Andrew Spacey
@andrewspacey.bsky.social
Them stories&poems. Recent stories in The Madrid Review. Poems in The Starbeck Orion. Lived in Australia, Spain and the Netherlands. Ex coalminer, Witness the Dust. Guardian Country Diarist, 21 Bird Poems. Sonnets, Green Balk Lane. Dutch partner. EU. YNWA
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Andrew Spacey
@andrewspacey.bsky.social
· Jan 26
The Madrid Review
themadridreview.com
Three short stories inspired by the city of Madrid. Grateful thanks to all at The Madrid Review.
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I’m posting extracts and pictures from the French translation of my #rewilding book over the next few days…
Photos et textes extraits de mon livre « Pyrénées sauvages… à l’écoute de la montagne », disponible en librairie et à la FNAC.
Voir www.wildingthepyrenees.com?lang=fr
Voir www.wildingthepyrenees.com?lang=fr
December 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I’m posting extracts and pictures from the French translation of my #rewilding book over the next few days…
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My book is selling out in bookshops! This happened with my last book just before Christmas too. If you want a copy in time, do try other shops if you're local hasn't got it. There are definitely copies still available if it's sold out near you: geni.us/ThePlaceImin 📚🎁🙌
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My book is selling out in bookshops! This happened with my last book just before Christmas too. If you want a copy in time, do try other shops if you're local hasn't got it. There are definitely copies still available if it's sold out near you: geni.us/ThePlaceImin 📚🎁🙌
That deep feeling of walker's relief, the roaring of the bothy fire, the drying of the boots, the warming of the hands, the prospects of the single malt, the dreams of one golden eagle.
December 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
That deep feeling of walker's relief, the roaring of the bothy fire, the drying of the boots, the warming of the hands, the prospects of the single malt, the dreams of one golden eagle.
Leaving Loch Morar behind, heading for the bothy, fire, some grub and hot tea, at Glen Pean.
December 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Leaving Loch Morar behind, heading for the bothy, fire, some grub and hot tea, at Glen Pean.
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The sun went down with a whimper in lines of showers and riddles of light.
View from the top of the coast path, South Erradale, over the sea to north Trotternish, Isle of Skye.
View from the top of the coast path, South Erradale, over the sea to north Trotternish, Isle of Skye.
December 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The sun went down with a whimper in lines of showers and riddles of light.
View from the top of the coast path, South Erradale, over the sea to north Trotternish, Isle of Skye.
View from the top of the coast path, South Erradale, over the sea to north Trotternish, Isle of Skye.
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very cool! THE BEST! the absolute best,
rob mclennan's book of sentences hits the CBC Books Best Poetry of 2025 list!
https://ow.ly/c9p650XIzif
https://ow.ly/c9p650XIzif
December 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
very cool! THE BEST! the absolute best,
North West Highlands heading towards Loch Morar and Oban Bothy.
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
North West Highlands heading towards Loch Morar and Oban Bothy.
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Today, December 12 is International Iberian Lynx Day. A good day to celebrate the recovery of the species. In 'Critical danger of Extinction' 25 years ago, there are now over 2400 Iberian #Lynx. #rewilding
La población de lince ibérico 🐈 aumentó un 19% en 2024, reflejo de dos décadas de recuperación gracias a la cría en cautividad, la restauración de hábitats y la reducción de amenazas como el furtivismo y los atropellos 💚
#DíaMundialdelLinceIbérico
#DíaMundialdelLinceIbérico
December 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Today, December 12 is International Iberian Lynx Day. A good day to celebrate the recovery of the species. In 'Critical danger of Extinction' 25 years ago, there are now over 2400 Iberian #Lynx. #rewilding
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I know I said I wouldn't repost this yet AGAIN but I just have to brag on this for a minute. Took half the loaf of banana bread to a neighbor and last minute also took one of these, and she was SO EXCITED to know about the book and says she is going to order a copy! Whoa.
