Author: penwithlit
Freelance writer and radio presenter

Hey all! I’m speaking about a relationship model that is most common associated with heterosexual couples. BUT BUT BUT here’s the real truth… It’s a relationship model for any kind of relationship when there is an imbalance of power. And Hollywood can claim that it wants strong women all it wants EXCEPT it released that […]
An Old Relationship Model is awful with Spoilers
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George Seferis – Collected Poems

II PsychologyThis gentlemanhas his bath every morningin the waters of the Dead Seathen he wears a bitter smilefor the business and the customers. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096TTS37J
George Seferis – Collected Poems
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Sketching in East London
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Cornish Crime Classic

Born in Detroit, Philip Levine taught American poetry to listen to labor. His plainspoken English carried factories, fatigue, and moral clarity into verse, proving working-class speech could bear philosophy, anger, and dignity. Poetry learned to speak without ornament, for lives previously unheard, and the language never narrowed again afterward ever.
Philip Levine (1928–2015) – The Poet Who Gave Working-Class English Its Permanent Voice
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The lyricism of colour:Gauguin
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Trauma meets Shame and Sexuality

Hello! I’ve started to study Alison Armstrong to better understand how men operate. A thing that she talks about is the idea of ethics – people struggle with them when they have them. People without them don’t give a shit. This is also true about things like shame. And since a lot of my trauma […]
Trauma meets Shame and Sexuality