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Ben North

@inkib

Palliative treatment for terminal brain tumour|20yrs UK publishing as copywriter, art director, CD|2018 Bridport Poetry Prize shortlist|IG:inkynorth

Joined March 2010
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Happy #bookbirthday 'William Blake: Visionary'! ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽˆOrganized by theme, it explores Blakeโ€™s imaginative world, and his astonishing creativity. #williamblake #ArtBook #bookstagram
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โ€œAs a home carer I have seen what cancer can do to people in their last weeks and days. The idea of being sedated for days on end, and my family seeing me like that, terrifies me." All @big_british wants is control over her own death. haslemereherald.com/article.โ€ฆ
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โ€œThe easiest deal in historyโ€ โ€“ at Adwick le Street, England
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@faisalislam3 Aug 2020
NEW: Govt writes to medicines industry to tell them to rebuild 6 week no trade deal Brexit stockpiles even while โ€œrecognising global supply chains under significant pressure, exacerbated by COVID-19โ€ amid concerns for cross channel disruption after transition period ends:
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Betoโ€™s early design for issue one (LOVE & ROCKETS SKETCHBOOK, #Fantagraphics, 1989). #GilbertHernandez #LoveandRocketsComic #LosBrosHernandez
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โ€œThe Southern oligarchy, which has so much power in Washington ... was created by my labor and my sweat, and the violation of my women and the murder of my children. This, in the land of the free and the home of the brave.โ€œ Happy birthday, James Baldwin teapaw.org/1KINDOFBLUE7/status/12โ€ฆ
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Having a bit of a funny turn
Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman) profile picturePhilip Pullman@PhilipPullman31 Jul 2020
I've just been reading @SusieSteiner1's Manon Bradshaw novels and I'm so impressed I want to tell everyone about them. Police procedural with real imagination and heart, and a marvellous lightness of style and wit.
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All rise for the national anthem. #YorkshireDay
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The Kynd@KyndThe30 Jul 2020
Getting started into Memory Songs by @jamesbpcook of @FlamingoesHQ - a band we loved and a writer we admire....
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85 today ๐Ÿงก
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Hey fellow writers in the #cancer community...@ElephantsTea is calling for #writing submissions! @fschmnn @MelissaMBlank @JNeurman @inkib โ€“ at Brookhaven, GA
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@beesandbombs30 Jul 2020
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We need your help. Bertrams wholesaler went into administration. We've lost money. If you can help by buying some books direct from our website, that would be grand. bluemoosebooks.com @thebookseller Thank you. Kevin, Hetha, Lin, Leonora, Annie, Flora.
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Poem from my collection Reckless Paper Birds, which a few days ago won this yearโ€™s Hawthornden prize for literature for overall UK book of the year. Until this Friday, the collection is available at a discount price in my publisher Pennedโ€™s summer sale. pennedinthemargins.co.uk/indโ€ฆ
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RIP Josephine Cox ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ“– So sad, what an incredible storyteller ๐ŸŒท
HarperFiction PR (@fictionpubteam) profile pictureHarperFiction PR@fictionpubteam20 Jul 2020
#JosephineCox was a legendary author! Along with her millions of readers, we will miss her hugely.
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Stop violence against Indigenous People.
NDN Collective (@ndncollective) profile pictureNDN Collective@ndncollective26 Jul 2020
โ€œAn unarmed Native man taking a step forward on our own land is not an act of violence or a threat. A police officer attacking with an animal and using excessive force is an act of violence.โ€ ndncollective.org/ndn-collecโ€ฆ

NDN Collective Responds to Brutal K9 Attack on Native Man in Rapid City - NDN COLLECTIVE

NDN Collective calls out excessive use of force by South Dakota Highway Patrol with K9 unit deployed on Native man and overall systemic violence against Indigenous people at the hands of law enforc...

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DARK EDEN by Chris Beckett, winner of the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award amzn.to/2J4Q7jC #sciencefiction #books #clarkeaward clarkeaward.com
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Farewell, Peter Green x x
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Children believe themselves to be fun buff.ly/32QkcMR
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๐Ÿ“ขON SALE MONDAY๐Ÿ“ข Weโ€™re delighted to announce our partnership with artist @Carlydraws to release four new art prints. Medusa, Icarus, Minotaur and Persephone will be available via our store from July 27th 2020. Each an edition of 35. Full sale info: posterspy.com/store/carly-a-โ€ฆ
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โ€œBLEEDING SUNโ€ for Chelsea Grin. Out now.
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