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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 11h

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

Clouds of Albion, for Max
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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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Grant McPhee @grantmcphee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I thought I'd bring together Parts 1–16 of 50 Years of The Pool of Life into one place. The series charts Mathew Street’s evolution from 1961 to 1983, encompassing Eric’s, punk, Jung, Illuminatus! and all manner of strangeness. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/pool-of-li...

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Pool of Life at 50 / Parts 1 - 16

This brings together Parts 1–16 of 50 Years of The Pool of Life in one place.

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Brian Libby @brianlibby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This evening I’ve enjoyed watching “A Photographer Films Amsterdam,” a kind of verite documentary from 1982 filmed for Dutch TV, full of people-watching with some great faces — after reading about it in Jeff Young’s book Wild Twin (@wildtwin.bsky.social) youtu.be/f1a6W2ZA8v0?...

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My AMSTERDAM by Ed van der Elsken (1982)

YouTube video by BITS & PIECES

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Island Life @islandlife4eva.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Praise be to my postman! @wildtwin.bsky.social think I’m going to pour myself a glass and get cracking on this right away! Many thanks to @sacredparasite.bsky.social for swift delivery and free poetry! Looks right up my strasse!

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

‘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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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From Berlin with love. Solid post day, with package from @sacredparasite.bsky.social including @wildtwin.bsky.social, @brianevenson.bsky.social and SP jefe Kevin Tosca. The good stuff.

The Poet by Kevin Tosca, Salt Lake City by Brian Evenson, and Latchkey by Jeff Young, all published by Sacred Parasite

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There they are, @wildtwin.bsky.social's Latchkey and JWGoll's The Terminal Art in Saint George's Bookshop in Berlin. Big thanks to St. George's and to all the other bookstores that continue to throw their weight behind Sacred Parasite. www.sacredparasite.com/bookstores

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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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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

!!!PUBLICATION DAY!!! JWGoll's The Terminal Art and @wildtwin.bsky.social's Latchkey are OUT! At www.sacredparasite.com you can, for the first time, see inside and read sample pages from both books. Then order away to your heart's content.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seventeenth Bird Dream & Eighteenth Bird Dream.

Collage on paper - bird illustration, found paper, ink, charcoal, pastel, paint, fake gold leaf

Collage on paper using found paper, woman’s face, fragments from a damaged Ruskin book, paint, ink, charcoal, pastel, bird wing illustrations

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pictured is a mere fraction of the copies of JWGoll's The Terminal Art and @wildtwin.bsky.social's Latchkey I've gotten out and today is the last day to pre-order both books and to secure yourself a (secret) literary bonus with them. Tomorrow? Both books become O-ficial. www.sacredparasite.com

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Paul Gotts @paulgotts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Latchkey Jeff Young Highly Recommended

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For the 33rd edition of Science & Magic I wrote about this house and the things that happened there. You can read it here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-... My new book Latchkey is set in the house too and you can read more about it and order it here: www.sacredparasite.com/product/jeff...

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is wonderful. I’m guessing you’d enjoy @ianrsalmon.bsky.social

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feathers, shells and sea-shaped stones are all as rare. - Alice Walker

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seventeenth Bird Dream & Eighteenth Bird Dream.

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Nils Gilman @nils-gilman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s not every day I get home to find such a delightful package from Berlin. Looking forward to reading this. Thank you @wildtwin.bsky.social and @sacredparasite.bsky.social for such life affirming good work.

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Island Life @islandlife4eva.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Island Life - Borderline Apostasy (featuring Jeff Young) A while back I took a punt and messaged one of my favourite authors @wildtwin.bsky.social about collaborating on a tune I was working on. To my surprise and delight he agreed! Here’s the result. islandlife1.bandcamp.com/track/border...

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Borderline Apostasy (featuring Jeff Young), by Island Life

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Sam The Sham @thegreatbartoni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Island Life - Borderline Apostasy (featuring Jeff Young) About a year ago I took a punt and messaged one of my favourite authors @wildtwin.bsky.social about collaborating on a tune I was working on. To my surprise and delight he agreed. Here’s the result. islandlife1.bandcamp.com/track/border...

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Borderline Apostasy (featuring Jeff Young), by Island Life

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s a brilliant piece by David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social in the new edition of Science & Magic. It’s a chapter called The Dead Mixer from his novel ‘All Our Love’ You can read it here and you should because it’s very good! www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

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Science & Magic | 33 — Violette Records

The men are getting smaller these days

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Night’s hallucinatory cinema projected on the eyelids of madmen." Yes yes yes! Words from Jeff Young that you should read at S&M 33, then in Latchkey, which you can order at sacredparasite.com.

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Numbering... The 1st printing of @wildtwin.bsky.social's new novella Latchkey is an edition of 350 hand-numbered copies printed locally in Berlin. Official release date: 29.9.26. Pre-orderable TODAY at: www.sacredparasite.com

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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Love all of this, and the channel ident at the beginning. 1981: Michael J. Murphy – The Folklore Collector | Ulster in Focus | BBC Archive. @wildtwin.bsky.social - I imagine you'll enjoy this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3zc...

