Feast when you can. Today's episode is about the feasts in the books I've been reading, and the famine happening in the real world right now, spotlighting a poem by Hanan Al-Kafarna. It's centred around a walk through Portland in 2022 in the footsteps of our song for 2012: 'Steal Smoked Fish.'
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2012-steal-smoked-fish
Hanan al-Kafarna on Instagram, where a fundraising campaign link will be shared soon: https://www.instagram.com/_hanan._.jalal_/
My poem 'John Clare Reaches the Pacific' on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/notrockyhorror.bsky.social/post/3lqafuiv4tc25 - and available to purchase in Nimrod magazine: https://nimrod.utulsa.edu/current-issue/
Links to Gaza aid organisations and fundraisers:
https://www.map.org.uk/?form=FUNFXHDCJPK
https://donate.wfp.org/1243/donation/regular
https://www.zakat.org/
https://chuffed.org/project/110294-please-donate-to-help-oday-halava
https://4gaza.bugx0r.nl/lifeline4gaza/
