These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published Poetry and Covid December 2020

#ExperimentalPoetry #poem #poetry #PoetryCollection #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Australia #UnitedStates #coronavirus #COVID19 #pandemic #DonaldJTrump #ScottMorrison #GladysBerejiklian #IndexCase #MileyCyrus #WreckingBall #Fomite #SeedingEvent #SerologicalSurvey #ZoomMullet #proning #TedrosAdhanomGhebreyesus #coronalusional #GenomicSequencing #UggBootFoot #flatline #ContagionChivalry #DeathPanel #Locktail #tears

This! January 2026

"In the shadow of the federal occupation of Minneapolis and a year of catastrophic expansion of the carceral state, Beatrice speaks with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about their concept of “the anti-state state,” the process of the state’s transition from supporting social welfare to policing its provision, and why abolition is the only way."

Preview only (so far): https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/teaser-the-anti-state-state-w-ruth-wilson-gilmore-and-craig-gilmore-012626

An essential analysis in this time.

#AbolishIce #AntiStateState #RuthWilsonGilmore #DeathPanel

The most excellent end of year #DeathPanel episode, Health Fascism and the Anti-State State, is now no longer paywalled and fully transcribed.

https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/health-fascism-and-the-anti-state

#DisabilityJustice #Fascism

Love the essay format of this the latest #DeathPanel podcast. Let's hope it get released soon without a paywall. Here's a teaser for now:

https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/teaser-health-fascism-and-the-anti-state-state-122225

#HealthFascism #AntiStateState

This ought to be good (i say good but mean, upsetting yet confirming):

"We present our 2025 year in review, a year where normalization slipped into naturalization, as a cadre of villains who rose to prominence on the back of covid denial took the reins of the federal government to play out their revenge fantasies."

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-year-six-145947049

(This might be a teaser stub. Edit: Yes it is)

#DeathPanel #Podcast #PandemicIsNotOver #COVID19

Say their names

#covid #vaccines #deathpanel

https://www.noozhawk.com/michael-dougherty-of-santa-barbara-1940-2025/

Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls this UK policy "organised abandonment."

One of the many ways neoliberalism is the way to fascism.

https://mastodon.online/@Geri/114810432922104458

Here a podcast with Wilson Gilmore: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organized-abandonment-with-ruth-wilson-gilmore

#OrganisedAbandonment #EducationalNeeds #neoliberalism #RuthWilsonGilmore #DeathPanel #podcast #UKpol #fascism #ABetterWorldIsPossible