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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

from Snips to Bimbo – from the days when I was dog-sized

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

if on IG, stop by www.instagram.com/sealibrary_

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

when you check my iphone gallery

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Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

beautiful Chinese edition of Leviathan or, The Whale

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jwilliam1.bsky.social @jwilliam1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Philip Hoare has been my priest since I read Rising Tide Falling Star.

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Caspar Henderson @casparhenderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So good to have a spotlight on this poem by Denise Levertov (Start the Week, BBC Radio 4)

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fish (1969) and The Sea in Cuba (1972), two batiks on cotton by my late grandmother, Ērika Iltnere.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Los Monstruos Marinos preparty!

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“The sea itself doesn’t need the Sea Library; it does perfectly well without us.” Boshemian Magazine interviewed me about the Sea Library, the sea, my favorite authors and why this library is like a hagstone. www.boshemiamagazine.com/blog/the-sea...

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The Sea Library: A Conversation with Anna Iltnere — Boshemia Magazine

There are countless ways to catalogue the sea. Anna Iltnere is doing it book by book.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

thank you, Laine, for reading and sharing!

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

these are beautiful, Jim, poetry pebbles! and no I don’t have your sea poem in the library

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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The Sea Library: A Conversation with Anna Iltnere — Boshemia Magazine

There are countless ways to catalogue the sea. Anna Iltnere is doing it book by book.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this spring the Sea Library received one hundred books that belonged to an old sailor who once visited me and we spent a long evening talking. after he died, his daughter contacted me and brought me his sea collection. this photo is mesmerising.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Highlight of 2027: honoured to be invited to write a preface to this incredible book. The most comprehensive treatment of the emerging discourse of the Blue Humanities to date. Out January 2027! 🩵 @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur...

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

an angel twenty years ago, on July 21, 2006, a young humpback whale was discovered in the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea, near the coast of Dunte, Latvia, he was already dead when it was brought ashore

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“People are discovering that, as everything is already decided for you by a computer or algorithm, being able to make or own something physically is good. And it is very satisfying to repeat a task to perfection. It is meditative as a job...” – Eryn Lawley, bookbinder apprentice

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AI-proof? Younger workers desert the digital world for traditional crafts

In a disrupted job market people are turning to heritage crafts such as bookbinding, metalwork and boatbuilding

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Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

funny how a person so short should have bookshelves so tall; perhaps he climbed up them... or perhaps he reclined on his sofa and waited for some handsome lackey to do it for him

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

haha! this morn I remembered a weird memory, buried deep. when I was very little and lived in the attic of a seven storey house, I once threw a few of my books out of the window to see how they fly with their covers wide open. maybe he waited for his upper shelves to turn into flying books too

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Truman Capote died a few hours before I was born, it always feels weird to think about that and how much I adore his summer house and so many other things.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

42 and happy ❤️ born when apples are ripe and night sky is full of stars

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I used to weave book blankets – those drawn lines were irresistible

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Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

'Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, Patience!' Moby-Dick

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Jane Rushton @janerushtonart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It couldn’t have been more beautiful for my early sea dip

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

fossils of extinct armour fish found in the Gauja river

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

felt like a weird party with so many people in welding masks at the beach

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ten years ago on August 12, 2016, many things changed suddenly. In Autumn I had a chance to tell about it on a radio show in Australia. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

you are there! a legendary night. we will watch a partial eclipse from a beach here at home

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

that first date with Basquiat’s art last week in Berlin. I wear his (and Keith Haring’s) art on my skin. we are a kin.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

most vivid dreams when you are in a flowerbed by Kristians

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

a beautiful movie about one of the most beautiful souls

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Icarus did his own research.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

good morning, Berlin, from a flat filled with books in Italian owned by a theatre troup manager. returning 14 years later. dear Berlin, remember me? my heart belongs to the sea now.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

this was a neon sign for a public library in Warsaw in 1970s – a mermaid coming out of a book

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Warsaw – the city of Bowie’s hymn, guarded by the Mermaid (Syrenka), with a library in a metro station where basil grows on the shelves.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sometimes in a library I imagine each book as years of an author’s life such that you are standing amidst uncounted hours of effort and concentration like some oasis of meaningful time.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

when Nemo loves book illustrators as much as I do. Laura Lukeviča visiting the Sea Library

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Pat de Groot. First Freeze. 2007. She was always more at home with the seals, the cormorants and the whales, and the sea itself.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

it resonates. felt a true kinship with this through Sea Library’s “Write a Letter to the Sea” project. you never know what you might find in your depths when you start writing to the sea

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