Latest Poetry Articles

Jun 9

Poetry Diary featuring a poem by Kathyrn Bevis

Reflections on overwork, grief and the lives of small wild things by Clare Shaw

TS Eliot was wrong: May is the cruellest month. It took Kathryn Bevis away. She was a beautiful human, a gifted poet and a close friend, and I don’t yet have the words for her loss. A week ago, I took the decision to go on compassionate leave. Grief is exhausting, and so is the life of a freelance poet.

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Rosie Hadden

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One of my favourite books on grief is called A Shelter for Sadness by Anne Booth and David Litchfield. It's a kid's book but I think we all could do with creating our own shelter. The first line is Sadness has come to live with me and I am building it a shelter. I am building a shelter for my sadness and welcoming it inside......We need time and space to be with our grief and to honour it and our love. Grief is love. Take care of your tender heart at this time. Much love Clare from here in Cornwall Rosie xxx

Elaine Lawson

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Slow down You’re goin to fast. Gunna make the morning last.

The Schism Ring by Jenny Lindsay

Jun 1

Anatomy of a Hounding

fear and factionalism in Scottish poetry

NB: This essay was originally commissioned and published by The Dark Horse for its Autumn/Winter edition in 2020. I republish it here to complement my contribution to the recently published The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht: Voices from the Frontline of Scotland’s Battle for Women’s Rights. (London: Constable, 2024)

Jenny Lindsay ∙ 22 LIKES

Patterns in Repeat

Jun 15

The Tarot Of Songwriting

The gifts of naivety, filtered Henry Miller and psychoanalysis

Hello and thank you for joining me here at Patterns In Repeat. My name is Laura Marling and I’ve been writing songs and putting out records for nearly 20 years. Recently I’ve felt the urge to talk about the practice that has been the central preoccupation of my adult life - in some ways, as an attempt to explain it to myself.

Laura Marling ∙ 220 LIKES

Kira

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Is she gonna write her book someday? ✨❤️

Alianne Valladares-Prieto

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As if you hadn’t already done enough for me with album releases such as Semper Femina and Once I Was An Eagle—both of which have made me feel that I was, in fact, not the eldest daughter after all. That, as it turns out, I seem to perpetually have the voice of an older sister, a few steps ahead of me, guiding me one song at a time.

So anyway, thank you for discovering substack and sharing your beautiful words. You’ll never really know how much I appreciate you and all your works in their many formats.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Jun 14

The Looming Danger of Justices Thomas and Alito & Is Asbestos in Makeup Giving Women Cancer?

Microplastics are in Our Bodies, Texas Tried to Ban Books that Mention "Butt" and "Fart," Liam Neeson is the Easter Bunny, Crowded House Sings “Don’t Dream It's Over"

What I’m Discussing Today: Kareem’s Daily Quote: Don’t understand art? Maybe this quote will help. The Looming Danger of Justices Thomas and Alito: This man is morally and intellectually unfit. What can we do about it?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ∙ 293 LIKES

Ginni Simpson

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I’m so sorry for the loss of your friend, Jerry West. May memories of your friend Jerry soon replace your sadness with smiles.

As a young adult, I had the privilege of watching you both play basketball. Now I feel gifted again by the honor of reading your brilliant words. Thank you.

Oldandintheway

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Many of the members of the current Supreme Court were appointed using questionable tactics. The names were given to Bush and Trump by a bunch of extreme billionaires who want to fulfill Alito’s vision of a (white) Christian nation. So far, they have restricted abortion and access to women’s health and advancement. They have allowed extreme gerrymandering, gutted the Voting Rights Act, protected industries that pollute and exploit their workers, and in return, they have given everyone a military style weapon to protect themselves from Black people and liberals. Most recently, they have made sure that the man who has committed some of the most serious crimes in American history won’t have a trial. They have already made life more difficult and unequal in America, and they are not finished yet. We have to continue to highlight their extreme arrogance and corruption, and find ways to reform the court.

Make Me Good Soil

Jun 12

Chronic Pain is Psychedelic

Enforced Presentism & Illness

( image by Ramon Gonzalez Teja, ca 1980) “Enforced presentism is a term coined by anthropologist Jane Guyer during the pandemic to discuss the experience of being dislocated from linear time, yet stuck in the present moment without recourse to imagine a future or romanticize the past. Events that disrupt our …

Sophie Strand ∙ 259 LIKES

Nance Harding

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My dear Sophie. It's been a minute since reading your newsletter for all the reasons you can imagine living in a body that says no. In the 1990s b/f the science caught up with me, I took up the concept of illness as initiation. Now in my 70s, I'm ready to share mostly due to reading people like you who are not afraid to speak the truth. I love you and your generation. It seems spiritual materialism is as popular as it was in the 60s and 70s. Nothing really changes except the individuals who like you, choose to suffer creatively. Keep it up.

