I wrote about my mother’s christening gown and silence for the 34th edition of Science & Magic and you can read it here:
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
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Jeff Young
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Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Author of: Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay (Little Toller) Deliria (Rough Trade Books) Wild Twin (Little Toller) Latchkey (Sacred Parasite)
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@guillermostitch.bsky.socialReposted by @wildtwin.bsky.socialCritic @davidcollard.bsky.social kicks off a series of conversations with authors and publishers on the state of criticism, small presses and the reception of a certain novel. First up is @cdrose.bsky.social, author of We Live Here Now, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize.
@sacredparasite.bsky.socialReposted by @wildtwin.bsky.socialAnd if you need another reason why you should stop whatever it is you're doing and buy Latchkey, Wild Twin, Ghost Town, and Delíria, go ahead and read @wildtwin.bsky.social's latest article in Science & Magic 34. It's called "Silence." And it is beautiful.
@sacredparasite.bsky.socialReposted by @wildtwin.bsky.socialLiverpudlians and Scousers: Fear Not! That box, packed with @wildtwin.bsky.social's new novella Latchkey, got on its way to News From Nowhere yesterday and should arrive Mon. or Tues.
If you've bought one: Dankeschön! If you haven't, get in there this weekend and either buy or reserve yours today.
@jonathangibbs.bsky.socialReposted by @wildtwin.bsky.socialGreat to see M. John Harrison on the Booker shortlist. We were honoured to have him contribute to A Personal Anthology, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, with some writers you'll expect, some you won't and some you just love to see:
@ccohanlon.bsky.socialReposted by @wildtwin.bsky.social"CC and Given have spent years inhabiting the question most of us postpone: how little certainty can a life withstand and still remain a life freely chosen?"
My wife and I are grateful to be profiled with Peter Bach's (@lyst.bsky.social) poetry and empathy.
@wildtwin.bsky.socialThanks Christine. 🙏
@wildtwin.bsky.socialBeautiful. Thank you for this Nicola. Actually breathtaking x
@wildtwin.bsky.socialThanks David. I only found out while I was writing the piece that so many of us have worn it. And I wonder if people had worn it before my mother…
@wildtwin.bsky.socialThank you 🙏
@dianaf.bsky.socialReposted by @wildtwin.bsky.socialscroll down in the link for jeff's piece. "I remember that feeling I’ve had all my life of being alone in a crowded room, of sitting there in silence, my own silence, and of loving that silence and wanting to remain there."
@wildtwin.bsky.socialThank you Diana, I felt this one landed on the page just as I hoped…
@wildtwin.bsky.socialThe 22nd Bird Dream and the 23rd Bird Dream.
@wildtwin.bsky.socialI wrote about my mother’s christening gown and silence for the 34th edition of Science & Magic and you can read it here:
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
@seventydys.bsky.socialReposted by @wildtwin.bsky.socialLiverpool is not a romantic city Henry James, from ‘London’, in ‘English Hours’, published 1876/1905, following his visit in 1869. (P.S Liverpool *is* a romantic city, in my opinion)
@wildtwin.bsky.socialVery much so…
@seventydys.bsky.socialReposted by @wildtwin.bsky.socialAnita Brookner’s scholarly, sharply observant commentaries on paintings by Delacroix, Ingres, Rigaud, Vigée Le Brun, David and Cézanne. On BBC iplayer for the next four weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
@wildtwin.bsky.socialReposted by @wildtwin.bsky.socialSix days left to listen to this Radio 4 series based on the Bayeux Tapestry I wrote with Simon Armitage in 2001. Simon wrote the kings, I wrote the soldiers and peasants.
@wildtwin.bsky.socialMe too, designated peasant writer!