John White
🇺🇦 Poet, nature lover, County Derry native living in Oxfordshire.
Magma Poetry Prize 2024, Commended.
iOTA Shot Awards Winner 2023 for Attachments (Templar, June 2024): templarpoetry.com/collections/templar…
- Reposted by John WhiteA video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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- Anyone waiting for a 'Love Actually moment' on the UK / US relationship will wait in vain. Starmer really is truly awful. Blair without the charisma. He's got to go.
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- @atriumpoetry.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/atri... Very pleased and thankful to be published by Atrium today, such a nice early Christmas present.
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- Reposted by John WhiteToday's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Hilarious ...
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- Reposted by John White🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch. 📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
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- Reposted by John WhiteThis week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Some really good stuff in the latest edition of Acumen (112), including this one from my old colleague from Oxford Stanza 2 and Poetryworthhearing - Kathleen McPhilemy.
- I'm grateful that @atriumpoetry.bsky.social have accepted one of my poems, due to be published in December. I always enjoy reading Atrium poems as they appear through the year. Thanks for big the support to poetry offered by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social
- www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... Every so often Carol Rumen, for her weekly Guardian column, comes up with a poem that blows my mind. She's done it again this week ...
- My copy of Issue 35 of Under the Radar just popped through my letterbox, and there it is, in print, to lift the spirit. And among such good company!
- Really pleased to get one of my own pieces into this edition, a poem about the day my mother died. Many thanks to the team at Under the Radar.
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- I have just listened to a Marvel Comic cut-out, Pete Hegseth, declare that no other country on Planet Earth could have conducted that military operation yesterday. What other planet might he have in mind? I think we should be told.
- I've just discovered the joys of the Merlin app (birdsong identifier) ... that's my Saturday morning taken care of! The sky here is filled with magpies, rooks and red kites, but there's all these other little creatures chirping away all around us, a right parliament of them.
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- www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... ... an interesting article, this. Though he doesn't mention it, I can't help thinking it's author must also have read Les Murray's great poem, 'The Quality of Sprawl'.
- podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... This is a great listen - the author of 'Being a Beast' (Charles Foster) turning his attention to human society, and how/when we got it wrong. The answer: a very long time ago!
- Am I alone in finding it nrar-impossible to concentrate on poetry, with the growing threat of WW3 bulldozing on? We're in late 1930s territory now. How do we respond, and stay relevant?
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- Digging through some of my former scribblings last night, I found a completed attempt at an old Welsh verse form with the most prescriptive / insane syllable count: each stanza went 1-3-9-5-7. It also rhymed, of course: aabbx. Does anyone know what the form is called, or was I just a little mad?
- Reposted by John WhitePresident Macron humiliated Donald Trump on live television. He shut him up and fact checked him mid sentence. Trump sat there and smiled. #StandWithUkraine
- www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48459/... Things are marching again - a timely poem, this ...
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- www.theguardian.com/environment/... I may be unworldly but I find this article shocking.