Anna Wermuth

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woof. I feel so seen. 🧡

The Fourth Wheel

Jun 7

The Fourth Wheel, Issue 106

Chronometer status anxiety, ambassador controversies and... watch poetry!

Hello and welcome back to The Fourth Wheel, the weekly watch newsletter that needs to take a little trip - thankfully a rare occurrence - to Corrections Corner. I appreciated the response to last week’s newsletter on the Ressence ‘catalogue raisonné’ but as several people pointed out (among them, awkwardly enough, people who had worked on it directly) a…

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kingflum

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Jun 7

That chronometry poem was dope 😂

The Poetry Edit

Jun 3

COMPETITION TIME! Get your poem featured on The Poetry's Dead Podcast!

The Poetry Edit and The Poetry's Dead Podcast are joining forces to bring you an amazing opportunity to showcase your poetry talent!

THE WHO: The Poetry Edit is a weekly poetry newsletter promoting proper recompense for poets and creating opportunities within the poetry industry. The Poetry’s Dead Podcast is a weekly poetry podcast exploring the work of poets old and new, with an “Agony Poet” and a little bit of craic mixed in!

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Matt Taylor

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Count me in 😜

Alexis Brooks

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Jun 6

Hat thrown in the ring!

The Priory

Jun 11

John Donne: "Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God"

A biblical divorce

[A portrait of Donne as a young man, c. 1595, in the National Portrait Gallery, London; image in public domain] "Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”The Priory is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Karen Swallow Prior ∙ 71 LIKES

Richard Myerscough

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Who do you think Donne sees as the enemy, Karen? Is it a personification of Sin or perhaps the Devil? My New Testament lecturer believed that Paul in Romans 7 is speaking about humanity wedded to Satan in sin . I was never convinced, certainly not from that passage, but maybe he and Donne are on the same page? I also wondered if line 6's 'Labour to admit you' was a sideways glance at Song of Songs 5:5 where the Loved's hands drip with myrrh and struggle to open the door. But perhaps that's an allusion too far.

Really looking forward to this series - the only Donne I've read is Philip Yancey's recent modern rendering of Donne's Devotions which was excellent. I didn't have any of Donne's poetry on my shelves so I've bought the Delphi Kindle edition of his poems - they do a great job and for less than $2 it's a steal.

Jody L. Collins

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Professor Prior~I'm so happy we're embarking on this! I will relish listening to this as much as reading it--and pretend I'm in the classroom. Thank you!

Edited to add....I'm reminded, as I read your last lines (there's a note in my tattered copy of Donne's work to this effect) that the idea of being ravished is in keeping with God's deep desire to know us fully.

Also:

My introduction to sonnets was many years ago via Malcolm Guite, whose work continues to enchant and intrigue me. I'm so very glad you explained the differences in the kinds of sonnets.

And if requests might be in order, I'd love to spend a bit of time looking at Donne's first seven Holy Sonnets where the last line of each poem is the first of the next, forming a 'corona' or crown....the form and content are fascinating!

Two Sylvias Press' Weekly Muse

May 30

Two Sylvias Press Spring Newsletter

Jane Hirshfield joins us AND our Poetry Retreat is back!

Hello Friends, We hope you are having a great spring season filled with inspiration! Thank you for taking the time to read our newsletter—it’s filled with creative opportunities for you and your writing: our annual Online Poetry Retreat is back; award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield will join us for a Zoom conversation; our Chapbook Prize is accepting submissions; and we have just released a new book in our Wilder Prize Poetry Book Series!

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Branwen Drew

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May 30

Just signed up for July poetry workshop. I am looking forward to it.

Poetic Outlaws

Jun 12

NIGHT, THE POEM

By: Alejandra Pizarnik

If you find your true voice, bring it to the land of the dead. There is kindness in the ashes. And terror in non-identity. A little girl lost in a ruined house, this fortress of my poems. I write with the blind malice of children pelting a madwoman, like a crow, with stones. No—I don’t write: I open a breach in the dusk so the dead can send me…

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Martin Mc Carthy

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The act of writing can be a very mysterious one if we can put aside our egos and listen for the insights

the spirits are sending through us. I like this line very much: 'No - I don't write, I open a breach in the dusk so the dead can send messages through.' Any good poet, with a sense of the transcendent, will relate to that.

