of £2.5b 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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2 years

There's a form of class violence that wants to ridicule folk for mispronouncing words. Growing up, I'd often read a word for the first time & have no idea how it was meant to sound. There's no shame in mispronouncing a word. It just means you met it first on your own & on a page.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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5 months

Let it never be forgotten that on Christmas Day 2023 Israel bombed and killed citizens in Gaza, Bethlehem, Jenin, Syria and Lebanon.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

7 months

These are the last words of award winning 32 year old Palestinian writer & poet Hiba Abu Nada who was killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza. "We find ourselves in an indescribable state of bliss amidst the chaos. Amidst the ruins, a new city emerges—a testament to our resilience.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

2 years

At my mum’s house.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

6 months

Salim al-Nafar is the latest poet to have been murdered by Israel. He was killed along with his family when Israel bombed their home in Gaza City. Like thousands of others they are all still buried under the rubble.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

7 days

Written in the 1950s.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

5 months

The genocide in Palestine will disappear from the news. Emotional fatigue, work & life will mean less time spent marching, posting, boycotting & demonstrating. Yesterday Israel bombed a residential neighbourhood in Lebanon. Gazans are still dying. Keep talking about Palestine.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

7 months

The health ministry in Gaza have today announced that the total number of families wiped off the registry list, meaning there are no surviving members of that family, is 881. I don’t know what else to say at this point.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

2 years

Someone just replied to an email I sent in 2016 with ‘sorry for the slow response’.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

3 months

RIP Aaron Bushnell, a 25 year old active duty member of the U.S. Air Force, who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in Washington yesterday. His final words were Free Palestine. It wasn’t mental illness that caused him to do it, it was legitimate moral outrage.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

7 months

Cries of pain echo through the air, mingling with the blood-stained garments of doctors. Teachers, despite their grievances, embrace their little pupils, while families display unwavering strength in the face of adversity.”

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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6 days

One of these people was blocked from standing as Labour candidate. The other was promoted. This is Starmer’s Labour. This is where the U.K. is heading.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

1 year

Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car still messes me up.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

6 years

Today we buried my gran. She was 96 and my best friend. I spent the first four years of my life with her. She survived 2 wars and understood happiness. She taught me. I wrote an elegy for her. I read it and didn’t cry. She won. She completed this thing we call life. That’s all.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

6 months

"When I was young, there were two things that I really wanted to see: A free South Africa, and a free Palestine." - Benjamin Zephaniah.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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2 years

No matter what happens in your writing career, no matter how many people read your poems or how others perceive you, know that a life spent in letters is a blessing. To wake each day & be able to write & create & meet yourself where you’re at is truly the sign of a life lived.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

3 years

So regarding the Kate Clanchy debacle: The criticism levelled against her book(s) is fair in that it brings into question her ethical practice as well as her constant use of orientalist language when speaking particularly about young people of colour.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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30 days

Forget Zadie Smith. All eyes on Rafah.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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8 months

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognising this may be incapable of morality." James Baldwin

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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7 months

We just wrapped up our Poets for Palestine event. I cried with my camera off. We raised £24000 for @MedicalAidPal . I love the poets. I love the people on the other end. I want the bombs to stop. I want people to live. Free Palestine. Free Palestine.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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Najwan Darwish

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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2 years

We're discussing the idea of launching an online literary journal specifically aimed at poets who are yet to have a first full collection published. The intention is to create a free archive where editors/readers can go to discover new and exciting voices.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

4 months

What are we even watching? Mangled bodies of blown up children? Live executions of mothers? Brothers being shot? Parents killed in front of their kids? None of this makes sense. Leave your book promo tweets & ‘delighted to announce’ posts & use your voice where it’s most needed

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7 months

Disgusting. Reprehensible. You’ve all got blood on your hands you bunch of psychopaths.

Politics UK

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7 months

🚨 BREAKING: Gaza ceasefire vote results YES to a ceasefire: 125 NO to a ceasefire: 293

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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A father handing his dead child biscuits to take with him to heaven. A father with one hand carrying the body of his baby with half his brain missing. His bloodied daughter in the other. How much more pain and suffering can Palestinians endure? When will it stop? Enough!

