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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Muffled voices carrying faintly from the farthest bank Clouds slowly swallow the horizon till only the ghost of a tower block remains A slow fall of rain freckling the back of my hand from Summer Notebook, Nov '21

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, some fun along the way, but state censorship and threats of being sent to Siberia for writing something atonal is never going to be a barrel of laughs! But there are jokes & lightness in the playing. Plus, you do get to hear snatches of the Leningrad symphony - Shostakovich at his best?

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@parktheatrelondon.bsky.social Very enjoyable, very well staged & performed play ‘Holy Fool’ about Shostakovich and his clashes with Stalin and state censorship …

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...

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Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre

Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just finished this Joanne Meschery novel - my first 'first' read, as opposed to re-read, in quite a while and I liked it very much. Small town America, prejudices & girls' sports against the background of the Iraq war. Good characterisation; fine, unfussy writing.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@owlbookshop.bsky.social Took a stroll down Kentish Town yesterday and picked up these beauties in the Owl ...

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Books, yes ... but don't forget to sample the cakes!

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Benjamin Dickson @benjamindickson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just finished reading Edge of the Grave by @robbiemorrison.bsky.social, it's an excellent crime thriller set in 1930s gangland Glasgow. Very highly recommended.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Superb exhibition of work by Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery ... Readying myself to go again, at least once, before it closes, Oct 18th. (Photos: Irving Igra)

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sad to learn of the death of Wendell Berry - a fine poet and a wonderful short story writer ...

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

@folkandroots.bsky.social Excellent evening at Aces & Eights, the wonderful Liz Simcock, together with Dave Ellis & Boo Howard PLUS very good sound system!

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Email message from a friend, citing Dave Brubeck, reminded me of this nice little Eastwood doc (one of 7 produced by Scorsese) on which Brubeck plays some surprisingly (?) good blues. As does Clint!

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

James McNeill Whistler: 'Nocturne: Blue & Gold - Old Batersea Bridge'. Oil paint on canvas, 1872-5. Currently on display at Tate Britain.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Got room for the smartly-dressed Taiwanese editions of your home town Charlie, or maybe an Italian 'Nick's Blues' ....

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fascinating account of her own growth as a photographer, so much of what she says applying to art work of all kinds - after photography, writing perhaps most of all Love this book!!

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Meanwhile, back in 1984, I was starting to stretch my TV writing wings and Adam was about to play a jazzman with gambling problems ... straight75nochaser.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/j...

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social This morning's breakfast broadcast treat, the Andante of Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto. Beautiful.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Harking back ...What a great mixed line-up this was!

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Framework Knitters Museum, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire @frameworkknitters.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Happy Book Lovers Day! We stock a good collection of books in our shop, and not always about knitting. Some of our bestsellers relate to our radical history. Many thanks to Nottingham's independent bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

sites.gold.ac.uk/goldsmithshi... My entry, above, newly up on the Goldsmiths History site ...

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Great to see such a positive review of Matthew Welton's now book of poetry in today's Guardian. Well deserved!

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Chilling story from POV of woman whose daughter goes on a Spiritual retreat and is barely heard from again "She keeps on hoping for a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.`'

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

On a warm day (though not, thankfully,as hot as yesterday) what better to keep you cool than Lester Young playing 'I Can't Get Started' with the Nat 'King' Cole Trio?

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Fascinating conversations on this evening’s BBC Radio 3 “In Tune” about the origins & continuing relevance of Tomorrow’s Warriors, with great live performance of ‘St. Thomas’.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Lovely! Follow these suggestions on your visit to Nottingham and you won’t go far wrong.

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Woody Haut @heywoodmike.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Coming in September from BearManor Crime Inc., my weird little book on Kiss Me Deadly (no, not $0.00, but price yet to be determined).

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Mention, by Lucy Caldwell, of Lorrie Moore's 'Self-Help' stories in S'day's Guardian sent me back to my copy, bought Am'dam, July '86 - reading "How to Become a Writer" reduced me to tears of delight & recognition.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just sat down to wach the first few minutes of "Casablanca" while I was finishing an afternoon cup of decaf ... still in my seat when the final credits rolled. What a movie!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Annie Leibovitz, one of the best known American photographers, recognised mostly for her portraits, particularly of famous individuals #WomensArt

Photograph featuring a white woman sitting behind a camera on a tripod in an interior studio

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LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Huge congratulations to Emmanuel House Support Centre on a historic day yesterday, buying their building from Nottingham City Council. This secures the future of this vital local homeless charity (est 1976) and was made possible thanks to the generosity of local donors and supporters!

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just received, from Five Leaves B'shop, Matthew Welton's new collection of poems, published by Carcanet.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

BBC Proms - Last night on BBC Radio 3, direct from R Albert Hall, premiere of Jessie Mongomery's "These Righteous Paths" with cello by Abel Selaocoe - and choral audience participation! Wonderful!

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Painting of the week (any week!) "Old Buildings, Spain" Anne Redpath, watercolour on paper, 1950

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The chapel on 'the island' between the beaches of St. Ives as the sun begins to fade.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A pair of photos from a short while ago - less, sometimes, can seem like, well, less but more.

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's only rock and roll, but...

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Another place! it's enough to grieve me - that old dream of going, of becoming a better man just by getting up and going to a better place. Wendell Berry : "The Thought of Something Else"

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just beaten the worst of the heat on the way back from morning coffee - now, curtains drawn, fan switched up high, looking forward to spending the rest of the day in the cool company of Colm Toibin & Wendell Berry, Keith Jarrett playing Bach and Lily Allen's "West End Girl".

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A shame the last one is far too much like a late middle age man:s sexual wish fulfillment! Wonder why I didn’t notice that the first time of reading?!?

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Moving on through the quartet of novels that began with 'The Last Picture Show', a journey, interestingly mapped, following Duane Moore from adolescence through to late middle age.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Just finished re-reading this. The good thing about already being familiar with the story is that you can concentrate on the language, the shifts in tone, the cadence of the sentences.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Just posted on my Blog, new photos - Skies Over St.Ives. straight75nochaser.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“Another place! It’s enough to grieve me - That old dream of going, of becoming a better man just by getting up and going to a better place.” Wendell Berry: “The Thought of Something Else”

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Sad days in Sherwood Forest! The Major Oak pronounced “lifeless & leafless” after 1000 years, but to be “left standing as deadwood to help other wildlife on the reserve.” One might wish to be similarly useful when one’s last leaf has fallen.

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