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Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social · 10h

As ever, thank you. Good wishes to all at ALCS: always a shining light, but more so in these days of take and take and take and other darknesses...

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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Grief, Love and Loss internationaltimes.it/grief-love-a... Rupert Loydell

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New Substack about writing a pangrammatical novel with Catherine Vidler. tomjenks.substack.com/p/pack-my-bo...

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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do you teach (or just enjoy) place-writing or creative non-fiction? Please check out my new book! It comes recommended by Iain Sinclair and @drdavidcooper.bsky.social so can’t be too dusty! Liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836240341

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Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry | Home

Helen Tookey is a poet, writer, editor and lecturer. Originally from Leicestershire, she has lived in Liverpool since 2000. She teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University.

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Latchkey is overflowing with heart and humor and The Bohemian Frame of Mind. It is a Liebesbrief to a lost and found Liverpool, and you can now pre-order @wildtwin.bsky.social's unmissable new novella here: www.sacredparasite.com/product/jeff... Cover photo: Gerard Fieret Author photo: Alex Hurst

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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New poem up at @internationaltimes.bsky.social thanks to Rupert and the good folks at IT. internationaltimes.it/blue-drift/

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Blue Drift | IT

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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’m delighted that this book is now out in the world, and looking forward to launching it @thebluecoat.bsky.social on 8th Sept. Ahoy fellow Lowry fan @imcmillan.bsky.social - hope you might enjoy this too-loose-lowry-trek!

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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Three poems from a new collaboration with Cliff Yates, published at Litter magazine. @leafepress.bsky.social thanks to Alan Baker. www.littermagazine.org?m=1

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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Looking forward to sharing my collaboration with @leafepress.bsky.social on Saturday at Nottingham Contemporary gallery. Such a brilliant line-up. More details here: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/nottingham

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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A new independent Nottingham Book Festival, organised by members of the Society of Authors (East Midlands), is taking place on Sat 5 Sept 2026 at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham. Expect guest speakers, writing workshops, readings and panels, and 1-1 sessions with publishing professionals. #booksky

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I've been waiting for this for a long time. Soon.

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...

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What’s the future for our universities?

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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Thought I would do a little photoshoot of some of the lovely @longbarrowpress.bsky.social books I’ve got. The Blue Hour is a particular favourite of mine.

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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Looking forward to launching my new @leafepress.bsky.social collection alongside Linda Kemp at The Bonington Galley in Nottingham on Sat May 9th 11-1. Free admission and free coffee and pastries. RSVP at boningtongallery.co.uk/event/poetry...

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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Warhol at Lakeside, Nottingham.

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Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Andrew Taylor's latest from @leafepress.bsky.social, rather than documenting, these poems convey as we truly see/observe: peripheral, fully felt, askance, fleeting, intense focus; HS perhaps hints at process - both these poems exemplfy flow and disruption, and a recurring lyricism...

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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

New from Leafe Press: "State Honey" by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social "...fast-moving to contemplative, presenting experience mediated by language that is fragmentary and shifting, disconcerting and never dull." www.leafepress.org/2026/01/stat...

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State Honey - Andrew Taylor

State Honey Andrew Taylor 36 pages The phrase 'State Honey' - a mistranslated caption from a Chinese opium pot provides the starting point f...

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I hold out my hands to show they are empty that we’ve come for a while to the end of things To the End of the Land: a text/audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Order the pamphlet & CD here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

The pamphlet and CD editions of 'To the End of the Land' by Martin Heslop and Helen Tookey: the blue-grey coastal edge of Nova Scotia, with dilapidated wooden lobster traps in the foreground, sea and distant land beyond, and white clouds and blue sky above.

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

New postcard, short text on back, oblique title on front. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/flyin...

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

To have brought a shell to bed with me, picked from a Welsh cove. To have spoken to no one, to have let grammar abrade and brighten with the wet stones. To return now with something to tell you. 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza £2 off until 20 February longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

A stack of hardback copies of Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'

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Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Selling quickly', but it's free. My inaugural professorial lecture in Nottingham on 4 March, titled 'Byard's Quantum Leaps: The Origins and Mutations of a Folk Tale'. Reserve a place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...

