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Rebecca Tamás

@rebeccatamas.bsky.social
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🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins. (makinabooks.com/product/strangers)

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Re-Wilding and Re-Childing Time: Contributing editor Tallulah Brennan talks to @rebeccatamas.bsky.social about wild time, children as animists, what kinds of seasons we deserve, and England as Stonehenge www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/07/re-w... Author photo: Robin Silas Christian
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Happy publication day to brilliant @rebeccatamas.bsky.social, who you should read everything by. The Book of Mysteries is published by @pushkinpress.com. pushkinpress.com/book/the-boo...
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I’m starting a substack! Small Forest will talk about nature, folklore, literature, life & writing. The intro post is below - please join me! open.substack.com/pub/rebeccat...
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An Introduction to Small Forest
Sit down under the canopy and rest a while.
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I bought @rebeccatamas.bsky.social’s Strangers: Essays on the Human and Non-Human for many people. Such a singular, interesting writer. Her excellent new book, The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and the Ritual Year is out next month with @pushkinpress.com and explores time, landscape, work, ritual.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Incredible article from Amia Srinivasan- The Impossible Patient www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Everyone in this government is going to hell. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Starmer facing fresh challenge as Labour MPs condemn asylum plans
Significant divisions exposed within party as angry backbenchers vow to force changes to hardline proposals
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
What a beautiful day to be Hungarian 🥲🇭🇺
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
🌚🌞🌗🌿 4 years of work, writing, research & collaboration; a lifetime of thinking. ‘The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and The Ritual Year’ final edits went off to @pushkinpress.com on Friday - feels like a birth and a death all at the same time! Which, honestly, is very apt.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Happy birthday dear Adorno. Of course you were a Virgo.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
'Our politicians like to say that climate is a complex problem and difficult to solve, but this is false. It is, in fact, extremely easy.' Brilliantly clear eyed & important article from @jasonhickel.bsky.social on how we can fix the climate crisis right now. 🌎 tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/can-...
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Can Socialism Solve the Climate Crisis?
Governments globally are failing to combat climate change because they prioritise profit over the planet — for real change, the capitalist mode of production must be overhauled.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
One day I'll finally write my essay about poets' love for, and obsession with, Houdini.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I suppose it should be some weak comfort that with each ill advised, morally bankrupt lurch to the right, Labour dooms itself more thoroughly.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 28/08/2025
Another horror story of a Palestinian student with a full scholarship at Glasgow Uni trapped in Gaza because of Home Office Bureaucracy. He has two weeks until his course starts.
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
🚨 Haia Mohammed on @bbclondon.bsky.social nNews yesterday from Gⓐza on hoping to take up her Goldsmiths scholarship in September & the biometric visa block. 🚨 Please amplify & write your MP to encourage the govt to see sense. Letter template: bit.ly/44SLnX9
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Very glad to finally be able to talk about my upcoming creative nonfiction book on seasonal ritual, wild time and our connection with the natural world; to be published w/the wholly brilliant @pushkinpress.com next year! Details in the @thebookseller.com - www.thebookseller.com/rights/one-t...
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ONE to publish poet Rebecca Tamás' first full-length work of non-fiction
ONE, an imprint of Pushkin Press, is set to publish poet Rebecca Tamás' first full-length work of non-fiction.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Was glad to review new poetry collections from Frederick Seidel; Nina Mingya Powles; Jay Wright, David Morley & Rachael Boast (ed) in today's Saturday @theguardian.com ! Some really beautiful & urgent work to explore 🍃 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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The best recent poetry – review roundup
Passion by David Morley; Versus Versus edited by Rachael Boast; So What by Frederick Seidel; In the Hollow of the Wave by Nina Mingya Powles; Transfigurations by Jay Wright
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Literally wrote to my friend yesterday 'why isn't Fanny Howe published in this accursed country,' and now I find out she's dead. The og, the blueprint, the oracle. The hugest loss to poetry and art and life. griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/i-wont-...
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[I won’t be able to write from the grave] - Griffin Poetry Prize
I won’t be able to write from the grave so let me tell you what I love: oil, vinegar, salt, lettuce, brown bread, butter, cheese and wine, a windy day, a fireplace, the children nearby, poems and song...
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The left is/can be fun, sexy, beloved, joyful. Try and watch this without beaming - he makes his constituents so happy! British left - this can be us baby. The only way is up. 🌞
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Really excited to teach this online Advanced Poetry course for Faber Academy with Daljit Nagra this Autumn! It begins Sept 29th, and I truly think it will be a unique space for poetic development. I can’t wait to meet the students. ✨✨✨ Details are here - faberacademy.com/product/adva...
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Advanced Poetry – 29 September 2025 | Faber Academy
If you’re a committed aspiring poet hoping to take your writing to the next level, join Daljit Nagra and Rebecca Tamás for this six-month course at the home of British poetry.
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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
PREORDER (31.08.2025): Lucy Hurst’s Gut Feeling is a fiercely intelligent and formally dynamic collection that interrogates illness, vulnerability, and survival through a visceral, unflinching poetics. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
A vintage anatomical illustration of a human torso features the ribcage, lungs, liver, stomach, and coiled intestines, each organ numbered in a scientific style. The image is set against a muted beige background, with the title and author’s name in red and mauve text at the top left.HIGH RISK / HIGH REWARD  


