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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

other Broken Sleep titles I’ve really enjoyed that I would recommend include : @betarish.bsky.social A Hobby Of Mine; @nearlyoscar.bsky.social Fragile July; @severaldeer.bsky.social Home to my Cats; and anything by @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Extremely proud to share my brother @nearlyoscar.bsky.social’s brilliant, haunting book Fragile July, just out with award-winning indie @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. The book is a prose-poem w/photos; it captures a time we both remember when things were weird. It might strike a chord with you too.

A book laid on a brightly patterned red and orange table runner, in bright sunshine. The book has a dark brown cover of the corner of an empty room. Bare floorboards and bare brick walls and a large sash window to the right. Light streams in but nothing can be seen outside. The title Fragile July appears in a light orange serif font in the top left, Oscar Nearly in white below.

The book held open at a spread with text only partially visible on the left, a photograph on its side on the right, the photograph in black and white showing a window with curtains, a radiator and the tops of some kitchen chairs. A wooden door into another room to the left. Beyond the window the silhouettes of trees.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Excellent Broken Sleep book launch for March this evening, featuring @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Alex Innocent, Joseph Persad, @nearlyoscar.bsky.social Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç/Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi and Mirko Boncaldo. Hosted by the brilliant @godzillakent.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This book swept me up and away. — Derek McCormack Nearly pulls off something completely new and brilliant. — Noreen Masud like uneasy summer light in the surface of a photograph. — Imogen Cassels let Fragile July drive you crazy. — Jordan/_ Hell www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Its atmosphere is uncanny rather than overtly surreal, with domestic scenes tightening around pits, locked spaces, missing rooms, and half-seen figures at windows. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Built from repetition, incremental shifts, & documentary attention to objects & photographs, the text tests how memory hardens into narrative, how evidence clarifies and corrupts, & how dread can arrive retrospectively as a structure imposed on the past. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Fragile July by Oscar Nearly is a prose-poem of obsessive reconstruction, circling a single childhood summer in which the ordinary textures of suburbia, garden games, camera snapshots, pop songs, and family rituals begin to feel charged with threat. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

A dark, atmospheric book cover showing the interior of a worn brick room with a wooden floor and slanted wooden ceiling. On the right-hand side, a tall rectangular window set into the brick wall lets in a warm, muted light, illuminating the window frame and a small section of the wall around it, while the rest of the room remains in shadow. The textures of the brick and wood are rough and aged, creating a sense of quiet and enclosure. At the top left, the title ‘Fragile July’ appears in a gold serif typeface, with the author name ‘Oscar Nearly’ beneath it. The publisher name ‘Broken Sleep Books’ is printed near the bottom left in small, light-coloured text.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My brother is the clever one @nearlyoscar.bsky.social

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Oscar Nearly @nearlyoscar.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

my book Fragile July is now available to preorder from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pls do so here is the link: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

the cover of Fragile July shows sunlight streaming through a window into a bare brick, wooden slatted, empty house

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

If you’re looking for something unusual to do in London tomorrow, make your way to Crossness sewage pumping station - the cathedral of sewage pumping stations - for Mhairi Vari’s Southern Outfall: an art installation and intervention celebrating the site’s history of engineering & volunteering.

Advert for Southern Outfall. Superimposed on an image of a man in orange high visibility clothes doing tai chi and an orange tunnel, text reading ‘a site-wide work at Crossness Pumping Station Saturday 3rd May 11-4pm’

A view of the beautifully painted Victorian ironwork hall at Crossness pumping station.

A view of the beautiful ironwork of the central octagon at Crossness Pumping Station with a woman in a hard hat in the foreground.

A large green wheel from one of the beam engines at Crossness sewage pumping station with a red column in the foreground

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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

‘Every workplace struggle, whether as picket, or meeting, for one worker and a union rep, or hundreds and thousands of comrades, wins something back from the time that is stolen from us’ Blooming beautiful from Zara Dinnen @qmucu.bsky.social sedpoltergeist.com?page_id=298

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Zara Dinnen – Poltergeist

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Jenny Kenyon @jennykenyon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

my first article on Hamilton, released like a ghoul from the cupboard of my imagination - on failures of speech and the ‘nightmare things of the mind’ in his radio dramas sedpoltergeist.com?page_id=316

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Jennifer Kenyon – Poltergeist

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Oscar Nearly @nearlyoscar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I've been helping to launch POLTERGEIST, a new peer-reviewed journal from Queen Mary University of London's School of the Arts, and I'm excited to announce that it's now online and available to read and download! Find it here: sedpoltergeist.com?page_id=95

cover of the new journal Poltergeist, edited by Misbah Ahmed, Oscar Nearly & Ryan O'Shea

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Oscar Nearly @nearlyoscar.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

oh good another social media site. I'm a writer and researcher who currently works on abandoned websites and ruins on the internet. I am usually terrible at posting or liking or any of the other algorithm-friendly activities but who knows, maybe I'll find myself here! Hope not.

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