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Jayne Joso πŸ’™

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Novelist πŸ’™ Artist πŸ’™ Novels, short stories, plays, poems The New York Times, Yorkshire Times, TLS, ICON Arts Council England, DAIWA, & SASAKAWA FOUNDATION Awards HAY FESTIVAL

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A picture of me holding the book β€œAGAIN!” by Emily Gravett. The cover is green with a cartoonish picture of a toddler dragon holding a blankey and a red story book.

A picture of me holding the book β€œAGAIN!” by Emily Gravett. The cover is green with a cartoonish picture of a toddler dragon holding a blankey and a red story book.

Picture Book Recommendation Thursday!

AGAIN! by Emily Gravett

βœ… Super funny!
βœ… Unreliable narrator
βœ… Extra-surprising surprise ending
βœ… Endearing illustrations
βœ… You’ll definitely want to read it AGAIN!

#kidlit #picturebook #bookrecommendations

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Along The River's Lines: <i>HΓ΄tel Amour</i> By Deryn Rees-Jones The cover artwork for Deryn Rees-Jones’s new book of poetic impressionism is fitting: Fidan Nazimqizi’s multi-framed photographic collage, showing a blurred female figure against a backdrop of wallpap...

Yorkshire Times Review: Along the River's Lines: 'Hotel Amour' by Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social
yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Alon...

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Poem Of The Week: <i>Pastoral</i> By Ali Lewis Pastoral Three weeks alone and all I can read are these backwoods American poets with their figs and windfall peaches and their one good chair of four legs from which they observe the changing yaw o...

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'Pastoral' by Ali Lewis
yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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Poem Of The Week: <i>The Grocer</i> By Craig Raine The Grocer β€˜the Kingdom of God cometh not with observation’ (James Joyce to Lady Gregory) The grocer’s hair is parted like a feather by two swift brushes and a dab of brilliantine.

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'The Grocer' by Craig Raine

yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

09.08.2025 07:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know how to DM on here so have done it on twitter -

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So, the next adventure in my futuristic cat novel, now includes whales in acts of benevolence towards other creatures... ooh.. I always think their eyes look so sweet..

This illustration is by Johann Anderson, 1746 who was the son of a whaling ship owner from Hamburg, Germany.

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Sound on 😽🀍

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Poem Of The Week: <i>'Them Animals Is Disgusting'</i> By Peter Reading (1946-2011) β€˜Them animals is disgusting’ In London Zoo is a large flat painted Disneyesque lion sporting a circular hole cut where the face ought to be.

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'Them animals is disgusting' by Peter Reading

www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

02.08.2025 07:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Word Perfect

Word Perfect

We always like to check what the first book sale of the day is in the shop. I think it's good luck, and a sign of a day to come.

Today, it was Word Perfect by Susie Dent, so we're going to have a PERFECT day.

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Grey cat with white chest and paws, looking straight at camera, sitting on a brown deck underneath a small canopy of magenta fuchsia flowers.

Grey cat with white chest and paws, looking straight at camera, sitting on a brown deck underneath a small canopy of magenta fuchsia flowers.

What day is it again?

26.07.2025 22:27 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

am doing something similar, feel worn out xx

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take your time xx

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The Seed In The City: <i>The Holdings – A Poetry Anthology From Leeds Irish Health And Homes</i> The latest anthology of poetry from Leeds Irish Health and Homes is defined most clearly by its obvious sincerity.

Yorkshire Times review: Seed in the City - 'The Holdings - A Poetry Anthology from Leeds Irish Health and Homes', eds. @ianduhig.bsky.social and Laura McDonagh

yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/The-...

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Poem Of The Week: <i>God's Grandeur</i> By Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) God's Grandeur The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'God's Grandeur' by Gerard Manley Hopkins
yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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How on earth did this get left out of The Whitsun Weddings. Among his finest things.

26.07.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Huge shout out for the Edward Burra exhibition at Tate Britain ❀️

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I See A Morning is about that hope. About the belief that we can be better. And that belief - in the face of everything - is powerful.

I See A Morning is yours now, find it on all streaming platforms and watch the lyric video on YouTube!

ttikaram.lnk.to/ISAM

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Community. That’s where I find my faith. In people. In memory. In the quiet, determined courage that pushes us toward something better.

I see change on the horizon. Do you?

"I See A Morning" out tomorrow.

ttikaram.lnk.to/ISAM

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Call me unhinged, but I just ordered six books on minimalism.

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Early Morning Dappled Skies. 22Β°C. Beans.

Early Morning Dappled Skies. 22Β°C. Beans.

Early Morning Dappled Skies. 22Β°C. Beans.

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On this day in 1988, I performed Preyed Upon on ITV Night Network!

#livemusic #80smusic

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Rosemary Hill Β· At the Driehaus Museum: Tulips, Fritillaries and Auriculas Rory McEwen’s work is not only less concerned with conventional ideas of beauty, it lacks any obvious desire to please...

β€˜Fritillaries were among McEwen’s favourites. He felt a kind of awe for β€œthese intense, wonderful little worlds of character” that had almost to be dissected to discover their β€œtiny, jewel-like, secret, nectaries”.’

Rosemary Hill on Rory McEwen’s botanical art: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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nothing goin' on
summer walks
cafe life

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Poem Of The Week: <i>Inventory Of Aunties</i> By Cia Mangat inventory of aunties ageing aunty with milky eyes that can barely make out the lights in the gurdwara hall; aunty with laugh that peels down southall broadway like cheap rhinestones off a suit; new a...

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'inventory of aunties' by Cia Mangat @poetrybusiness.bsky.social
www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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nothing goin' on
summer walks
cafe life

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