Imogen Forster
Poet and former translator, living in Edinburgh, publishing here and there.
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- Reposted by Imogen ForsterKarma is Coming ❗️
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterWatch lawless ICE thugs now start every paper with claim that they were an "escape risk"! Illiterate, Ignorant, untrained KKK/ProudBoy/3%er are NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT!! And have no business being on the street until they are taught legal procedures!! We The People teach!! apnews.com/article/immi...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterThis is really suspicious. They’re up to something. Link to thread: x.com/mattberg33/s...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterSatan enters the chat.
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterEn 2025 nuestro estudio creativo Birrus Design and Art cumplió 25 años y en este 2026 Vida Primitiva llega a la "mayoría de edad" cumpliendo 18 años. No podemos dejar de celebrar continuar dedicándonos a lo que nos apasiona y seguir en la brecha 🤗
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterBring on Spring 🍃✨what better way to start than with this bunch of eco sonnets from @whalebackcity.bsky.social @azjackson.bsky.social
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterWhy Some Messages Are More Convincing Than Others; UC San Diego research shows how marketers can choose specific words to boost confidence in a brand’s claim
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterI posted elsewhere about a lady in one of my Leeds Irish Health and Homes workshops who wrote 'I've had dementia / for as long as I can remember'. It came back to me reading @ravoon.bsky.social's tremendous debut 'Dirt Rich', full of technically brilliant, emotionally-devastating work like this:
- Reposted by Imogen Forsterbiggest scoop here is learning that some journalists were digging, because I don’t recall anyone reporting their findings at the time
- 🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
- Reposted by Imogen Forster#OtD 5 Feb 1982 negotiations between union and management began after the mostly female workforce of the Plessey capacitor plant in Bathgate, Scotland, began to #occupy the factory against its closure stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1051...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterPlease read RAVE's bio. Her sanctuary is closing down and she needs a home ASAP!! please help her. Repost Adoption application 👇 form.jotform.com/252536958908... Bio 👇 www.petfinder.com/dog/rave-8a0...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterName them shame them
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterThis Thursday we have a fine trio of poems by Lesley Mountain about not only the difficult matter of the trousseau, but also that of a fitting we were astonished to realise we hadn't noted earlier: the skirting board. (ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/l...) #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterChristians who are capitalists really blow my mind: It's like you follow a religion which says usury, gluttony and violence are sins. And you support a political ideology which is based on usury, gluttony and violence. What's all that about?
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterThe current submission window for 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, and 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 will close February 12th. ✍
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterThis is corruption. Bought influence.
- From @politico.com We get the politics the few pay for. #democracy - it would be a good idea
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterLabour’s action over PA should outrage people just as much as Mandelson’s betrayals. It was/is a ridiculous overreach that has seen nearly 3000 people arrested as well as a hunger strike by those accused in the primary case. All this heavy-handed control on people of UK in support a genocide in Gaza
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterI’m allowed to talk about this now, so: CTHULHU CYMRAEG: THE NIGHT COUNTRY will be out on Feb 16th! Five novelettes interpreting Lovecraftian themes from a Welsh point of view. Ebook pre-orders are up now, paperbacks to follow shortly. amzn.eu/d/09yEM2f5
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterYes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.
- Reposted by Imogen Forster#OtD 5 Feb 1885 King Leopold of Belgium declared his new colony the Congo Free State. What followed was one of the most horrific examples of European colonialism, with 8 to 10 million killed. More on colonialism in the Congo here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterMandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government. Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’ I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterPalantir just lost $40 billion in market cap. It just proves what we always knew - Palantir cannot survive in a peaceful world
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterExplore Hundreds of Exquisite #Botanical #Collages Created by an 18th-Century Septuagenarian #Artist from dyed & hand cut paper #MaryDelany #Plants #art Link for an interactive archive of Mary's amazing work, more photos & information: www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/02/mary...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterThere was an agreement that the year would start with all political leaders being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg. The Green Party were on Sunday. Watch back 👇🏼 m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMmD...
- Reposted by Imogen Forster🇵🇸⛴️ Global Sumud Flotilla - Global Movement to Gaza - The Second Mission Spring 2026 Help Us Launch the Next Global Sumud Flotilla Spring 2026 3000+ People 100+ Countries (Israelis included) 100+ Vessels Let’s do it 💪💪
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterCheck out this page: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...
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Ongoing post available in interpreting and translation studies! They're a really lovely team in a great school!- Job Alert‼️We are hiring in interpreting and translation @ctilsleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social Looking for an experienced colleague at grade 8. Deadline is 25th February. Join our fabulous team! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterSo when do the course closures, job losses and contract dilutions begin? Becaue there’s absolutely no way that this isn’t the plan. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- Reposted by Imogen Forster✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ I am THRILLED to share the cover for my debut novel, a horror about what happens to a Palestinian home after decades of occupation, and the lives of three Palestinian women who are connected to it. Coming September 22, 2026 - preorder here: linktr.ee/deenahelm
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterYes, this is Green Party data, and may not be accurate. However, it tells a truth about what decent thinking, humane, non-racist Labour voters need to do in Gorton and Denton at the end of the month. VOTE GREEN, KEEP REFORM OUT. It's all that matters. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterPels que no coneixieu aquest 'crak', ja havia dimitit dos (2) cops del govern britànic (1998, 2001) per casos de corrupció abans de que li donessen una cadira/paga a la Comissió Europea i després el titól de Lord i entrada VIP al món d'Epstein i cia.
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterExactly that, I just ran out of word space...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterSave Our Juries! Bravo to these brave people and to the humane citizens sitting on the panel!
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- Reposted by Imogen ForsterParadise exists, says Denis Donoghue, but only in fragments such as ‘excellent sausage, the smell of mint, and Ladro the night cat’. PS Yeats was not a symbolist.
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterIowa State University researchers dive into language that humanizes AI systems
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterIf the Greens win Gorton and Denton, it'd change politics forever. www.owenjones.news/p/a-green-vi...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterOf course he shouldn’t come. Worrying about inclusion and the Australian psyche should include how unacceptable his character is, given his connection to genocide and genocide incitement statements #auspol @australianlabor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterIt’s LGBTQ+ History Month and allow me to recommend my book that’s basically that
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- Reposted by Imogen ForsterI'll be talking queerness, art, class, love and Scottishness and all things Two Roberts at Charleston next week. You're very welcome. #booksky www.charleston.org.uk/event/an-eve...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterPals, I've just put out my latest small-batched home-brewed organic human-authored newsletter. It's got a nice old interview with Maggie O'Farrell, her first-ever about Hamnet. It's got news of events and other good things. Sign up for the next one here: www.damianbarr.com/subscribe
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterGlasgow stands with Cuba in Fidel's centenary year morningstaronline.co.uk/article/glas... #morningstaronline
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterIt seems even more unlikely that Wes Streeting will ever be Labour leader or PM now and I think that's worth taking a minute to appreciate
- Just leaving this here www.thenational.scot/news/2545164...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterNo10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today. Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterAnd many are happy to see one atrocity and ignore another.
- In my latest essay in LitHub, I wrote about the west's deliberate break from reality, from Gaza City to Minneapolis lithub.com/from-gaza-to...
- Reposted by Imogen ForsterAm I the only person holding back the reins on a full gallop of seething rage and contempt?
