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Shani Cadwallender

@overleaf.bsky.social
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Poet- PhD student at Birkbeck, working on trees and marginal identities in C19th women’s poetry. Working-class, mixed, bi, AuDHD, RRMSer. She/her. Loves beer, records, trees and dogs.

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Dulwich Hamlet FC @dulwichhamletfc.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Wishing everyone in London the happiest Pride weekend 🏳️‍🌈💖💙🏳️‍⚧️ It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from, you are always welcome here at Champion Hill.
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
That could be it! Thank you!
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Can anyone help with the final word of this MS? It‘s an annotation on Amy Levy’s manuscript for ‘A London Plane- Tree’, on the dedication poem ‘To Clementina Black’. So far I’ve got ‘all in Ital. low case to suit ____?’
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Azad Ashim Sharma @azad-ashim.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
hey all - the wonderful publishing house I co-founded and direct, @the87press.bsky.social, is now on here. Please help us make the transition from the other place! Add us to all book related starter packs!
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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I LOVE @overleaf.bsky.social's writing, both critical and creative. Now you can read it too! Her article is now out OA, exploring C19 poet Eliza Cook, the Slaugham Yew, and their C21 traces/resonances. doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... #19thcentury #poetry #ecopoetry #arborealhumanities #academia
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Awww, thanks for this 🥰
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Chuffed to be in vol.2 of @plantperspectives.bsky.social. Thanks to all at the journal & @rbgkew.bsky.social for including my weird little piece about working-class C19th poet Eliza Cook, trees, illness& intertemporal weirdness. Read it here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Statistically in Britain if you are a cis man and you rape someone you are overwhelmingly likely to get away with it, there is a vanishingly small likelihood that you will be convicted. That is a feminist issue. Trans women wanting to use women’s toilets or play women’s football: not so much.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
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Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 06/04/2025
Brexit cost me my job. Now Trump’s tariffs could take the next — and once again, it’s working people who pay the price
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Brexit and Trump – stealing jobs from working class Brits
Brexit cost me my job. Now Trump’s tariffs could take the next — and once again, it’s working people who pay the price
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Ted Lasso was great when the show’s thesis was that relentless positivity is a thin veneer over a desperate, near-nihilistic sadness, but that it may nonetheless still be the “best” available option in an otherwise heartless world.
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Well, *now* I want one…
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Look at this big handsome bastard. I nickname him ‘Creeper’. NB: this windowsill is much shadier than the picture makes it look. Also, am almost as excited about this plant as I would be about a new kitten.
A pot of devil’s ivy, growing quite precipitously.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'
Keir Starmer speaks in Washington: 'there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom'
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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Whenever I speak up about being working-class in the arts, or share my experiences, I always get some classplaining back. People who aren't working-class keen to tell me how I should feel or tell me they're middle-class but have 'struggled with money' in the past www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Who is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts?
Prominent figures in the arts say class is a key factor that determines who can make it in the creative industries
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept??? Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy Byron: I don’t get it Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is happening, right now. The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct. Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope. 🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
1825: Saw a large bunch of blue violets in flower & a root of the Bedlam cowslip
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Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was planning my Arvon Masterclass on pacing this afternoon. Got quite excited, as it isn't something I've taught exactly like this before. Still places available for Friday. Why don't you join us? www.arvon.org/writing-cour... @arvonfoundation.bsky.social
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Masterclass: Pacing Your Fiction | From breathless plotting to breathtaking details | Arvon
This Masterclass with Toby Litt, author of the daily Substack A Writer’s Diary, will be a practical, craft-based look at the best ways of keeping your reader alongside you – whether you intend to whir...
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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
'On the nights she struggled to breathe, she was forced to stay awake and hold the mask to her face in the dark. The NHS’s solution?...one assessor suggested her 14-yr-old daughter fill in as a child carer...being on call for the ventilator throughout the night.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I’m fascinated by the ‘shrinking’ quality of the stanza used by Robert Burns in which longer lines give way to shorter ones in a kind of funnel for the celebration of smallness. A nice example here by Norfolk dialect poet John Kett, on looking at the stars someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/wee-sleeket
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I was recently diagnosed with MS; a relapse has kept me from working. It’s made me ponder my profession’s overemphasis on ‘productivity’, & the lack of (self) compassion that attends it. Managed to read this morning for the first time in weeks- fitting that the book is about ‘generous relenting’.
