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Jim Lawrence
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Wordslayer, guitar strangler, art botherer, armchair psychogeographer. Amanuensis to anarchist philosopher Crofton Wingwalker.

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of The Archers.

Southampton, UK.
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We’re at Highgate Art Fair this weekend with my work. Pop along and say hello if you’re in the area.
Photo of our exhibition stand
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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THE HALF MAN (kindle or paperback)
"a gloriously OTT occult comedy-thriller that has echoes of films like 'The Old Dark House'. Bloody entertaining fun."
"Great fun - a mix of Dennis Wheatley and Sam Raimi"
"it’s an absolute ‘blast’!"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1718632932
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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carmellapoetry.bsky.social
#AutumnReading 🌊🕷️ 🌊
Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #Othernesses from @janes-studio.bsky.social and Amber Rollinson's #SomewhereLooking from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social .
Two stunningly produced books, containing beautiful poetry.
#poetrycollections
#beautifulpoetry
#mustread
#art
Somewhere Looking and Othernesses Poems by Paul Brookes. Poem by Amber Rollinson.
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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AYE WRITE FESTIVAL

starts today in Glasgow with lots of fine poetry events to check out. eg tonight at 6pm: Mirrorball Gaelic Showcase

with Peter Mackay (Makar), Shane Johnstone, Petra Poncarova, Babs Nicgriogair, Robbie Anndra Macleòid & Martin MacIntyre.

www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/mirr...
Mirrorball Gaelic Showcase with Peter Mackay with Jim Carruth - Glasgow Life
Aye Write 2025 presents Mirrorball Gaelic Showcase with Peter Mackay with Jim Carruth
www.glasgowlife.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Gare du Midi (2016) photograph by Anne Billson
Temporary mini-expo of Hergé artwork just inside the entrance to Gare du Midi in Brussels - a black and white drawing of Tintin clinging to the side of a speeding train - the framed original size hung on a navy blue pillar, but also blown up as a mural on the wall behind it.
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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November news: shorturl.at/mzqLN

Vidyan Ravinthiran wins @forwardprizes.bsky.social for Best Collection; new translations from Tomas Venclova, Pia Tafdrup & Ivan V. Lalić; online launch 20/11; Krisztina Tóth & Laura Wittner longlisted for Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; plus much more!
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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magmapoetry.bsky.social
We're absolutely delighted to announce Magma 93 'Liberation' is now published and available to buy on our website.
Edited by Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social
#liberation #magma93
Get your hands on a copy now!
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November 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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#poetsofbluesky
stairwellbooks.bsky.social Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 8d
What a great @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social !! Take a peek inside Solstice (and Equinox, Book 1) via Look Inside! on our website: www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/sols...
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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accordingtojond.bsky.social
On the 16th I’ll hosting a Q&A with writer Peter Harness alongside a screening of his 2005 adaptation of A View from A Hill.

Before that I’ll be introducing an ultra rare screening of Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Poe’s Imp of the Perverse starring Michael Kitchen & Lalla Ward.

Details:
A Birmingham Ghost Story + Peter Harness Q&A | Midlands Arts Centre
The BBC became well known in the 70s for producing popular anthology series Ghost Stories For Christmas, but Birmingham’s Pebble Mill had its own anthology
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November 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 9d
Other work of the Ladybird artists

‘Bonfire Night’ (1951)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
A view looking down on a group of families surrounding a lit bonfire. Almost all the illumination in the picture comes from the bonfire and the contrast is warm and striking
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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crude photoshop of an older dungeons & dragons rulebook cover with the game's title replaced by "Where's your fucking poppy?"
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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A fox jumping over a tomb, jumping over the moon.
If you are lucky enough to witness such an event, you may choose to whisper important news to the fox:
the passing of a loved one, the birth of a child, the fall of tyrants.
The news will be passed on to the clan
#FullMoon #FoxMoon #SuperMoon🦊🐾🌕
This image captures a glimpse of a Fox jumping over a full moon above a Neolithic tomb, three standing stones holding up a slab. There are foxgloves in the foreground, stars whirling around a full moon. Linocut, dark blue and white, Maria Strutz
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Goodnight from Gosmer, where the villagers have chosen to burn an effigy of Thatcher the Iron Witch instead of Guy Fawkes. Goodnight from David Appleyard, walking a night filled with bonefire incense and the heady gunpowder smell of exploded fireworks. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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psychogeographicreview.com/book-of-the-... As a mark of respect, here is my piece on Gillian Tindall's seminal work 'The Fields Beneath'. 2/2
Book of the Month – April 2012 – Gillian Tindall: The Fields Beneath
I found my copy of Gillian Tindall’s The Fields Beneath in a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway one August afternoon last year.  Strange to be buying a London book on a visit to…
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October 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
jimzovich.bsky.social
One of my favourite poets. #poetsofbluesky #bonfirenight #fireworksnight
lauramckee.bsky.social Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 10d
Oh! It’s nearly 5th November! And I barely ever mentioned 💅 this but I had a poem called bonfire in The Poetry Review in 2022 I think which is still this century so here it is again! 🔥
LAURA McKEE bonfire I'm not supposed to be thinking this is beautiful the dazzle of diesel oil purpling across the surface of the canal carrying through its colours more colours loud fallen autumn leaves a bonfire in my head sometimes I've taken a thing as read for years before asking what are we saying when we say the words we say like bonfire not the good fire I thought I would find on checking etymology perhaps thinking of how its heart glowed how it freed dark corners from the dank scent of old papers unsent letters sent circling up as firebirds higher than telegraph wires no love lost what we've been making all along is a fire of bones
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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There now follows a Party Political Broadcast by the Count Binface Party.
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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*New Post*

My latest post discusses the story of Hannah Phillips, who folklore states drowned on the eve of her wedding. Discover her story and the maiden's garland that still bares her name.

#Folklore #Ghosts #Shropshire #hauntings

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October 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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i know trans people who think about trans people less often than some broadsheet columnists
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Remembering Pier Paolo Pasolini
Remembering Pier Paolo Pasolini
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November 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Just a little reminder to American experts on crime in the UK that the homicide rate is 5 times higher in the USA than it is here.
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Very happy to have my painting "Front Porch Havana" selected for the 56th International Exhibition of the California Watercolor Association. Thank you to juror Pat Moseuk and to the CWA for all they do. #art @bsky.art
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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POEM 280: "What Matters" by Camille Newsom

"picnic phrases
like why believe and when
is soft-and-dead coming
to hold our stupid hands"

stonecirclereview.com/what-matters/

#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
November 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Photo of Japanese maple tree with orange leaves in fall against blue sky. Text: Variant Lit open all November for poetry and prose. Free subs. We pay $10.
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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October submission stats:

375 received
7 accepted
1.87% acceptance rate

We're currently reading for the Dec issue. See guidelines & consider subbing. Free to sub; $30/piece accepted.

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November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM