Adrian Slatcher
@adrianslatcher.bsky.social
Manchester-based writer. Short story collection "Loners" out now from Confingo publishing. More details www.adrianslatcher.com or subscribe https://adrianslatcher.substack.com/
Well, that's two months without alcohol, cos of my eye op and the various medications I'm on, I'd just rather not at the moment. So could be a non festive pre Xmas period (though I will have some wine on xmas day if not before). Can't say its made me feel better, but no hangovers anyway!
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Well, that's two months without alcohol, cos of my eye op and the various medications I'm on, I'd just rather not at the moment. So could be a non festive pre Xmas period (though I will have some wine on xmas day if not before). Can't say its made me feel better, but no hangovers anyway!
I realise its a new month, so expect a new substack later today. Special edition DVDs; John Le Carre; the bottom of the Beatles barrel & more.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I realise its a new month, so expect a new substack later today. Special edition DVDs; John Le Carre; the bottom of the Beatles barrel & more.
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Explaining to dad the linking thread between CICS COBOL and A.I. and the sad neglect of data standards. I am always shocked at how much of my programming career I can recall nearly 30 years after leaving it.
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Explaining to dad the linking thread between CICS COBOL and A.I. and the sad neglect of data standards. I am always shocked at how much of my programming career I can recall nearly 30 years after leaving it.
The quality of the poems is the new Poetry London is the most consistently good I have seen in ages.
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The quality of the poems is the new Poetry London is the most consistently good I have seen in ages.
Finding this compelling, ridiculous, and frustrating in equal measures; the writing veering from brilliant to barely comprehensible. Its 700 pafes but whizzing through it and nothing has actually happened!
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Finding this compelling, ridiculous, and frustrating in equal measures; the writing veering from brilliant to barely comprehensible. Its 700 pafes but whizzing through it and nothing has actually happened!
The last week i have been much less tired, but still too tired to go out. The plus side is that each evening I have written part of a new piece, somehow managing 5000 words and still on first chapter. Favourite words used so far: trill, jeroboam, chafer, Kunstmuseum.
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The last week i have been much less tired, but still too tired to go out. The plus side is that each evening I have written part of a new piece, somehow managing 5000 words and still on first chapter. Favourite words used so far: trill, jeroboam, chafer, Kunstmuseum.
Amazing. Great to see.
@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Amazing. Great to see.
I think gubernatorial has to join caucus and filibuster in favourite words only ever used in American politics.
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I think gubernatorial has to join caucus and filibuster in favourite words only ever used in American politics.
Felt poorly on my non working day, and a few tech priblems, but, hey, i struggled on. Consoling spending time in a house full of books.
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Felt poorly on my non working day, and a few tech priblems, but, hey, i struggled on. Consoling spending time in a house full of books.
Soft Cell, Henry James and the late Victorians, Ian McEwan, Olivia Laing, sound collage, Elizabeth Alker on pop/classical xover. New substack in your inbox now.
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Wave Goodbye
With one half of Soft Cell passing away this week, another brick in the wall of my past has gone.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Soft Cell, Henry James and the late Victorians, Ian McEwan, Olivia Laing, sound collage, Elizabeth Alker on pop/classical xover. New substack in your inbox now.
adrianslatcher.substack.com/p/wave-goodbye
adrianslatcher.substack.com/p/wave-goodbye
My new substack is being published tomorrow - Elizabeth Alker on pop and contemporary classical; novels by McEwan and Laing; sound collage; Soft Cell; and Henry James and the late Victorians. Sign up here
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October 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
My new substack is being published tomorrow - Elizabeth Alker on pop and contemporary classical; novels by McEwan and Laing; sound collage; Soft Cell; and Henry James and the late Victorians. Sign up here
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Looking through old magazines, tickets, notebooks and letters surely some emerging narrative to my life, but I'm not sure what exactly. Something about the shift of the present into an amber past...and how much is now lost of that story because of digital.
October 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Looking through old magazines, tickets, notebooks and letters surely some emerging narrative to my life, but I'm not sure what exactly. Something about the shift of the present into an amber past...and how much is now lost of that story because of digital.
You've got good taste
October 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
You've got good taste
Enjoying a noisy afternoon
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Enjoying a noisy afternoon
Reading Flannery O'Connor & listening to the Band.
October 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Reading Flannery O'Connor & listening to the Band.
Recovery from an op is slow. You have a normal day, even go out see friends for a couple of hrs, then next day (today) feel like death. Its been a full week to be fair. 3-day weekend now.
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Recovery from an op is slow. You have a normal day, even go out see friends for a couple of hrs, then next day (today) feel like death. Its been a full week to be fair. 3-day weekend now.
All her cultural references are my cultural references. Not often that happens. A strange autofiction, short but satisfying.
October 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
All her cultural references are my cultural references. Not often that happens. A strange autofiction, short but satisfying.
I am so much the audience for ALL the cultural references in here. I even went to the Basquiat show she attends, as well as being a longstanding Kathy Acker fan. A strange, if slight, autofiction.
October 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I am so much the audience for ALL the cultural references in here. I even went to the Basquiat show she attends, as well as being a longstanding Kathy Acker fan. A strange, if slight, autofiction.
Reading Crudo by Olivia Laing, I suspect I might be its target audience. Kathy Acker, American Nazis, internet memes. Occasionally reminds me of my own writing.
October 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reading Crudo by Olivia Laing, I suspect I might be its target audience. Kathy Acker, American Nazis, internet memes. Occasionally reminds me of my own writing.
Today's stupid plan. Do a PhD on "the modern in late Victorian and Edwardian art and literature".
October 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Today's stupid plan. Do a PhD on "the modern in late Victorian and Edwardian art and literature".
Great to be asked to contribute some new music to this collage cum Podcast, a nice antidote to '25's over stimulated enshittified attention economy
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First Impressions - Northern Textures - Episode 30
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October 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Great to be asked to contribute some new music to this collage cum Podcast, a nice antidote to '25's over stimulated enshittified attention economy
open.spotify.com/episode/2JXH...
open.spotify.com/episode/2JXH...
Having Mondays off definitely creates a space in my life that I otherwise wouldn't have time for. When else would I pick up and devour a long Henry James story from 1884?
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Having Mondays off definitely creates a space in my life that I otherwise wouldn't have time for. When else would I pick up and devour a long Henry James story from 1884?
Planning on a series of ltd edition pamphlets featuring unpublished and reissued work. #1 test copy -2 experimental poetry sequences, 36 pages, dressed up like a 1970s H&S leaflet.
October 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Planning on a series of ltd edition pamphlets featuring unpublished and reissued work. #1 test copy -2 experimental poetry sequences, 36 pages, dressed up like a 1970s H&S leaflet.
Electrelane..now theres a band people don't talk about nearly enough.
October 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Electrelane..now theres a band people don't talk about nearly enough.
Are there any good (recent?) essays on T.S. Eliot's poetry that are a must read? I've got the Cambridge Companion which is useful. A.I. only comes up with his own essays (all good, but that wasn't my question A.I.)
October 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Are there any good (recent?) essays on T.S. Eliot's poetry that are a must read? I've got the Cambridge Companion which is useful. A.I. only comes up with his own essays (all good, but that wasn't my question A.I.)