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Rachel Deering
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Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · Dec 23
Please review my collection on Amazon or Goodreads if you have been lovely enough to buy it. It really helps. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... In the Shadow of Gods amzn.eu/d/gRaCt0j
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Ah, insomnia, my old friend. Three hours last night, two tonight. How I wish I was…
🖼️ Asleep, Gordon Stewart Cameron, 1951.
Painting of a young woman with her eyes closed, appearing to be asleep. She is wearing a dark, buttoned dress with a white collar. Her arms are gently clasped across her lap. Background of browns and greens.
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Calanais, Isle of Lewis.

#StandingStoneSunday #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland
Black and white photo of the standing stones forming the circles and alignments at Callanish, on the Isle of Lewis.
October 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Honoured to be a part of Ghost Light Lit's stunning new issue, 'of myths & monsters'. Here is my ode to Hecate 🖤
Crossroads By Bex Hainsworth like a signature in the forest frills of an old castle and I’m thinking of Hecate goddess blessing entrances and liminal spaces witch of the way forward mistress of murderers with a smile like a knife of moon keys rust on her belt outlasting their locks a black terrier with yellow eyes trotting at her heels here is Hecate’s mark there is a decision to be made and like a poem you cannot simply stop (like a door, this opens both ways)
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I have a book coming out very soon -

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Róisín Ní Neachtain - I, bird | Broken Sleep Books
Róisín Ní Neachtain's I, bird is a fragmented, lyrical reckoning with grief, trauma, and the porous boundary between body and voice. Structured in poetic prose and verse, the collection moves between ...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Goodnight.
May we all sleep safely and warmly in our setts until a new day wakes us.
🖼️ Anita Inverarity
Illustration of a badger curled up and sleeping in its sett. The badger is surrounded by plants, toadstools, flowers and ferns. In the background the night sky can be seen through the trees, with a crescent moon, stars, and small standing stones on a hill. There’s a woodpecker on the trunk of the tree on the left. A Celtic knot symbol is carved into the tree trunk on the right.
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Today's Pick of the Day is Caldwell's taut, compelling and unnerving story, 'The Day She Chose to Be Good'

Do please share on your own social media, if you like it too.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Autumn.
📷 Me
Tree branches with a few remaining autumn leaves against blue, cloudy sky, photo taken by me yesterday.
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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May Morris for Morris & Co.
Design of repeating pattern of parakeets, stylized roses, tulips, leaves, and turning stems; blues and reds and greens.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Autumn Leaves, Franklin Booth, 1911.
An illustration, Autumn Leaves, by Franklin Booth and published as a cover for Collier's magazine in 1911. There are three female figures caught in an autumnal wind, appearing to be women dancing as swirling leaves, perhaps fairies. They are dressed in flowing, warm-toned dresses of orange-brown. The figures are positioned in the upper portion of the image sitting on / against bare, gnarled tree branches. Below them, several individual leaves are shown falling where small trees and birds are visible against a hazy sky.
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Dormice, Archibald Thorburn.
Two dormice on a branch, autumn leaves, one is eating, painting.
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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🖼️ Katie Scott
Botanical illustration of fungi and lichen against olive green background.
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
Orange cover with floral decoration, title: ‘…In A Dofficult Position’
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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🖼️ Two Red Foxes, Fang Chuxiong
Painting of two young foxes curled up side-by-side in a grassy field, one is asleep with face hidden and the other is awake looking ahead.
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Hello Monday.
🖼️ Esther Inglis, Self Portrait, 1595.
Inglis is wearing a large, black, high-crowned hat, known as a capotain or sugarloaf hat. She wears a large, elaborate white ruff around her neck and a black gown with puffed sleeves. Her hands are clasped at her waist, holding a small red book. She wears several rings on her left hand, and a necklace of tiny beads. The background is a reddish-brown, oil painting.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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White-throated dipper, Henrik Grönvold, c.1906.
Dipper on stone by water, bankside in background, illustration.
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Morning.
🖼️ Redshanks, Tunnicliffe.
Two redshanks in flight over water with reeds and clouds reflected in water, painting.
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Goodnight.
On the Windowsill at Night, Quint Buchholz, 1995.
Painting of the side of a light-colored building at night. A small black cat sits on the sill of a window, looking out. The crescent moon is visible in the night sky reflected in the window pane. The building has a dark roof and green louvered shutters. Bare tree branches can be seen either side of the frame.
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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'Folk culture is all around us.'

Introducing The Lost Folk by Lally MacBeth, a fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as ‘folk’ in Britain.

Out on 19 June and available to pre-order now: linktr.ee/TheLostFolk
March 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Lincluden Abbey, founded by Uchtred, son of Fergus of Galloway, in the 12th C. It is said to be home to two apparitions, one of a nun and another of a green lady.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway
Atmospheric black and white photo of three medieval arched windows in a ruined abbey.
November 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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The new episode is out and about with @merrildsmith.bsky.social @nkahwat.bsky.social Trisha Norton and Deepika Singh!!

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November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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My poetry collection, In the Shadow of Gods, is currently selling for eleven whole pence less than usual! amzn.eu/d/8GeJEBX
Cover of my 2024 collection: In the Shadow of Gods Rachel Deering
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Another wonderful account from Turlough’s already brimming collection of life writing.

Make your own mind up about Irn Bru!

‘Saturday Night's Alright for Peaches’ is Sunday’s Pick of the Day

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Author’s own photograph of the ‘exotic view from my college cabin window.’ Shows bridge and tower blocks.
November 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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A poem of mine for this slow approach of Wintering. It’s called Blackthorn.
Illustration of blackthorn and its dark berries. I am the seed that knows no name, I am the happenstance of germination, of endurance. I am the blackthorn, each twist and contortion, I am every layer of bark and every leaf grown and fallen, I am the nighttide of fruit, bletted or food for mistle thrush, the star-white bloom and friend of mottled pug and lonely bee. I am Winter's hope of crooked tree, I am the mistbright blossom of a Hawthorn's sister, I am the Maypole. I am the root and the unturned earth, I am the North Wind, a fence of prickles, I am the rain and the cloud it fell from, I am the worm. I am the black rod, I am a giant's cudgel, I am the pin of slumber, the wood's mother, a broken spell, I am all the tales you tell about me, I am an old wound, healed.
November 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Pygmy goat.
Photo of Pygmy goat.
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Goat.
Photo of goat sat on roof of his hut type thing with view of Bath behind.
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM