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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

an entire world, within and beyond our own. My essay on the ‘Best Book of 1934’: Bruno Schulz’s Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy cynamonowe) @grantamag.bsky.social granta.com/best-book-of...

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Best Book of 1934: Bruno Schulz’s Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy cynamonowe) | David Hayden | Granta

David Hayden on why Bruno Schulz’s Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy cynamonowe) is the best book of 1934.

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Maureen Boyle @boylemo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Laughing out loud at the brilliant Paul Durcan, in prep for ekphrasis class tomorrow. He’s so good it ‘s hard to choose. Want class to read them all! 🖼️📚💚

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Maureen Boyle @boylemo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Freesias and berries to brighten the Belfast fog! 💛💚

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

When columnist Melanie Reid wrote about struggling to find a hairdresser after her spinal injury, 98 year old art historian and socialite Virginia Surtees wrote to her (on a typewriter) offering to taxi round her wigs from her flat in Knightsbridge. I can sleep now. www.thetimes.com/article/1a37...

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This is my last Spinal Column. Writing it helped me survive

Melanie Reid wrote her first Spinal Column in 2010, just days after breaking her neck and back in a riding accident. She thought she might have enough material for a month. Almost 15 years and many aw...

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

“A new writing award for authors aged 60+ has launched, and is backed by My Name is Leon (Penguin) author @kitdewaal.bsky.social and agency AM Health.” via The Bookseller Magazine #NewWritingAward www.thebookseller.com/news/new-wri...

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New writing award for authors aged 60+ to prove it’s ‘Never Too Late’

A new writing award for authors aged 60+ has launched, and is backed by My Name is Leon (Penguin) author Kit de Waal and agency AM Health.

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Maureen Boyle @boylemo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The Christmas books! This little novella by Tessa Hadley perfect for Christmas Eve! 💚🎄❤️📚

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Maureen Boyle @boylemo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Delighted my poem’Jacinta Painting Under Trees’ is included in Jacinta s wonderful exhibition in the Marketplace Theatre in Armagh, ‘Flights of Fantasy’ . 🙏

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Maureen Boyle @boylemo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Little scarlet cactus shining! ❤️🎄❤️

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The BBC's Powell & Pressburger season gets underway this Sunday on BBC2 with the TV debut of 'Made In England; The Films of Powell & Pressburger', then continues on BBC4 on Nov. 21...

Made In England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

The Powell & Pressburger season continues on BBC 4

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Want to read a great short poem about London that you've probably never read before? In which Wordsworth sort of sounds like T.S. Eliot? And there's an iambic pentameter entirely made of adjectives for a snowy city street? I have it all right here for you someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/deep-hollo...

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Deep, Hollow, Unobstructed, Vacant, Smooth

On a little-known poem of London by Wordsworth

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Writers! Do you have a masterpiece handy? ... For the next month, we're open to submissions from women writers. For more information, head here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/submissions (We'll be very grateful if you could share widely!)

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Peter O'Neill @poneill.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Lovely couple of minutes with Nicholas Allen and the great Seamus Heaney here; www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Good morning! There's something about starting the week with a first copy of your novel in its new paperback jacket! It's a standalone, uplit, family saga, and Easons Ireland currently has it at a SPECIAL ONLINE OFFER PRICE 👉https://rb.gy/fjkio Reposts appreciated.🎈📚 #author #writingcommunity

Author Felicity Hayes-McCoy, wearing a white top, a grey cardiga and a silver pendant smiling and holding a copy of the new paperback edition of her novel The Keepsake Quilters. She wears glasses and stand in front of white cupboards, a silver lamp and a vase of twigs.

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Maureen Boyle @boylemo.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

This is non-fiction’s Milkman. Devastating, powerful, heartbreaking & breaking open the dark claustrophobia of Republican West Belfast. I’ve never read anything like it. A book can’t undo suffering but this is a remarkable reclamation of agency. 💔

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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Out Nov. '23, from Books Ireland mag - I have a piece in it about writing historical fiction. Lots of writers and literature experts contribute. Edited by #ruthmckee

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I do this every now and then. This is Domino. He's one of the dogs that has been the longest at the DSPCA. Liz and I brought him out for a walk up to the Hellfire Club recently and he is a sweetheart... What about adopting him? www.dspca.ie/dimo-17590 A share would help too...

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The Pig's Back @thepigsback.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Submissions for Issue Five are now open. Closing date is midnight Oct 15th. We're seeking the best non-fiction and short stories from anywhere in the world. More info here: thepigsback.ie/submit

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Submit — The Pig's Back

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Maureen Boyle @boylemo.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Trees in Ormeau Park this afternoon. 🌳🧡🍁💚🍂

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Maureen Boyle @boylemo.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

So lovely to see these boxes of fresh herbs in Belfast city centre yesterday at Donegal Square North, presumably for use in the Café Parisienne -all healthy & cared for. 💚👏

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Maureen Boyle @boylemo.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Our street looking very autumnal already! 🍂🍁

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