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Earlyworks Press Poetry Competition 2020 RESULTS
Judge’s Report by Mandy Pannett (The poems were judged anonymously but we’ve added names here, and a selection of the short listed poems below) Congratulations to all the entrants for managing, in this terrible year, to write such well-crafted, strong poems. I feel the standard has been exceptionally high and I found it difficult to…
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Beauty is still dying
When I read Sheri S Tepper’s ‘Beauty’ back in the early ‘90s, I thought she had done me an injury. I enjoyed it, but the Ending (not the ending of the book, The Ending) was just too dark. Not fair. I just read it again, here in 2020 and, when I got to the bit…
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In the Absence of Hard Evidence
In the absence of hard evidence of a divine engineer in the sky, I’d say the patterns in your mind are who you are. This is my thought for the day because it became necessary to clean and decorate the back room, and to do that, it was necessary to move two wallfuls of books,…
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Who puts the skill in key jobs?
Unskilled jobs are a myth created by capitalism to justify poverty wages
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Liz Truss has been listening to women
Well done, Liz Truss, for implementing some of the vital elements of the 2019 Labour Manifesto. If today’s leaked document is correct, Truss is proposing to maintain women’s protected spaces under existing sex-based rights; retain the current basis on which individuals can affirm changes in legal gender, and make so-called ‘gay conversion therapy’ illegal. Now,…
Kay Green 