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Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On 16th October I am bringing my diary show to The Waves Bookshop in Hastings. There will be nods to Hastings diarists like Marianne North, whose painting is on this poster. 6.30pm. Free, but places must be reserved in advance. THEWAVESBOOKSHOP.COM

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Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New diary. It's about diaries. x dickonedwards.substack.com/p/cosy-rebel...

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Eileen @eileenart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Reading is reading. Books of any genre count as reading. Manga is reading. Audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. Romance is reading. Signed, A Librarian.

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Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#bluesly (being a hashtag attempt to create a community of quiet weirdos called Blue Sly, only to realise that it also looks like something to do with blues music)

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Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A new Dickon Edwards show for a Saturday afternoon. Readings, book signings, and DJs. Free entry, but places must be reserved at poniesandhorsesbooks.com/events. 📅 Saturday, 22nd August 2026 ⏰ 2:30pm - 6pm 📍 The Betsey Trotwood, London 🎟️ Free entry (limited spaces)

A flyer for an event, 'Dickon Edwards: On Diaries'. Saturday 22nd August 2026, 2.30pm, London Betsey Trotwood.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Fans of the 80s/90s comedy scene near Hastings/St. Leonards! Do you remember the Iceman?The film Melt It! tracks him down, features Stewart Lee, Jo Brand, @markthomasinfo.bsky.social, @robinince.bsky.social, Simon Munnery & on Sun 19th July 2pm is at the Kino-Teatr.Trailer! youtu.be/54J_1Be63q4?...

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MELT IT! - The Film of The Iceman (Official Trailer)

YouTube video by GingerBeardMark

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 22/06/2026

ORLANDO adapted by @julesscheele.bsky.social is the pink, the pearl, the perfection of graphic novels! I'm bouleversé/e for the jewel tones, sexy times & dynamic motion of the character & their thought. Congrats to @averyhill.bsky.social on a winner averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/orla...

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Orlando by Jules Scheele

A powerful and essential graphic novel adaptation of a vital British classic. Virginia Woolf’s classic novel 'Orlando' tells the story of a poet adrift in time; he starts out his life as a nobleman in...

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

@julesscheele.bsky.social will be launching his stunning adaptation of 'Orlando' at Category Is Books in Glasgow in the 1st July! The event is free to attend but you can book and get hold of all the details here: www.outsavvy.com/event/36957/...

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Guildhall Library @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

As temperatures in London soar we'd like to invite you all to the visit the library which is lovely and air conditioned. Feel free to drop in to use our computers, have a quiet sit down, study or even look at some of the wonderful items in our collections. Free and open to all!

Image of three suns setting fire to books from the German edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Representing what would happen today if we didn't keep our books in the temperature controlled stores.

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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

@dickon-edwards.bsky.social imparts many a droll epigram where #QuentinCrisp left off in the late 90s. A rarefied delight with pop star panache 💫

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Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#booksky The Observer on novelist Ronald Firbank’s centenary

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Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#booksky On the difference between niche authors (Ronald Firbank) and cult authors (Ayn Rand). Summary: niche authors tend to smell nicer.

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Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New diary: the joy of niche. Firbank’s centenary, the Iceman, and which name to have if you want to open a shop in Hastings.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his arms

Article screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Aubrey has been one of the most enduring passions of my life. I 1st saw one of his Morte d'Arthur illustrations in a little book I got when I was 8 and a half, & by 12 or 13 was fully committed Beardsleyite.

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The Invisible College @jjstannard.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is true: “Men in an audience are, generally speaking, more likely to use a Q&A to voice an overlong personal opinion rather than ask an actual question”

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain." ✒️ #RonaldFirbank, English novelist (The Flower Beneath the Foot), #DOTD 21 May 1926. #Literature

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Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Ronald Firbank died in Rome 100 years ago today. For a nice short audio introduction to his work, listen to the BBC Front Row podcast from 18 May (episode titled “White Lotus and Bridget Jones star Leo Woodall…”), and skip to the 20 minute mark. #ronaldfirbank

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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If you will be in London in May, please consider attending the Ronald Firbank Centenary Symposium. Alan Hollinghurst will be delivering the keynote!

