Deborah Vass
@deborahvass.bsky.social
Artist and printmaker, sketching in the Norfolk countryside.
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"How do we find the stillness within this frantic flow of movement? To regain our balance in the tilt of change, and the still-point amid the chaos."
Life amid change.
#naturewriting #wellbeing #podcast #mentalhealth #ukcanals 🌍
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Life amid change.
#naturewriting #wellbeing #podcast #mentalhealth #ukcanals 🌍
The Changes that Come url:https://www.noswpod.com/changes-that-come/
The Changes that Come
Send us a text There seems to be an awful lot of change happening recently, often unasked and with far-reaching consequences. Knowing how to deal with it can be dif…
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January 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"How do we find the stillness within this frantic flow of movement? To regain our balance in the tilt of change, and the still-point amid the chaos."
Life amid change.
#naturewriting #wellbeing #podcast #mentalhealth #ukcanals 🌍
The Changes that Come url:https://www.noswpod.com/changes-that-come/
Life amid change.
#naturewriting #wellbeing #podcast #mentalhealth #ukcanals 🌍
The Changes that Come url:https://www.noswpod.com/changes-that-come/
This week I look at the luminous work of Elisabeth Vellacott, an artist who never gave up.
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The Lyricism of Winter Trees
The drawings and paintings of Elisabeth Vellacott (1905-2002), a tale of persistence and revisiting Wuthering Heights
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January 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This week I look at the luminous work of Elisabeth Vellacott, an artist who never gave up.
stillsketching.substack.com/p/the-lyrici...
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January 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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ICYMI, my latest #BookReview. Thoughts on THE FATE OF MARY ROSE by Caroline Blackwood.
A brilliant exploration of our collective fascination with gruesome true crimes, shot through with darkness & flashes of pitch-black humour. Highly recommended! #BookSky
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A brilliant exploration of our collective fascination with gruesome true crimes, shot through with darkness & flashes of pitch-black humour. Highly recommended! #BookSky
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The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood
The Anglo-Irish writer and socialite Lady Caroline Blackwood is currently enjoying something of a renaissance. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1977 for her novel Great Granny Webster, Blackwood…
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January 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
ICYMI, my latest #BookReview. Thoughts on THE FATE OF MARY ROSE by Caroline Blackwood.
A brilliant exploration of our collective fascination with gruesome true crimes, shot through with darkness & flashes of pitch-black humour. Highly recommended! #BookSky
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A brilliant exploration of our collective fascination with gruesome true crimes, shot through with darkness & flashes of pitch-black humour. Highly recommended! #BookSky
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In my @theguardian.com country diary today, I come across a most unexpected bird on the local chalk stream & wonder if spring will bring a flotilla of Brewer's Ducklings. #countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: Gadding about on the river | Nic Wilson
Hitchin, Hertfordshire: Is it a mallard, is it a gadwall? It appears that one of this fine, loved-up pair of ducks is a bit of both
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January 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
In my @theguardian.com country diary today, I come across a most unexpected bird on the local chalk stream & wonder if spring will bring a flotilla of Brewer's Ducklings. #countrydiary #naturewriting
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Another little push for my online creative non-fiction course starting in February next year. Details ⬇️
Currently reading a ton of personal essays, lyric essays, memoirs, anti-memoirs, and other wonderful nuggets and oddities as I prepare for it! 📚
Currently reading a ton of personal essays, lyric essays, memoirs, anti-memoirs, and other wonderful nuggets and oddities as I prepare for it! 📚
I am running an 8-week online course, ‘First steps in creative non-fiction', exploring the possibilities of this wonderful form: including personal essays, life writing, memoir and diaries. Tuesday evenings from 18th Feb to 8th April 2025, 6.30pm to 8.30pm (on Zoom).
December 17, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Another little push for my online creative non-fiction course starting in February next year. Details ⬇️
Currently reading a ton of personal essays, lyric essays, memoirs, anti-memoirs, and other wonderful nuggets and oddities as I prepare for it! 📚
Currently reading a ton of personal essays, lyric essays, memoirs, anti-memoirs, and other wonderful nuggets and oddities as I prepare for it! 📚
In my first post of the year, I explore the luminous paintings of the artist Mary Potter. open.substack.com/pub/stillske...
The Quiet Moon
The art of Mary Potter (1900 - 1981), the menace of Moon Eyes and now we are six-ty
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January 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
In my first post of the year, I explore the luminous paintings of the artist Mary Potter. open.substack.com/pub/stillske...
Brave little snowdrops today in the Norfolk wind.
December 21, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Brave little snowdrops today in the Norfolk wind.
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“When the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back…”
It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens.
Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel.
You can listen along, an ep a day, here:
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It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens.
Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel.
You can listen along, an ep a day, here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - The Dark Is Rising - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Dark Is Rising on BBC Sounds.
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December 20, 2024 at 7:33 PM
“When the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back…”
It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens.
Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel.
You can listen along, an ep a day, here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens.
Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel.
You can listen along, an ep a day, here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
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New on the blog today, MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024, Part 2 - recent reissues.
Featuring books by Brigid Brophy, Celia Fremlin, Celia Dale, Penelope Mortimer & more! #BookSky 💙📚 @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @mcnallyeditions.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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Featuring books by Brigid Brophy, Celia Fremlin, Celia Dale, Penelope Mortimer & more! #BookSky 💙📚 @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @mcnallyeditions.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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My Books of the Year, 2024 – Part 2
Recent reissues: 20th-century classics/rediscoveries from the past As in previous years, I’m spreading my Books of the Year across two posts. Part 1, published on Sunday, highlighted some of the ne…
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December 19, 2024 at 7:18 AM
New on the blog today, MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024, Part 2 - recent reissues.
