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Rachael de Moravia

@moravia.bsky.social
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mostly in Gloucestershire but often elsewhere • research @ Centre for Place Writing • www.rachael-de-moravia.com

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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Chipping Sodbury high street at sunset 
(South Gloucestershire, England)
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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
▪️ in search of the lost castles ▪️
a scraped and ruined board - probably thrown out of a back garden and now gathering dirt and weeds - turned upside down it had the look of a long forgotten place ...
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
four corners of today in the garden
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
My feet in walking boots on Cotswold stone shingle, with granite border blocks and Welsh slate raised bed, all strewn with autumn leaves (maple, birch & beech) in vivid reds and yellows. The underside of the maples are pinkish, and there are a few green leaves blown down by the storm.
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 01/10/2025
If you're in London and swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond, please ensure our trans (and intersex and NB) sisters can keep enjoying the most body-positive, non-judgemental and frankly utopian spaces in the city. Letting the body police decide who's 'feminine enough' to swim would wreck it for all of us.
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
earlier, & somewhere else
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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
the Dreadful POINT no.60 Read for free and subscribe to the email edition at thedreadfulpoint.com/2025/09/15/60/ Subscribe to the broadside edition at ko-fi.com/s/df090ca6bb
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Hope – No Such Place – An Ideal State – Instruments – What’s Best in Life, a story, Part One of Two (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based o…
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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
a small exhibition of found art
collections of images found in walls, flower pots, steps, posters, and art room floors
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
BHP are excited to welcome our September guest editor - Alexander Booth!!! @wordkunst.bsky.social THEME/S: _LANDSCAPE LABYRINTH_ __Submissions are open from today 1st September – and will remain open until 25TH SEPTEMBER__ Sendxxx burninghousepress.com/2025/09/01/s...
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SEPTEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is Alexander Booth!!! THEME/S: LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH
Burning House Press are excited to welcome Alexander Booth as the fourth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Alexander will take over editorship of Burning H…
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
saw the moon and thought of you (again)
The moon in the lagoon and over Santa Maria della Salute, Punta della Dogana
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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I'm trying to get a few more issues out in the fall, subscribe now thedreadfulpoint.com
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the Dreadful POINT
serial & short fiction
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The Campanile dissolving into the dusk, you say? May I present my excellent photography from last night...🍸
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A selfie in an ornate Venetian glass mirror, with my face obscured by a sunburst etching. I am wearing a leaf green pleated skirt, black top, white linen jacket and gold earrings. The mirror is mounted on a red marble wall. The image echoes the colours of the Italian flag.
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Mark Pimlott @pimlottmark.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
München D 2025
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I will show you fear in a handful of balls
A bronze statue with a handful of balls
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Jackdaw fledgling, still with its yellow gape, down the chimney for the second day in a row.
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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Buy physical media, spend less time on the internet thedreadfulpoint.com/catalog/
Coherence, set of 7 pamphletsMatter of Time, set of 4 pamphlets Theophiles, books 1 and 2The Dreadful Point no.58, broadside edition
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
It takes a good book to keep me up all night, and this is a very good book. Excellent in so many ways. I'm sure it will be studied on life writing & memoir courses in future, but I really hope it travels far & reaches a wide audience (beyond the lit bubble) Published by @andotherstories.bsky.social.
A book on a table

The cover reads (in English):

THIS PART IS SILENT
A LIFE BETWEEN CULTURES
by SJ Kim

The title is also written in Korean on the lower half of the book cover.

