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Jamie Woods

@jamiewoods77.bsky.social
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Poet, indie punk, optimistic rebel. Buy my book, read my poems etc etc: linktr.ee/jamiewoods77

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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Here's a video of me reading some poems from my new book, and talking about my writing so far, influences, illness, and future plans youtu.be/vrHfZC16yyQ
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Seren Esgynnol/Rising Star: Jamie Woods
YouTube video by Just Another Poet
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
CARDIFF FRIENDS! After 12 years I'm coming back to read. I'll be featured poet at the amazing @bookspacecardiff open mic Weds 17th Sept. Tix £4 or PWYC from bookspacecardiff.co.uk I'd love to see you there, it's been much too long x #Poetry #cardiffpoetry
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Radio on! Beyond chuffed to get a spot on the monthly playlist on Dandelion Radio. Poetry + guitars ftw
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I'm going on a book tour! Recreate the 90s experience with events booked in a record shop in Swansea, a book shop in Cardiff, a pub in Newport and for the online one, just pretend it's a dodgy bedsit? Tickets and info from Jamiewoods77.com
Poster. Reads as follows.
Jamie Woods reading from Black Skies Die Starless.
2nd September, online.
17th September Cardiff Book Space.
25th October Swansea Tangled Parrot
19th November Newport, Murenger House.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Love Poetry / Hate Racism event in Swansea. Oct 25th. Raising money for UNICEF Gaza appeal and love music hate racism. Featuring... The amazing Patrick Jones! The brilliant Rhoda Thomas! Me! The polar opposite of painting flags on roundabouts. Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/674236/
A text-heavy poster for an event. The key text reads: love poetry, hate racism. Patrick Jones, Rhoda Thomas, Jamie Woods. October 25th. Tangled Parrot, Swansea. £4 in advance.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New poetry double A-side single taken from my book Black Skies Die Starless. Side A: The 90s youtu.be/gGEJ74r9i0c?...
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Jamie Woods: The 90s
YouTube video by Punk Dust
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
QOTD. Why is the show 'Nothing to Declare' about Australian airport border control on the channel Sky Witness, while the almost identical yet geographically different show 'Airport Security USA' is on Sky History? And yes, I am still unemployed, thanks for asking.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 08/08/2025
#InConversationInCritique with @jamiewoods77.bsky.social What happens when the work is actually read, closely? Alan digs deep into Jamie Woods’ latest, challenging the poems and the person behind them. Interview + Critique by @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🔗 alanparrywriter.co.u...
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In Conversation, In Critique - Jamie Woods - Alan Parry
In Conversation Jamie Woods doesn’t write poetry for your comfort. He writes because he must—because the words arrive heavy, vital, unfinished until spoken aloud. “I’ve always written: lyrics, reviews, short stories, opening chapters to novels, and poems,” he says. But it’s poetry that stuck. Not for lack of ambition elsewhere, but because it’s the only […]
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A lovely review from the depths of Paul's Book Bag. *Blushes*
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 25/07/2025
The Broken Spine has always been about the poets. We’ve run chapbook competitions, Reader’s Choice Awards, and more. Now, we want to give back like never before—but we need your help. Let’s hit £5,000. 🔗 shorturl.at/G2mMo
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A Poetry Award That Puts Poets First – And You Can Make It Happen - The Broken Spine
Poets deserve more than empty prestige. They deserve real recognition, real opportunities, and real support. That is why I am launching The Broken Spine
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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Been a good two days for post! TBR pile now quite large thanks to @taniahershman.bsky.social @thebraag.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Bring on the rainy weekend
A pile of books and pamphlets
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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Love this quote from @alanparrywriter.co.uk : "For Jamie Woods, poetry is never done. It evolves with context, with time, with each reading. Like a song rearranged, the same poem can carry new weight in a new world." alanparrywriter.co.uk/2025/07/12/i... #WritingSky #PoetrySky
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In Conversation, In Critique - Jamie Woods - Alan Parry
In Conversation Jamie Woods doesn’t write poetry for your comfort. He writes because he must—because the words arrive heavy, vital, unfinished until spoken aloud. “I’ve always written: lyrics, reviews...
