Juliet West 📚💙🌱
@julietwest.bsky.social
Author of BEFORE THE FALL (Pan Macmillan, 2014) and THE FAITHFUL (Pan Macmillan, 2017). Poetry in Magma (2024) Hippocrates Prize anthology (2024). Books, gardening, cats.
https://www.julietwest.com/
https://www.julietwest.com/
Thank you to West Sussex Libraries for choosing me as a champion in their centenary year. We are so lucky to have thriving libraries across the county, even in smaller towns and villages. Congrats on 100 years of brilliant (free) books! #amreading #libraries #writingcommunity
@wsccnews.bsky.social
@wsccnews.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Thank you to West Sussex Libraries for choosing me as a champion in their centenary year. We are so lucky to have thriving libraries across the county, even in smaller towns and villages. Congrats on 100 years of brilliant (free) books! #amreading #libraries #writingcommunity
@wsccnews.bsky.social
@wsccnews.bsky.social
This is my writing space for the day. So happy to have finally made it to Gladstone’s Library. What an extraordinary place. And my room is amazing - look at the wallpaper ✨📚❤️
#amwriting #writingcommunity #libraries
#amwriting #writingcommunity #libraries
October 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This is my writing space for the day. So happy to have finally made it to Gladstone’s Library. What an extraordinary place. And my room is amazing - look at the wallpaper ✨📚❤️
#amwriting #writingcommunity #libraries
#amwriting #writingcommunity #libraries
Wow, I saw this young hobby at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and it was so bold. It flew around onto different fence posts so I could get pics at various angles ✨
#nature #birds #wildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
#nature #birds #wildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Wow, I saw this young hobby at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and it was so bold. It flew around onto different fence posts so I could get pics at various angles ✨
#nature #birds #wildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
#nature #birds #wildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
Lovely conkers on an #EastSussex lane, including doubles and triples! When I was growing up in a seaside town, the local park had a couple of horse chestnut trees and the scary big boys always got to the best conkers first. These would have been unimaginable riches 🌱
#ukgardening #nature #autumn
#ukgardening #nature #autumn
September 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Lovely conkers on an #EastSussex lane, including doubles and triples! When I was growing up in a seaside town, the local park had a couple of horse chestnut trees and the scary big boys always got to the best conkers first. These would have been unimaginable riches 🌱
#ukgardening #nature #autumn
#ukgardening #nature #autumn
August 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Evening sunflowers in a West Sussex field 🌱
August 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Evening sunflowers in a West Sussex field 🌱
August 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
What a remarkable novel - As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray (seen here with sleeping cat). I had never heard of the 1919 Iolaire shipwreck. This book tells the story in beautiful, humane prose. Murray is a magnificent writer - now to seek out more of his novels📚 #writingcommunity #booksky
August 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
What a remarkable novel - As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray (seen here with sleeping cat). I had never heard of the 1919 Iolaire shipwreck. This book tells the story in beautiful, humane prose. Murray is a magnificent writer - now to seek out more of his novels📚 #writingcommunity #booksky
This evening I walked a disused railway line near Fakenham, Norfolk, and heard a cuckoo calling
#Springwatch #birds
#Springwatch #birds
June 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This evening I walked a disused railway line near Fakenham, Norfolk, and heard a cuckoo calling
#Springwatch #birds
#Springwatch #birds
Eddie was happily relaxed on my lap until these foxes came on #Springwatch
#cats #catswatchingspringwatch
#cats #catswatchingspringwatch
May 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Eddie was happily relaxed on my lap until these foxes came on #Springwatch
#cats #catswatchingspringwatch
#cats #catswatchingspringwatch
May 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Open gardens weekend in the village of Fittleworth, West Sussex. It was absolutely beautiful, even on a blustery Bank Holiday Monday 🌱
#gardening #ukgardening
#gardening #ukgardening
May 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Open gardens weekend in the village of Fittleworth, West Sussex. It was absolutely beautiful, even on a blustery Bank Holiday Monday 🌱
#gardening #ukgardening
#gardening #ukgardening
What a beautiful poem for May 4th.
From the anthology ‘A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year’ ed Liz Ison.
#poems #poetrycommunity #poetry #writingcommunity
From the anthology ‘A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year’ ed Liz Ison.
#poems #poetrycommunity #poetry #writingcommunity
May 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
What a beautiful poem for May 4th.
From the anthology ‘A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year’ ed Liz Ison.