I leave my phone at home 
for the first time in a month 
& let my emails go unread 
pretending I haven’t noticed 
them yet

a gust warps the shape 
of my breathing  
casting it into an endless flow 
I negotiate my way through flesh—  
the tree’s contorting spine 

by the lake 
insatiable ripples suckled 
by spider 	by fly 
guttural bacteria bubbling up 
as reactionary to this world
 
crashing inside & out 
my body-mind cracking open like an egg 
spewing into a body-on-body continuity 
I pour out the anxiety in my head 
into the fresh air 

latest tinder bio: ‘high risk, high reward’ 
‘risk’ now given second meaning 
once 	of my perceived perils 
of dating as a sick person 
& twice 	being truly high-risk 
I correct the degrading comments  
that seep into my line of thinking 
standing under the bathroom light 
no longer as corrosive 
but softer 	softer 
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Really looking forward to this magical @edbookfest.bsky.social event on the 21st of August! We'll discuss the @silver-press.bsky.social reissue of 'Spells' as well as the occult potential of poetic language to change the world around us. 🔮✨ Tickets here - www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
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Fiona Benson, Sarah Shin & Rebecca Tamás: Casting Spells
From Thu 21 Aug - Poetry can be bewitching: the words on the page enchant your mind and rearrange the way you think. Join the writers today as they explore poetry's magical grip on all of us…
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Honoured to see ‘Strangers’ included in this hydrofeminist round up for @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 🌊🌊🌊🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 lithub.com/hot-moist-hy...
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Hot, Moist, Hydrofeminist: Seven Sapphic Books with Themes of Water and Fludity
When it comes to the Sapphic body in fiction and hydrofeminist texts, there’s one undeniable, recurring quality: it’s wet. This fluidity of the Sapphic body means it can shift between many physical…
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Ghazal Mosadeq of @pamenarpress has translated Parnia's "The Extinguished Star" pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
If you’ll be at Ledbury Poetry Festival this month, it’d be great to see you at this event! I’ll be discussing ‘Weird England’ on the 28th with brilliant poet Zaffar Kunial and brilliant folklorist and writer Lally MacBeth. 🌝🌿🌝🌿 Tickets here: ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on/
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Wrote this for @grantamag.bsky.social in 2019. Yet the last few weeks alone it's already been 3 book events/literary festivals (some big names in there) who I've had to chase to put the accent on my name. Small scale but frustrating effort. I wonder if it'll ever change? granta.com/the-power-of...
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The Power of a Name
‘When English is the dominant everything, you can’t help wanting to fight for the little speck of the rest of your self.’
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The crew of the Madleen have been abducted by Israel, a ship under a British flag. They are all in danger, and the British government has a responsibility to them. You can email the foreign office to record your concerns at fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Stunning to imagine a life in which the first time you experience gender-based oppression is when you're old enough to get pregnant! What magical realm was she living in until this point exactly?
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
If you've been lucky enough to hear a nightingale in the wild, you know you'll never forget it. Keir Starmer should go down to Lodge Hill, and listen, and be changed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘All the birdsong in the world in one sound’: England’s nightingale haven at risk from planning bill
Conservationists warn that losing Lodge Hill in Kent to housing could be a catastrophe for one of Britain’s most at-risk birds
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Recently finished @biidaasamose.bsky.social’s stunning work of environmental enquiry, thought & philosophy ‘Theory of Water.’ It considers Nishnaabe indigenous approaches to the land, to colonial capitalism & to interconnected, radical being. So many ‘eco-books’ disappoint, but not this one! 🌊🌊
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Fascinating essay by Elaine Khan on poetry, shame & parenthood. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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On Shame: In the Realm of Death and Awe
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I remember having a conversation with a friend about what the best art is 'about' and she said 'the human condition - what it means to be human.' I found that really helpful... I'm interested in everything that ISN'T human. @rebeccatamas.bsky.social www.ambientreceiver.org/rebecca-tamas
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. Ambient Receiver | Journal of Creative Ecologies
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English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
We join 20 orgs in a letter to PM Keir Starmer to urgently raise concerns about the ongoing detention of British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, as well as the rapidly deteriorating health of his mother, Laila Soueif. #FreeAlaa Read the letter ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