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
If you see this, post a planet youtu.be/WxLBOwdTKjI?...
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NIAMOS! (Chandrilian Club Mix) (From "Andor (Season 2)")
YouTube video by Nicholas Britell - Topic
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Love the conversation. Love the critique. Thanks Alan. You're a star.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Cooly eating a callipo for lunch in the shade of my living room, while people are voluntarily going outside in this weather, and yet somehow I'm the one who genuinely can't get life insurance because I'm too "mentally unstable"...
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I walked around that duckpond for hours as I tried to get well enough to cope with having chemo again. Not quite as exciting as walking The Salt Path, but there were lots of benches to sit on along the way. And it's a true story...
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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 07/07/2025
And if you want to hear @jamiewoods77.bsky.social read his poem 'Wolf Alice & Camper Van Beethoven Live at the Adam Smith Institute', head over to his page on @iambapoet.com. iambapoet.com/wave/14-jamie-woods
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Jamie Woods | wave 14 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard
Hear poet Jamie Woods read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Woke up to the @poetrywales.bsky.social weekly email and their "poem for you" was a "poem by me"! It's not in my old book or my new book, but it will be in a book one day. It's about how I really wanted to go and see a Wolf Alice gig in Swansea but was immunocompromised and didn't.
Advert for a magazine. Text reads "Issue of the Month". The magazine is shown, it is Poetry Wales, and the cover features a brain.
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Punk Dust @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"AN ABSOLUTE RIOT OF A BOOK" In between award ceremonies for her poetry & fiction, and writing a non-fiction book about running, the awesome @natholborow.bsky.social has taken the time to read BLACK SKIES DIE STARLESS and then wrote about it. Buy it now. Punkdust.com and all good bookshops #poetry
Text reads: "Jamie Woods is one of those rare poets who can coolly hold a mirror to the darkness, then crack a grin in the reflection and make it look natural. Black Skies Die Starless hums with the energy of grunge, rave and rain-slick Swansea backstreets, blisteringly alive with honesty, wit and hard-won tenderness. An absolute riot of a book. Read it now" - Natalie Ann Holborow. Then it says: black skies die starless, jamie woods, 1st July 2025, punkdust.com and all good bookshops.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
If you're already bored of the O*s*s reunion (and they haven't even hit the stage / each other yet), then I have 48 pages of anti90snostalgia poetry with my name on it... punkdustpoetry.sumupstore.com
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Accidentally posted something on ThReAdS which was meant for here. it's gone a bit loopy, as things do on that mess of a website and I've been accused of 'calling for gen0cide' by posting Free Palestine. SMH How's your day been?
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Punk Dust @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"Hopeful poetry of a hopeless time"... Thanks Dean Rhetoric for truly getting to the heart of BLACK SKIES DIE STARLESS. It's out tomorrow, all Punk Dust & Jamie's £ to charity. Buy from our website punkdustpoetry.sumupstore.com or ask your fave bookshop #WelshPoetry #GenXPoetry #The90s #poetry
A book advert reading Punk Dust Poetry, Black Skies Die Starless, Jamie Woods. The main text reads: "“With Black Skies Die Starless, Jamie Woods spits in the face of nostalgia porn with a collection of direct and sincere poetry set against the backdrop of 1990s South London and South Wales. While this is poetry that tackles loss, loneliness, and the death rattle of small-town industry, salvation can be found shrieking in the battered cassettes of American musical angst, offering a gleam of light through the pitch-black valleys and suburban boredom of Woods’ youth. Hopeful poetry of a hopeless time.” — Dean Rhetoric"
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Igor Namus @igornamus.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
your #nostalgia a lie to hide the ugly nothing was better #vss365 #haiku
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
*blushes*
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