#Poetry #booksky
My lovely publisher made these postcards to help promote my book. If you had one, you could get your library to order a copy! Plus they make nifty bookmarks. If you'd like one, or a couple to share, DM me your mailing address and I'll send you a Happy Holiday card! (US only.) 📚 ❤️🔥 📬
My lovely publisher made these postcards to help promote my book. If you had one, you could get your library to order a copy! Plus they make nifty bookmarks. If you'd like one, or a couple to share, DM me your mailing address and I'll send you a Happy Holiday card! (US only.) 📚 ❤️🔥 📬
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I know I said I wouldn't repost this yet AGAIN but I just have to brag on this for a minute. Took half the loaf of banana bread to a neighbor and last minute also took one of these, and she was SO EXCITED to know about the book and says she is going to order a copy! Whoa.
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Looking forward tomorrow to doing a presentation of my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" at the English bookshop Backstory (C/ Mallorca, Barcelona). Starts at 6pm. Presented by fellow iberianphile @lwalkernolan.bsky.social
Many thanks!
www.backstorybookshop.com/event-detail...
Many thanks!
www.backstorybookshop.com/event-detail...
Nick Lloyd — Travels Through the Spanish Civil War | Backstory Bookshop
A journey through history, memory, and the traces of war in today’s Spain
www.backstorybookshop.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Looking forward tomorrow to doing a presentation of my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" at the English bookshop Backstory (C/ Mallorca, Barcelona). Starts at 6pm. Presented by fellow iberianphile @lwalkernolan.bsky.social
Many thanks!
www.backstorybookshop.com/event-detail...
Many thanks!
www.backstorybookshop.com/event-detail...
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Not exactly Taylor Swift levels, but I'm glad a song about fighting fascism is getting an audience.
Streaming everywhere now, have a listen to Alma de la Brigada by Emma Gee Flowers
Streaming everywhere now, have a listen to Alma de la Brigada by Emma Gee Flowers
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Not exactly Taylor Swift levels, but I'm glad a song about fighting fascism is getting an audience.
Streaming everywhere now, have a listen to Alma de la Brigada by Emma Gee Flowers
Streaming everywhere now, have a listen to Alma de la Brigada by Emma Gee Flowers
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MONDAY BLUES - STELLAR'S JAY
Most blue coloration in animals results from structural color, a phenomenon where nanoscale structures (little sponge-like holes & keratin walls inside the feather that are only 200–300 billionths of a meter in size) interact with light.
🦋LJC
#wildlife #photography
Most blue coloration in animals results from structural color, a phenomenon where nanoscale structures (little sponge-like holes & keratin walls inside the feather that are only 200–300 billionths of a meter in size) interact with light.
🦋LJC
#wildlife #photography
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
MONDAY BLUES - STELLAR'S JAY
Most blue coloration in animals results from structural color, a phenomenon where nanoscale structures (little sponge-like holes & keratin walls inside the feather that are only 200–300 billionths of a meter in size) interact with light.
🦋LJC
#wildlife #photography
Most blue coloration in animals results from structural color, a phenomenon where nanoscale structures (little sponge-like holes & keratin walls inside the feather that are only 200–300 billionths of a meter in size) interact with light.
🦋LJC
#wildlife #photography
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Thank you to the wonderful team at @ettereview.bsky.social for this nomination!
Congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees!
Laura Cronk
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@amyholman.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
Nora Esme Wagner
Laura Cronk
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@amyholman.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
Nora Esme Wagner
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Thank you to the wonderful team at @ettereview.bsky.social for this nomination!
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They're great poems! We're so lucky!
I'm delighted to have two poems in The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social alongside SO many talented and brilliant poems - way too many to name! Big thanks to editor James Hartley. #poetry
November 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
They're great poems! We're so lucky!
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Good news- a 4th print of'Map', Worple Press,the anthology celebrating William Smith, pioneering geologist. Editor @michaelmckimm.bsky.social showed poets Smith's map at the Geological Society. Here's the start of my poem 'Strata', reprinted in my own book 'Skies',still with Smith's mysterious wife!
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Good news- a 4th print of'Map', Worple Press,the anthology celebrating William Smith, pioneering geologist. Editor @michaelmckimm.bsky.social showed poets Smith's map at the Geological Society. Here's the start of my poem 'Strata', reprinted in my own book 'Skies',still with Smith's mysterious wife!
The steep climb from Glencoul bothy at lochside then round the headland and down to Glendhu bothy. Northern Highlands.
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The steep climb from Glencoul bothy at lochside then round the headland and down to Glendhu bothy. Northern Highlands.