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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7 months

It’s wild to think that Rupi Kaur has been more outspoken about the ongoing genocide in Palestine than a bag of these poets who make work about colonialism and empire.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

5 years

Poetry is hard. In every aspect. Try not to pay too much attention to the prize circus, or online career pageantry. Make the work you need to. Play. Think. Take risks. & remember, we started writing because it was enjoyable, not arduous, whatever happens try keep sight of that.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

6 months

Free cups of Arabic coffee being handed out on the march with the names and ages of Palestinian martyrs. 🇵🇸

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

2 years

Heading to the post office when 2 plain clothed police officers pulled up to ask where I was going. I said to the post office, as evidenced by the parcels in my hand. The other asked what I did for a living, I said I was a writer, he asked who I worked for, I said my imagination.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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Over 140 mass graves, many containing hundreds of bodies, have now been documented since October 15, 2023. What we are witnessing in Gaza is one of the greatest war crimes in human history.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

7 years

Rees-Mogg says his views on sexuality & abortion are underpinned by Catholicism yet people aren’t critiquing that.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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7 years

UKIP are set to lose their only seat. There's something to celebrate already.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

12 days

Always interesting to see the kind of people these pro-Israel rallies attract…

5Pillars

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"You fu*king P*ki wanker." Can you identify this man who appears to have committed a racist offence at the pro-Israel demonstration in Finchley, north London, yesterday? @metpoliceuk

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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4 months

We better all just shut up, make art that’s as interesting as a sack of porridge and hope nobody asks us any questions about our politics, principles or convictions. Yet another step to further censor freedom of expression. This is the antithesis of art and literature.

Arts Professional

@ArtsPro

4 months

APNews: Arts Council England ( @ace_national ) has updated its policies, warning that "political statements" made by individuals linked to an organisation can cause "reputational risk", breaching funding agreements (1/5)

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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7 years

The burning of Grenfell Tower was political. The reason why people have to live on top of each other in such buildings is political.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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3 years

People of colour, working class groups and those living with disabilities shouldn’t be used as fodder by the white middle classes to try and achieve some kind of political exoneration. More honest discourse on the matter is very much needed.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

3 years

Happy National Poetry Day: Read a poem, share a poem, write a poem, think about a poem, discover a poem, tell a poet you think they’re rad, remind poets they’re very much needed. I’m off into schools to spread the good word so to writers, readers & industry people, it’s all love.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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A close read: ‘Cancelling’ meaning people from a marginalised group saying I find that offensive, can you perhaps reword it? ‘Writers’ meaning white people. ‘Appease the purity zealotsm’ meaning listening to people who come from the worlds you can only imagine. This article 🗑🚮

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

2 months

40000 Palestinian deaths too late you bunch of decadent psychopaths.

Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis

@DrLoupis

2 months

BREAKING🚨🚨🚨 UK has informed Netanyahu that they are preparing to publicly declare Israel in violation of international law🇬🇧 @DefundIsraelNow 🔥

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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6 years

Feeling pretty low so thought to get a coffee. I order and hear the barista say it’s on the house. I assume he’s talking to someone else so hand him the money. He says it again. Says my poems helped him through some difficult times. I thank him. There’s good people in the world.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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6 months

This is pathetic. Part of an institution’s job is to vet who they allow to hire their spaces. You’re telling me that a fundraiser for Israel, attended by the president of Israel while Israel slaughters thousands of Palestinians was a communications error? Have a day off.

The RSA

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An update.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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6 months

Tragic and devastating in every way. Benjamin was a light, a force, a voice for so many of us in childhood and adulthood alike. The world is not fair. There’s too much to grieve in one lifetime.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

2 years

Morning! In Jan I thought to set up a poetry magazine specifically for poets who haven’t had a first collection published. Now here it is. Fully funded. A bi-monthly free online magazine with 6 different guest editors a year. Subs open July 2022. Introducing @propelmagazine 🎉

Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

2 years

We're discussing the idea of launching an online literary journal specifically aimed at poets who are yet to have a first full collection published. The intention is to create a free archive where editors/readers can go to discover new and exciting voices.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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4 years

I’m leaving a book shop. Security guard asks to check my bag. He sees the book I’ve purchased along with the receipt. He asks me to take out the other books. He says why do you have so many copies of the same book. I say it’s my book. He says no it’s the bookshop’s book.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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2 years

I was in a mentoring session earlier. The poet presented a new poem for me to read. On the Zoom he said ‘this is my first attempt at a cunto’. I smiled & replied ‘you mean a canto, as in Ezra Pound…’ he said ‘no I mean Cunto as in Joelle Taylor.’ & like that a movement is born.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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8 months

I think what disappoints me with Palestine is seeing the response when compared to Ukraine. I remember within that first week in 2022 major institutions emailing asking to help with fundraisers, events, poems etc. Yet with Palestine those very same orgs have said or done nothing.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

3 years

This whole poem by the late Canadian poet and astronomer Rebecca Elson is just utterly heartbreaking. That final stanza…

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

2 years

Joelle Taylor just won the T.S Eliot Prize

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

6 years

The police officer who strangled 20 year old Rashan Charles to death has been cleared. We are not too dissimilar from the Americans. The only difference between our injustices and theirs is the accent.

