Ian Tattum
@ITattum
Trainee poet, occasional essayist, book reviewer, independent scholar and wonderer 🦋🦩🦕 FZSL FLS
A kind friend has produced a third chapbook of my poems. I don’t write many about birds these days
🇺🇸 ICE agents confronted by staff at a surgical center during attempted arrest, with demands to show a warrant and verify credentials.
Where we live now is politically very conservative, bending towards reform. At the same time it is full of what many voters would see as ‘ woke’ projects, which make it such a great place to live. I am in a nature reserve overlooking a marine conservation area.
What a truly horrible post and a million miles away from true British values
Just landed in Heathrow Airport T3. Went into M&S. Three @marksandspencer staff speaking in another language. I asked them “What language are you speaking?” They responded “Hindi” I have a voice recording & their names to report to M&S. We must confront them every time.
The long shadow of Adolf Hitler: The Nazi demagogue still shapes our world. Can we ever move past him? 📌 newstatesman.com/culture/histor… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-age-o…
I see they have renamed "junior doctors" (which many of them are not) "resident doctors" (which many of them are not). In Ireland we call them NCHDs - non-consultant hospital doctors, which seems more accurate.
1. Delighted to announce an important new research publication from the Laudato Si Research Institute: "Indigenous Approaches to Nature: Insights at a Time of Planetary Crisis" lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/researchpaper05
Hi👋🥰I’m going to be climbing Cadair Idris in Wales to raise money for some amazing charities, @ReservaYLT @BenfieldValley @SussexWildlife and families in Gaza❤️ Please share🙏and if you’re able to sponsor me it would mean a lot to help these charities🥰 gofund.me/c800e091
Just 24 days to #DinoConUK 2025! Watch @DinoConUK for info and updates, and get info and tickets at... dinocon.co.uk
Dear @Channel4News, at some point could you ask ministers as to why, two decades ago, government cash was given to the dubious #pacetrial when, nearly two decades prior to that, government was given a lengthy questionnaire, filled out by patients, hinting at physiological causes?
Dr Alexis Gilbert has outlined what the Final Delivery Plan for ME/CFS *should* have looked like (on IG): instagram.com/p/DMa8sjPMzd2/
#poetrylovers #poetrycommunity
Some time ago, I had poems and audio on @iambapoet A slick platform. iambapoet.com/matthew-m-c-sm…
🧵 explaining why “Judeo-Christian” is a problematic phrase with a chequered history, used mainly as a dog whistle by Christian nationalists and right-wing and far-right politicians, hacks, influencers and media on both sides of the Atlantic, especially since 9/11. Some of the…
🧵 Many politicians on the populist nationalist, Libertarian, Conservative Christian, and extreme-/far-/radical-Right often use the phrase “Judeo-Christian” as a prefix to, or euphemism for, (Western) ‘values’ or ‘culture’. It's a dog whistle. Here's why. Buckle up...
Coming SOON @SaraswatiNagpal’s ‘Drench Me In Silver with Black Bough. #poetry #WritingCommunity #writing #poem #poet #readers #books
Breaking statement from the Office of President Obama: "Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit…
Sharing on @TopTweetTuesday Sarah Connor’s tribute page. ♥️ @sacosw blackboughpoetry.com/sarah-connor-a…
Some of my new poems and some old. Kindly posted by @PaulDragonwolf1
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