Richard Blaisdell

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Poetry for the ages that lasts longer than the poet who succumbed to life’s tossing stones.

Powerful poem.

casket diaries

Jun 12

DREAMLIKE #3: Fairie Poet Things

the vulnerability of poetry versus novels

Dreamlike is this week’s series of posts. A collection of my inner thoughts on writing, art, poetry. One a day, June 10-June 17. A challenge to myself, a bizarre thought experiment on pretentiousness, an examination of why I do what I do (write like a madwoman).

KV Rose ∙ 8 LIKES

Stephanie Shrader

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I don’t know why this made me cry but it did. Poetry is one of those things I always struggled to write and keep. I would bleed everything on to the paper and then immediately rip it up or burn it so others didn’t find it

Jenni

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“I can make a reader escape and as they jog through my words, I ensure they don't notice this particular landscape has been pruned by

me.

In poetry, it's different.”

I think this is one of your most powerful and moving articles yet.

Poetry Today

Jun 13

Against Manufacturing Wonder

The Eiffel Tower, Aristotle, and Coleridge on Imitation Peaches

Dear Friends, Happy Wonder Wednesday (on Thursday)! I’m just back from a week in Paris, where I have the joy of teaching in NYU’s low-res MFA each summer. The best part is always being with others writers, though savory tarts = close second. As I cruised along the Seine, I found myself blinking at the steel marvel perennially featured in perfume ads. How E…

Maya C. Popa ∙ 83 LIKES

Susan Wood

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You always give so much to think about and you do it so brilliantly!

Mary Roblyn

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“Wonder isn’t the mind’s final resting place. It cannot be permanently sustained.” Maya, that sentence really woke me up this morning!

I loved this piece. I wonder 😊 how many people broke their teeth on marble fruit in an era before modern dentistry. I remember biting into a wax apple at my aunt’s house. Did not create a sense of awe; only the urge to find a good hiding place.

As always, you’ve given us so much to think about in just a few words. Thank you!🙏 🫶

The Honest Broker

Jun 12

The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History

He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer

Today Eden Ahbez would get called a one-hit wonder. That’s how the music business mocks artists who enjoy a brief taste of fame—a short stay on the chart followed by a lifetime of obscurity. In Ahbez’s case, his hit was “Nature Boy.” This odd song, released as a single by Nat King Cole on March 29, 1948, sold a million copies and climbed to the top of th…

Ted Gioia ∙ 601 LIKES

Rock Around The Web

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On one level, Ted, your post is about a guy who composed a timeless song a long time ago. On a higher level, it is a master class in how to write a Substack post. When I start my Substack soon, I hope to someday write something half as interesting. I might fail, but at least you have shown how it’s done. Great post!

Deirdre Lewis

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Such a cool story and I love your version!

Poetry Unbound

Jun 9

To remember

is to undo dis-membering

Dear friends, This week was an anniversary of a dear friend, Glenn, who died suddenly in the early days of Covid. June of 2020. The 4th. I got a phone call from his magnificent daughter, and — because I usually get texts, not calls, from her — I wondered if something was wrong. Something was wrong. She had to tell her dad’s friends that he’d died. My go…

Pádraig Ó Tuama ∙ 297 LIKES

Karen Ehrens

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Beautiful, beautiful poetry, Pádraig. Thank you for sharing it and the tribute to your dear friend.

My mother speaks to me as a mourning dove. Like the dove, my mother was sweet and gentle. I have been so pleased to hear doves in this new place to where I relocated. This year marked 40 years (!) that I have been without her physical presence.

The sound of the mourning dove is also wistful, and even sometimes sad, but the bird still sings. Her life with my father was not easy. She is buried next to two tiny grave stones of my brothers, who were described to me as “stillborn.” I was too young to understand how heart-wrenching this had to be for her, happening at a time when such tragedies were not discussed, but hushed.

Thanks to the mourning dove, my mom can be brought to my mind and my heart, where I can recall her love and tenderness.

Galen Garwood

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Thank you, Pádraig, for your lovely poem of remembrance by association. A word. A life. Very touching, indeed. I lost my brother to the pandemic and it was one word that wormed its way into a poem:

CAPSIZE for my brother

Brother, you and I were in the kitchen

making pineapple sandwiches for lunch.

You were seven.

I was four.

The lid to the jar of mayonnaise slipped

from my fingers

and fell to the floor spinning

in a lopsided dance till it quit, having landed

upside down. ‘Capsize,’ you said.

That’s what you call it

when something falls

and flips over onto the ground,

or when a boat is about to sink

into the sea.

The word burrowed into my brain,

where it waits, always, for the spiraling

sound of a fallen jar-lid spinning

onto the floor, that polished memory

breaking loose and rising still

with the winnowing song of your laughter,

a warm wind above my head.

You gave us something

in our trajectory of brotherhood, something dear

and enduring, two lost children surviving

an empty house, searching

for love, hope, and words,

the singing of the ocean

our only lullaby.

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Jun 9

Different Emotions In Different Languages

Turkish is my mother tongue. The language of my grandmother, poetry and dreams. The amorphous shapes appearing in the dregs left at the bottom of coffee cups, waiting to be read. The sound of wind chimes. It is the smell of earth after a sudden storm, when you inadvertently search yourself, check your flesh, not sure…

Elif Shafak ∙ 543 LIKES

Catherine van Dijck

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As a Dutch woman who has lived for most of her life in Greece, I can totally identify with what you wrote. Yes, it is easier to swear in Greek, it is also easier to express love in Greek (doing so in Dutch makes me feel awkward and self conscious). But when I have to count, I revert to Dutch!

dangie

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Spanish is my mother tongue. The language I learned at home from Mexican parents. From them, I also learned love and respect, and since no family is perfect, from my father, I learned what incessant, angry swearing is.

English is my second language. The language I learned in school. It is also the language I have used throughout my professional life.

Since I was young, I spoke Spanish at home and English outside of home.

If I want to feel like I expressed something from the depths of me, I speak in Spanish. It is almost a visceral experience because when I talk in Spanish, I am not only using a language, but I am also expressing with my emotions, my body, my culture, my conditioning, my family, my being. In contrast, I can say the same thing in English but not express it in the same way. For me, English is more cerebral and analytical. I can be direct and concise in English. English seems to filter through my brain; however, Spanish feels like it comes from within.

I can tolerate swearing in English, but I cannot tolerate swearing in Spanish (thank you, Dad).

With its beauty and traumas, Spanish is home. English is a foreign land that I have gradually made into a home. Spanish comes with its culture and family history. And like any foreign land, English comes with its own customs and traditions that I adapted to.

Both of these languages have evolved within me as I have grown and changed over time and through experiences.

Bookworm

Jun 11

Bookworm, no. 47

Sara Krahn reviews David Roche’s memoir. Traditional knowledge for little ones. Original poetry by Kevin Irie. The Griffin Poetry Prize winner. Inside the June issue.

Seventh Heaven Standing at the Back Door of Happiness: And How I Unlocked It David Roche Harbour Publishing 192 pages, softcover The cover of Standing at the Back Door of Happiness features a startling photo of the author David Roche, the left side of his face mottled by an overgrowth of veins. The octogenarian has lived with the vascular malformation his en…

Literary Review of Canada ∙ 5 LIKES

Marcus on AI

Jun 15

The Great AI Retrenchment has begun

Further evidence that AGI is not imminent

It was always going to happen; the ludicrously high expectations from last 18 ChatGPT-drenched months were never going to be met. LLMs are not AGI, and (on their own) never will be; scaling alone was never going to be enough. The only mystery was what would happen when the big players realized that the jig was up, and that scaling was not in fact “All Y…

Gary Marcus ∙ 116 LIKES

Pratik A. Desai

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Even if we agree that AGI is relatively imminent, the question is would that AGI merely be an engineering achievement or would it also shed some scientific light on how human (or biological) intelligence works? If it would be nothing more than engineering feat then trying to achieve AGI is also off-ramp from the goals set for themselves by the founders of Artificial Intelligence.

Les Guessing

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Appreciate you, Gary. An honest voice among zealots who have so much invested financially, mentally, and emotionally that they can't think straight.

