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

Had forgotten how hilarious and serious the poems are!

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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

Ah thanks Nessa! That’ s even better! I’ve only the two blooms! Love to you and Peter too x

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

Thanks. Just delighted with that Wordsworth poem -it’s so modern. Still how I feel coming upon St Paul’s today though fewer empty streets! Thanks for sharing it.

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

That worked -thank-you! New to Substack.

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

Jeremy keen to read all of this & have subscribed on a free subscription but it tells me I need to pay but can t see how to do that!

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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

Oh I wish! It’s unlikely Felicity but I’ll check the dates! Thank-you x

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

I had roughly known the story Nessa from knowing Máiría but the extent of what she was put through is so shocking. Think people in the South need to read it given election trends.

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

Quick sand & the electric chair were two terrors of my childhood!

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

We used to read Reader’s Digest for the dirty bits -‘I am John’s penis’ !!!😉

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

Getting over Covid & just exhausted! Hope you ll be ok soon.

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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

Thanks Caroline. You too! Think a migration is happening!

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

Thanks Nessa. Still finding my way here! x

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

Posting this again with right symbol! Flowers in the garden.💚💛💜💝 🌱

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

And flowers in garden. 💚💛💜💝

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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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