A paragraph from the preface of Anne-Lise Francois’ book ‘Open Secrets’ about minimalism and ‘minor ownership’ A wooden desk with books, laptop, a chair with a sweater on it, by a sunlit window.
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Yeah I’m with you- &don’t think Star Trek needs to talk down to its viewers, which sexy action revamps often seem to do. My favourite episodes are full of talking in rooms abt ethical problems- cf ‘The Measure of a Man’. They’re already considering complex injustices more subtly- I prefer that way.
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I feel like Star Trek has had an increasing sense (since TNG) of questioning the motivations of Star Fleet & its limitations that reflects the writers’ sense of the US at the time. This could be a reflection of a (justifiably) pessimistic time, or just maybe a sexy Yeoh moneymaker…
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Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
collections often are criticised for “unevenness” but isn’t that also part of their charm? that the workings of a poet “becoming” are also on the page, next to poems that feel crystallised? don’t we love process and learning and error more than the language of product & perfection? or shouldn’t we?
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is spot on; there’s a difference between a collection that lacks intention or craft-graft & one that simply reflects the unevenness that characterises everything. Besides, irregularity is a kind of beauty- resistance to the notion of ‘perfection’ that tries to keep us running ourselves ragged.
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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I have a piece up for The Bookseller today, in which I consider how major publishers can create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat. www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...
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What big publishers can do for small presses
How can major publishers create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat?
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The Jack Reacher shoehorn is *chef’s kiss*
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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Massive away win for the little fella.
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Nice work if you can get it
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This looks completely amazing- I sadly can’t make it 😞 but such an important discussion
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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
I heard there was a secret mash That turned into a graveyard smash But you don't really care for monsters, do you?
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Slipping snatches of Prynne into the hands of commuters like some sort of poetry Mormon.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Saying ‘Happy National Poetry Day’ to strangers just to feel something
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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
"tits or ass"? bro, the undeniable passion she has for her special interests in the face of a world which tries to kill that spark
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Quote post with a picture in your phone that has your energy, not a selfie.
Picture of a tawny frogmouth, a grouchy looking bird with a big mouth
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Claire Cock-Starkey @nonfictioness.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Advance copies of my next book Lore of the Deep just arrived! It's full of myths, legends and Lore of the oceans with gorgeous illustrations by Stacey Rozich. Out in October so please preorder ❤ #kidlit
Front cover of Lore of the Deep
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Haha this sounds like past ME
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
I guess lovely past you did all that work in the first place, so she’s been helpful, really.
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Tea shack dude’s Kinky nudes
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
My most hipster claim is that I joined Bluesky (the first time) at the same time Steve Albini did. My least hipster claim is that I then left all social media; upon rejoining Bluesky, am member 6 million and something. Also, unrelated yet lame, I love gifs.
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Everyone:…. Elon: studying poetry is a waste of time! Elon: studying poetry’s just a crime! Everyone: ….
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
And of course the famous modernist poet, Marine Stewardship
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
on trespass John Clare, from Peterborough MS A61
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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
This is quite hard because I’ve recently become a huge musical magpie, but this covers some decent ground. 10 bands/musicians to know me: Ian Dury and the blockheads Jeffrey Lewis Fugazi Mulatu Astatke Julia Holter Hamish Hawk Betty Harris Karen Dalton John Cale Haruomi Hosono
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
It's autumn! Fall colors are not a passive response to cold, but the result of an active time in the life of a tree, in which complex behaviors withdraw nutrients from the leaves and store them in the stem and roots. Over the few weeks, we'll show the details of autumn biology. What are you seeing?
Early fall in a Bluegrass woodland pasture, with bright yellow goldenrod in front of large trees beginning to show shades of yellow and faded green. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
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