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Michael Jarvie

@michaeljarvie

Samizdat novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, poet, editor.Translator of Georg Trakl and Gerhart Hauptmann. Working Class. Marxist. Atheist. Coming in 2026 Transformer: Writing the Black Country by Zero Books. linktr.ee/michaelkjarvie

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Lifetime royalties.
Not bad for a self-published book of Austrian poetry in translation.
#booksky #poetry #trakl

06.03.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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World Book Day, eh? Well, here's my bestseller.
Despite the classism inherent in the UK publishing industry, this working-class writer and translator refuses to be silenced.
To be a writer is to be engaged in Marx's class struggle.
#booksky #translation #poetry #trakl #marxism #workingclass

05.03.2026 12:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

By the way, influencers are shallow cunts.
Glad the fuckers are hiding in cellars right now.

05.03.2026 01:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The evidence:

04.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok. the Jarvie view.
The Epstein war will be over in a few more days. At worst, it might drag on for another week.
The paedophile will declare victory and cease the bombing, once he sees the petrol prices shooting up at the pumps in the US.
Then he might turn his attention to Cuba.

04.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Die schlesischen Weber
Die schlesischen Weber YouTube video by Texte und TΓΆne

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxSk... Quoted in my work in Progress "The Sharp Judge":
"Germany, we're weaving your funeral shroud."
When the new technology of emergent capitalism destroyed their livelihoods, the starving weavers had no alternative but to rise up against their oppressors.

04.03.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jarvie spreading the gospel on Twitter until the biker blocked me. He's a Christian. And demonstrates his love for Jesus by advocating violence and hating Johnny foreigner. He wants the Royal Navy to open fire on the boats. That'll teach 'em! ? Notice how he threatens to dob me in with Zero Books.

03.03.2026 10:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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For information.

02.03.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My Iran War email this morning.

02.03.2026 07:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Where are the praetorian tribunes when you need them? Caligula’s mad again.

02.03.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep. His father was an Ashkenazi Jew from Eastern Europe.

02.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Facts don’t care for your feelings.

01.03.2026 23:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So is the UK now fighting side by side with Israel and America, those two bastions of paedophilia?

Really? Great. And have we declared war on Iran? No need, you say? The UN will turn a blind eye? Fantastic.

Bombs away, chaps.

01.03.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

And after three Ukrainian rent boys mysteriously set fire to a property belonging to Keir Starmer, RAF jets are bombing Iran. Make that make sense.

01.03.2026 21:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you. It's just an early draft, before I sprinkle my magic dust all over it.
Unfortunately, the unimaginative gatekeepers who control the UK publishing industry find my work boring and uncommercial.

01.03.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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We're in 1936 now, and Jesse Owens has won his gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
#booksky
#writing

01.03.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So, let me get this straight. A Jewish paedophile, with links to Mossad, runs a honey trap aimed at ensnaring politicians and rich businessmen, and even though he’s dead the senile president of the USA embarks on a war in the Middle East to distract people from his involvement in said honey trap?

01.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Well she did get one element right. I am a communist.

01.03.2026 11:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a complete waste of time sending work to literary agents. If I submitted to 1000 of them I’d get 1000 rejections, so why bother?

01.03.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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01.03.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Best insult I received from one of the salty gammons was that I was a β€œNazi Communist”. That made me laugh.

28.02.2026 22:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I predicted the Green victory so have been trolling the Labour Party and Reform supporters.
Hours of fun.

28.02.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

BTW I will get round to reading your book, which I know will be brill, it's just that I have no money now I'm retired.
I might ask my local library to order a copy, since that strategy worked well at Durham library when I was keen to read Stu Hennigan's book Ghost Signs, about the pandemic.

28.02.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In fact, it's pure Team America, Mic. "Dirka, dirka" and all that. Not to teach granny to suck eggs, if I was writing about the current situation, that's the angle I'd take.

28.02.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s the β€œthey all look and sound the same” argument I guess. I remember the fatwa on Rushdie very well.

28.02.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Michael Jarvie Author of THE PRISON, BLACK ART, and SONATA FORM

www.goodreads.com/author/show/... My Goodreads profile. You probably won't be interested because I'm not middle class, but here it is anyway.

28.02.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hobnobbing today with the middle class at the Tees Valley Roadshow at the Forum in Darlington.
Fortunately I managed to survive unscathed.
They unveiled a new scheme for writers like me living in the Tees Valley.
Another rejection to add to the list, eh!
It’s free so that’s ok.

28.02.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Total cognitive dissonance.

26.02.2026 23:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Monsters

26.02.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ulysses has that too.

26.02.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0