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majestativa · 6 months
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What does exile taste like, my darling, what is it to know loneliness?
— Farzaneh Khojandi, My Voice: A Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre, transl. by Jo Shapcott & Narguess Farzad, (2014)
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amoonshapedpool · 1 year
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waxenheart · 1 year
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I love it, like this, when I lose touch / with whose the voice is, whose the fingers / on the bow, the pen, whose mouth / the noise belongs to in the end.
Jo Shapcott, Shapcott’s Variation on Schoenberg’s Orchestration of Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E♭ major, “St Anne”
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slowdesire · 9 months
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i saw a good poem about killing a scorpion but my dashboard refreshed against my will before i could like it or save it ... if u reblogged it please do let me know omg
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doryprevins · 1 year
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that poem has stayed my hand against a scorpion FIVE times already. and i read it yesterday night. i guess i have become a scorpion pacifist 🙄
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typenull · 7 months
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Dungeon Meshi: Laios's transformation // The Goat from Jo Shapcott's Phrase book
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cemeterything · 8 months
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I think you might enjoy the poem "Scorpion" by Jo Shapcott
i've read it and i do very much
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sdktrs12 · 9 months
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–Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability | for @cagefreeromanroy
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"A lot of things jostle in my notebook, things that I have overheard, or heard about. In all the jostling are ideas that can link, form a new kind of emotional truth, a different kind of truth than just simply the facts."
Jo Shapcott
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majestativa · 6 months
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And now, […] carrier of loneliness, what does separation taste like?
— Farzaneh Khojandi, My Voice: A Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre, transl. by Jo Shapcott & Narguess Farzad, (2014)
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greenknitsweater · 9 months
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i would like to thank that jo shapcott poem about the scorpion for giving me the strength to capture & rescue a wolf spider from my house yesterday instead of vacuuming it up in fear. and if it took a full half hour to do this…well that’s really none of your business
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blorb0 · 1 month
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do y'all know about six bee poems by jo shapcott? one of my favorite poems? grief embodied through the hive mind? tw body horrorish?
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waxenheart · 2 years
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Too many of the best cells in my body / are itching, feeling jagged, turning raw / in this spring chill.
Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability
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anthonywilson · 2 months
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Carole Satyamurti's eyes
I pinched myself to be there. God knows how I got invited. I can’t remember. Perhaps I invited myself. Poets were there, people I had actually heard of and read and who all seemed to know each other. Jo Shapcott. Maura Dooley. Sarah Maguire. Jonathan Davidson. Phil Bowen. I had the books to prove it. I had published one book and knew nothing. To the Poetry Society, the holy of holies, an…
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slowdesire · 9 months
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THANK U SO MUCH my life is saved
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bbluejoseph · 10 months
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hey whats that quote in ur blog title? the i kill it bc it will not speak 2 me :3
it's from of mutability by jo shapcott! that one line just really stood out to me i guess lol
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