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Bridget Khursheed
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Callum James' South Downs: Paths of the Dead is partly a grimoire of the walk, partly a linear topography, partly a treatise on necromancy. Subverting the expectation that books on landscape are divorced from folklore, spirits & the magic of a place. @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 🔥
A South Downs book cover which features wooden signposts against a green downland colour background.
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Coming in 2026 #coverreveal & yes it is fiction
Book cover showing an image of a roundabout with street lights at night - the book is called The Cellarman by Bridget Khursheed and it is due out in 2026
November 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Okkkkayyyyyyyy 🔥
November 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Honoured to be included on the #poetry longlist for the Scottish National Book Awards with #ExactColourOfSnow
September 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The Eildon #hills and #trees
Distant hills with sentinel trees under a grey sky with a field of green clover in the foreground
August 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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A bit of #turf #turfgame #galashiels #galawater
Gala water stretch by the Netherdale industrial estate - the river is looking dreamy - turf logo as this is a Swedish game zone
July 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Epic Tour of Britain Women #ScottishBorders @tourofbritain.bsky.social
Tour of Britain cycle race speeds through Melrose street in the Scottish Borders in close formation
June 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Peaceful dawn on the #river #riverTweed
Early morning light on stretch of the river Tweed
May 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Clown chair
Wooden bodger style chair with one leg fallen off along with two other connecting pieces looks a bit iffy
April 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Night walking towards the light #chain #bridge #riverTweed #river
View along the wooden planks of the Gattonside chain bridge in the night
April 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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The #portal #tree on the walk back from the #Fairy Bridge of Glen Creran
Old and twisted moss-covered pollard oak surrounded by early ferns and blaeberry
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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At Kelly’s Pier, Loch Etive
Kelly’s Pier juts out into the low tidal waters of Loch Etive in Taynuilt, Scottish Highlands. It appears to be rotting but a section is still in use. It was originally built in the 1830s.
April 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Any guesses which scene from #MissBunclesBook #DEStevenson #DES this 1938 image from The Philadelphia Inquirer is illustrating?

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Seductive lady gazes at an adoring gent in tails from the Philadelphia Inquirer serialisation of Miss Buncle’s Book by D E Stevenson March 20th 1938
April 15, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Lights over the #river #Tweed
Twilight on a river Tweed pool with distant lights showing above the trees
April 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Researching #DEStevenson - overlooked multi-million selling Scottish author - for a talk I am giving this month
60s Fontana reprint for this DES book from 1942 a “light novel” about coercive control Miss Buncle’s Book serialised in The Philadelphia Inquirer with a slightly unlikely illustration Sales for DES’ first US publications - a publisher’s ad in the NY Times Book Review May 1939 - these three books were published within a few months of each other over the previous year DES had doubts about publishing The English Air - billed as “The first story of this England in wartime!” in this US publisher’s ad
April 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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The #tweed #river #cauld at #dusk
April 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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The sweet power of publishing your own #poetry & more - seen here with nancyclark shaunbelcher gilesgoodland & more
February 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Snow in the Scottish Borders
Snow in evening sunshine
January 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Out now #ExactColourOfSnow #poetry #newpoetry
Exact Colour of Snow poetry collection cover showing snowy Glencoe is out now
January 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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What is the exact colour of snow? #poetry #newpoetry
January 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Early reactions to #ExactColourOfSnow #poetry #newpoetry out January 17th #shearsmanbooks
Cover of Exact Colour of Snow poetry collection showing snowy Glencoe with a quote from early reader poet Colin Will who says “…it’s a brilliant collection.”
January 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The #autumn #Tweed #river #salmon #fall
A dead salmon post-spawning in the River Tweed in Scotland. Nice reflection of trees and blue sky too.
November 30, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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Seems a suitable day to let you know Exact colour of snow is now available to preorder from Shearsman Books www.shearsman.com/store/Bridge...

#DyeChemistry #childbirth #gardening #snow #newpoetry

New #poetry out January 2025
Book cover for Exact Colour of Snow shows snowy lochan and mountains of Glencoe
November 22, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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The exact colour of snow? Coming soon #shearsmanbooks #poetry
September 7, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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A collective of writers focussed on nature & environment in a time of climate & ecological breakdown - I am delighted to appear in Paperboats issue #3 - read my poem and so much powerful work here

paperboats.org/2024/03/28/i...
Into a Borders forest clearing
April 13, 2024 at 7:56 AM