Jeff Young
@wildtwin.bsky.social
Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer. Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books) Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
Sacred Parasite has published: William Minor, Howie Good, Ian Seed, John Dorsey, Brian Evenson, Andrei Codrescu, and me. The next five forthcoming Sacred Parasite authors are: JWGoll, Jeff Young, Rob Doyle, Rae Armantrout, and Kim Addonizio. www.sacredparasite.com
For the 30th edition of Science & Magic I wrote about a Deaf School gig, time travel, my 19 year old self and unexpectedly dancing. Lots of great stuff as ever in this one and you can read and subscribe here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
The Escape, painting created c.midC20th in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us
Painting of a woman chained to a bomb, climbing a volcano, created c.1955 by Nancy Goullet, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. Her works often involve situations of torment, torture & entrapment, most feature faceless figures in under grey sky
Also a lovely Backlisted about Joan Barfoot. @regretteruane.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/215...
215. Joan Barfoot - Gaining Ground — Backlisted
Author Rose Ruane ( This is Yesterday , Birding ) picks Gaining Ground AKA Abra (1978) by Canadian feminist writer Joan Barfoot. One day, seemingly on a whim, a wo...
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Kirkdale Bookshop@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 2w agoJust sold a copy! observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Leonora Carrington in her Greenwich Village apartment, New York.
A wonderful book that I've recommended to many. You can read all about it here. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/rimb...
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Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...
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Jeff Young@wildtwin.bsky.social · last wk.Wild Twin @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Winner of the TLS Ackerley Prize 2025 ‘This exceptional memoir…richly detailed and observant.’ Adelle Stripe, Tribune ‘A surging heart-song…’Iain Sinclair www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
‘There is loss in Wild Twin, of youth, time, place and people, but kindness warms every page; the kindness of strangers he meets who give willingly when they’ve little to give and a deeper, more complex strain that grows into Wild Twin’s deeply affecting final pages.‘Charlie Connelly,New European 🙏
Charlie Connelly@charlieconnelly.bsky.social · last wk.Fabulous book.
Wild Twin @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Winner of the TLS Ackerley Prize 2025 ‘This exceptional memoir…richly detailed and observant.’ Adelle Stripe, Tribune ‘A surging heart-song…’Iain Sinclair www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Wild Twin by Jeff Young - Little Toller Books
Wild Twin is the new memoir by the Costa Prize shortlisted author of Ghost Town. In this new book Jeff leaves Liverpool for the Europe of his dreams.
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To celebrate the publication of Rosalind Belben’s IS BEAUTY GOOD, the author reads from the ‘Florus’ chapter. Originally published in 1989, this classic of English fiction is now back in print, with a new introductionby Esther Kinsky.
John Smith's brilliant, witty short films = a big inspiration. Strong recommend for this programme at the Whitechapel Gallery running till September, including his unsettling masterpiece of ingenuity and resroucefulness, The Black Tower: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/...
"Friday's here, here we go!" What a night! "Saturday's the day to go" More fun tonight at Liverpool Philharmonic Last few tickets: www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/con...
I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.
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.
What if we walk through childhood haunts and meet ourselves at play when we were young? Thoughtfully poignant writing from @wildtwin.bsky.social @pennykiley.bsky.social talk about music and a piece about Beck’s latest album..ticking all of my boxes
Jeff Young@wildtwin.bsky.social · 3w agoIn Science & Magic 29 I go on a walk through the woods with my friend Ed Rimmer and think about the harvesting of ice, strange warning signs and silence. You can read it here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
I'm thrilled to share my new essay in @aeon.co Who are The Fire Tamers? For the past year, I travelled through salt marshes, visited remote farmhouses & oncology clinics to uncover the secret world of French healers working in parallel with conventional medicine. aeon.co/essays/who-a...
W.S. Graham reading 'The Nightfishing' on BBC Third Programme, original broadcast in 1952. Via the treasure trove that is @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALe8...
Poetry Archive and the BBC - W S Graham - 'The Nightfishing'
YouTube video by Poetry Archive
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In Science & Magic 29 I go on a walk through the woods with my friend Ed Rimmer and think about the harvesting of ice, strange warning signs and silence. You can read it here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
Terrific Michael Clark documentary. I saw Kurious Oranj but the biggest thrill, and the one that felt the most iconoclastic was No Fire Escape From Hell in Manchester. Booing, fuming exits and Laibach playing live through the tiny theatre speakers. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Artworks - Where’s Michael Clark? - BBC Sounds
Nick Grimshaw speaks to innovative dancer and choreographer Michael Clark.
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Me and my beloved Uncle Brian, c.1985. He sent me this pic a few years ago, explaining that it brought back fond memories of the day he first taught me how to light a crack pipe. Brian Case, 17.8.1937-13.7.2026. One of the UK's greatest writers on jazz and the funniest man I've ever known.
I loved doing this Q&A for Science & Magic, Violette Records' fab newsletter. They send you 55 questions and you can choose the ten you want to answer. Also includes regular contributor @wildtwin.bsky.social and other great stuff. www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
Science & Magic | 29 — Violette Records
Barry, that's not what a swan does.
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Very nice also to hang out online with a real life talent of pals @auuop.bsky.social @wildtwin.bsky.social and Eimear Kavanagh and to come across new to me people and their work.
I have a piece in Science & Magic again this week, alongside @archieislander.bsky.social and @wildtwin.bsky.social and other really good stuff www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
Thanks to Matt at Violette Records for giving me fortnightly space in Science & Magic to try work out in process/progess. One photo from my millions with a related comic strip, where I am languishing in the gutter trying to pare down - other people's windows. www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
Science & Magic | 29 — Violette Records
Barry, that's not what a swan does.
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In Science & Magic 29 I go on a walk through the woods with my friend Ed Rimmer and think about the harvesting of ice, strange warning signs and silence. You can read it here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
