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Rose Ruane
@regretteruane.bsky.social
Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
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Puffin Post perfection
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Call for papers for a special issue of the *Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry* on concrete & visual poetries. Edited by Colin Herd & Greg Thomas. 250-300-word abstracts to ConcreteAndVisualPoetries@gmail.com by 10 Jan 2026
poetry.openlibhums.org/news/867/

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October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Almost prostrate and sobbing with relief at the appearance of Buddo today.
Proper Railway Children “Buddo, my Buddo” levels of grateful to see them
Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Writing Hookland. #Writing #Hookland.
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Puffin Post perfection
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Thank you all so much for supporting this wonderful charity. It’s allowed us to dare to dream. Please please do consider a donation if you can as everything counts at the moment
Donate to Latimer Community Art Therapy (LCAT), organized by Lucy Easthope
This Christmas and beyond, we urgently need your help. Latimer Community Art Therap… Lucy Easthope needs your support for Latimer Community Art Therapy (LCAT)
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A very short film about Charles Palmer’s concrete teddy bear garden in Bradford-on-Avon, demolished in the 1970s.
There is a sadness to these places being lost but I like to think the love hours spent on making, the person’s pleasure in their creation is never lost
www.britishpathe.com/asset/36291/
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Wonderful footage at about 6:44 in this film of Sidney Dowdeswell’s sadly long ago demolished visionary art environment, an extraordinary shell & concrete artwork which the retired engineer built singlehandedly in his own back garden in Hindlip, Worcestershire
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Sometimes scintillating Blakean visions herald my migraines; fracturing stained glass galaxies, everything fiercely pearled with ecstatic majesty but mostly it’s a bolt of stray echoaic language or sound & today it’s:
A little mouse with Crocs on
Well I declare!
Going wank-wankety-wank on the stair
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Stopped twice on motorway & had a look from this tower.
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!

www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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TV executives complaining: people don't want to watch interesting original content, that's why TV is crap

Some dude on YT: Please enjoy my channel where I hook mushrooms up to synths and let their electric signals make music
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Becky Higgins reflects on her position as an autoethnographic researcher working collaboratively on the topics of memory and illness, exploring the queerness of storytelling as method.
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/18/y...
You and me, I and I: the queerness of intergenerational storytelling
Becky Higgins reflects on her position as an autoethnographic researcher working collaboratively on the topics of memory and illness, exploring the queerness of storytelling as method.
thepolyphony.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Argonaut Books needs your help 📣

Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.

Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It reminded me of this drawing created by an individual who was compelled to live at Netherne hospital during the midC20th, who identity is currently unknown to us.
They made this work in the art therapy studio at Netherne & the image is taken from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Divine surreal psychedelia by Jill McDonald from the cover of a 1974 Puffin Post
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Bathed in fridge light eating maltesers out of my own palm like a big smug horse
The night sweetie is a cigarette for the soul
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Sensible adults (derogatory)
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I cannot offer you a big Black Friday deal (though if my inbox is anything to go by, nobody can - up to 20% off, ooh) but my forthcoming book has a small discount and a pre-order hugely helps with it getting stocked come release day🙏
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/get-...
Get Ahead of Being Dead: Your Handy Planner for the End of Life
Your Handy Planner for the End of Life
uk.bookshop.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Maybe there really is someone out there who wants to text like a cross between Chaucer, a deeply drunken Dutch person & Kryten trying to call Rimmer a Smeghead in Red Dwarf & so is absolutely overjoyed with how autocorrect “works” now
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
You can have a healthy, hearty, all you can eat buffet breakfast of every intricate horror, cruelty & brutality the world has to offer, as a little treat
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Top 5 movie genres are:

People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
Top 5 movie genres are:
Breathtakingly beautiful magic realism that represents grief
Buncha fuckin losers decide to become a family instead of going to therapy
Yikes a ghost! Oh it's just sad.
Bright colours, singing, dancing, gay subtext/text
Whatever the fuck Star Trek First Contact is
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:

- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Perfect pastiche and genuinely beautiful in its own right
There have been many attempts at lampooning Elton John over the years, but the brilliance in Neil Innes' approach from RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION is to emulate Elton's musicianship while gently ribbing the oft-times endearingly flowery/nonsensical nature of Bernie Taupin's lyrics...
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Boosting this for the not-up-ridiculously-early-on-a-Sunday crowd. Creatives! Can YOU donate an item to the #Creatives4Sudan auction? Could be signed books, original art, a phone call talking about how to get into your industry, or [insert your idea]. Funds going Emergency response rooms in Sudan.
Creatives from any industry more than welcome to submit auction lots - whether it's a half hour chat about breaking into your industry, a piece of art, a poem, a curated booklist by a librarian, say! Sign up and more info here! #Creatives4Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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My favourite YouTube channel has made a new episode. British Cryptids are stylistic documentaries from the 70s on ghosts, monsters and folklore. Think Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World meets the first series of Look Around You. youtu.be/XTTw5jquP-k?...
British Cryptids: The Moon Man
YouTube video by British Cryptids (1974)
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM