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Zara Slattery aka Inksplattery @zaraslattery.bsky.social · 12h

New Patreon post! Character connection. #SweeneysProgress @gregorynorminton.bsky.social www.patreon.com/SweeneysProg...

Sweeney, half human, half raven flies through clouds over a coastal 7th century Cumbrian hillfort.

Alan, 'fool, Tom of the Wood' is a 7th century character from Sweeney's Progress. He is heavily bearded with dreadlocks...he is turning sideways, alarmed by the presence of an intruder.

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friday 9th October 6pm, Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social will be in conversation with Arifa Akbar at The Rep, Birmingham as part of Birmingham Literature Festival discussing The Feminist Politics of Place. www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/the...

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The Feminist Politics of Place with Arifa Akbar & Morag Rose | Birmingham Rep

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 21h

The third episode of INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS, our new podcast about the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange, deals with the second part of his ‘confessions’, You’ve Had Your Time. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/ins...

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Inside Anthony Burgess: You've Had Your Time - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast that explores the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange. Taking in both his fiction and non-fiction, we feature one of his books in each episode, discussing B...

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The Feminist Politics of Place with Arifa Akbar & Morag Rose | Birmingham Rep

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Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The one in which I walk to London. New collection coming April 2027 with Knives Forks and Spoons press.

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Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New pamphlet with Red Ceilings. www.theredceilingspress.co.uk

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 27/09/2026

Some cheery news amid the general gloom of university life: I’m delighted to be speaking at the Hay Festival, Arequipa, in November www.hayfestival.com/arequipa/home

Picture of a tree-lined square with a large white baroque building in the background

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow, Friday 25th September, BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival celebrates The Laurel Prize shortlisted poets, chaired by @helenmort.bsky.social - 7pm Fri 25 Sep MediaCity Studios, BBC Philharmonic Studio in Salford. Book your FREE tickets now: bbc.co.uk/containsstronglanguage

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Contains Strong Language 2026

The 10th anniversary of the UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival comes to Salford, 24th to 27th September 2026.

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 25/09/2026

I had fun consulting on this new card game - out this week. Play as a historic royal court - but don't lose your head.

Box of cards with double-headed design of a king and queen, labelled OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!

Booklet open to page showing illustration of Mary Tudor and text about her life.

Pack of cards cut at one showing a lavish feast including a peacock and the words "Honours himself eoth a feast"

Card showing image of King's Executioner with a large sword and the words "Behead any played character"

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 25/09/2026

Had some fun writing this - lots of thoughts on how the Spanish royal experience set them up to respond particularly badly to Henry's reasons for his divorce from Catherine of Aragon

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week’s newsletter returns to the Odyssey. Find out Anthony Burgess’s opinions on the impossibility of translating the poem into English verse and the poets who have given it a worthy stab. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-very-mac...

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A Very Macho Book

Anthony Burgess on Homer’s Odyssey

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Congratulations @drdavidcooper.bsky.social! Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion, 2010-2020 was published by @livunipress.bsky.social - The ebook will be available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Reading Place Writing | Home

David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is the founding co-director of the Centre for Place Writing.

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Reading Place Writing | Home

David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is the founding co-director of the Centre for Place Writing.

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Contains Strong Language 2026

The 10th anniversary of the UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival comes to Salford, 24th to 27th September 2026.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Episode 2 of our new podcast series INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS is out now! In the first of a two-parter, we look at Little Wilson and Big God, volume one of Burgess's autobiography. Find INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS at your favourite place to get podcasts or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/ins...

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Inside Anthony Burgess: Little Wilson and Big God - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This week, why quoting Anthony Burgess’s work may be more difficult than it seems, and why even the dictionaries of quotation often get it wrong. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

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The Art of Quotation

The aphorisms and epigrams of Anthony Burgess

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 12/08/2026

My university (Manchester Met) is inviting expressions of interest for Leverhulme postdocs. If you have an innovative early modern European and/or public history project to put forward, please get in touch. Deadline for completed EOIs is 9 October.

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Early Career Fellowships | The Leverhulme Trust

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Jane Samuels @janesamuels.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Cockpit stone circle is a scheduled monument. There is archaeology under the surface, and there is peat that doesn't need disturbing. I'm never one to follow a pointless rule. Whatever your belief system, this is illegal for really good reasons.

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Jane Samuels @janesamuels.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hello, John Holmes. I came to see you, today. Not at your grave, deep in Shap loam, but here, at your home as the waters shrank. I stood on the cobbles of the path you walked. Stopped at the midden and tried to find a sherd that felt like yours. I watched the sun set with you, over Harter Fell.

