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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎
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When I do my Frankenstein, I am just going to massively extend the single sentence when they're in Wales.

Academy awards await.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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cdrose.bsky.social
Sylvia would like to say thank you to everyone for awarding her the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social.

(And so would I.)
A muted calico cat looking very pleased with herself while posing with the trophy for the 2025 Goldsmith's Prize.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
jolloyds.bsky.social
Another from last November, when there was sun - I am most pleased with the incidental cormorant
Sun sinking into the horizon; above it a cormorant in silhouette
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
jolloyds.bsky.social
And - on this day when probably no one but BBC Radio is broadcasting new literary fiction - here's some new Joe Dunthorne 👇👇👇

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
emmaharding.bsky.social Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 1d
The Accident Report Book - new fiction by Joe Dunthorne specially commissioned by @BBCRadio4 22.45 Mon-Fri. When Marian is tasked with reporting a bizarre workplace accident, she finds herself enjoying the act of writing. Read by Ell Potter & Clive Hayward www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - The Accident Report Book by Joe Dunthorne, Episode 1
Marian has to write up a bizarre workplace accident - original fiction by Joe Dunthorne
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
jolloyds.bsky.social
The sun didn't come up today so here's one from last November
Between slatey clouds and a slatey sea a slice of orange light with distant hills
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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asls.org.uk
Well how do you do, Private William McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
And I’ll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
I’ve been walking all day long, and I’m nearly done…

—Eric Bogle, “No Man’s Land”
#RemembranceSunday
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxwB...
No Man’s Land (The Green Fields of France) Eric Bogle Well how do you do, Private William McBride? Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside? And I’ll rest for a while in the warm summer sun, I’ve been walking all day long, and I’m nearly done. I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916, Well, I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean, Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? Did they beat the drums slowly, Did they sound the fife lowly, Did the rifles fire o’er ye as they lowered you down? Did the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined? And though you died back in 1916, To that loyal heart are you always nineteen? Or are you a stranger without even a name, Forever enshrined behind some glass pane In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained, And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame. Did they beat the drums slowly, Did they sound the fife lowly, Did the rifles fire o’er ye as they lowered you down? Did the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? Well the sun’s shining now on these green fields of France; The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance. The trenches have vanished long under the plough No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now. But here in this graveyard it’s still No Man’s Land The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man’s blind indifference to his fellow man, And a whole generation who were butchered and damned. Did they beat the drums slowly, Did they sound the fife lowly, Did the rifles fire o’er ye as they lowered you down? Did the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? And I can’t help but wonder, now Willie McBride, Do all those who lie here, know why they died? Did you really believe them when they told you the “The Cause?” You really believed that this war would end wars? The suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame, The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain, For Willie McBride, it all happened again, And again, and again, and again, and again. Did they beat the drums slowly, Did they sound the fife lowly, Did the rifles fire o’er ye as they lowered you down? Did the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? Did the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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asls.org.uk
When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so…

—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
#RemembranceSunday #poem #poetry
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47427/...
“When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead” by Charles Hamilton Sorley When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you’ll remember. For you need not so. Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head? Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow. Nor honour. It is easy to be dead. Say only this, “They are dead.” Then add thereto, “Yet many a better one has died before.” Then, scanning all the o’ercrowded mass, should you Perceive one face that you loved heretofore, It is a spook. None wears the face you knew. Great death has made all his for evermore.
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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emmaharding.bsky.social
The Little Box Which Contains the World - poet @no1emily.bsky.social explores agoraphobia on a journey through the lives of people who don't like going on journeys. 7.15pm Sun 9th Nov Illuminated @BBCRadio4 or @BBCSounds Producer Martin Williams www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, The Little Box Which Contains the World
Emily Berry's exploration of agoraphobia.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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polyscribe70.bsky.social
An entire show dedicated to the short story (and every story read with great skill and care by the likes of @churchofben.bsky.social). Not only that, but broadcast for the benefit of hospital patients. @uksherka.bsky.social is doing a magnificent job. Happy first birthday Sherry's Shorts!
uksherka.bsky.social Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 @uksherka.bsky.social · 1d
We're still celebrating turning *1* with 1 terrific story by Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social & read by Benjamine L Wray @churchofben.bsky.social. Find out what happens when a man realises the commune he joined on a small Scottish island isn't the tranquility he imagined. Listen Again link ⬇️.
uksherka.bsky.social Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 @uksherka.bsky.social · 24d
W🤩W! Sherry's Shorts turns 1 this month! 🎉To mark the event, we have 1 terrific story from Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social. In 'The Apparent World', a man joins a commune on a small Scottish island where all is not as it seems...Listen Again anytime via the link.
www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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My great-grandad was a piano tuner from Huddersfield. He was conscripted into the army during the First World War, and had an awful time. After I found out a bit about what he went through, I wrote a short story. I thought today might be a good day to share it. richarddsmyth.com/2025/11/09/n...
New short story: ‘FP Number Two’
The sky shivers with fever and there are devils on the roofs of the public houses.
richarddsmyth.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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roughghosts.bsky.social
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, tr. by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
The sea on one side, steep and lofty mountains on the other; that’s our whole story in fact. The authorities, merchants, might rule our destitute days, but the mountains and the sea rule life, they…
roughghosts.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
jolloyds.bsky.social
This thread gets unexpectedly dark
gilbertwhite.bsky.social Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 2d
1776: I saw no fieldfares all thro' my Journey. If they come, as Rays says they do, "ventis vehementer spriantibus" they can have had no advantage of that kind; for the autumn has been remarkably still. Magpies sometimes, I see, perch on the backs of sheep, & pick the lice & ticks out of their...
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
jolloyds.bsky.social
Nothing could be more lovely
gilbertwhite.bsky.social Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 3d
1776: Infinite quantities of haws & sloes. Nothing could be more lovely than the ride from Andover to Alresford over the Hants downs. The shepherds mow the charlock growing among the wheat.
November 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
jolloyds.bsky.social
A lot of people seem to think I'm called Jolly Odd
lyndac.bsky.social Lynda Clark @lyndac.bsky.social · 3d
Absolutely cannot stand it when people I have just met automatically call me Lyn (No. You have to earn that, dickhead) but am often just grateful they're not calling me Lydia, which I get more often than my actual name.
andrewmale.bsky.social Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 4d
I have unfollowed people on social media who have called me Andy. It’s not my name. I am not an Andy. You might as well call me Ronald. Call people by the name they want.
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
jolloyds.bsky.social
Did we know they made a film of Train Dreams???
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social for his @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social win with We Live Here Now!