Poetry Bulletin

May 20

Poetry Bulletin: May 2024

A personal update + important FYI on fee support + new resource with deadlines

Hey poets — this bulletin is late, because I’ve been spending time with family, walking in the woods with my dad, stopping for trilliums whenever we find them. We recently found out he has cancer, and the most honest thing I can say is that when he’s not well, I’m not well… We’re sorting out what this means in the near-term, and I’m listening for where …

Emily Stoddard ∙ 29 LIKES

James A Higgins

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May 28

I too have a daughter I'm very close too and she worries too. It scared her when I needed a sudden addition of a pacemaker a year ago at 82, but I am doing very well. I am so sorry to hear about your dad's cancer and I hope it responds well to treatment and he can remain well for a long time.

Andrew Calis

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May 21

I'm so sorry to hear about your father❤️

I also can't thank you enough for writing posts like this -- even at the risk of alienating readers. Peace will only come from action. I'm still trying to find my own form of action as a Palestinian-American poet; but I admire how emphatically you're using your platform to advocate for peace and change.

Londonist: Time Machine

Jun 12

A New Map Of Medieval London

Deliciously detailed 13th century plan. And a Tudor one, too.

Welcome to your Wednesday instalment of Londonist: Time Machine. We’ve featured quite a few maps in this newsletter over the past year and… well, here we go again. Today, I’d like to share with you a newly created map of medieval London that is, quite frankly, astonishing in its detail. That’s after…

Matt Brown ∙ 29 LIKES

David Wilcox

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Thanks for insights into the processes behind these fabulous maps. I Iive in Smithfield, where the Fire stopped, so particularly interested in before and after the fire mapping of that and neighbouring Clerkenwell.

Bertsyview

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Really interesting. Thanks

The Borowitz Report

May 29

Announcing the Trump Haiku Contest Winner!

A TBR Contest Special

After thousands of you voted in the Trump Haiku Contest Runoff, we have a winner! This TBR Contest Special newsletter features the winning poem, analysis of the voting, and an exclusive interview with the triumphant poet. Contestants were asked to submit haikus on this theme: “Trump’s innermost musings as he sits in court.”

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Andy Borowitz

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May 29

This just in: Kari Lake claims she won the haiku contest.

Jeffrey K. Morris

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May 29

TBR: It was rigged. Only LOSERS would accept that result — everyone is saying that the innernet was programmed by Biden to switch votes. That’s nice. Where are Hilary’s emails? You’re a loser Borowitz. I prefer winners of which I am majorly the biggest. No one wins like I do. You should ENDORSE TRUMP and your human scum readers should vote for me—only if they want to win.

ps: me me me me me me me

Thank You for Being

Jun 15

NEW POETRY with Christia Madacsi: Point of Sail

Dinghy Sailing for Beginners

FIRST, A NOTE I grew up on the Mystic River in Connecticut. I was lucky enough to spend many of my childhood summers tooling around in kayaks and rowboats, and while I loved sailing, I never truly learned the fundamentals. I recently decided to dive in again on Austin's Lake Travis, starting with dinghy sailing for beginners.

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Astral Codex Ten

Jun 12

Nobody Can Make You Feel Genetically Inferior Without Your Consent

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Scott Alexander ∙ 245 LIKES

Quiop

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I often think the LessWrong diaspora resorts far too readily to "status" in its explanations for social phenomena, and perhaps Scott's post here is deliberately avoiding recourse to a word that can provoke a lot of eye-rolling. But the obvious solution to the puzzles here seems to be: "Duh, it's all about status!"

Evolution has given us strong emotional responses to status hierarchies and status threats, because such hierarchies were decent proxies for survival and reproductive success. The result was that humans ended up caring more about status than about actual survival or reproduction. (This why people are willing to sacrifice their lives in battle or become celibate monks.) When you call someone inferior, the problem isn't that you "think they’re less than human and maybe want to kill them." The problem is that by calling them inferior, you have already done something *worse* than killing them.

Why is "genetic inferiority" a particularly serious status threat? A full response to this question would take several books, but the short explanation is that modern western culture has substituted "DNA" for "the soul" in its thinking about individual essences. To call someone "inferior" is an insult; to call them "genetically inferior" is an insult *sub specie aeternitatis*.

DaneelsSoul

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You and Lance have equal moral value in the sense that utilitarianism says that the same weight should be given to each of your preferences. If you and Lance were the only humans (so the ability to improve the lives of others was irrelevant), and one of you had to die, utilitarianism would either be agnostic or decide based on something like who wanted to keep living more.

