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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(Rare) public appearance from me, and (quite frequent) one from @lukekennard.bsky.social talking about black bags, poems, novels, and maybe Strindberg and Slint. @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social - a week on Thursday. Come along!

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@jonathangibbs.bsky.social Set up in the early 50s, Transacord were the Motown of rail recordings. Many many discs (some sold up to 30 000 copies), this one is a favourite, mostly because of its inclusion of platform passenger announcements and excellent sleevenotes.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

While I may own more steam train recordings than is strictly necessary, I read a sleeve note like this and have to buy another.

The sleeve of a 1970s Argo World of Railways record, showing George Heiron's picture of 'The Merchant Venturer,' a Castle class loco, waiting to leave Bristol Temple Meads station.

The sleeve notes from the LP. Noted: Band Three, its meticulous setting of time and place, and its 'warning for the signalman.'

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

London! I will be reading in you. This Sunday, 3.30pm, Ellie's Bar on Kingsland Road. (As part of the Soho Reading Series.)

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In the @thetls.bsky.social, re @guillermostitch.bsky.social, 'The Coast of Everything,' and the necessity of messy, drunken literature.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Any writers in need of one? Never used.

A signpost by a building site advertising a 'Plot for Sale'

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Sylvia Purr-lath appreciating ‘Light Across the Plains,’ forthcoming from @sharonduggal.bsky.social and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A massive thank you to whoever left this at Todmorden station. It has found a good home.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Now available in pocket-sized* affordable** paperback! Hie thee to a bookshop! * if you've got good pockets ** £10.99

A bookshelf, replete with the pocket-sized affordable edition of CD . Rose's Goldsmith's Prize-winning novel, 'We Live Here Now.' The cover is a handsome grey with a picture of an orange intermodal shipping container.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The kids who hang out at the skate ramps in my local park have constructed this, which (on an otherwise bleak day) has warmed my heart: such a simple example of collective care and responsibility.

The top part of a small metal post which has been improvisedly made into a 'coat rack' (as mentioned in a sticker on the post) with the addition of metal hooks and some tape.

A grey metal lamp post stump in front of a hedge next to the (unseen) skate ramps in my local park.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Congratulations to Norwich on its continually strong Little Free Library quality.

A ‘free library’ - shelves on a street corner where people are encouraged to leave and take books.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I was one tasked with translating an extremely long Joseph Kosuth piece, and have never forgiven him.

Piazza Plebiscito in Naples, adorned by a very long Joseph Kosuth text/neon work, a quotation from (if I remember rightly) Benedetto Croce.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Visiting a disused signal box and rather worried this bell might mysteriously ring. #TheSignalman

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Honoured to now be one of the chosen few in these islands who possess a copy of this book.

The cover of a book, delicately pink with various typefaces on it: 'Delirious New Lynn, or Portage and Euphoria; or, The Carryover. A Guide Book.' (By Oscar Mardell.)

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

For the day and everything in it.

The spines of three books ('Laughable Loves,' 'My First Loves' and 'Difficult Loves') between a pair of odd brass bookends.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

How strange that these two messages should appear right next to each other.

Screenshot of a post from Ronan Hession saying he had been dreaming of watching 'Werckmeister Harmonies,' followed immediately by another post announcing Bela Tarr's death.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Everyone in this house has gone for a snooze so I’m listening to this at very low volume.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Anyhow, here’s one of the Geister. Prost!

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Tonight you will be visited by two spirits.

A restaurant menu offering ‘ghost of the beetroot’ and ‘ghost of the cucumber.’

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Marc Almond and the mighty Loveless putting garage/glam/trash rock into Christmas at @thetradesclub.bsky.social this afternoon. (And a mighty post-punk dj set from @adellestripe.bsky.social to kick off.)

Marc Almond with a tasty haircut, leather jacket and unidentified t-shirt singing next to Neal X on guitar and a bass player (sorry - don't know name!) to the left. (Someone with an iPad - ? - in the middle.) Apologies for the pic - I was at the back and it was packed in there. They all looked way cooler than this.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

A 45-minute space disco version of 'Little Drummer Boy'? With a 50 piece Norwegian male voice choir? And Martin Horntveth as the drummer? Yes please! Lindstrøm bringing in the festive season in sublime fashion last night at Aviva Studios in Manchester.

Musician Lindstrøm behind a console to the left; the Vålerenga Mannskor choir holding candles in the middle; and drummer with a side drum to the right. Blue light. The back of someone's head.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Sylvia would like to say thank you to everyone for awarding her the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social. (And so would I.)

A muted calico cat looking very pleased with herself while posing with the trophy for the 2025 Goldsmith's Prize.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Sylvia casually hanging with Glenn Gould. That cat is so damn cultured.

A plump muted calico cat reclining atop a record player, as if listening to record whose cover is beside her - Glenn Gould playing Bach’s ‘Well-tempered clavier.’

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Co-op garlic showing its fine (musical) taste.

A tray of garlic bulbs in a supermarket, with their sign saying 'Ambient Only.'

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Pleasingly complementary covers.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Joy Williams, from 'Train.'

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I own this very record. Have just put it on and the cats are freaking out.

Cover of the the vinyl LP 'A Tapestry of British Bird Song.'

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Quid each. God bless charity shops.

Covers of two books: Michael McClure's 'Ghost Tantras' (self-pub, distributed by City Lights, 1964) and Ingeborg Bachmann's novel 'Malina' (tr. Philip Boehm, the first edition in English, I think.)

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Regular readers will know that I collect short stories set on trains. This one by Agota Kristof is a fine addition to the canon.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Thanks to @wjdavies.bsky.social for this review in this week’s @thetls.bsky.social - a ‘surreal joyride’ indeed.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Quite the strangest 7" I might have ever found: a-side is a recording of French baroque composer Marin Marais' 'Tableau of a Lithotomy', then the b-side is a recording of a drug salesman telling a doctor why he should use their new laxative.

Cover of 7" record featuring period drawing of 17th century surgical instruments.

Reverse of cover, advertising 'Normacol - the bulk laxative which restores normal evacuation.'

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I'm biased, but it has had some very good reviews.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

'We Live Here Now' is now in shops. You know what to do.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

'Next Episode,' a short novel by revolutionary and Grand Prix driver Hubert Aquin. A tale of an imprisoned revolutionary trying (and failing) to write a novel. Little known, and highly recommended.