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 02/09/2026

a portion of this was the image on my first book cover, fourteen years ago

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

To commemorate the film director Jean-Paul Rappeneau, who died this week, our latest newsletter explores how Anthony Burgess’s came to write the subtitles to Rappeneau’s film version of Cyrano de Bergerac. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-nose-by-...

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A Nose By Any Other Name

On Anthony Burgess’s translation of Cyrano de Bergerac

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 13/09/2026

Spent today in Orvieto, where underneath the famous frescoes I saw the basement where they dump bits that have fallen off the cathedral. Thread:

Bits of stone and leafy decorative bits of columns in a heap

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Anthony Burgess’s debut novel, Time for a Tiger. To celebrate, we’re launching a new podcast series: INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS. The first episode is about The Malayan Trilogy. Listen at your favourite pod-app or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/i...

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Inside Anthony Burgess: The Malayan Trilogy - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On this week’s newsletter, we’re celebrating the 70th anniversary of Anthony Burgess’s debut novel, Time for a Tiger. In an article originally published in 1981, Burgess himself reminisces about how it came to be. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/time-for-a...

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Time for a Tiger at 70

Anthony Burgess looks back at the publication of his debut novel

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 20/09/2026

Lovely to be in the company of @rhigarthjones.bsky.social at the Villa Giulia/Etruscan Museum shop

Books in a museum gift shop, including among others All Roads Leas To Rome and The Roads To Rome.

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New poetry from @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social's upcoming Red Ceilings Press pamphlet (Houses of Prominent Men) available to read in the Anthropocene Poetry Journal. www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/3-poems...

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3 poems by Lydia Unsworth

______________Lydia Unsworth is a poet based in Greater Manchester. She is the author of This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode), Stay Awhile and YIELD (Knives Forks and Spoons Press), Arthropod ...

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal has new work published in the summer edition of @stingingfly.bsky.social stingingfly.org/product/summ... @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In August Rachel Lichtenstein will be in conversation with Aviva Dautch about her recent project unearthing the work of Yiddish poet A.N. Stencl in “Vanished Streets: Unseen Photographs of Jewish London” – www.yiddishbookcenter.org/events/upcom...

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Talk | “Vanished Streets: Unseen Photographs of Jewish London” with Aviva Dautch and Rachel Lichtenstein | Yiddish Book Center

Join us on Zoom | Sunday, August 2, 2 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. GBT

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Coming next month - @helenmort.bsky.social has new work included in Kerri Andrews’ forthcoming edited anthology, Women Walking, due out on 6th August with Batsford Press. Available for preorder: www.batsfordbooks.com/book/women-w...

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Women, Walking - Batsford Books

Join bestselling author Kerri Andrews and ten other women as they each narrate walks that will challenge, inspire and fascinate you. Following on from Kerri Andrews’ bestselling book Wanderers, whic...

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Talk | “Vanished Streets: Unseen Photographs of Jewish London” with Aviva Dautch and Rachel Lichtenstein | Yiddish Book Center

Join us on Zoom | Sunday, August 2, 2 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. GBT

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Sarah Jasmon!

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal has new work published in the summer edition of @stingingfly.bsky.social stingingfly.org/product/summ... @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 28/07/2026

Lovely to have a shout-out for The Firearm Revolution in David’s latest email - if you fancy some Renaissance crime fiction check out his excellent Cesare Aldo series

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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Writing query - can you help? With an overarching theme of chronic illness/disability in nature/place writing I'm looking at national prizes e.g. Wainwright as examples of bias/representation in the pub industry for my PhD. What has been said/written on diversity? #NatureWriting

A selfie of a white woman with short blonde hair and fields behind her.

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Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Made it!

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Sarah Jasmon @itssarahbythesea.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Graduation day 🗞️ Rochdale Canal for photos, because the inland waterways ran through every aspect of my research 💙 @centreplacewriting.bsky.social

A woman wearing PhD robes stands next to a lock on the Rochdale Canal in Manchester.

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Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Um, I've walked to London from Manchester. In Watford now. Will arrive at the Charles I equestrian statue about 3pm tomorrow.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Over the past year, we have been working to restore, digitise and catalogue the massive archive of cassette tapes in the Burgess Foundation’s collections. Find out what they tell us about Anthony Burgess's life and work. anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/listening-...

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Listening to Anthony Burgess

On the Burgess Foundation's audio cassette collection

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