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writer, visual poet. An Orchid in my Belly Button (Elsewhen 2025) https://books2read.com/AnOrchidInMyBellyButton Fifty One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press) 100% housebound #mecfs #disability https:// whimsylph.wordpress.com
Vegans!
I'm looking for vegan and/or animal rights newsletters/zines/podcasts/other platforms that do book reviews. Can you suggest any?
#Vegan #AnimalRights #Booksky
‘We don’t see our world properly until we imagine losing it’
Author Joe Mungo Reed talks sci fi/ speculative in relation to his new book. Mentions Delillo, Vonnegut, Atwood + how he came of age when speculative fiction was more accepted #amwriting #booksky
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I remember reading Black Athena as an anthropology student and being so impressed. What a wonderful man and I am sorry he is gone.
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
Disassembled Words 64: kelped words
A footpath with an oak.
Close up of large trunk
Second trunk close up
Oak and footpath at Peter Tavy this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #oaks
Cover image of Fourth Seed, book 4 in Terry Jackman’s Worlds Apart collective, by Alison Buck and Space Fabricator. Against a starry background, a planet fills most of the right hand side of the image. It is an earth-like planet, with oceans, green and brown areas of land and cloud formations in places. In orbit above the planet is a huge spaceship, in menacing red, with a single gold stripe across the top. It appears to be comprised of large flat spaceship, with a more dome-like second craft nestled into the dimpled top. the title is at the top of the image in white stylised capital letters, and the author’s name is at the bottom of the image in the same style of letters.
Delighted to reveal the cover of Fourth Seed, the 4th book in Terry Jackman’s Worlds Apart Collective, out 3 Apr 2026.
Welcome to Demmos, a far-flung NewEarth colony. A source of basic food-grain for the homeworld. The colonists fall out with NewEarth, are abandoned, pleased to be independent. But…
You sit inside giant teacups.
#greenwave
It's not hard to see what's happening here. Labour has been desperately courting voters who switched to Reform years ago and are never coming back, while repeatedly dissing and dismissing its own voters and the things they care about. A plausible alternative emerges, and down the ship goes.
No, Shabana Mahmood, people seeing failing state support and crumbing infrastructure don't have either legitimate concerns or a legitimate grievance against immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers.
They have a legitimate grievance against governments.
Thanks Amy 💚💚
It is a year since An Orchid in My Belly Button, a magical realism/eco fiction collection of stories, pwas published by @elsewhen.press
Thanks to all who have bought and/or read it.
If anyone else is interested-
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Eco visual poem of names of extinct species eroding
Thanks to
@arcpoetry.bsky.social for publishing my visual eco poem Extinct in their The new material eco poetics edition. Copy arrived this week from Canada. Lots of stunning works in the magazine.
Cover image by Alison Buck for The Fall of Faerie by Rebecca Hall, the first book in The Avalon Revolution series. The cover depicts a misty road, in a town, although no buildings can be seen through the mist, a starry sky is just visible above the mist. Wlaking out of the mist towards the viewer is a young girl perhaps aged 10 or 11, wearing fluffy white rabbit slippers, blue-green pyjamas emblazoned with rabbit faces, and clutching a stuufed rabbit toy. She has black hair hanging down in two plaits, one either side of her face. Her eyes are mysteriously not visible. Behind her, just discernable in the mist is a bus that has crashed into a lamp-post and a cyclist who has fallen off his bicycle, which is lying on the ground. At the top of the cover the words The Avalon Revolution are in white, with the title The Fall of Faerie below in larger white letters. At the bottom of the cover the name REBECCA HALL is written in golden letters.
We are excited to be able to reveal the cover of The fall of Faerie by Rebecca Hall, the first book in The Avalon Revolution.
This new fantasy series is set on the misty isle of Avalon, but in the present not in the days of yore. Avalon is now home to humans, fae, and immortals from many pantheons.
People in Clacton are calling Nigel Farage:
Nigel Mirage.
That sounds fab! Love the idea of a hedgehog mini woodland!
Good news in the darkness…
He says he can’t be bought.
£13.2 million says otherwise.
I have read two of them and Disfigured is the most engaging and interesting imo, weaving personal story with discussion of disability rep in fairy tales.
A stream beside a narrow lane
Lane at Moortown, Whitchurch Down this afternoon, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #countryside
Oh - looks amazing.
ThanksAmy x
Looks really good!
Am reading the brilliant Weavers Scribes and Kings for #amwriting research. What is everyone reading today? #booksky
Quick plug for a magical realism/ecofiction book of short stories that features orchids, cosmic hoovers, plants as hair, crab ghosts and anarchic mermaids #booksky
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Deadline extended to 6th of February.
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I do rather yearn for the sea.
It is surely an ironic pen name for a posh journalist - I bet it is an in joke she thinks is hilarious.
Do not bother to write again.
