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Dr Malice

@atarbuck.bsky.social
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Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️‍🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 19m
180,000 giant tortoises find small team of researchers visiting the Seychelles.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 50m
alt text: A copy of Rishi Dastidar’s collection ‘Cherry Blossom at Night’ sitting in a bowl of apples
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 52m
One million thank yous to @betarish.bsky.social for giving out prizes so delicious that you read them in one gulp!
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1h
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A native of the Kayaye village, dressed head to toe in boughs and leaves as part of the Kongcorong ceremony
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2h
I keenly anticipate his first collection! (But kind of seriously - because I do not think poetry is an inherently left-wing form, and I would be quite genuinely fascinated by a poet who took seriously those concerns within their work, like a contemp Yeats)
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2h
I genuinely cannot think of any working at a decent level who explicitly align themselves with Conservative / generally right wing values.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2h
Heard someone describe a recent poetry event as ‘too left’. I ask - who are the (living) ‘poets of the right’?
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 6h
I mean the Nobel CERTAINLY IS a big adventure.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 6h
Wish book marketers focused less on tropes and more on metaphysics.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 19h
A good way to regain composure after a nasty knock: do a good, fun poetry reading with people whose work you adore.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh how I hate and loathe to be thwarted.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I remember Kate telling me that she always did this! TOO MUCH!
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That he could outrun Hugh Grant? That he'd do surprisingly well in prison? That he considers the Browns to be English?
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
feel this in the bonios
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Loss is so vast and complex because people are so vast and complex, and that is somehow enormously comforting.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I keep thinking today about how people are like vast nets - their networked knowledge, their cultural references, their experiences, so dense and extraordinary it would take each of us our own lifetime to understand their lifetime, and how lovely that is.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, look at you both! Love love love to him.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’ll be listing a collection of necklaces in my Etsy shop this Thurs eve (9 UK time) I’ll be making using these Victorian & Edwardian silver stamp holders,lockets, charms, converted brooches (THE OWL) & a tiny 18th C whistle.To enquire/reserve a piece click 💬 on my page: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maybe I’ll do a reading from it instead.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Instead of arriving at this talk with a copy my own book, I have arrived with a copy of THE ORC WHO CLAIMED ME.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Me, sitting on sensitive information until it becomes appropriate:
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Excited to return to Edinburgh to check on my - I kid you not - little spider colony.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The hood protects the driver from screaming and, in the case of taking a wrong turn, a sharp nip
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
correct!!! almost as if page/stage distinctions miss entirely the position of the life as the work
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one might argue that all of life and all of art, is a performance.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i’m developing some sort of Scotrail Neck Paralysis
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is an excellent thread on writing:
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
YES TO ALL OF THIS
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eamonn I must learn I must; I had 17 lessons years ago and made comedically little progress
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
By tonight, I’ll have spent 10 hours on trains since Friday
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just saw a discourse and thought, "not today. I am too pretty and talented for that."
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
so many congratulations!
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Looking forward to hurtling toward my gaudy parrot era.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
o no this’ll be in my head 5ever
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
LAUREN HAS THE PIE COUNT GONE UP????
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We're so close to selling out for this event which is super exciting!! Really looking forward to Wednesday evening for some ghost stories, hunting and hauntings - I've now heard about the ghosts residing in Blackwell's and they are delightfully creeeepyy! 👻👀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/haunted-an...
Haunted and Hunted - an evening of ghosts
Wednesday 7th october
Tickets £15
6.30-9pm Blackwell's of Edinburgh
See Eventbrite for full details
Cannot guarantee safety from hauntings
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My favourite spelling mistake is prison /orison
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Flowers as a means of catching light.
A row of white cosmos flowers and buds photographed from behind. The petals are lit with sun.The same white cosmos from farther away with pale peach colored cosmos in the foreground with lit blooms.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The UK Arts & Ents industry contributes over £10bn to the UK economy a year & one of these days our politicians might even realise that instead writing it off as icky girlie flouncing bc you can't do a photoshoot in a hard hat & hi-vis gilet at the national theatre without looking like a tit
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
oh no it’s too good
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Isabellettriste @minxmarple.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just remember, they can submit your stuff even if you are dead. Do not put your stuff in repositories until you can’t possibly avoid it. The institution will not love you.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
a stone cold babe
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My Dad used to live there!
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN HOLDING THIS VIEW COLM
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
fyi @davepoems.bsky.social
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YES I LOVE THIS
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whenever anyone tells me they are ‘en route’, I have to try to stop myself saying ‘or do you mean… en croute?’ No! they never mean that! It’s a terrible joke but I love it.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I actually really enjoy both of your jokes, but I am a realllllly low bar.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Its what we have long fought for as a nation. Apparently the favourite breakfast of William Wallace.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Up late thinking about ham.
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