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Ronald Firbank: A Centenary Symposium

Exactly a hundred years after the death of incomparable novelist Ronald Firbank this symposium celebrates his work, life, and legacy.

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WILLIAM CROSS, FSA SCOT @will-cross-author.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

RONALD FIRBANK CENTENARY 21 MAY 2026

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Tonight's BBC Front Row: Leo Woodall, Sir Alan Hollinghurst on Ronald Firbank, @eggsbened.bsky.social on Dame Felicity Lott, plus Shelagh Stephenson on her new play about Mary Astell and Virginia Woolf 715pm or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

for the tribune, i reviewed the first collection of diaries from the esteemed @dickon-edwards.bsky.social – where he is both the man-about-(london) town and its chronicler. recommended!!

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Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This Saturday 28th, 1pm I will be at the BHASVIC festival in Brighton to give an excellent talk about the Victorian artist Aubrey Beardsley. I will also be selling copies of my diary book, which has a cover influenced by Beardsley. More info at www.bhasvicfestival.co.uk

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BHASVIC Community History Festival | Discover & Attend

Explore BHASVIC's Community History Festival featuring tours, talks, music, and cultural events on March 28, 2026 in Hove. Discover college history and community stories.

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Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I’m giving a talk on Aubrey Beardsley. Brighton. Sat 28 March. 1pm. Free, but tickets need to be booked.

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The pre-launch page for our Kickstarter for Orlando by @julesscheele.bsky.social is now up! This stunning adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel will be funding in April, but you can sign up now so you don't miss it when it goes live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"...he flitted by with an ingenuity of tartlettes." Possibly the 8 campest words in literature. - From 'Valmouth', 1919, by Ronald Firbank #BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly #gayauthor #gayliterature

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

SATURDAY CLEAROUT! Here are 3 shelves of my books in A-Z order by author. You can have any 2 for £10 (free P+P). Please share (and buy). UK only.

a shelf of books in alphabetical order by author

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Of all the Wire contributors best and worsts of 2025 this is by far my favourite by @dickon-edwards.bsky.social of this parish.

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Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · 11/12/2025

This beautiful book arrived today; it’s absolutely delightful, so happy to have a copy. Thanks @dickon-edwards.bsky.social for the job of condensing & curating. poniesandhorsesbooks.com/product/dick...

Songwriter, dyspraxic dandy-about-town, DJ, late-flowering academic, and accidental pioneering blogger, Dickon Edwards bears witness to history, squeamishly uncertain about becoming part of it himself.

Dickon Edwards has one of the longest-running Internet diaries in the world.

Between 1997 and 2007, Dickon leads his band Fosca to new heights, plays with Scarlett’s Well, walks a lobster, represents the Green Party for his beloved London district of Highgate, appears on the BBC’s Imagine, serves as a literary and film critic for fledgling magazine Plan B, comes to terms with his newfound status as a mildly prominent diarist, and serves as Shane McGowan‘s “New Romantic butler” in Tangier.

A young genius loci of the queer and indiepop scenes of turn-of-the-millennium London, the diary takes us to clubs like Kash Point, Trash, and Edwards’s own The Beautiful and Damned, through sites of historic Soho with his friends Rowan Pelling and Sebastian Horsley.

With amusing cameos from Paul Weller, Mark Gatiss, Billy Bragg, Momus, Pete Docherty and Ali Smith, Diary at the Centre of the Earth is a party for the ages.

This is the first time the diary has been edited, in full, for print. In the well-manicured hands of Robert Wringham with specially-commissioned cover art by Lawrence Gullo and a new introduction by Travis Elborough, the book will be an object of beauty in its own right. It is designed to be both a handbag-friendly fashion accessory to be seen with in public, and a comforting talisman to grab during a sudden eviction.

