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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘On Forgetting and Writing’ a short essay necessaryfiction.com/researchnote...

On Forgetting and Writing
Last week, last month, three years ago; on the bus, in a café, at my kitchen table; I sat down to write. What was in my mind? I
have forgotten. What is the second line of Elizabeth Bishop's poem 'One Art'? I have forgotten. What was the exact disposition of boughs and leaves and blossom of the apple tree in my aunt's garden in Coolock, North Dublin, under which I sat in the summer of 1986 with three books, not reading? I have forgotten. But I have a somatic memory of light, warmth, mental disarray, loss; a hinterland of impressions of all that was fleeting; that is to say, of everything. The books too, I remember.

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bake a cathedral Edith Södergran, ‘Hope’, translated by Jaakko A. Ahokas.

I want to forget my manners - I couldn't care less about noble styles, I roll up my sleeves.
The dough of poetry is rising ...
Oh, what a sorrow - I can't bake cathedrals...
The soaring high forms —
The goal of persistent yearning.
Child of our time -
doesn't your soul have its right shell?
Before I die
I'll bake a cathedral.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 15h

Back on Twitter, when autumn proper arrived I would always post the video someone made for Sandy Denny's No End (Demo) by holding a camera phone up against the train window. By popular request (well, from @robinallender.bsky.social) I'll start doing that here. youtu.be/o9sERw40Pes?...

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Sandy Denny - No End (solo piano demo) - Heading south, winter 2009

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

bake a cathedral Edith Södergran, ‘Hope’, translated by Jaakko A. Ahokas.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The 22nd Bird Dream and the 23rd Bird Dream.

Collage of found materials incorporating bird illustrations, fragments of paintings, ink, chalk, turmeric and ash

Collage of found materials incorporating bird illustrations, flower drawings, classical images, ink, turmeric, paint, pastels

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Oh brilliant, I didn’t know that.

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‘On Forgetting and Writing’ a short essay necessaryfiction.com/researchnote...

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what actually goes on Eva Figes, from 'Konek Landing'

high tidemark where the water mounts falling back for hours now steady rainfall a monotonous downpour heavy black clouds water surface pockmarked pitted the drops coming down rotting bulwarks turning rising now to recapture lost mudhours the foreshore marked by isolated claw-marks arrows in the wet gleaming mud some wormholes a rusted soup tin part of a crab's claw hollow the downpour stopped cloud lifted trawler gone lost beyond horizon darkness falls the black saucer reappears foghorn sounding through luminous drizzle called dawn afterwards hours gone by the air cold now clear mist blown away cloud lifted one seagull stands quite still on the rotting bulwark uniform dull day black beads watch balanced above no water falling now long mud smooth the foreshore far below the tidemark blackgreen on the bulwark water turning now as the light fades
so it goes on
clearly, I have been a witness on more, many
occasions
1 also go on
much the same way, what for? the question somebody ought to be asking but nobody has
stopped for long enough to ask being forced, have stopped to watch just what actually goes on, such as nail parings scratch marks spit and dandruff blood circulation

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from the misty dark From The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, edited & tr by Helene P. Foley

On her side Persephone, [seeing] her mother's [radiant face), [left chariot and horses,] and leapt down to run [and fall on her neck in passionate embrace].
[While holding her dear child in her arms], her [heart suddenly sensed a trick. Fearful, she] drew back from [her embrace and at once inquired:]
"My child, tell me, you [did not taste] food [while below?]
Speak out [and hide nothing, so we both may know.] [For if not], ascending [from miserable Hades], you will dwell with me and your father, the dark-clouded [son of Kronos], honored by all the gods.
But if [you tasted food], returning beneath [the earth,] you will stay a third part of the seasons [each year], but two parts with myself and the other immortals.
When the earth blooms in spring with all kinds of sweet flowers, then from the misty dark you will rise again, a great marvel to gods and mortal men.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

CB editions October newsletter: a brick: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/10/news...

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anita Brookner’s scholarly, sharply observant commentaries on paintings by Delacroix, Ingres, Rigaud, Vigée Le Brun, David and Cézanne. On BBC iplayer for the next four weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings

Anita Brookner shares her unique insights on some of the finest works by the world’s greatest painters in a compilation of her contributions to the 1981 BBC series 100 Great Paintings.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

bbc.co.uk

Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings

Anita Brookner shares her unique insights on some of the finest works by the world’s greatest painters in a compilation of her contributions to the 1981 BBC series 100 Great Paintings.

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<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don’t do annual re-reads or -watches or any kind of -visits, really, with one exception.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Liverpool is not a romantic city Henry James, from ‘London’, in ‘English Hours’, published 1876/1905, following his visit in 1869. (P.S Liverpool *is* a romantic city, in my opinion)

The sense of approach was already almost
intolerably strong at Liverpool, where, as I remem-ber, the perception of the English character of everything was as acute as a surprise, though it could only be a surprise without a shock. It was expectation exquisitely gratified, superabundantly confirmed.
There was a kind of wonder indeed that England should be as English as, for my entertainment, she took the trouble to be; but the wonder would have been greater, and all the pleasure absent, if the sensation had not been violent. It seems to sit there again like a visiting presence, as it sat opposite to me at breakfast at a small table in a window of the old coffee-room of the Adelphi Hotel —the un-extended (as it then was), the unimproved, the unblushingly local Adelphi. Liverpool is not a romantic city, but that smoky Saturday returns to me as a supreme success, measured by its association with the kind of emotion in the hope of which, for the most part, we betake ourselves to far countries.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Of course there are always exceptions. The way Olson reads his poetry is the polar opposite of what many of you have called "poetry voice". How magnificent is this? youtu.be/gAYxpSjkyAg?...

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Charles Olson reads 'Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld]' (Mar 1966)

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Women’s Weird, two anthologies of strange stories 1890-1937, edited and ably introduced by Melissa Edmundson are a rich selection that’s well worth finding. Sadly their publisher Handheld Press closed down (small publishers—love them or lose them). (Contents in Alt text).

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1 A Twin-Identity, by Edith Stewart Drewry
2 The Blue Room, by Lettice Galbraith
3 The Green Bowl, by Sarah Orne Jewett
4 A Dreamer, by Barbara Baynton
5 The Hall Bedroom, by Mary E Wilkins Freeman
6 The House, by Katherine Mansfield
7 The Red Bungalow, by Bithia Mary Croker
8 Outside the House, by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor
9 Florence Flannery, by Marjorie Bowen
10 Young Magic, by Helen Simpson
11 The House Party at Smoky Island, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
12 The Black Stone Statue, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
13 Roaring Tower, by Stella Gibbons
Notes on the stories, by Kate Macdonald

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1 A Twin-Identity, by Edith Stewart Drewry
2 The Blue Room, by Lettice Galbraith
3 The Green Bowl, by Sarah Orne Jewett
4 A Dreamer, by Barbara Baynton
5 The Hall Bedroom, by Mary E Wilkins Freeman
6 The House, by Katherine Mansfield
7 The Red Bungalow, by Bithia Mary Croker
8 Outside the House, by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor
9 Florence Flannery, by Marjorie Bowen
10 Young Magic, by Helen Simpson

11 The House Party at Smoky Island, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
12 The Black Stone Statue, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman 207
13 Roaring Tower, by Stella Gibbons
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Notes on the stories, by Kate Macdonald
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bruno Schulz, Father floating over the lamp

Father floating over the lamp, Bruno Schulz

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‘Clouds of Albion’ a short story @stingingfly.bsky.social stingingfly.org/2023/11/15/n...

Clouds of Albion, for Max
David Hayden Nov 15, 2023
Fiction
Norman played dominoes in the kitchen, not waiting for the lost ones to show. Spots under his palms. Norman, the once upon a time beautiful boy, shattered twink, reverb child, horny fingered string bender, had lost his hair in one big surprise. Ivory rectangles clacked together to make patterns that Norman was sure would eventually be the key, the number, that might turn behind his eyes and release a flow of awe and rage and tunes from where they were trapped, whirring like thugs' knives forever in that alley in 1972. Over and over, he moved the tiles and stared into the new shapes chance had made. He liked a small glass to drink out of, as he emptied the skinny green bottle of red wine that tasted of raspberries and smoke.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2027 catalogue: superb bios of Pushkin, Gogol, William Morris and Rabelais, a wonderful study of Samuel Palmer, David Batchelor's Chromocopia: The Colours of Colour, Geraldine Johnson's Sculpted By Light and much more. reaktionbooks.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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The First 21 Bird Dreams.

21 Bird Dream collages on a staircase. The collages are made from found images, ink, charcoal, pastel, crayon and turmeric

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

‘Clouds of Albion’ a short story @stingingfly.bsky.social stingingfly.org/2023/11/15/n...

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Found in a box of old letters a friend recently returned to me, the torn-off corner of a newspaper. Pretty certainly out of an Ithaca, N.Y. weekly called The Grapevine, a late-’seventies countercultural rag that sported bylines like “Swampfox” and “Canadian Bacon.” Me addressing the bigger topics.

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Christiana Payne has done a superb job. I would say this but it deserves to become the standard book on Palmer.

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What a great experience. It’s a wonderful thing that classics publishing is still so successful but I think that the typically sober presentation doesn’t suggest to readers how wild so many of these books are.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the feral amnesia Dionne Brand, XV, thirsty

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All the hope gone hard. That is a city.
The blind houses, the cramped dirt, the broken air, the sweet ugliness, the blissful and tortured flowers, the misguided clothing, the bricked lies the steel lies, all the lies seeping from flesh falling in rain and snow, the weeping buses, the plastic throats, the perfumed garbage, the needled sky, the smogged oxygen, the deathly clerical gentlemen cleaning their fingernails at the stock exchange, the dingy hearts in the newsrooms, that is a city, the feral amnesia of us all

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the feral amnesia Dionne Brand, XV, thirsty

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a gift. It makes me want to go back and watch them all again.

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Amina Memory @aminamemorycain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Deeply honored to have been able to write about the first three films by French filmmaker Leos Carax for the Criterion Collection. His movies were important to me when I was younger, and they are important to me still. www.criterion.com/current/post...

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Three Films by Leos Carax: Vital Signs

With their mix of comedy, ecstasy, and aesthetic strangeness, the French auteur’s first three features grant us access to psychic states that we might not otherwise be able to enter.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy publication day to Latchkey! There’s a stack of signed copies in Liverpoo’s mighty News from Nowhere. They’re already selling fast so if you want one get down there! @sacredparasite.bsky.social

Image shows front cover of Jeff Young’s book Latchkey, signed copies in News from Nowhere, Liverpool

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Kathryn Scanlan and I reading stories and discussing writing with Emma Flynn, January 2021 for @fallowmedia.bsky.social, with music by Mémi. fallowmedia.com/2020/errans/

Mentioned in the conversation:

Laura Van Den Burg - Hold a Wolf by the Ears
Mothers by Chris Power
A Lonely Man by Chris Power
The Georgia Review
Adrian Stokes
John Ruskin
Walter Pater
Eric Dolphy – the sound of the A train, octave split
Max Beckmann
Jack Yeats
The Sense of an Ending by Frank Kermode (where writing is more than “mere chronicity”)
Henri Bergson’s philosophy of time
Proust (the sheer amount of time gained)
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
In The Fifties by Leonard Michaels
Lydia Davis
The Poetry School
Eley Williams
Diane Williams
Keith Ridgway
Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter
The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson
Michelle Leiris’ Francis Bacon essay
Dark Satellites by Clemens Meyer
Blue in Chicago by Bette Howland
W-3 by Bette Howland
Kevin Young’s anthology African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song
Copper Canyon Press
Cardinal by Tyree Daye
Index Cards by Moyra Davey
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
Grace Paley
Black Jesus and Other Superheroes by Venita Blackburn
How to Wrestle a Girl by Venita Blackburn
Notes on Glaze: 18 Photographic Investigations by Wayne Koestenbaum
Figure It Out by Wayne Koestenbaum
The Queen’s Throat by Wayne Koestenbaum
Aug-9-Fog by Kathryn Scanlan
The Dominant Animal by Kathryn Scanlan
Darker with the Lights Out by David Hayden

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘The Dead Mixer’, a chapter in my novel ‘All Our Love’, is my contribution to the mystic cosmogony of the Liverpool lock-in. Here in the new issue of Science & Magic along with a lot of terrific writing. www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

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Thoroughly enjoyed Gerri Kimber’s new biog of Katherine Mansfield. So compelling was it that I read it in just two sittings. KM’s life is so meticulously researched & beautifully told by Kimber that I couldn’t put the book down. I feel I “know” KM much better than I ever did before.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you've never seen Margaret Tait's film-poem based on a piece by Gerard Manley Hopkins, I suggest you take six minutes to treat yourself today. I wrote about why I think it works so well here.

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Latch or Catch or Key

On a beautiful film of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem

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That story is marvellous, Rachel. (Thank you!).

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I was really sorry not to be able to be there to hear everyone’s stories. Hopefully will get to read them some time.

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For your interest, 'A plan of the town of Liverpool', from 'The Picture of Liverpool, or Strangers' Guide', 1808. The edition owned by Allan Melville and used by his son Herman on his visit to the city in 1839, and referred to in the novel 'Redburn'.

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