Some Flowers Soon

May 31

Pinks #18: Close-Fitting House of Velvet

The poetry of the foxglove

dark-blistered foxgloves Geoffrey Hill Once, before my children started school, we went on holiday to Cornwall in early June. Arriving in West Penwith, the southernmost part of the county, I was thinking of the poet W.S. Graham, who lived there for much of his life and was friendly with the artists around St. Ives.

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John Davies

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May 31

Thanks for this fascinating post. Meeting up with poet Brendan Cleary after his escape from a prolonged hospital stay, I find him reading W. S. Graham's 'New Collected Poems', edited by Matthew Francis (Faber, 2004) and he highlights for me this moving poem, both robust and gentle. You can find it on the Scottish Poetry Library website here too: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/alexander-graham/

Like Brendan, who has a new collection out from Tall Lighthouse with the ironic title 'Last Poems?', Graham sets a wonderful example. I was also struck by the Cornish connections. I'm working on a book about Rowena Cade, The Minack Theatre and her family. It's said that Rowena would take the digitalis prescribed for her dogs – if it was good enough for them it would be good enough for her. For background and context I've recently enjoyed reading 'Zennor - Spirit of Place' by Bob Osborne (a.k.a. Rebel Not Taken).

Caroline Hett

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Jun 5

I was thinking of WS Graham’s Dear Bryan Wynter very recently when a rogue foxglove sprouted up, and up, against the wall in my own garden. The seed must have been dropped by a bird. I like the spiky intervention so much I’m going to harvest the seeds and plant foxgloves in my garden intentionally. I kept meaning to buy Zaffar Kunial’s collection and your post has finally nudged me into ordering it. Thank you.

Shaw and Moore

Jun 7

Poetry Diary featuring a poem by Amanda Dalton

Kim Moore

May has been a pretty brutal month for me in terms of work. I’ve been drowning under acres of marking, from university. I’ve also been completing my first term as an External Examiner for Edge Hill University - which has been interesting, but also exhausting - in the way that doing anything new is exhausting in its uncertainty.

Kim Moore and Clare Shaw ∙ 11 LIKES

Gertie Hyde

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Jun 7

Thank you for sharing your thoughts… wish I could do a PhD with you …

Doc Malik Honest Health

Jun 14

#187 - Mistakes Were Not Made

HEALTH - LIBERTY - HAPPINESS SUPPORT DOC MALIK This is how I feel amongst the medical profession. Please sign up to my paid substack so that I can speak up for your freedom and fight the tyranny. Spotif…

Doc Malik and Margaret Anna Alice ∙ 76 LIKES

Pamela Steele

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Dr. Malik-

I am a new paid subscriber, a red pilled Nana, 62 years old, now in school to become a Traditional Naturopath.

What am I thinking? lol.

I was a dietetics major in college. Finished a degree in communication but ran out of $$ to finish the dietetics degree. Regrets, I only had one year left. But, considering the state of healthcare, I should be happy I avoided the vaccine vortex!

You might love meeting Dr. Michael Gaeta. A nutritionist from the USA. He has a mind blowing interview with Dr. McCullough (on his Substack) regarding treating hypertension with food and herbs. He successfully treats the people that no one else can/will help….almost always without drugs! His motto- Nature First Drugs Last.

This is our future. A reason to hope.

Thank you for all you do to encourage people like me!

Margaret Anna Alice

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Thank you so much, dear Ahmad, for this inspiring conversation; your courageous pursuit of truth and defense of the innocent; your unflagging integrity; and your beautiful friendship. I am grateful to Mike Yeadon for introducing us and feel like I have gained a brother 🤗

As I told you privately, you are an extraordinarily gifted interviewer. I know how much you miss being a surgeon, but you clearly have found your calling as a podcaster, and you are helping far more people than is physically possible to do on a one-to-one basis. Different type of help but perhaps more important at this particular moment in history.

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Chronic Pain is Psychedelic

The Fourth Wheel, Issue 106

COMPETITION TIME! Get your poem featured on The Poetry's Dead Podcast!

John Donne: "Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God"

Two Sylvias Press Spring Newsletter

NIGHT, THE POEM

DREAMLIKE #3: Fairie Poet Things

Against Manufacturing Wonder

The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History

To remember

Different Emotions In Different Languages

Bookworm, no. 47

The Great AI Retrenchment has begun

Poetry Bulletin: May 2024

A New Map Of Medieval London

Announcing the Trump Haiku Contest Winner!

NEW POETRY with Christia Madacsi: Point of Sail

Nobody Can Make You Feel Genetically Inferior Without Your Consent

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