Police officer in clear on ‘restrain’ death

A POLICE officer investigated over the death of a young black man who died while being restrained – sparking mass protests – will not face any criminal charges.

www.express.co.uk

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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6 months

Sally Rooney on Gaza 🇵🇸

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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1 year

I don’t really know what to say. I genuinely wasn’t expecting anything hence why I wore a bloody T-shirt, but thank you to the judges for seeing the book, to @r_vallen for believing in it, to the team @GrantaBooks & my wonderful agent @ClaudiaL_Young & of course @RSLiterature . ❤️

Royal Society of Literature

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1 year

Congratulations to @Anthony1983 - winner of the 2023 RSL Ondaatje Prize for 'Heritage Aesthetics' @GrantaBooks

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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2 years

The weeks, months or years you have off from writing poems aren't wasted. They don't indicate a creative drought or fallow period. It's where the heavy-lifting happens; the thinking, living and noticing. There's no writer's block, no apathy - just a world calling you back.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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4 months

Art is inherently political; who makes it, how it’s rendered, how it’s preserved, how it’s valued & the impact it has on our interiority is largely determined by the political climate it stems from. What ACE are saying is they don’t want art practitioners calling out a genocide.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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6 years

The ‘product of their time’ argument is cheap and reductive. It implies nobody else existed with a view opposing the dominant paradigm. It’s a bit like saying in 100 years time people will forgive Katie Hopkins as she was merely ‘a product of her time.’ Big up @kehinde_andrews

Good Morning Britain

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6 years

'He was a racist. He was someone who believed the white race was superior, the natives didn't have any right to their lands in the Americas,' says Professor Kehinde Andrews commenting on Winston Churchill. It comes after an astronaut was forced to apologise for quoting him.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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2 years

I really love how this poem breaks apart so gently at the end. Like a space shuttle’s fuel tank disconnecting to float slowly off into space. From @no1_emily Unexhausted Time which comes out next month.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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7 years

If he were a Muslim though I suspect the backlash would be centred around the ills of the faith.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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7 years

It's always poor people who die in mass numbers. Landlords took shortcuts to save money. Council ignored the warnings from residents.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

6 months

Akrotiri, the British army base in Cyprus, is currently being used to supply weapons & other munitions to Israel in their war against Gaza. I wrote for @declassifiedUK on how the British managed to annex 3% of the island after independence and how they've made Cyprus complicit.

Declassified UK

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👉NEW: How Britain Made Cyprus Complicit in Gaza's Slaughter By Anthony Anaxagorou ( @Anthony1983 ) After leaving Palestine in 1948, Britain kept a foothold on nearby Cyprus from where it now helps Israel bomb #Gaza . @MerkyBooks

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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4.5% of Gaza’s population have now been murdered or injured. In American numbers that’s 12 million people. That’s greater than the whole of New York. Greater than the whole of London. It’s tragic we need to draw these equivalences to comprehend the scale of Israel’s genocide.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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3 months

Today a group of writers stood outside the London Book Fair to read poems and letters by Palestinians. The vigil was to commemorate the writers, academics and journalists who’ve been murdered by Israel. I read @FadyJoudah poem, Maqam for a Green Silence from […]

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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4 months

Publishers, writers, librarians, academics, editors, agents, defenders of culture and heritage can you find it in you now to condemn Israel for this one?

Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

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Breaking: The Israeli army destroys and burns down the publishing house and library of Al-Kalima in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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The resolution brought forward by Society of Authors members calling for a statement to be made in support of a ceasefire in Gaza, didn't pass. That means the murder of 40,000+ Palestinians isn't enough to compel a majority vote among British writers. What a time.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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7 months

Judaism is a faith. Zionism is a violent settler colonial ideology. You can be Jewish and anti-Zionist. You can be a non-Jew and be pro Zionist. The two are not inextricably imbued.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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1 year

I just heard we lost Charles Simic. A tragic day for poetry. Travel well, maestro.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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6 months

Sending big love & strength to all those struggling to focus & work through the days as normal. Emails, teaching, parenting, being a human in the world feels impossible at the moment. Yesterday Israel killed over 1000 Palestinians. & somehow we’re supposed to just carry on…

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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3 years

Two poets at the bar after the end of a long week. #NationalPoetryDay

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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7 years

Been reflecting on this all day...

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6 years

I often think how many poets were slowly born after reading this one particular poem by Lucile Clifton.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

6 years

Sometimes you need to accept you’re just too tired. That you require some respite. That not every spare second has to be filled with reading something, debating someone, creating something. That you are allowed to live and nobody will think any less of you.

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6 months

'Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought' - Benjamin Zephaniah.

