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Claire Spiers

@okshapeshifter

Artist & Writer — One sentence at a time. To continue a project, which remains untitled but for the moment Fire-Works.

 Edinburgh, Scotland
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Joined September 2011
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@Chabad2 Oct 2016
Rosh Hashanah Is on the Wrong Day! The past of your life starts now: chabad.org/holidays/JewishNe…
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autoflâneur@autoflaneur11 Jul 2016
Close your eyes for the count of sixteen. Identify the loudest sound. Now wheel towards it.
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Joan Crawford dramatically reading Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Dirge Without Music.” bit.ly/13cxuQK
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@dezeen1 Feb 2016
This stack of mirrored boxes spins to reflect Iran's desert landscape: dezeen.com/2016/02/01/babel-…
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If you haven't cried yet, read Tilda Swinton's speech opening the V&A Bowie exhibit in 2013: spin.com/2013/03/david-bowie…
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Philip Hoare@philipwhale11 Nov 2015
wild orca by Andrew Sutton; how can there be any other kind? theguardian.com/commentisfre… @WHALES_org @SotonEnglish
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Good morning, Frida teapaw.org/rabihalameddine/status…
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...maybe we can help your search too - Here's our programme with @Elif_Safak on 40 Rules: bbc.in/1UiN8yq teapaw.org/zaeemsays/status/63485…
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@goodreads1 Aug 2015
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." goodreads.com/quotes_of_the_… #quoteoftheday
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Wonderful and moving show @okshapeshifter 'Jesus queen of heaven' today. Last show tmrw, go see it if u can @MadeinScotShows
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@i_D4 Jul 2015
Jamie XX scored a ballet and it is phenomenal: bit.ly/1IXdPTj
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The video for @ZebraKatz & #Leila’s #NinaSimone is raw AF. bit.ly/1QGwkiT
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"You know yr in the right place when a deity intros the launch" Bless Eddie! @ThePlaceLondon @Summerhallery @edfringe
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LeithLate@leithlate29 Apr 2015
New @Edinburgh_CC vision for #Leith envisages #arts and #culture taking centre stage: m.scotsman.com/news/new-plan… -includes @LeithCreative data.
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Poetry in the age of the web - An online exhibition dazeddigital.com/artsandcult…
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@VICE24 Mar 2015
People’s reactions to seeing the ocean for the first time bit.ly/1LOp5se
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“The poem inside is perfect; I have a very clumsy retrieval process for getting it out.” —Carolyn Kizer bit.ly/1xbnXmd
Carolyn Kizer, The Art of Poetry No. 81

Carolyn Kizer, The Art of Poetry No. 81

On feminism: “It's a point of view; it's a stance; it's an attitude towards life that affects, and afflicts, everything I do.”

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@RuPaul14 Jul 2013
My old reaction would've been to retreat under a purple haze surrounded by a cloud of smoke, but today I just breathe deeply
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@monaeltahawy1 Apr 2013
Poverty - Pablo Neruda - Ah you don’t want to, you’re scared of poverty, you don’t want to go to the market... tmblr.co/ZQ9FVthdntvq
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Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death by Otto Dov Kulka – review bit.ly/YrUeZP #books
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