People give the BBC a lot of abuse from the left, from the right, and they don't have an easy position being required by the moral majority to be balanced. I disagree with their 'news' opinion of Palestine, but they are showing this on iPlayer.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
@ennacooper.bsky.social
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Punk Dust @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Thank you @traceyrhys.bsky.social for your kind words. BLACK SKIES DIE STARLESS comes out in 10 days. Pre-order from PunkDust.com or ask your local bookshop. @jamiewoods77.bsky.social is reading at Elysium Swansea on June 26th, more dates tba. #NewPoetry #WelshPoetry #BlackSkiesDieStarless
It's an advert for a book. On the left is a quote.  It says "Ominous with small-town despair, Jamie Woods' Black Skies Die Starless is a stylish coming of age take, set in the 1990s. Punky and unfettered. Intense and cinematic. So evocative, a reader might glimpse themselves in the passenger seat of the next car at the red lights; spliff in hand, head back, blocking out the best years of their lives. Tracey Rhys"On the right are stylised words - Punk Dust Poetry, Black Skies Die Starless, Jamie Woods, 1st July 2025, punkdust.com and all good bookshops. In the background is a photo of a young man looking naive and lost.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Looking forward to bringing the noise (poetry) at Elysium Swansea on Thursday 26th June. It's free entry. I'm on at 7.30 followed by an open mic and selling copies of my new book, hopefully. #WelshPoetry #poetry #BlackSkiesDieStarless
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
My absolute privilege to read this book, let alone endorse it.
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Juliet@Blood Lines @blood-lines.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Many thanks to @jamiewoods77.bsky.social for taking the time to review my new book. He knows and writes about #bloodcancer too. Thanks too to @leukaemiacare.bsky.social for their amazing booklets. #BloodLines #poetry #AML #ScottishPoetry #newbook #creativewriting #haematology #oncology
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BLACK SKIES DIE STARLESS My new #poetry pamphlet. July 25. Dean Rhetoric says it "spits in the face of nostalgia p0rn with a collection of direct & sincere poetry set against the backdrop of 1990s London & Wales" Pre-order> @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social punkdustpoetry.sumupstore.com/product/blac...
A badge reads "punk dust poetry". A book cover reads "black skies die starless" and "Jamie Woods"
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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Reminder that this starter pack of Welsh writers is brimful of talented people to follow! (Drop me a line if I've missed you off 🙏🏼🖋️) go.bsky.app/7L23QS7 #WelshWriters #Writers
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
FASTER FASTER PAPARAZZI CARS KILL! KILL! KILL! paperback / ebook / zone / badges Coming soon from @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social #WelshPoetry #NewPoetry #BlackSkiesDieStarless #IHateThe1990s
A badge reading "punk dust poetry". A sheet of paper with the following groups of text: "six channels of numb saturation", "faster faster paparazzi cars kill! Kill! Kill!", and "no dignity live broadcasting in the rain".
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
NO MORE PASSION NO MORE HATE Paperback / ebook / zine / badges Coming very soon from @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social #BlackSkiesDieStarless #iHateThe1990s #NostalgiaMustDie #WelshPoetry #NewPoetry
A badge reads 'Punk Dust Poetry'. A stack of papers - the top one reads "no more passion, no more hate, a dull run-through, laboured, stretched, emotionless, no movement, nothing left'.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
EVERY GREAT LOVE SONG COULD BE ABOUT HEROIN Paperback / ebook / handmade zine / pin badges Coming very soon with @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social #WelshPoetry #iHateThe1990s #BlackSkiesDieStarless #NostalgiaMustDie #NewPoetry
Image of a pin badge that says Punk Dust Poetry. There is a small stack of papers, the top one reads "you said that every great love song could be about heroin, I said that every great drug song could be about you".
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
ENDLESS ANXIETY BUT ENDLESS APATHY New poetry book /zine coming real soon #BlackSkiesDieStarless #IHateThe1990s #NostalgiaMustDie #PunkDustPoetry
A pin badge reads "punk Dust poetry". A stack of coloured paper. On the top sheet are the words "endless anxiety but endless apathy" repeated several times, followed by "cut myself away lose another day endless".
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Whisper it, but I'm probably as excited to see Adwaith as I am the Manics when they play Swansea. Gonna need to ask my kids for some cymraeg lessons so I can sing along. This is my favourite at the moment. youtu.be/KlKwqAE5lLI?...
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Adwaith - MWY
YouTube video by Libertino Records
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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
❤️‍🔥 ‘Rest in poetry, my friend x’ A special Silver Branch feature on @ivordaniel.bsky.social who passed away recently. Memories of Ivor and a selection of photos and poems by the Gloucestershire poet. ❤️‍🔥 💎 Our poet of the month feature 💎 www.blackboughpoetry.com/ivor-daniel-...
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If you are worried that Meta took your writing to train it's AI, know that the list is simply a list of pirated books that would probably have been available. If you're on it, it doesn't mean they used your work ("knowing which parts of LibGen used... is impossible"). It's still shit, obviously.
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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 15/03/2025
Crocuses yawn, sparrows nest, daffodils trumpet the sun. Spring has returned. With her, she brings a basket of 45 poems – some delicate, some fierce, all of them rich in colour. Sit where you're comfortable, and reach in, to wave twenty-one of @iambapoet.com. #newpoetry iambapoet.com/wave/21
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poets | wave 21 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is a really exciting challenge to get you writing poetry. I loved the years that I did it, but I'm not sure I have the energy this year. Will be watching the results eagerly though. Give it a go!
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Happy #WorldBookDay to all who celebrate but especially to Bethany Handley and her new poetry pamphlet Cling Film which is a brilliant and vivid insight into ableism and becoming a wheelchair user. Beth is 'One to Watch' right now - get it from Seren Books. #disablitypoetry #welshpoetry
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Lovely evening at Swansea's Elysium watching Mab Jones reading from her new book Bog Witch - a book steeped in magic and mud.
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Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Serpent and Stone, coming 2026 with Broken Sleep Books ❤️📚🐍
This is an image promoting a book titled "Serpent & Stone", co-authored by Mari Ellis Dunning and Natalie Ann Holborow, slated for release in 2026. It features a dark, elegant design with monochrome portraits of the authors in separate panels. The typography uses a clean serif font for the title, complemented by a decorative ampersand. The layout conveys a sense of intrigue and sophistication, aligning with the theme implied by the title.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I'm one of the #Welsh Disabled and d/Deaf writers featured in a new anthology, 'Beyond / Tu Hwnt' from #LucentDreaming later this month. Preorder from the publishers, or any good bookshop. My #poem is about a car park in Broadhaven, accessibility and blue badges. lucentdreaming.com/product/beyo...
Book cover showing two pigeons in flight. The book title is Beyond / Tu Hwnt and the subtitle is Anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled Writers .
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Cried reading this. Beautiful and elegant, everyday and interstellar. Well done @natholborow.bsky.social truly your best yet x
The cover of Little Universe, by Natalie Ann Holborow. Shows a hand with flowers seeming sprouting from it.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is tonight, #poetry friends, and will be a wonderful evening of mulled rhyme and imagist wine.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Oh wow. Just listened to Patrick Jones' new album 'Constellation of Sorrows'. Intensely beautiful, vital, important. Made me cry. An amazing #poet. #FreePalestine patrickjones3.bandcamp.com/album/a-cons...
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A Constellation of Sorrows, by patrick jones
13 track album
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Really enjoying Richard Gwyn's new substack on the creative process - he was my supervisor at Cardiff and I'm a big fan still. Each week he'd take us on a dreamlike journey through myth, the mind, and fiction from Greece, South America, Hell and beyond. Subscribe? open.substack.com/pub/richardg...
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Raids on the Underworld with Richard Gwyn | Substack
Adventures in writing and the work of the imagination. Click to read Raids on the Underworld with Richard Gwyn, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Thought I'd join in with the new local trend of standing in the street and staring at your own roof. Found out we had a chimney. #winning
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