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Urgent appeal for Alaa Abd el-Fattah and Laila Soueif - News & Events - English PEN
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
'In opposition, Labour committed to a Scottish-style right to roam ... However, the party U-turned after pressure from countryside groups.' When will Labour recognise that they are at huge risk from the Greens, if they keep treating nature like an afterthought?! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Labour MPs press for right to roam policy in England after supreme court ruling
Backbencher says ‘it’s time to resolve the issues of access to the English countryside once and for all’
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
It would be SO easy for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to help nature in the UK in this small way, but they choose not to. Each morning I watch the sky fill with swifts, and wonder how much longer I have to get a glimpse into their world. Infuriating and wrong. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
'The problem of Orbánism does not stop at the borders of the country ... it is a matter for the whole of Europe.' If we accept Orbán's destruction of the final vestiges of free press in Hungary, then we accept a slide towards totalitarianism across the whole continent. 444.hu/2025/05/22/v...
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Viktor Orbán’s crackdown on free press does not only affect Hungary. It affects all of Europe
The so-called “Transparency Law”, currently pending approval, significantly undermines freedom of expression in Hungary — and its impacts are unlikely stop at the country’s borders.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Thank you to the brilliant Moya Lothian-McLean for fully recognising the destruction of public space taking place in Brockwell park. The NIMBY accusations are a deliberate distraction from the transfer of public good to private profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Those who object to music events shutting off parks are branded nimbys. But this time, I’m on their side | Moya Lothian-McLean
A high court dispute over a south London park shows the limits of private interests encroaching on public space, says writer Moya Lothian-McLean
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Alice Notley got it. She GOT it.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Alice, Alice, Alice. A seer, a true poet, a poet’s poet, an inspiration, a light.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Very much enjoyed speaking to Ambient Receiver for this interview, where we discussed, poetry, ecology, and the radical difference of the nonhuman! 🍃🔥🐍 www.ambientreceiver.org/rebecca-tamas
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. Ambient Receiver | Journal of Creative Ecologies
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
How is it possible that I, a non-politician with no special expertise, can see the future of the current Labour government so clearly - but they can’t?!
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Absolutely MINDBLOWING win for people power, nature & community!!! 🔥🔥🔥 This absolutely isn't the end of the fight, but I'm so proud of this incredible team and what they've achieved. We don't have sit there & take the privatisation of public space - we can push back! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Campaigner wins legal challenge over use of Brockwell Park
Rebekah Shaman took on Lambeth Council over the use of parts of Brockwell Park for music events.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Beautiful to see resistance to the privatisation of public space in Brockwell Park spreading! 🔥
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Beautiful to see resistance to the privatisation of public space in Brockwell Park spreading! 🔥
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Exciting poetry collections being published in the UK in July/August?! 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Ok so this is what I can't get my head around. You never, ever beat the right by 'out-righting' them, it isn't possible. So why the FUCK do labour think it's going to be different for them somehow???
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May Day, happy Beltane, happy International Workers Day! Liberation for all, with hoof, and wing, and claw and foot! 🍃🍃🍃
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Would love to read your poems for 2025’s @oxfordpoetry.bsky.social prize! Looking forward to it.
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A surprisingly strong, compelling article here from The Times on the current Save Brockwell Park campaign! I really hope that the tide is turning, & that people are realising that the environment, and public spaces for all, mean more than profit! 🍃🍃 www.thetimes.com/article/fef4...
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Oscar winner’s fight over festivals that turn park into ‘prison camp’
Campaigners including Sir Mark Rylance are taking on the Labour council over the ecological damage they say is done to Brockwell Park in Lambeth
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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Looking forward to celebrating this deeply special rebirth of 'Spells' with the Sarah Shin, @silver-press.bsky.social, & some wonderful poets & artists. Join us in the Barbican conservatory to share the magic. 🍃
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