Featuring books by Brigid Brophy, Celia Fremlin, Celia Dale, Penelope Mortimer & more! #BookSky 💙📚 @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @mcnallyeditions.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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Featuring books by Brigid Brophy, Celia Fremlin, Celia Dale, Penelope Mortimer & more! #BookSky 💙📚 @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @mcnallyeditions.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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ICYMI at the weekend…
New on the blog today, part one of MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2024 - new books and treasures from the TBR.
Featuring books by Isabella Hammad, Laura Cumming, Elizabeth Taylor, Anita Brooker and more! #BookSky #Books #BooksOfTheYear 💙📚
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Featuring books by Isabella Hammad, Laura Cumming, Elizabeth Taylor, Anita Brooker and more! #BookSky #Books #BooksOfTheYear 💙📚
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My Books of the Year, 2024 – Part 1
Some favourites from a year of reading I seem to say this every year, but 2024 has sent some wonderful books my way from new releases to treasures from the TBR to captivating reissues and rediscove…
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December 18, 2024 at 8:53 AM
ICYMI at the weekend…
As the Winter Solstice draws near, it is time to draw the curtains and curl up with something comforting. stillsketching.substack.com/p/a-box-of-d...
A Box of Delights
How children's books remind us of what we have forgotten, the "pleasing terror" of the Christmas ghost story and my books of the year
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December 18, 2024 at 11:25 AM
As the Winter Solstice draws near, it is time to draw the curtains and curl up with something comforting. stillsketching.substack.com/p/a-box-of-d...
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Monday = London Review of Substacks
@semafor.com's @tomchivers.bsky.social reviews three smart essays by @deborahvass.bsky.social, @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social, and @scientificdiscovery.dev in our daily global newsletter www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
@semafor.com's @tomchivers.bsky.social reviews three smart essays by @deborahvass.bsky.social, @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social, and @scientificdiscovery.dev in our daily global newsletter www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
December 16, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Monday = London Review of Substacks
@semafor.com's @tomchivers.bsky.social reviews three smart essays by @deborahvass.bsky.social, @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social, and @scientificdiscovery.dev in our daily global newsletter www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
@semafor.com's @tomchivers.bsky.social reviews three smart essays by @deborahvass.bsky.social, @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social, and @scientificdiscovery.dev in our daily global newsletter www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
I am back on Wortham Ling drawing this week. Do come and join me!
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November 16, 2023 at 11:11 AM
I am back on Wortham Ling drawing this week. Do come and join me!
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My amazing wife stepped back from an academic career during covid to focus on becoming a full-time ceramicist. She is now living her best life, making functional yet beautiful pots. If anyone would like a peek, her online shop has just opened...
November 12, 2023 at 8:23 PM
My amazing wife stepped back from an academic career during covid to focus on becoming a full-time ceramicist. She is now living her best life, making functional yet beautiful pots. If anyone would like a peek, her online shop has just opened...
Three cormorants have taken up residence in the alder at the bottom of the garden
November 12, 2023 at 6:17 PM
Three cormorants have taken up residence in the alder at the bottom of the garden
Out drawing again on Wortham Ling, Suffolk.
November 11, 2023 at 6:24 PM
Out drawing again on Wortham Ling, Suffolk.
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Fully funded writer residencies in Dorset. Please share
NEW! Under represented writer residencies - Bridport Prize
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October 18, 2023 at 8:25 AM
Fully funded writer residencies in Dorset. Please share
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desperatereader.blogspot.com/2023/11/divi... continuing a November of book recommendations if your looking for some gift inspiration
November 7, 2023 at 7:51 AM
desperatereader.blogspot.com/2023/11/divi... continuing a November of book recommendations if your looking for some gift inspiration
A charcoal drawing made in the Brecon Beacons last week in between the downpours.
November 6, 2023 at 6:34 PM
A charcoal drawing made in the Brecon Beacons last week in between the downpours.
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Soothing sounds for nervous pets during firework season. Here are some natural sounds to calm them during this noisy time of the year.
#Fireworks
#Fireworks
Soothing sounds for furry ears during fireworks season
Episodes to soothe pets and people disturbed by firework noise.
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November 4, 2023 at 9:39 PM
Soothing sounds for nervous pets during firework season. Here are some natural sounds to calm them during this noisy time of the year.
#Fireworks
#Fireworks
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Hold the front pages! I want to holler the news of this review by @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social from the rooftops. Generous, considered, clever & well-researched, I am deeply grateful.
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#booklovers #WritingCommunity #bookreview #debutnovel #therewildingofmollymcflynn
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#booklovers #WritingCommunity #bookreview #debutnovel #therewildingofmollymcflynn
Thou shalt not suffer
The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn by Sue Reed
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October 30, 2023 at 10:03 AM
Hold the front pages! I want to holler the news of this review by @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social from the rooftops. Generous, considered, clever & well-researched, I am deeply grateful.
bit.ly/46QGEUn
#booklovers #WritingCommunity #bookreview #debutnovel #therewildingofmollymcflynn
bit.ly/46QGEUn
#booklovers #WritingCommunity #bookreview #debutnovel #therewildingofmollymcflynn