Elizabeth Loudon
@esloudon.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, teacher, charity worker. MA 25 yrs, now back in UK. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) 2024 SIBF award for Best International Fiction. Best New Poets 2025. LL/Bridport. See www.elizabethloudon.com for more.
I know spiderwebs are a dime a dozen and ditto photos of them, but look what the dog and I woke up to.
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I know spiderwebs are a dime a dozen and ditto photos of them, but look what the dog and I woke up to.
Coming soon coming soon.... an anthology of new work by writers who are also carers. I'm in here somewhere. Thank you so much to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and a heads up to @ylbooks.bsky.social and any other bookshops who might like to carry a copy (out in November).
October 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Coming soon coming soon.... an anthology of new work by writers who are also carers. I'm in here somewhere. Thank you so much to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and a heads up to @ylbooks.bsky.social and any other bookshops who might like to carry a copy (out in November).
and then there's suicide....
September 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
and then there's suicide....
What you may wonder is the big deal with a parent begonia and its titchy baby shoot from a leaf cutting. Well my lovelies this is literally Einstein’s begonia or at least a cutting therefrom. It’s a thing. There’s even an opera about it. I’m so damn proud.
September 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What you may wonder is the big deal with a parent begonia and its titchy baby shoot from a leaf cutting. Well my lovelies this is literally Einstein’s begonia or at least a cutting therefrom. It’s a thing. There’s even an opera about it. I’m so damn proud.
The first rainbow of the autumn and it’s a double.
September 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The first rainbow of the autumn and it’s a double.
Almost a #BodegaCat in Giudecca Venice, last winter. In a local caff. He had a cool name which I've now forgotten (Marlo?). Anybody?
August 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Almost a #BodegaCat in Giudecca Venice, last winter. In a local caff. He had a cool name which I've now forgotten (Marlo?). Anybody?
This gentle photograph was taken by the great Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji, I believe of his own house, and his wife Balkees. I kept it close by as I wrote about Baghdad's past, with its moments of calm and hope.
August 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This gentle photograph was taken by the great Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji, I believe of his own house, and his wife Balkees. I kept it close by as I wrote about Baghdad's past, with its moments of calm and hope.
Dear @bethbpoet.bsky.social look what my dear friend in Bridport sent me for my birthday:
July 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Dear @bethbpoet.bsky.social look what my dear friend in Bridport sent me for my birthday:
And this my loves is bastard balm (melittis melissophylum), if you have a dappled woodland sort of corner. (Spot the fern and sweet woodruff in background.)
May 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
And this my loves is bastard balm (melittis melissophylum), if you have a dappled woodland sort of corner. (Spot the fern and sweet woodruff in background.)
Every year a little bit more colour.
May 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Every year a little bit more colour.
Almost two since years since this book flew the nest, and my publisher (AUC's Hoopoe imprint @aucpress.bsky.social ) is still my best champion. I've been beyond lucky.
May 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Almost two since years since this book flew the nest, and my publisher (AUC's Hoopoe imprint @aucpress.bsky.social ) is still my best champion. I've been beyond lucky.
This fabulous C12 century minaret was part of the mosque of Seville. The bells were installed in the Renaissance, long after the church took Seville and replaced the mosque with the great cathedral. Stones hold history.
April 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This fabulous C12 century minaret was part of the mosque of Seville. The bells were installed in the Renaissance, long after the church took Seville and replaced the mosque with the great cathedral. Stones hold history.
Happy international women’s day to me and thank you @moudhy.bsky.social.
March 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Happy international women’s day to me and thank you @moudhy.bsky.social.
For World Book Day, a book you might never have heard of that's so full of Buddhist humour and Beat charm you'll feel you're walking on air (which is the title of another lovely book by this author). I wrote him a fan letter once. He answered. Bless authors who answer their fans.
March 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
For World Book Day, a book you might never have heard of that's so full of Buddhist humour and Beat charm you'll feel you're walking on air (which is the title of another lovely book by this author). I wrote him a fan letter once. He answered. Bless authors who answer their fans.
About once a month a friend and (plus dog) go for a mental health hike. Yellowhammers, crocuses, stone cottages, 400 year old walnut trees, and a castle built in 1229, when this corner of Gloucestershire had to defend itself against the lords of the Marches. We agreed not to discuss - the world.
March 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
About once a month a friend and (plus dog) go for a mental health hike. Yellowhammers, crocuses, stone cottages, 400 year old walnut trees, and a castle built in 1229, when this corner of Gloucestershire had to defend itself against the lords of the Marches. We agreed not to discuss - the world.
This is my dog. She rules.
January 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is my dog. She rules.
Nadia Naqib, Director of Editorial Acquisitions at @aucpress.bsky.social, carried this Sharjah Int'l Book Fair trophy from Cairo to Burford Oxfordshire to hand it over to me, the winning author for international fiction. All that and lunch and book chat, too. A wonderful day.
January 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Nadia Naqib, Director of Editorial Acquisitions at @aucpress.bsky.social, carried this Sharjah Int'l Book Fair trophy from Cairo to Burford Oxfordshire to hand it over to me, the winning author for international fiction. All that and lunch and book chat, too. A wonderful day.
It's all about the laundry.
January 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's all about the laundry.
The dog’s groomer has 11 poodles of her own (in a small house) and I’m not 100 pc certain she didn’t do a switch.
December 13, 2024 at 9:35 PM
The dog’s groomer has 11 poodles of her own (in a small house) and I’m not 100 pc certain she didn’t do a switch.
Some of us shirked off writing this morning to walk round a golf course with a view of the Severn and Wales. Not one seagull escaped unchased.
December 11, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Some of us shirked off writing this morning to walk round a golf course with a view of the Severn and Wales. Not one seagull escaped unchased.
I do that. I also have a dog who works at a West London research centre.
December 4, 2024 at 11:28 AM
I do that. I also have a dog who works at a West London research centre.
The best thing about winter is not having to get up early to get the virtuous view of dawn.
December 2, 2024 at 3:40 PM
The best thing about winter is not having to get up early to get the virtuous view of dawn.
Just another dog walk photo from a middle-class woman of a certain age, nothing else to report today.
December 1, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Just another dog walk photo from a middle-class woman of a certain age, nothing else to report today.