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Maria Cohut

@encyclopaediac.bsky.social

Writer exploring bluer pastures. IG @mariac_phd. Debut poetry collection Multiple Exposures out from Flight of the Dragonfly the-flight-of-the-dragonfly-booksho…

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Maria Cohut @encyclopaediac.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Found this today in the local @amnestyuk.bsky.social bookshop, and I had to get it. How many decades so you think it'll take me to get anywhere close to figuring it out? 🥲 #puzzle #mysterybook #cainsjawbone #experimentalwriting

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Maria Cohut @encyclopaediac.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hey @theguardian.com, if you want to report on #Romania and #Moldova, you may also like to get the presidents right. Getting them mixed up on national media is a sign of, oh, I don't know, huge disrespect? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Maria Cohut @encyclopaediac.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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Maria Cohut @encyclopaediac.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Fun fact about me: I adore invertebrates, and am currently proud mother to various Giant African Land Snails and Giant African Millipedes. 🐛🐌 Madagascar hissing cockroaches also used to be part of my family, but the last one, Stoker (pictured), passed away last year. I really miss hissers though!

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Maria Cohut @encyclopaediac.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This Saturday, 14th December, tune into Hannah's Bookshelf on North Manchester FM from 2 p.m. to listen to "3-minute Santas", including my new flash story, "The Vigil".

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Maria Cohut @encyclopaediac.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I will be forever grateful to Darren for putting so much care and love into bringing this little project of mine to life - every single copy is printed and bound by hand, and is unique.

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Maria Cohut @encyclopaediac.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Happy 1-year #bookversary to Spatter Pattern, my poetry chapbook against gender violence! 1 year ago today, Spatter Pattern was released by the wonderful back room poetry, who have since sadly been forced to cease their activity.

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Maria Cohut @encyclopaediac.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

One of my top achievements this year was having my poem "One last journey" published in the excellent Other Side of Hope lit mag. I wrote it in memory of my paternal grandma, Silvia, who fled her hometown of Chernivtsi (now in Ukraine) as a young woman due to the invasion of the Soviet Army in 1940.

sepia photo of a young woman with curled black hair styled in a 1930s combed-back style, wearing a knee-length, short-sleeved white dress, leaning against the trunk of a tree in a field

photo of text reading: "Maria Cohut, One last journey, in memory of my paternal grandmother, Silvia, who as a young woman fled the Soviet army’s invasion of her hometown, Chernivtsi, in 1940

On the train, she checks her luggage once more -
of her mother, only memories remain,
scattered about her suitcase, folded with the laundry.

They had said their goodbyes long before,
her mother headed on a longer journey
to a place of permanent refuge, far
from sleep-devouring malignancies, far
from news of deportations, far
from what was left of her daughter’s
life, tightly packed between leather covers,
on a train to maybe future, what if no future,
certainly hunger, new borders, ancient cruelties."

hand holding issue 4 of the literary magazine "the other side of hope", with bright yellow covers and an illustration of a veiled person superimposed over typewritten text on the front cover

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