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6 months

A new poem by Fady Joudah. 🇵🇸

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

2 years

Some nights I open @maxjohnporter Grief Is The Thing With Feathers & just stay there.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

3 years

Very excited (and nervous) to now announce my new collection of poetry Heritage Aesthetics has had its publication date brought forward to Nov 2022.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

5 months

@RyanMcGoverne Sure, but you missed the bit about bombing Yemen and sending spy planes and other munitions to Israel (from Cyprus) to aid their fascistic genocide on Gaza…

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3 years

20 years ago I would have probably been one the kids Kate taught. There needs to be a more robust conversation about the role of teacher’s with a public profile, the power dynamics at play and how cultural capital is accrued and redistributed through the experiences of students.

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4 months

‘In a normal world, it is Israel that should be punished for killing so many members of a humanitarian organization. But nope, it's the humanitarian organization that's getting punished, alongside the very vulnerable population it's committed to helping.’

Arnaud Bertrand

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Whatever your position is, just take a moment to reflect on just how dark this is. Just hours after the ICJ concluded that Israel was plausibly committing genocide and ordered it to dramatically step up humanitarian efforts, 7 Western countries sanctioned... not Israel but the

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And while we all have our own way of doing things, I’ve always felt uncomfortable at some of the ways Kate has gone about showcasing her student’s work. While I’m sure her intentions are benign, it’s the undertone of middle class white paternalism that taints everything.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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4 years

Here are 20 poetry books ( @heatherchristle I still believe yours to be poetry) that helped me get through the swamp of 2019. These books all offered a unique perspective through language, form and innovation. They restored, provoked & unsettled, & I really do love them all.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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7 years

Each day brings new reports of more men behaving in abhorrent ways. It shouldn’t be this hard to understand. Keep your hands, dick, urges, perversions, power fantasies, entitlements and general scum-bag ways to yourself. Please. For all our sakes. Stop.

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2 years

Please pay freelancers on time. We aren’t on salaries so when we have to wait 3 months for an invoice to be paid it literally destroys our cash flow, not to mention the chase-up emails etc. We do the job on time, meet deadlines, then need to wait half a year to get paid.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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3 years

Next year is set to be a monster for poetry book releases. New collections coming from Emily Berry, Warsan Shire, Fiona Benson, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Denise Riley, Will Alexander & more. If you’ve got a book coming out & want to let readers know, pls add it to the thread.

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People who say 'stop murdering future doctors, lawyers, artists & scientists'. I get the point but feel it reinforces exceptionalism which suggests specific brain-types have a greater right to live than others. How about just stop murdering & let people become what they become.

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Reading the news this morning, I can’t help feeling utter devastation at what’s about to play out in Ukraine and the consequences it’ll have on the rest of the world. As always here’s @ilya_poet poetry speaking to us. #StandWithUkraine

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‘Just come back..’

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7 years

Today the leader of the Labour Party stood in front of 100,000 revellers to speak a message of love & poetry. This happened in our lifetime.

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3 years

Personally, I’m not an advocate of ‘cancel culture’, I think we’re all learning, some of us just do it in public. I think however there needs to be some reckoning when an author openly dismisses the legitimate grievances of the very people they’ve made the subject of their work.

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2 years

Sometimes I really do wish we had more poetry podcasts in the U.K. where poets could read and discuss their work at length & readers could learn about a poet’s subjects and thinking, their techniques & forms & other valuable insights that enhance the reading experience…

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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5 years

Last year I clocked 17 misspellings of both my names on flyers for events - 2 for major lit festivals, 5 for printed books & mags & 23 mispronunciations when being introduced on stage. I know it’s not a big deal. But really it is. Please take time to get this stuff right.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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2 years

Very difficult weekend for many of us, I’m sure. When I find myself getting anxious and overwhelmed with the world, its politics and suffering, I think about this Milosz poem. How by the time you land on ‘in my body I felt no pain’ you want to just allow yourself to come apart.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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3 years

Some Kids I Taught along with Antigona and Me raises very serious questions around racist language, positioning, the orientalist gaze, and the paternalism attributed to the British imperial project, along with the inability to concede error.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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Several writers have told me they don’t want to condemn Israel publicly because they feel they don’t know enough about the history. Fair. Although history is one thing, & 25000 dead is another. Either way, we’re writers, we read up & research. Most books begin with not knowing.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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8 years

Britain's new PM?

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7 months

My friend got sent home from work today for wearing a Free Palestine badge the size of a button. Israeli spokespeople have been on national television calling Palestinians animals. Do you see the problem?

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

7 months

Governments vs people

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

7 months

I won’t forget those who stayed silent throughout all this. I don’t know who’ll be alive after or what this will look like but I’m not letting it go. Those who did or said fuck all…publishers, booksellers…orgs…who sat there like they’re watching a fucking cricket match. Cool.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

@Anthony1983

1 year

Last night I missed the last train back to London from Hastings so I figured to make the most of it and hit the beach up at 11pm. The temperature was -4 but the views were 🤌🏽

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