Helen McClory
@helenmcclory.bsky.social
Writer, Reader, Hybrid creature https://linktr.ee/HelenMcClory https://helenmcclory.com/
poems used to be like "Fall's big boot / stubs out flowers / as oaks catch fire" but now they're like "at the season theme park where i work as Fall Incarnate i chase down coworkers in flower costumes and beat them" and the first line is like "with a piece of foam / shaped like a French baguette"
It's actually quite useful to see how your Prime Minister copes when he's suffering so much second-hand embarrassment that he wants to bite down on his own fist like it's an apple but can't because he needs to avoid an international incident.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump: "You call it United Kingdom, Britain, they call it sometimes England. They go back to the old. It's got more names than any other place in the world."
Great to see M. John Harrison on the Booker shortlist. We were honoured to have him contribute to A Personal Anthology, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, with some writers you'll expect, some you won't and some you just love to see: apersonalanthology.com/category/m-j...
M John Harrison (as editor) – A Personal Anthology
M. John Harrison was born in 1945. He published his first story in 1966 and his first novel, The Committed Men, in 1968. Climbers won the Boardman Tasker prize for Mountain Literature in 1989. His …
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What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them
Last night I watched the online convo CM had with Camilla Grudova. It was so inspiring and thought provoking (the part about tech bros not wanting to die because it's what the plebs do! Chills)
Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4w agoProbably the scariest and also most intellectually rigorous uncanny novel I have ever read. My review for the NYT. Free link. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/b...
My relatives used to save up their food scraps and misc liquids to tip on the orange order marches through here. I feel they'd have still gone after nightmare pigeon, they were a tough old lot
Lemon Curry@therealmcgack.bsky.social · 4w agoHold my beer
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?
Got to hear this live, among much other clubby industrial angelic brilliance from Model/Actriz music.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ho...
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something deeply magical about Penda's Fen being on telly the night after the Bright Phoebus Revisited show. Both masterful pieces of art that flirt around the edges of folk horror, but land on something older and richer - folk *weirdness*, and a cultural identity that resists being boxed in.
Kirkdale Bookshop@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · last mo.Torment nexus scientists: dear world governments, please stop us from continuing to make the torment nexus! Please? m.youtube.com/watch?v=xOi5...
The Hugging Face cyberattack was way bigger than OpenAI said
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Hi Homer, I recently came across The Iliad and was blown away by its expansiveness, its humanity, and its complex use of . Have you considered new ways to promote your book and expand its reach across various platforms? I would love to connect and hear your ideas. Kind regards, Apollonius
Just back from Edinburgh psych fest. Model/Actriz should be everywhere. The lead singer Cole Haden walking through the crowd, mic lead like an umbilical cord, to wind himself round a pillar? The mosh to vogue ratio?!
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
Just back from Edinburgh psych fest. Model/Actriz should be everywhere. The lead singer Cole Haden walking through the crowd, mic lead like an umbilical cord, to wind himself round a pillar? The mosh to vogue ratio?!
Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness might be here but so too is the season of high frizz from that mist. I have never not once found a cream that helps make my much neglected wavy hair.
Watching Quo Vadis I can't help but see Josh O'Connor on Peter Ustinov. Remake should have him in the role of Nero.
A few months back, hundreds of people were approached by ‘recruiters’ at Salt offering new editorial positions. Now hundreds of our authors are being affected by offers of US editions, translations, film & TV deals and more… www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-... #BookSky #SaltPublishing
A very flattering email
by Chris Hamilton-Emery Someone wrote to me a few days ago to say that my poems have an abrasive musicality, and that they were struck by the tension between spectacle and reality in my work. They sai...
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“Late Fragment” — Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
The Man who came to dinner (1941) is such a gem. An irascible literary critic and international personality holes up in a Midwestern bourgeoisie household after an accident and proceeds to tear everything to pieces. Bette Davis is there, eyebrow raised
It is never ever ever ever going to work out better for you if you talk to police before speaking with a lawyer.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
Me and my 5 year old are listening to the audiobook of the hobbit. Once they can read they can read it themselves. A policy I intend to pursue as openly as my parents did
r o o@jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 2mo agoChewing my arm off, bloody foam speckling my lips, screaming. Just screaming, forever.
A lot of podcasts now are like the sound of a slowly deflating whoopee cushion extended to an hour for ad placement purposes
Just out of A Trial: After An Enemy of the People at the Edinburgh International Festival. Wagner Moura is immense and the whole thing really fantastic
There are so many children in the cafe where I normally write and given what I'm working on right now I'd prefer there was a power cut and every one left. Writers block is other people (but mainly me)