#poems #poetrycommunity #poetry #writingcommunity
From the anthology ‘A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year’ ed Liz Ison.
#poems #poetrycommunity #poetry #writingcommunity
Here is Eddie (aka Prince Chunk) fast asleep on his back with tail covering his modesty #caturday #catsofbluesky
May 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Here is Eddie (aka Prince Chunk) fast asleep on his back with tail covering his modesty #caturday #catsofbluesky
Possibly the best year ever for our wisteria. Bees are loving it too! 🌱🐝
#gardening #spring #wildlife #ukgardening
#gardening #spring #wildlife #ukgardening
May 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Possibly the best year ever for our wisteria. Bees are loving it too! 🌱🐝
#gardening #spring #wildlife #ukgardening
#gardening #spring #wildlife #ukgardening
Hello and happy Friday to all my new followers. Here’s a pic of a fox cub in the garden, spotted early morning with three siblings. Sadly I wasn’t quick enough to get a pic of the whole family 🦊
#foxoftheday #wildlife
#foxoftheday #wildlife
May 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Hello and happy Friday to all my new followers. Here’s a pic of a fox cub in the garden, spotted early morning with three siblings. Sadly I wasn’t quick enough to get a pic of the whole family 🦊
#foxoftheday #wildlife
#foxoftheday #wildlife
Tomatoes now planted out in the greenhouse. There’s a yellow tomato, a cherry and a beefsteak. My sister grew them from seed but I don’t know which is which as I forgot to mark up the pots. We watch and wait 👀🌱
#gardening #spring
#gardening #spring
April 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Tomatoes now planted out in the greenhouse. There’s a yellow tomato, a cherry and a beefsteak. My sister grew them from seed but I don’t know which is which as I forgot to mark up the pots. We watch and wait 👀🌱
#gardening #spring
#gardening #spring
April 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Look what just arrived in the post! Excited to read the new novel by @essiefox.bsky.social, seen here with coordinating tulips 🌷💙📚@orendabooks.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Look what just arrived in the post! Excited to read the new novel by @essiefox.bsky.social, seen here with coordinating tulips 🌷💙📚@orendabooks.bsky.social
Lesser celandine in a wild patch of our garden. It’s very invasive - slowly creeping onto the lawn - but bees love it so I’m practising acceptance 🌱#SundayYellow
April 6, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Lesser celandine in a wild patch of our garden. It’s very invasive - slowly creeping onto the lawn - but bees love it so I’m practising acceptance 🌱#SundayYellow
Snake’s head fritillary - hands down my favourite spring flower. That delicate curved stalk! So classy in comparison to the blowsy camellia that’s dropping like crazy in the background. Need to get sweeping 🌱#gardening
April 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Snake’s head fritillary - hands down my favourite spring flower. That delicate curved stalk! So classy in comparison to the blowsy camellia that’s dropping like crazy in the background. Need to get sweeping 🌱#gardening
March 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I love this stunning cover of #Hartisborne by Stephanie Norgate. Stephanie is an award-winning poet and brilliant writing tutor. I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of this wonderful novel - it’s set in a fictional Selborne, (home of ecologist Gilbert White) in 18th and 20th centuries.
March 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I love this stunning cover of #Hartisborne by Stephanie Norgate. Stephanie is an award-winning poet and brilliant writing tutor. I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of this wonderful novel - it’s set in a fictional Selborne, (home of ecologist Gilbert White) in 18th and 20th centuries.
You can’t see the blighter, but there’s a fieldfare camouflaged in this shot 🪶
Strange to think this peaceful field was once busy with Spitfire and Mustang fighter planes. 15 airmen died while on active service at RAF Coolham during WW2 - 8 Polish, 6 British and 1 Canadian.
Strange to think this peaceful field was once busy with Spitfire and Mustang fighter planes. 15 airmen died while on active service at RAF Coolham during WW2 - 8 Polish, 6 British and 1 Canadian.
March 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
You can’t see the blighter, but there’s a fieldfare camouflaged in this shot 🪶
Strange to think this peaceful field was once busy with Spitfire and Mustang fighter planes. 15 airmen died while on active service at RAF Coolham during WW2 - 8 Polish, 6 British and 1 Canadian.
Strange to think this peaceful field was once busy with Spitfire and Mustang fighter planes. 15 airmen died while on active service at RAF Coolham during WW2 - 8 Polish, 6 British and 1 Canadian.