Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 13hNot the work of an Elizabethan seamstress, but of an unseen spider and Gloucestershire's suburban mist! Glittering Sunday wishes! 0214
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Winton'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 181
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Winton'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 181
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Something to warm the hearts of short story writers everywhere 091
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Announcing 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 25730
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A 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) 1174
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It 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 3188
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I really like this poem by Michael Grieve in the latest issue of the excellent Little Review. 172
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026you invent the days Grace Paley, ‘Old Age Porch’ 081
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The 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...podcasts.apple.comPaul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlanePodcast Episode · The New Yorker: Fiction · July 1 · 1h 3m 381
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A 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 02112
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Sarah @sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A 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 311826
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎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... 061
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 29/09/20261824: 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... 1225
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Parthian Books @parthianbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Coming 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...bookspacecardiff.co.ukBorrowed for a Short Time Event ticketJoin 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~... 042
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A virtuoso review of "let me tell you" and "let me go on" from Tyran Grillo: ecmreviews.com/2026/09/27/p...ecmreviews.comPaul 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… 082
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Carrots yay! How sad the world would be without carrots 060
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Rob Jackson @robjacksoncomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'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...robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com'My Time Amongst the Peaceful Mound Dwelling Aliens of Yanns World' Part OneI'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 ... 164
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎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 03312
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Elderly wall taking its own sweet time to climb the hill 0170
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Finished. Fabulous. Beautiful, beautiful writing. I‘m in awe of @jolloyds.bsky.social‘s ability to write. Learned so much reading this book. 2114
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Golden crab apples, by Eliot Hodgkin, 1957. #autumn #autumnfruits #autumnfruit #eliothodgkin 3253
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026& the deep blue receding NE, pulling colour out from all it leaves behind 1211
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎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 0161
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Interested 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 1273
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Interested 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 1273
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend...belfasttelegraph.co.uk‘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 0153
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Rilkean bibliomancy in the afternoon 0122
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎idnana @anandimish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026what a stellar profile of everyone’s favourite publishing house @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social in the @financialtimes.com’ HTSI www.ft.com/content/fad8...ft.comFitzcarraldo – inside the chicest publisher on earthJacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time 0105
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 26/09/2026First 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%... 16228
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/09/2026Lying 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/... 1288
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 161
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One of most beautiful posters in Catalan from the Spanish Civil War. "Peasant!: the revolution needs your efforts." Socialist UGT trade union. By Josep Subirats 14815
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎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.yalereview.org 051
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎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...themonthly.com.auOn our selection: The Monthly Awards 2026Six critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, theatre, music and computer games 152
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In 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-...nickholdstock.substack.comThe Dying GrassAn extended tour of William T. Vollmann’s Dreams 042
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 22/09/2026For @debutiful.bsky.social, @ldeforest.bsky.social recommends Australian authors to read after Helen Garner: debutiful.net/2026/09/22/s...debutiful.netSeven Writers to Read After Helen Garner, recommended by Leah De Forest - DebutifulIt’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... 077
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎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 152
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For 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 1294
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Some Rebecca Perry for you This is the chapter titled "The colour of patience is grey" 3191
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Lunchtime 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. 2122
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I 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 141
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Some Rebecca Perry for you This is the chapter titled "The colour of patience is grey" 3191
Reposted by Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎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... 161