The book is published by And Other Stories.
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
rain soon, apparently
a clear blue sky and sun, with black clouds encroaching from the right side of the photo
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
⬅️↖️⬆️↗️➡️
A wooden signpost in front of hazel trees, pointing in all directions to the Cotswold Way and public footpath(s)
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Last of the rhubarb from the garden. Not enough for crumble, possibly enough for sorbet.
Close up of a small bowl of fresh stewed rhubarb, a stringy sort of pink and green mush sitting in pinky brown liquid. Looks a bit gross close up actually, but tastes delicious.
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Josh Rothes @joshuarothes.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Projects I’ll never have time to finish, part whatever. Please enjoy these prototypes for trading cards based on Fernando Pessoa’s many heteronyms and alter egos.
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
my gooseberries are coming along nicely
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
desire lines (call me)
A view looking up to the top of a telegraph pole, with phone lines coming off it in all directions, and cross wires, all resembling a spider web. There is a darkening evening sky above.
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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I had two longings & one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved & I wanted to be always alone.
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
i am geometry
moonshadows of my garage (a triangle) and me (wearing palazzo pants and an asymmetric jumper, thus creating two triangles)
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Cub update (cupdate?): we appear to have at least EIGHT cubs
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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
the Dreadful POINT no.58 Read for free and subscribe to the email edition at thedreadfulpoint.com/2025/05/03/58/ Subscribe to the broadside edition at ko-fi.com/s/df090ca6bb
The Dreadful Point no.58, broadside edition
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Fox update (fupdate?): we appear to have FOUR cubs
Local fox vixen standing in a dry patch of garden surrounded by stone walls and trees. She is looking at the camera and there are four cubs playing on the ground at her feet. The cubs are all slightly different colours, different shades of red, brown and grey, with white bellies and black feet.
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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
the sea, the sea
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
My enormous face appreciating a beautiful discussion on Derrida's last interview, on learning to live finally, why learning to live should mean learning to die, & other violences of language... (& still my phone wants live to be love). Deep thanks to @frankgarrett.online for facilitating this group.
Me in front of a computer screen with Frank Garrett and Stephen Harding visible, hosting a Derrida study group.
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
tried to take a photo of a bat
very blurry photo of a bat
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Manchester Writing School Summer Festival, details have now been released! Free to attend for current students with bursary options for non-MMU people - both online & in-person sessions. A fantastically rich programme! www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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2025 Manchester Writing School Summer Festival, 16 - 20 Jun 2025
Summer School, Grosvenor East
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
THE SWIFTS ARE BACK!!!
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If you are new to Bluesky and looking to find people associated with the Centre for Place Writing, a Starter Pack of researchers, academics, affiliates & PGRs can be found here: go.bsky.app/Ni9siU8
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Fledglings look so angry. I love them.
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
phwoar 🌿
Crabapple blossom against a blue sky
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
my crabapple tree looking better than ever after a fierce prune last year 🔪🌸
Crabapple blossom against a blue sky
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Raising a glass to you, @minxmarple.bsky.social 🥂 & happiest of birthdays, from my garden to yours 🌿🌺
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
an abundance of bees ravishing my currant bushes!
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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
rummaging through some old art experiments this afternoon I found a little forgotten painting and multiplied it ... you are most welcome to walk over my new carpet :)
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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I have a new post, about the alluring non-spaces in sketches: ofsmith.substack.com/p/partial-pi...
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Partial pillars
A few days ago I was in a shop with a Narnia wardrobe.
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I'm not sure I've ever had a hot take, but I do think Thomas Pynchon is the Dread Pirate Roberts.
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
BARN OWL!!
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
soon
Deep pink cherry blossom enclosed in lime green buds about to open on bare branches.
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Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Pear trees about to explode in the garden: Conference on the left, Pêra Rocha on the right. The Rocha ripens 3 weeks later than the Conference, so in the autumn we'll get a long run of fruit.
Close up of small branches of a Conference pear tree covered in tight pale green buds of pink blossom about to burst open.Close up of leaves and blossom buds at the tip of a Rocha pear tree branch, just starting burst open.
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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
the entirety of Perec's LIEUX now available online: lieux-georges-perec.seuil.com
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Lieux - Georges Perec | Texte intégral
Découvrez en intégralité la version numérique augmentée de « Lieux », projet mythique de Georges Perec et créez votre propre version du livre.
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