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One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. This Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia isabellae) caught in the lamplight outside a hostel where we were staying in a dark pine forest in the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees. Moons before, as a caterpillar it would have somehow found substance in miserly pine needles
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. This Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia isabellae) caught in the lamplight outside a hostel where we were staying in a dark pine forest in the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees. Moons before, as a caterpillar it would have somehow found substance in miserly pine needles
Loch Morar from Oban bothy. 1000 feet deep out in the middle.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Loch Morar from Oban bothy. 1000 feet deep out in the middle.
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Another pencil crayon study. This was quite tricky and it’s not really finished, but I’m really enjoying using real pencils.
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Another pencil crayon study. This was quite tricky and it’s not really finished, but I’m really enjoying using real pencils.
Leaving Glenpean bothy heading for Oban bothy by Loch Morar.
November 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Leaving Glenpean bothy heading for Oban bothy by Loch Morar.
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Ok, I put this on streaming sites. Some new songs, as well as being a compendium.
All is say is, if you like it, please consider buying- there's zero money for people like me in streaming.
Thanks, and enjoy!
Songs of Love & Defiance is out now—give it a listen! 🎧 artists.landr.com/057829702028
All is say is, if you like it, please consider buying- there's zero money for people like me in streaming.
Thanks, and enjoy!
Songs of Love & Defiance is out now—give it a listen! 🎧 artists.landr.com/057829702028
Emma Gee Flowers - Songs of Love & Defiance
Listen to Songs of Love & Defiance by Emma Gee Flowers.
artists.landr.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Ok, I put this on streaming sites. Some new songs, as well as being a compendium.
All is say is, if you like it, please consider buying- there's zero money for people like me in streaming.
Thanks, and enjoy!
Songs of Love & Defiance is out now—give it a listen! 🎧 artists.landr.com/057829702028
All is say is, if you like it, please consider buying- there's zero money for people like me in streaming.
Thanks, and enjoy!
Songs of Love & Defiance is out now—give it a listen! 🎧 artists.landr.com/057829702028
Slug 4
Some leaves shrivel
cooked fishskins summer needle bone
state of mush under curdled cloud veil
the dormant fires
surrounding junkyard farm
a concentration of hedgerow doubt
and bindweed's worked-out wires
hanging on a chinese character fence
Limax stretches for home
Some leaves shrivel
cooked fishskins summer needle bone
state of mush under curdled cloud veil
the dormant fires
surrounding junkyard farm
a concentration of hedgerow doubt
and bindweed's worked-out wires
hanging on a chinese character fence
Limax stretches for home
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Slug 4
Some leaves shrivel
cooked fishskins summer needle bone
state of mush under curdled cloud veil
the dormant fires
surrounding junkyard farm
a concentration of hedgerow doubt
and bindweed's worked-out wires
hanging on a chinese character fence
Limax stretches for home
Some leaves shrivel
cooked fishskins summer needle bone
state of mush under curdled cloud veil
the dormant fires
surrounding junkyard farm
a concentration of hedgerow doubt
and bindweed's worked-out wires
hanging on a chinese character fence
Limax stretches for home
Slug 3
This meditative journey
I compose is a life
part left behind on a hornbeam
I sail along
a glutinous vessel carrying
vulnerable time into oblivion
smell of sunrise some nights
the fungal rot the ubiquitous turd
refuge enough
I will secrete
into kitchens
leave my shine
This meditative journey
I compose is a life
part left behind on a hornbeam
I sail along
a glutinous vessel carrying
vulnerable time into oblivion
smell of sunrise some nights
the fungal rot the ubiquitous turd
refuge enough
I will secrete
into kitchens
leave my shine
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Slug 3
This meditative journey
I compose is a life
part left behind on a hornbeam
I sail along
a glutinous vessel carrying
vulnerable time into oblivion
smell of sunrise some nights
the fungal rot the ubiquitous turd
refuge enough
I will secrete
into kitchens
leave my shine
This meditative journey
I compose is a life
part left behind on a hornbeam
I sail along
a glutinous vessel carrying
vulnerable time into oblivion
smell of sunrise some nights
the fungal rot the ubiquitous turd
refuge enough
I will secrete
into kitchens
leave my shine
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It’s that time again. More info on the website. Entry is open.
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It’s that time again. More info on the website. Entry is open.