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Elizabeth Loudon

@esloudon.bsky.social

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Poet, novelist, teacher, charity worker. MA 25 yrs, now back in UK. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) 2024 SIBF award for Best International Fiction. Best New Poets 2025. LL/Bridport. See www.elizabethloudon.com for more.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · Nov 16

This btw is the cover of my first and so far only novel. I pinned it over at Twitter and it had 9.5K views and for me that was extraordinary. The publisher (AUC Hoopoe) managed to find a picture of pretty much the exact Baghdadi house where the novel mostly takes place.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 1d

What a lovely thing to do - good mum!

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 2d

Goodness. What does it mean? In Greek I mean, not in your lovely poem?

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 2d

I want to know what the triggering proverb was?

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 3d

Well, Dusty Springfield and Aretha Franklin made the cut. And a director's wife. I know I know, but whatever the reason, it's so disheartening to be erased this much. www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...

László Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240

László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, a provincial town in Hungary, in the Soviet era. He published his first novel, Satantango, in 1985, then The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), War and Wa...

www.theparisreview.org

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 3d

I love those pale pink Japanese anemones. I'll be back tomorrow evening with my own sunset tour.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 4d

My mum is in her final days, so your reposts warmed my heart so much. My mum wasn't Chinese, but when I was nine she gave me this - www.amazon.co.uk/Young-Visite... - to impress on me that time was running out. Also, I bet MHK was far more impressed by you than by me. I found her formidable.

The Young Visiters: Amazon.co.uk: Ashford, Daisy, Simmonds, Posy: 9780701127251: Books

Buy The Young Visiters by Ashford, Daisy, Simmonds, Posy from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 5d

Ha - I met 'Maxine' once, when I was teaching at Smith, and she was very cool indeed. Your mom had a point! Seriously - what lovely tributes to your mother. And condolences. xxx

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 5d

Coming soon coming soon.... an anthology of new work by writers who are also carers. I'm in here somewhere. Thank you so much to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and a heads up to @ylbooks.bsky.social and any other bookshops who might like to carry a copy (out in November).

Cover of an anthology of writing. Title is Curae.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 5d

Me too but not always to the same person.

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 6d

Aw thank you. This one made me a little nervous, to write and to share.

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 8d

I once made a confused class of first year comp students write about capuchin monkeys, long story, it was an elegant and multi-layered assignment that required them to read a peer reviewed article on how they gather fruit..... should have stuck to My Summer Holidays prob.

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 8d

There are and the names are related. I could tell you how I know this but would expose myself as a nerdy and tedious pseudo biologist.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 8d

Indeed. And posh people say they don't see why they should support charities (or charity staff be paid). And there go Universities, museums, medical research, opera, theatre and Hospices, for starters - the stuff they need -- before you even get to people in need of foodbanks and housing.

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 9d

Totally. Prepare for the worst (but no hellfire surely) and hope for the best. Who can say? JG herself was strong in her spiritual beliefs.

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 9d

That Emily, she needed a pink heart couch.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 9d

Me neither on both counts, but in heaven? Who knows.

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 9d

She and Robert Redford are now the official greeters in the great ballroom of heaven. Imagine arriving there and RR takes your coat with a roguish smile, and JG leads you to a seat with a forest view. And both offer you a fabulous white wine. Imagine.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 10d

How on earth did I not know this before - or this poet's work - how much better my life is already for knowing it. Thank you Sean. (Just read The Prodigal Son too....)

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 10d

What a brilliant teacher.

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 11d

Just don't do what I do and delete it tomorrow. And then decide to go adverb hunting (shoot em on sight).

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 12d

She was extraordinary and I love this poem too.

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 15d

Oh wow. New love.

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 15d

and then there's suicide....

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 15d

Dear LRB Bookshop, you set a timer on your phone. Three of them. PS thank you for once carrying my book when I begged!

Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 16d

Well wow.