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Professor Rory Waterman’s Inaugural Lecture

Byard’s Quantum Leaps: the origins and mutations of a folk tale

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The Sacred Memory Bank. Kirkby Gallery. Mondays to Saturdays until 27 March. Works by Mike Badger and Jeff Young. Come and have a look!

Four assemblages from the Sacred Memory Bank exhibition at Kirkby Gallery. Pieces incorporate buttons, marbles, photographs, jars of see, ceramics, fragments of poems from old books, coins and beads

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Ian Seed @ianseedauthor.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Am moved by Mike Ferguson ‘s gem of a collection Drawing on Previous Learning. One to make you smile and cry. Published by Wrecking Ball Press. @mferguson-writer.bsky.social

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Up the Rainbow Stairs. The Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Works by Mike Badger & Jeff Young. Review, Art in Liverpool magazine: www.artinliverpool.com/features-old...

Image shows a box assemblage including a children’s book UP THE RAINBOW STAIRS, a cigarette card of a seahorse, a shell and two small books. Photo of child in circular metal frame

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

‘Phantom’, the Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Monday to Saturday until March 27th. Over a hundred Time Machines for your pleasure…

Image shows painted wooden box assemblage with paper collage, ballerina photograph, sherry glass full of marbles made by Jeff Young in the Sacred Memory Bank exhibition at Kirkby Gallery

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Very pleased to now have a copy of Noon: an Anthology of Short Poems (vol. 2), edited by Philip Rowland, and to have a couple of poems in it, one inspired by Cliff Yates (and Gurminder Sikand) and the other inspired by @dradny.bsky.social. Both are among the several contributors.

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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"it succeeds in creating a lyricism that synthesises all its disparate sources. In that respect at least, it's a remarkable achievement." “Apropos Paradise Square: On a Literature of Consolation” by Ágnes Lehóczky, pub. @pamenarpress.bsky.social: www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/revi...

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Review - "Apropos Paradise Square" by Ágnes Lehóczky

Alan Baker “Apropos Paradise Square: On a Literature of Consolation” by Ágnes Lehóczky , pub. Pamenar Press. 109pp. £15.00 The book contai...

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Futch Journal: The journal of experimental poetics @futch-journal.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

New on Futch Journal: 'To the Post Office, God is a Hook in the Sky' by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social www.futchpress.info/post/to-the-... 📮📯"After reading the original Thomas De Quincey 1803 diary in June, I was taken by the drafts and notes De Quincey made for his letters."

Stencil graffiti of a statue of Jesus Christ, spray painted on to what looks like a concrete bollard type of structure. Behind this there is abundant green grass. Photo taken at the former Everton Village now Everton Park, 13th July 2024.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

These handsomely crafted books make excellent Christmas presents and, being rectilinear, they are very easy to wrap

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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

My thanks to Linda Kemp for publishing an excerpt from a prose work over @futch-journal.bsky.social www.futchpress.info/post/to-the-...

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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

"In Martyn Crucefix’s volume there is a humble awareness of the passing of time which does not resolve itself into an easily achieved sense of regret." Ian Brinton reviews Martin Crucefix: www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/revi...

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Review - “Walking Away” by Martyn Crucefix

Ian Brinton “Walking Away” by Martyn Crucefix, pub. Dare-Gale Press. 28pp. £8.00 Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see the...

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Rico tells everybody: Buy Elle: A Verse Novel now, ahead of the online launch Saturday: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle....

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Happy that two of Gurminder Sikand's paintings have entered the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

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Futch Journal: The journal of experimental poetics @futch-journal.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

New pamphlet!: www.futchpress.info/press Responding to a call for poems attending to religion – faith – spirituality, this anthology features the poetry of Jack Belloli, Sarah Cave, Rey Conquer, Jamie Lee, Lucy Lovell, @dradny.bsky.social Andrew Taylor and Nadira Wallace. Edited by Linda Kemp.

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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Looking forward to reading alongside my mate Cliff Yates at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social on 8th October. See you there!

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/07/2025

This feels like a ✨prime✨ week to close the book on Amazon.

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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Pleased to be reading / collaborating with Sarah Dawson at this event.

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