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	<description>Writer - Performer - Educator</description>
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		<title>Stop Acta!</title>
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		<title>Sofia and Johnson Must Stay!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sofia and Johnson Kalu are Manchester residents in danger of being deported to countries where they are at risk of persecution. Please sign this petition (below) to allow them to stay in their adopted Manchester community. Petition to Rt. Hon Theresa May Secretary of State for the Home Office to allow Sofia &#38; Johnson Kalu [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benmellor.net/sofia-and-johnson-must-stay/</link>
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		<title>Inc Magazine Launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I&#8217;m performing at this. Inc Magazine is a lovely lo-fi collection of poems and illustrations, fostering collaboration between the two art forms. The night will include various poeting, musicking and me attempting to flog the books and cds I will have forgotten to bring. Come!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benmellor.net/inc-magazine-launch/</link>
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		<title>Phrased &amp; Confused</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing this next week. Please come, it&#8217;ll be really good.]]></description>
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		<title>Exciting New Things!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently it&#8217;s bad form on blogs, newsletters etc to apologise for how long it is since you last sent out a missive to your adoring public, as this would imply that you were egotistical enough to assume you had any sort of public at all, let alone a public stupid enough to adore someone who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benmellor.net/exciting-new-things/</link>
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		<title>Fail?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so it&#8217;s the third day of April, and this is my second post. Technically, I have failed the &#8217;30 poems in 30 days&#8217; challenge. Although that challenge doesn&#8217;t specify one a day, just thirty in thirty days, so I could still catch up. Anyway, failing so early on kind of takes the pressure away, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benmellor.net/fail/</link>
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		<title>Entering the frame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just about slipping this one in before the day&#8217;s out because I need to have posted something on the first of this month, as I&#8217;ll be attempting to throw up something vaguely poetic every day for the whole of April. This is part of NaPoWriMo, an initiative which has so far attracted around 170 websites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Cut &amp; Paste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the housing co-op I live in, there is an internal email system for members to communicate with each other about domestic goings on, and sometimes people post things they think might interest others. Today someone posted a call-out from Greater Manchester Stop the War Coalition, and directly beneath it they had posted the summary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benmellor.net/quick-cut-paste/</link>
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		<title>Shameless Capitalist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, not quite, but after much faffing about with couriers, jiffy bags and a new set of kitchen scales that look misleadingly like an iPad, I have now officially set up shop. My book and CD are available in various combinations (book, CD, book &#038; CD) at my bandcamp page. I&#8217;m very happy with both, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benmellor.net/shameless-capitalist/</link>
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		<title>A Nasty Mash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m turning 30 on friday. I&#8217;m not best pleased about it. So I thought I&#8217;d throw a big party to detract attention from the fact. And raise some money for charidy at the same time so I don&#8217;t feel quite as vain. Or at least just as vain but slightly more useful. So, A Nasty [...]]]></description>
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