New book by Robert Kelly! Metalogues, from Station Hill Press. 💙
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Des Barry author Chivalry of Crime, A Bloody Good Friday, Cressida's Bed @JonathanCape; Far South @serpentstail. Shorter prose New Yorker, Granta, 3ammagazine. Butoh Performer. Film/poetry links vimeo.com/farsouthproject https://overlapping.vercel.app/home
Nice cash writing prizes are always a good thing! But opening submissions for a nice cash writing prize on 5th August and closing on 11 September? Why. WHY.
Vicky Grut@vickygrut.bsky.social · 9h agoBrunel university is co-sponsoring the Nero New Writers Prize. Open to writers not previously published by an established book publisher or magazine, deadline: Fri, 11 September: nerobookawards.com/new-writers-...
In Cardiff now, at statue of a great Welshman and a political hero.
First light. How beautiful the carolling of the magpie's syrinx
ICYMI I wrote about this collection of eerie short stories translated from the German by @tesslewis.bsky.social That strange face in the mirror: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig roughghosts.com/2026/08/01/t...
That strange face in the mirror: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig
The stamps on the envelope were still moist. I noticed they were foreign. As I got to the window I realized that I was, in fact, in another country, somewhere unfamiliar. I didn’t know where. To co…
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Reading Jeff Wood's Twin Peaks: The Return Minute 8 in the Time Codes Series from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social. Deep insight into the heart of David Lynch's magnum opus and America's glitching Dream and nightmares: erudite richly poetic prose. So much work has gone into this. Honestly stunned.
"What each review has in common with the others is that it reads like the report of a surveyor who can’t find the front door, and so (for his supper) surveys the facade." A response to some baffling reviews of The Coast of Everything. Share if you care. www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-litera...
Good morning it's possum day... feel like a possum in every way... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvee...
Like a Possum
YouTube video by Lou Reed - Topic
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Juxtaposition. Coincidence? I can well imagine Carole Maso designing this cover herself.
I mean... if you want like... the fullest on experience of The Odyssey... like... is it better on IMAX or 70mm or your local multiplex... I think it's like... just the best is to relax with this and allow your fullest on imagination to bring to life your very own hallucinatory mind movie...
Phillip Jeffries' cousin is very agitated this morning. @valarie.bsky.social @markfrost.bsky.social @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social
DNA and Archeological Research Reveal the Overlooked History of Japan’s Women Warriors By Sage Helene mymodernmet.com/japan-women-... Books about Japanese fiction at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #books #literature #history
Last night at a rare screening by the Artists Film Workshop of experimental filmmakers Corinne and Arthur Cantrill's AT ULURU (1977). Shot and screened on 16mm film stock, it's a strong visual evocation of Uluru's power.
When it comes to predicting the future, why are TV writers better than politicians? | Zoe Williams www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When it comes to predicting the future, why are TV writers better than politicians? | Zoe Williams
From BBC drama The Rapture on the climate crisis to Apple’s Criminal Record on the rise of the far right, culture often sees what politics fails to, writes Zoe Williams
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I'm going to use this as an excuse to re-up my own little Medieval-ish Welsh-ish Odyssey-ish story www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, A Whole Giant's Daughter Quest Thing by Jo Lloyd
An original short work for radio by Jo Lloyd. Read by Alexander Vlahos.
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones@rhyskamjones.bsky.social · last wk.Intro card to Nolan's Odyssey: "In an age of apparent magic" Intro card to the ideal medieval Welsh/Irish adaptation: "Look, this is going to get really weird, deal with it"
Ponte dei Salti, a 17th-century stone bridge spanning the crystal-clear Verzasca River in Lavertezzo, Switzerland 🇨🇭
Fellow musicians,consider this…
Cities and Memory@citiesandmemory.bsky.social · last wk.We’re super excited to bring you our latest open call - we’re working with Oxford’s Schwarzman Centre and artist Edmund de Waal, and we’d love to invite you to join a new commission called Sanctuary. This is a limited paid commission with just 20 spaces: citiesandmemory.com/sanctuary/
If you've already seen Sîrat, I recommend this article by web-friend Youssef Rakha for a transcendent take on it. If you haven't seen Sîrat I highly recommend the film. You could read the article beforehand but it does give away some aspects of the plot. ibraaz.org/ibraaz-publi...
Paradise Way: Watching Sirāt after Gaza | Ibraaz
A brave space for art, culture, and ideas from the global majority
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“When it is no longer identified with specific human subjects, evil reemerges as the timeless philosophical question it is: a father’s grief, a lover or friend seeing the person they have lived with for years vanish right before their eyes …” Great piece! Thanks for sharing.
I interviewed Keith Ridgway for @irishtimes.com about his outstanding new novel ‘Dooneen’. Published @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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Always greatto hear about my book being on sale around the world. Here, last week sent by soldier from a bookshop in York; last week from an anarchist bookshop in Amsterdam.
Winter evening walk on local beach, Port Phillip Bay... Long horizons, south east to south west... Brighton to Geelong...
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
If you've already seen Sîrat, I recommend this article by web-friend Youssef Rakha for a transcendent take on it. If you haven't seen Sîrat I highly recommend the film. You could read the article beforehand but it does give away some aspects of the plot. ibraaz.org/ibraaz-publi...
Paradise Way: Watching Sirāt after Gaza | Ibraaz
A brave space for art, culture, and ideas from the global majority
ibraaz.org
It’s a year since Wild Twin won the TLS Ackerley Prize. This evening at Foyles I get to open the envelope and announce this year’s winner. Hopefully they’re not like this idiot and they remember to pay the cheque into their bank account.