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1981: Michael J. Murphy – The Folklore Collector | Ulster in Focus | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Latchkey, the latest book by Jeff Young, @wildtwin.bsky.social, one of my favorite living writers hands down, arrived today in the post, published by Berlin's @sacredparasite.bsky.social

Latchkey by Jeff Young, published by Sacred Parasite, 2026 (b/w cover photo of a sandy haired, hollow-eyed & haunted young boy in a rough sweater, bandage over his right eye, staring into the lens, by Gerard Fieret)

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

These 2 books by @wildtwin.bsky.social and JWGoll will be officially released ONE WEEK from today. Pre-orders are still possible at www.sacredparasite.com. All pre-orders are receiving a literary bonus. And as of tomorrow, all pre-orders pre-ordered before today will have been mailed. Thank you!

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Nick @nickoppi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sefton Park looking like moorland, early season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

Mist over park landscape of trees and shrubs

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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Working more on this today. Mostly making sure it has nice pics which - however vaguely - relate to writing, including this by @wildtwin.bsky.social, a collage from his memoir, Wild Twin which is two today (or thereabouts)!

A collage of image and handwritten text by Jeff Young.

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Next week I will also be sending a box of Latchkeys to News From Nowhere, to THE SCENE OF THE CRIME, right there to where @wildtwin.bsky.social's excellent new novella takes place: Liverpool. www.sacredparasite.com

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Nils Gilman @nils-gilman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy birthday Wild Twin. Wonderful book that led me to meet Jeff. I have bought several copies for friends and family members who I knew would ‘get it’. We’re all under its collective spell.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve not read a better book this year.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy Second Birthday to Wild Twin. ‘…this exceptional memoir…richly detailed and observant.’ Adelle Stripe ‘ A surging heart-song.’ Iain Sinclair There’s a new stash in Liverpool Waterstones if you’re looking for one or you can order one here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

Two copies of book Wild Twin by Jeff Young, collaged covers, bookshelf in Liverpool Waterstones on the book’s second birthday

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Next week I'll be sending 5 Sacred Parasite titles to London Review Bookshop. 2 of the books chosen by LRB's buyer are SP's newest, JWGoll's THE TERMINAL ART and @wildtwin.bsky.social's LATCHKEY. Both out Sept. 29th. Both absolutely positively pre-orderable today. www.sacredparasite.com

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A second chapter of my Liverpool novel 'All Our Love' will appear soon in Science & Magic, one of my most favourite online places. It's titled 'The Dead Mixer' and is my contribution to the cosmogony of the 1980s Scouse lock-in.

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Annie Dillard RIP. I teach parts of Tinker Creek. And I also point students towards Alexander Chee’s excellent essay on being taught by Annie Dillard. You can read it here: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...

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Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News

Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.

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Ex-Easter Island Head @eeih.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

SHANE PARISH + BENJAMIN D. DUVALL 21st OCTOBER 2026 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shane-pari...

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Shane Parish @shaneparish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Almost 5 years after releasing an album called Liverpool, I’m finally going there to play a little guitar.

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The first few seconds of the universe reflected in a car park puddle. (Funfayre ride, just after a thunderstorm had passed overhead)

Two long exposures of a swirling chair ride at the funfair at night. One long exposure is as the camera is moved, creating an explosion of colour and movement, as if we’re looking at the early years of the universe.

The whole shebang of purple and pinks and blues is reflected in a fresh puddle.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Upcoming event alert! I’m interviewing the actor, playwright and director Steven Berkoff about his new autobiography Shouting at Night, which I edited, on November 4th. We’ll be discussing his life in film and theatre at Waterstones Gower Street. See www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/steven-ber...

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

I have a new book coming out soon, you can pre-order it here. It’s a novella called Latchkey and it’s published in Berlin by the excellent @sacredparasite.bsky.social It’s VERY 1980s Liverpool 8 and it’s set in the aftermath of my Amsterdam years. Wild times… www.sacredparasite.com/product/jeff...

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Jeff Young's LATCHKEY

THIS IS A PRE-ORDER!!! ALL PRE-ORDERS WILL SHIP SHORTLY AFTER I HAVE THE BOOKS BACK FROM THE PRINTER, SOMETIME BEFORE THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DATE. Official Publication Date: 29.9.26 Latchkey's narra...

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For Science & Magic 32 I wrote about these measurements on a doorframe. As ever there are lots of brilliant things in this edition and you can read it here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

Photo of a doorframe with measurements written on it in felt pen and biro. Child’s drawing next to it

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another very strong review of Adrian Duncan's new novel, A Thought Without Collision. For my money, he's the best Irish writer writing today. Steadily building a quality body of work while staying apart from the canapé side of publishing. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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A Thought Without Collision by Adrian Duncan review – a brilliant interrogation of philosophy and wonder

With a character inspired by Wittgenstein, this exploration of the mysteries of the universe draws on multiple philosophical traditions

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For Science & Magic 32 I wrote about these measurements on a doorframe. As ever there are lots of brilliant things in this edition and you can read it here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It seems wrong that out of this bird, Black, bold, a suggestion of dark Places about it, there yet should come Such rich music, as though the notes' Ore were changed to a rare metal At one touch of that bright bill. R S Thomas. Our tree.

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