You can read his Personal Anthology picks, here - couple of seasonal specials and then a typically idiosyncratic Anthology of his own!

apersonalanthology.com/category/cd-...
CD Rose – A Personal Anthology
C.D. Rose is the author of Who's Who When Everyone Is Someone Else: Ten Lectures on Great Lost Books and the editor of The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure (both published by Melville Ho…
apersonalanthology.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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thebooksdesk.bsky.social
“…she’s prepared to look ignorant, grumpy, petty and small if that’s in pursuit of emotional truth. She makes us all work harder and stay braver.” A great survey here by Rochelle of the work of the very special person that is Helen Garner
milan2pinsk.bsky.social Rochelle Siemienowicz @milan2pinsk.bsky.social · 5d
Australian author Helen Garner is now so famous and well-regarded that to say you don’t like her has almost become a badge of honour among rebels, which I think is sad. Wrote this piece for @artshub.bsky.social.
Why do we love Helen Garner so much?
From Monkey Grip to How to End a Story, Helen Garner has been writing with clear-eyed precision for the better part of 50 years.
www.artshub.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
jolloyds.bsky.social
Look at this! Congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social - We Live Here Now has won this year's Goldsmiths Prize! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social

A writer who has pursued his own vision and refused to be swayed by the world - lovely to see this rewarded
melvillehouse.bsky.social Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 5d
@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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caasbrey.bsky.social
Harvard Gazette: Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?” Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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iainsarjeant.bsky.social
Recent wandering...
Dark photograph of reeds against a deep turquoise expanse of water.
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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thebookshopie.bsky.social
Just released from @tramppress.bsky.social is An Alternative Irish Christmas - a collection of short stories from some of Ireland's best writers, packaged in a great design by @feekra.bsky.social .
Book cover showing a stylised gilt lined conifer tree with a star on top on a dark green background The list of contributors Inside cover boards, a copy of the outer cover with a filigree type tree design in gold with a star on top (the star also being the Tramp Press logo)
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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marinasofia.bsky.social
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist 2025 clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/04/w...
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist 2025
Fourteen titles have been longlisted for the 8th annual award of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The 2025 competition received a total of 145 eligible entries from 34 languages. The lon…
clairemcalpine.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social
Beautiful photo of a stunning piece of slow art, caught by @damianward.bsky.social with the uplifting back story told here by Emma Croman.
thehumblehome.uk/posts/the-sh...
A black and white photo by Damian Ward. The photo is line of shells, place deliberately across a stress of shingle beach, in singlr file from the houses in the background to a pair of concentric circles in the ofreground. It is a slow art work made by a pair of women who started as a mediative exercise while they were undergoing cancer treatment.
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
jolloyds.bsky.social
"Wallace Shawn from 'husband of Deborah Eisenberg'"
zamirarahim.bsky.social Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 7d
"Wallace Shawn from Gossip Girl"
cethanleahy.com Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 7d
I mean mine is probable "Wallace Shawn from Clueless"
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM