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Writer The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK) Something Wonderful (US) Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa O Henry Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, && She/her Ally

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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 13h
Not the work of an Elizabethan seamstress, but of an unseen spider and Gloucestershire's suburban mist! Glittering Sunday wishes!
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sky
An uneven patch of sunset-tinged sky has fallen to the ground and draped itself over the dark rocks
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Winton's The Turning is my favourite of his books by far - and Big World my favourite of his stories It has a gorgeous ending which I won't spoil for new readers - so here's the beginning
First para of Big World by Tim Winton
After five years of high school the final November arrives and leves as suddenly as a spring storm. Exams. Graduation. Huge beach parties. Biggie and me, we're feverish with anticipation; we steel ourselves for a season of pandemonium. But after the intial celebrations, nothing really happens, not even summer itself. Week after week an endless misting drizzle wafts in from the sea. It beads in our hair and hangs from the tips of our noses while we trudge around town in the vain hope of scaring up some action. The southern sky presses down and the beaches and bays turn the colour of dirty tin. Somehow our crappy Saturday job at the meatworks becomes full-time and then Christmas comes and so do the dreaded exam results. The news is not good. A few of our classmates pack their bags for university and shoot through.
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Winton's The Turning is my favourite of his books by far - and Big World my favourite of his stories It has a gorgeous ending which I won't spoil for new readers - so here's the beginning
First para of Big World by Tim Winton
After five years of high school the final November arrives and leves as suddenly as a spring storm. Exams. Graduation. Huge beach parties. Biggie and me, we're feverish with anticipation; we steel ourselves for a season of pandemonium. But after the intial celebrations, nothing really happens, not even summer itself. Week after week an endless misting drizzle wafts in from the sea. It beads in our hair and hangs from the tips of our noses while we trudge around town in the vain hope of scaring up some action. The southern sky presses down and the beaches and bays turn the colour of dirty tin. Somehow our crappy Saturday job at the meatworks becomes full-time and then Christmas comes and so do the dreaded exam results. The news is not good. A few of our classmates pack their bags for university and shoot through.
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Something to warm the hearts of short story writers everywhere
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026! The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir. The prize is judged in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, Véronique Tadjo, Boyd Tonkin. For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6
The 13 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation are photographed stood on a wooden shelf with their spines facing the camera. The 13 titles are: 

•	Batool Abu Akleen, 48Kg., trans. from Arabic (Palestine) by Batool Abu Akleen, with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti, Yasmin Zaher (Tenement Press)

•	Hanna Johansson, Body Double, trans. from Swedish (Sweden) by Kira Josefsson (Scribe)

•	Krisztina Tóth, Eye of the Monkey, trans. from Hungarian (Hungary) by Ottilie Mulzet (Seven Stories Press UK)

•	Linn Ullmann, Girl, 1983, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Martin Aitken (Hamish Hamilton)

•	Lalla Romano, In Farthest Seas, trans. from Italian (Italy) by Brian Robert Moore (Pushkin)

•	Hélène Bessette, Lili Is Crying, trans. from French (France) by Kate Briggs (Fitzcarraldo)

•	Eva Luka, The Minotaur’s Daughter: Selected Poems, trans. from Slovak (Slovakia) by James Sutherland-Smith (Seagull) 

•	Geetanjali Shree, Our City That Year, trans. from Hindi (India) by Daisy Rockwell (Tilted Axis)

•	Anjet Daanje, The Remembered Soldier, trans. from Dutch (Netherlands) by David McKay (Scribe) 

•	Ichiyo Higuchi, Troubled Waters, trans. from Japanese (Japan) by Bryan Karetnyk (Pushkin) 

•	Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, We Are Green and Trembling, trans. from Spanish (Argentina) by Robin Myers (Harvill)

•	Anna Nerkagi, White Moss, trans. from Russian (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) by Irina Sadovina (Pushkin) 

•	Ingvild Rishøi, Winter Stories, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Diane Oatley (Grove Press UK)
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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A very happy National Poetry Day folks, I gather this year's vague theme is 'Wonder' so here's some Walt Whitman on the stars (When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer)
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood    And the mussel pooled and the heron-            Priested shore…       ‘Poem in October’ by Dylan Thomas bit.ly/2LCkbTy
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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I really like this poem by Michael Grieve in the latest issue of the excellent Little Review.
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
you invent the days Grace Paley, ‘Old Age Porch’
Old Age Porch
All morning they store suns against the grave
but this is useless
if you have ever seen a dead person you know it
Your friend lies in darkness all that sunlight spilled around her in the watery rays you make a song you invent the days
of friendship
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The New Yorker fiction podcast saves me whenever I am sick. This episode with Paul Yoon reading Fiona McFarlane is particularly good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane
Podcast Episode · The New Yorker: Fiction · July 1 · 1h 3m
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A selection of fabrics and wallpapers from the Festival of Britain exhibition, 1951, published in 'Design from the Festival', one of the many digitised resources available on our website - designarchives.brighton.ac.uk/resources/do... @designcouncil.bsky.social archive DCA/32/2/1/78
a 2-page magazine spread with colour and black and white photos of wallpapers and textiles. Patterns include florals, checks, stripes
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Sarah @sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A celebration of Small Copper. 🦋 Thrilled to find my mint covered in my all-time favourite butterflies, busy nectaring. A recent emergence? Some lovely variety - classic bright orange to darker sooty tones & one with tiny pale dots on the hindwing. Just glorious. 🧡 @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
Some of the Small Copper nectaring on the flowers of the mint plant in my Weymouth allotment. Such beautiful, feisty butterflies (though all tranquil here).
Some showing the classic bright orange, others with a darker, sooty palate, and one with small pale dots on the hindwing. All fabulous. What a treat!
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David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The book is definitely setting-dependent, so it made sense to create a playlist that draws on the rich musical traditions of Alabama and the Appalachian mountains." Scott Gould shared a playlist for his novel Beneath a Fallen Sky at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2026/09/29/s...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1824: Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemd so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbd existance it hurt me to see it was...
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Parthian Books @parthianbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Coming up this November, we'll be joining Canadian author Tyler Keevil at @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social to discuss his fantastic intertwined collection of short stories, BORROWED FOR A SHORT TIME Monday 23rd of November at 6.30 (doors 6.15) www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk/products/bor...
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Borrowed for a Short Time Event ticket
Join us for an evening in conversation with Tyler Keevil to talk about his book Borrowed for a Short Time. When: 23/11/26 18:30 start (doors 18:15) Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
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Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A virtuoso review of "let me tell you" and "let me go on" from Tyran Grillo: ecmreviews.com/2026/09/27/p...
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Paul Griffiths: let me tell you / let me go on
“She is like the rest of us; we all have no more than the words that come to us in the play.We go on with these words. We have to.” In let me tell you, Paul Griffiths gives Ophelia what H…
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Carrots yay! How sad the world would be without carrots
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Rob Jackson @robjacksoncomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm putting all of my comic I've just finished drawing, which has a stupidly long name, up on my blog. Here's part one robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/2026/09/my-t...
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'My Time Amongst the Peaceful Mound Dwelling Aliens of Yanns World' Part One
I'm going to put all of this latest comic up on here for everyone to read. Here's part one. Hope you like it. Click on the pictures to see ...
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons." – Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Elderly wall taking its own sweet time to climb the hill
Undulating stone wall, a triangle of pale apricot sky, then heavy slatey clouds, rain coming or going
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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Finished. Fabulous. Beautiful, beautiful writing. I‘m in awe of @jolloyds.bsky.social‘s ability to write. Learned so much reading this book.
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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Golden crab apples, by Eliot Hodgkin, 1957. #autumn #autumnfruits #autumnfruit #eliothodgkin
Realistic painting of a branch of golden crab apples, by Eliot Hodgkin, 1957.
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
& the deep blue receding NE, pulling colour out from all it leaves behind
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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I’d like to paint you, but there are no colors, because there are so many, in my confusion, the tangible form of my great love.” Frida Kahlo, in a letter to Diego Rivera via @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy #sundaysentence
Reproduction of Frida Kahlo’s letter to Diego Rivera. The opening addresses “Diego“ and the body runs in lines of cursive script written in Spanish in pale sepia-colored ink. It is signed “F,” and the first line of the postscript is marked out in black.
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Interested to learn the term "Harvest Moon" only starts being used in the 18th century Coined, I guess, out of nostalgia for a seasonal, rural calendar, as people increasingly lived by the rhythms of industry and the city? Here is Samuel Palmer's lovely Harvest Moon from 1833
Men and women in pale clothes, faces hidden by their work, cut and stook a field of high, ripe corn. Full moon looks over them from between the treetops. A few large bright somewhat Van Goghy stars at top right. 
(https://interactive.britishart.yale.edu/critique-of-reason/362/the-harvest-moon)
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Interested to learn the term "Harvest Moon" only starts being used in the 18th century Coined, I guess, out of nostalgia for a seasonal, rural calendar, as people increasingly lived by the rhythms of industry and the city? Here is Samuel Palmer's lovely Harvest Moon from 1833
Men and women in pale clothes, faces hidden by their work, cut and stook a field of high, ripe corn. Full moon looks over them from between the treetops. A few large bright somewhat Van Goghy stars at top right. 
(https://interactive.britishart.yale.edu/critique-of-reason/362/the-harvest-moon)
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Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend...
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‘A good weekend needs to involve as many hours of writing as I can manage’
Author and teacher Wendy Erskine discusses her ideal weekend, which includes a ritual with her mum and working on projects in Central Library
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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rilkean bibliomancy in the afternoon
The Ninth Elegy; translated by Stephen Mitchell
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idnana @anandimish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
what a stellar profile of everyone’s favourite publishing house @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social in the @financialtimes.com’ HTSI www.ft.com/content/fad8...
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Fitzcarraldo – inside the chicest publisher on earth
Jacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
First page of 18th century Basque-Icelandic dictionary. A Basque-Icelandic pidgin was spoken between locals and Basque whalers from ~1600 including the well-known expression "Fenicha for ju" meaning F**k you! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque%...
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Intense sunset
A wide paint brush has been used to sweep dramatic stripes of orange from one corner of the sky to the other
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyone remember The Killing?
Sarah Lund in her iconic jumper with other cast members behind
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/09/2026
Lying asleep walking Last night I met my father Who seemed pleased to see me. He wanted to speak. I saw His mouth saying something But the dream had no sound… —W.S. Graham, “To Alexander Graham” in Collected Poems 1942–1977 A #poem from #WorldDreamDay www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48732/...
To Alexander Graham
by W. S. Graham

Lying asleep walking
Last night I met my father
Who seemed pleased to see me.
He wanted to speak. I saw
His mouth saying something
But the dream had no sound.

We were surrounded by
Laid-up paddle steamers
In The Old Quay in Greenock.
I smelt the tar and the ropes.

It seemed that I was standing
Beside the big iron cannon
The tugs used to tie up to
When I was a boy. I turned
To see Dad standing just
Across the causeway under
That one lamp they keep on.

He recognised me immediately.
I could see that. He was
The handsome, same age
With his good brows as when
He would take me on Sundays
Saying we’ll go for a walk.

Dad, what am I doing here?
What is it I am doing now?
Are you proud of me?
Going away, I knew
You wanted to tell me something.

You stopped and almost turned back
To say something. My father,
I try to be the best
In you you give me always.

Lying asleep turning
Round in the quay-lit dark
It was my father standing
As real as life. I smelt
The quay’s tar and the ropes.

I think he wanted to speak.
But the dream had no sound.
I think I must have loved him.
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"You're led into every potato field under the sun" - what a wonderful way to put it
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This morning's playlist poetry
Cherry Trees
Lemon Tree
Wet Paint
Winter Wheat
Cigarettes
Black Horses Mane
There is no way I let you in
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of most beautiful posters in Catalan from the Spanish Civil War. "Peasant!: the revolution needs your efforts." Socialist UGT trade union. By Josep Subirats
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Moby-Dick is a giant parable of thought and knowledge." Tom McCarthy on Melville and the sublime.
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Of course it’s hard! It’s a wheeling, 288 page single sentence. It requires every drop of cerebral juice you have; all your precious, moth-eaten attention. But isn’t that magnificent? Some books should be hard; dare to demand that the reader shows up. www.themonthly.com.au/october-2026...
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2026
Six critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, theatre, music and computer games
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Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In advance of my short review of Vollmann’s long, long, long new book, here is a long review of Vollmann’s long, long book The Dying Grass and the Seven Dreams series nickholdstock.substack.com/p/the-dying-...
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The Dying Grass
An extended tour of William T. Vollmann’s Dreams
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Accidental Andrew Wyeth
A hand clutching the ground, hills of grass and dark blue scabious, bright blue sky above
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 22/09/2026
For @debutiful.bsky.social, @ldeforest.bsky.social recommends Australian authors to read after Helen Garner: debutiful.net/2026/09/22/s...
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Seven Writers to Read After Helen Garner, recommended by Leah De Forest - Debutiful
It’s a funny thing, teaching writing in a country I didn’t grow up in: I’ve shucked off some identity markers (few in Boston can place the mid-sized-town-outside-of-Melbourne in my accent, for example...
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Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🌍Are you wanting a reminder of the beauty of our planet and your place in the world? Well, this is what Deb’s novel gave me. I absolutely love this sense of wonder, amazement and awe that Deb Olin Unferth inspired Her novel Earth 7 is published by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the change in season, four seasons. One Oak Tree Hill, Four Ways (2025/26). South Downs National Park, Hampshire UK. #Scape #ClassicMono #Photography #EastCoastKin www.dirtmeetsthewater.co.uk/triptychs
A polyptych of four black and white photos, arranged two over two, of identical compositions of the same wind-stunted Oak tree on the top of a south downs hill, in spring, summer, autumn and winter. The tree stands next to a road that leads the eye to the horizon and into the cloudscapes beyond.
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some Rebecca Perry for you This is the chapter titled "The colour of patience is grey"
"He watches the garden after a downpour.

Leaves heavy with rainwater, flowers occasionally tipping their heads to release their burden.

Everything still besides this intermittent bobbing, everything bearing what it can, until it cannot."
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lunchtime book shopping. New novel by a favourite of mine, Adrian Duncan – A Thought Without Collision. Am on a break from prose reading while I'm editing but will save this for when I'm done.
Turquoise book cover with black and white photo of a house by a lake
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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can’t pick out one sentence, but the opening story in this book, ‘My Bonny’ has a quality of prose that blew me away. Staggeringly good collection! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 @jolloyds.bsky.social
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some Rebecca Perry for you This is the chapter titled "The colour of patience is grey"
"He watches the garden after a downpour.

Leaves heavy with rainwater, flowers occasionally tipping their heads to release their burden.

Everything still besides this intermittent bobbing, everything bearing what it can, until it cannot."
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘Men become mortal the night their fathers die.’ Welsh poet and physician Dannie Abse born in Cardiff #otd 1923. Portrait by Josef Herman, National Museum Wales www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/thre...
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