“Invaluable … Historians seeking some understanding of what on earth went on in London in the late 1990s and beyond, just as they might turn to Pepys for the 1660s, have no better resource.”
Travis Elborough

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Sadie Maskery @saccharinequeen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Gorgeous booty from a splendid man / splendid booty from a gorgeous man. Thank you so much @dickon-edwards.bsky.social, can't wait to dive in x

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Gorgeous booty from a splendid man / splendid booty from a gorgeous man. Thank you so much @dickon-edwards.bsky.social, cant wait to dive in x

Dickon Edwards Diary at the Centre of the Eartg, vol 1 1997-2007, with a luscious yellow Aubrey Beardsleyesque cover... plus pretty postcards and a black and white copy of the cover. Copies available from www.poniesandhorsesbooks.com or www.dickonedwards.com
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Dickon Edwards Diary at the Centre of the Earth, vol 1 1997-2007, with a luscious yellow Aubrey Beardsleyesque cover... plus pretty postcards and a black and white copy of the cover. Copies available from www.poniesandhorsesbooks.com or www.dickonedwards.com

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Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · 15/11/2025

Very happy to say that my own copy of Flowers/Sky Lantern has arrived, & happy that the quote randomiser has landed me with a @dickon-edwards.bsky.social quote on mine.

My copy of Flowers/Sky Lantern has arrived! This split 7” with the magnificent Goodbye Wudaokou has been a total delight to work on from start to finish! Every 7” went out with an insert which shared lyrics, background info, the name of every purchaser, a list of bands we love and a unique quote. I have two copies - one quote is by Julian Cope and the other, this one, says:

“I don’t kiss and tell. I’m too fond of kissing” - Dickon Edwards.

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Pocket Lint @pocketlint.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Things that i have enjoyed this week Lost in Blue: Annie Hogan @anniehogan-dns.bsky.social Only half a decade late! Diary at the Centre of the Earth: Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social For once on time. Heartily recommend both if like me you like the bleak and beautiful

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Billy Reeves @billyreevesok.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

#JFR 10/10. I'm in it, natch: "urbane, wry" and "shouting". Sounds like me. @dickon-edwards.bsky.social hats off, Doc.

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Max, the Prettyboy @prettyboymax.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Introduced to me a few years ago by @dickon-edwards.bsky.social now part of the Halloween rotation. youtu.be/5zHoaLl9340?...

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Orange Juice - What Presence?! (Official Video)

YouTube video by Orange Juice

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

St. Leonards-on-Sea launch for @dickon-edwards.bsky.social's 'Diary at the Centre of the Earth vol. 1' tonight at the Kino-Teatr.

Dickon not only signing, but adding a purple seahorse stamp.

Dickon reading from the book standing up on a balcony. He was very brave. I'd have had a fit of the vapours just with the height.

As before, only a wide shot of all the people at the lovely Kino in St. Leonards.

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Unchartered Streets @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

More old Sarah people with new things, but this one’s literary: the internet diaries of @dickon-edwards.bsky.social collected, edited and – archly raising an eyebrow at Beardsley* – wrapped in yellow paper and inky black woodcuts to produce, you might smile knowingly and say, a yellow book. [1/4]

poniesandhorsesbooks.com

Dickon Edwards: Diary At the Centre of the Earth. Vol. 1 – P&H Books

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The Invisible College @jjstannard.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Featured Soundcheck/Boomerang reviews this issue: Black Eyes by Louis Pattison Sophie Agnel by @drstewartsmith.bsky.social feeo by Esi Eshun Mozart Estate/John Francis/Andy Blade/Karl Frog by @dickon-edwards.bsky.social The Dream Syndicate/Rain Parade by @msclairebiddles.bsky.social

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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Poet Town is published this month, launching at Hastings Book Festival with exhibition and poetry party, September 18th! Two books, the poetry anthology celebrating 200 years of poetry from Hastings and thereabouts, plus poets portraits by Maxine Silver - www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/launc...

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