Pinned
I've spent the last three years researching my PhD on Thomas Bewick's 'A History of British Birds' so every day is #NationalBirdDay for me. Here's one of my favourite locals, the magpie. Collective nouns: a gulp, a tittering or a mischief.
Dr Jo Clement
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Dr Jo Clement
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- Just noticed that this peace mural spray painted by young Palestinian refugees from Beirut has been removed from Tynemouth Metro Station. It has been here over a decade.
- Here is David @Baddiel's racism against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people. Blackface is abhorrent. This too. Racism is complex. To fight it, please don't ignore GRT experiences in your discussions. We are legally recognised ethnic groups made up of POC and white folk alike.
00:00 - My poem 'Paisley' spotted on the Northern line! As the least London lass you're ever to meet, it is proper cool to imagine my poem greeting so many folks along the tube lines.
- Still can't quite believe I'm writing this. I've signed with @BloodaxeBooks for my first book-length collection of poems. Due 2022.
- My dad passed away at home yesterday evening, following a sudden cancer diagnosis. We love him dearly and held his hand until the end. As per his wishes, a funeral won't take place and a tree will be planted in his memory. This is a poem I wrote for him, when I had more words.
- Reading anonymously helps me discover emerging poets, too. Equal access means trusting the poems to show you the way, not 'sifting' lists (industry term) for big names or publication/prize histories. Every poem is a new opportunity. We can only read one word at a time.
- I am proper proud of everything Butcher's Dog poetry magazine stands for. The forthcoming twentieth issue was the hardest-won labour of love yet. I promise you, it is belting!Are you dancing? Here's our issue 20 cover art by Newcastle-based illustrator Benji Spence. The series captures Gillie Kleiman’s ‘Fat Dance Sessions' at the brilliant @dancecity. Come join our online launch on the 20th June. butchersdogmagazine.co.uk/product-page/b…
- Come and write with me! Following my fixed-term Leverhulme contract, I’m now a permanent Lecturer in Creative Writing @NorthumbriaUni. It's an exciting time to join a Top-25 research-intensive university and such a lovely departmental family to settle into. The kettle's on.
- Two years ago (today, no less) the launch for my debut poetry pamphlet Moveable Type @WaterstonesNewc was cancelled due to the pandemic. This morning I signed off the final proofs for my first full collection, Outlandish. Coming May 26th from @BloodaxeBooks.
- Leaving this here. It was International Romani Day on Monday. As a Gypsy Managing Editor, it was insulting and saddening to have the monetary decision-making of the non-profit press that I've put so much free labour and heartwork into questioned and called a 'money spinner'.
- It is barely a week since Holocaust Memorial Day and @netflix are giving a platform to Jimmy Carr's j̶o̶k̶e̶ racism. Too much to say. Instead, here's a poem I wrote about Dani Karavan's theatened Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism.
- I held zero hopes that the publishing industry would ever recognise a working class Northern GRT poet like me. @BloodaxeBooks did. We launch my first collection online, May 31st. Pre-orders (signed) go in the post this weekend. Get yours here: joclement.co.uk/product-page/o…
00:00 - Is it really a whole pandemic year since the call for Roma womxn poets went live? Teary (and a bit bleary) of eye, I present the manuscript for Wagtail, @ButchersDogMag's first poetry anthology. Now flown to our printers, with enormous thanks to support from @ERIAC_official.
