Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 17h

Happy launch day to @galiamelon.bsky.social on her debut collection 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

1 2 5

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 13h

Just reposting this as it got - checks notes - zero likes, so can only assume everyone missed it (rather than you all got the ick at my blatant self-promotion)

Preorder the Othernauts before Friday and get 25% off

Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 2d

Preorder Offer on THE OTHERNAUTS! 25% off which means only £5.99 to secure your spot on the Argo!
🌊🐍♟️🏛️🏺⚡️🔮⚓️🐉

#WPreorder @waterstones.bsky.social @bonnierbooks.bsky.social

www.waterstones.com/book/the-oth...

1 1 5

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 13h

🕷️ Happy Publication Day!
'BOG PEOPLE - A Working Class Anthology of Folk Horror' out today and in your favourite bookshops now, published with Chatto and Windus and edited by Hollie Starling - my piece is titled I AM HAGSTONE - I love this collection! ✨

Book cover for BOG PEOPLE - dark purple cover with horned demon holding pitchfork

A picture of Contents page:

Introduction - Hollie Starling
The Ossuary - A. K. Blakemore
Perpetual Stew - Daniel Draper
Carole - Emma Glass
Eldritch - Mark Colbourne
The Spit in Your Mouth and the Bile in Your Stomach - Mark Stafford
Yellowbelly - Hollie Starling
The Hanging Stones - Jenn Ashworth
The Keepers - Natasha Carthew
I Am Hagstone - Salena Godden
It Fair Give Me the Spikes -Tom Benn

Picture of book and quotes:

'A masterful collection'
MAXINE PEAKE
'Feral and furious'
CHARLIE COOPER
'An absolute treat'
ADAMS LESLIE
You really need to read this'
ALAN MOORE

BOG PEOPLE
A WORKING-CLASS
ANTHOLOGY OF FOLK HORROR

"Masterful"
MAXINE PEAKE
'Astonishing"
ALAN MOORE

EDITED by HOLLIE STARLING

1 2 9

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 13h

🎉 Tonight: Paperback Launch Party for ‘With Love, Grief and Fury’ at The Poetry Pharmacy, 6pm-7pm, poetry and book signing, pop down if you are in town, it’s free, just RSVP here, see you later… www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/with-love-...

1 4 7

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 12h

I’m always fascinated by what is going on psychologically in people who oppose unions. Obvs not eg, CEOs of massive companies, but normal ordinary people. Especially in the U.K.! Do you prefer gender pay gaps etc? Or will you sacrifice rights in order to shut down progressive thought?

2 1 9

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 10h

These have arrived, and I am celebrating with a glass of beetroot juice. It's the seventh 10 Poets book!

You can get it here: sidekickbooks.com/booklab/book...

Physical copy of Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire's Castle, with Lego minifig of Strahd von Zarovich from Dungeons & Dragons stood atop it.

A photograph of the Foreword. "A tall figure descends the stairs at the centre of the great hall. He is the very picture of calculated languor and boredom, though passion burns in the depths of his bright, dissimilar eyes. He wears a frock coat like a second skin. His open shirt collar erupts from it like the spathe of an arum lily. He is himself peculiarly pale -- not the pallor of death, but that of a beautiful alabaster vase. There are fine blue veins upon his features. He is possessed of a boldly prominent brow and delicately cut nose. The hairline recedes around the temples, but the hair itself is dark and thickly curled. The smile strikes at you like a knife -- it is contemptuous, almost vindictive.
Vampire? Or poet?

1 3

Reposted by Annie Brechin

jonathan kinsman @manykinsmen.bsky.social · 10h

if any member of the cast in one of these upcoming harry potter projects would truly like to apologise to trans people for their involvement they can start by paying me £300 to cover the cost of a private blood test that I can’t get at my gp now because they refuse shared care agreements now.

2 2

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 9h

More reviews in our current issue 'Ownership' - magmapoetry.com/latest-issue/
@aoifelyall.bsky.social reviews @pimlottkathy.bsky.social's 'After the Rites and Sandwiches';
Camille Ralphs' 'After you were, I am'; and
@dzifabenson.bsky.social's 'Monster'.

magmapoetry.com/aoife-lyall-...

1 1

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 8h

The Paul Valéry Suite was never finished, only abandoned in mid-construction

pic Cliff Yates in Chartres

1 1 8

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 8h

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 12:
When you're getting ready to edit your first draft, change the font. It will trick your brain into reading anew, so you won't just skip over the familiar text...

16 31 190

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Pete @baldiepete.bsky.social · 8h

Fishes and a boat at Commercial Quay in Leith.

2 7

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 8h

Are YOU excited about the Radical Book Fair? Do you want get involved behind the scenes?

Our Edinburgh Book Fair (5-9th Nov) is just a few weeks away & we could use extra hands to help our team make it extra special & accessible!

Details on volunteering HERE:
lighthousebookshop.com/posts/radica...

1 6 13

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 7h

How they tried to keep Existentialism out of England in the 1950s

1 15

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 7h

A story in three parts

87 1.4K 7.2K

Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social · 1d

I'm Gutter's book of the month. Absolute scenes. Love their close reading

How to Make Love — Gutter

Annie Brechin Reviewed by Annie Muir

www.guttermag.co.uk

1 2

Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social · 1d

Breakfast at Tiffany's - the song not the film

1

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 1d

Tomorrow evening!

Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 2d

📚❤️ This Thursday 16th October: 6pm - 7pm. Poetry Pharmacy, Oxford Street. Readings and book signings, FREE entry. See you down there! Thank you lovelies @canongate.co.uk Xx

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/with-love-...

With Love, Grief and Fury Paperback Launch

Join award-winning novelist, poet and broadcaster Salena Godden to celebrate her latest collection, now in paperback.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

2 4

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · 1d

Society of Authors members - don't forget to post your management committee election votes this week! ✉️

1 1

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting for @theskinnymag.bsky.social to countenance, if not promote, even, a future for #ScottishLiterature that doesn't include a single #Gaelic writer of note. And only one with links to the #Highlands and #Islands.

www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur...

A thread 🧵 👇🏻

The Next Generation of Scottish Writers – The Skinny

To celebrate 20 years of The Skinny we look ahead, presenting our Next Generation of Scottish Writers: 12 poets, novelists and essayists who are shaping the future of Scotland's literary landscape. We...

www.theskinny.co.uk

1 2 4

Reposted by Annie Brechin

stinky1967.bsky.social @stinky1967.bsky.social · 7d

A very high tide at Newhaven harbour in Edinburgh after the recent Harvest Moon

2 7

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 9d

At least they are finally saying out loud what they mean - that they desire the bonfire of workers' rights (which Brexit set in motion, a disaster which they have largely got away with).

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 9d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

5 24 91

Reposted by Annie Brechin

T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 10d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

1 20 33

Reposted by Annie Brechin

Andrew Neilson @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social · 13d

Poem for a Shabbat. By @jsaphra.bsky.social.

1 2 7

Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social · 11d

Excited for @joshuaidehen.bsky.social on Jools Holland tonight, 10pm BBC 2