Silkworms Ink

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(Spoilers. As ever) In this rather sweet, in-depth interview with an Israeli newspaper, Salman Rushdie talks at length about that fatwa (you know the one I mean), his writing, religious...

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Well, I don’t know what to make of that. Even now, as I sit, snuggled up in my own bedclothes, reading tweet upon tweet from quite a number of apparently real-life, comedy-appreciating human-beings...

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Silkworms Ink 2.0 Teaser from Philip Brown on Vimeo. No, we aren't starting a series of Tom Waits assassinations, nor are we starting a series of dedications to Poetry Society interns or...

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RIP Lucian Freud, a man who wrote excellent letters

Friends,

We were intending to post this a week or three ago, but then some Society had some sort of Meeting (or something)...

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A cloud of support

Have you signed yet? These guys have...

1000. Ella Duffy 999. AJ Ashworth 998. Laura Fernandez-Kayne 997. Tinashe Mushakavanhu 996....

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An interesting thing happened a couple of days ago. I read an article in Civil Society with the headline Poetry Society Issues Full and Frank Explanation of Dispute. The 'Full and...

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Following my coverage of last week's Poetry Society EGM, the poet, ecologist and all-round top bloke, Professor David...

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Following yesterday's historic and fraught meeting of the Poetry Society's Board of Trustees and some of its members, many fine people have felt compelled to write on the topic. I...

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“trustee n. (plural trustees)

A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of...

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When Elizabeth Bishop wrote of ‘the tragic man that lies in the house of Bedlam’, she imbued such subtle tragedy in her refrain from the...

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“Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages is it the rule” Friedrich Nietzsche The waxing and waning of the moon was once believed to affect all living...

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An interesting announcement in the Guardian today; the estate of Kenneth Grahame has made it clear that they intend to release a sequel to The Wind In The Willows, tentatively...

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Roseanne is America's greatest sitcom. There, I've said it. At least in its early years, the show was a perfectly formed, and perfectly performed, slice of working-class America. It was...

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Vol LII, Keyways: Unlocking Owen Sheers' Skirrid Hill

Phil Brown (18.5.11)

A...

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Steve Stone (1954-2011)

On Saturday 23rd April, my colleague and lifelong family friend, Steve Stone, died on his 57th Birthday. As well as being a wonderful friend, an...

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"The trigger gave, I felt the underside of the polished butt and it was there, in that sharp but deafening noise, that it all started. I shook off the sweat and sun. I realised that I'd...