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Michael Jarvie
@michaeljarvie.bsky.social
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Samizdat novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, poet, editor.Translator of Georg Trakl and Gerhart Hauptmann. Working Class. Marxist. Atheist. Coming soon Transformer: Writing the Black Country by Zero Books. Despised by New Writing North.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 20d
For info. These are the total earnings for my book Autumnal Elegies since it was published in 2019.
#poetry #trakl #indie
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 2h
linktr.ee/michaelkjarvie Just a reminder where you can find me.
I’m poor and working class so as a self published author that means I can’t afford a website. So I do the best I can with free resources.
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Working-class writer. Author of six books - The Prison, Black Art, Autumnal Elegies, Into the Silence, Sonata Form, and Thiel the Level-Crossing Keeper. Athe...
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 16h
Today’s Trakl poem.
My translation of course.
#trakl #poetry #booksky #translation
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 1d
One of my earliest videos, a pitch for my Trakl translation Autumnal Elegies.
As it turned out, Unbound weren’t interested in my book. Because I’m working class, they implied I wouldn’t be able to raise the finance, so I self-published instead.
I still have the t shirt.

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Unbound
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 2d
As a poor working class writer I use any free resources that are available to promote my work such as YouTube.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 3d
I enjoy the challenge of incorporating rhyme. As in this sonnet.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 4d
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpp7... I’ve recorded a new video about my novel in progress The Sharp Judge.
#writing #booksky #germany #hitler
The Sharp Judge: a novel in progress
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 7d
The Nobel Prize for Literature no less.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 8d
Bad Enoch would have been described by Malcolm X as a house negro. She has no shame.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 8d
Indeed. Bad Enoch will be replaced next year by a middle-aged white man. She might even defect to Reform UK once that happens.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 8d
Latest total: 28,159 words.
The Sharp Judge forging ahead.
#booksky
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 9d
More new material. This time it’s book burning. Soon be burning people.
From my work in progress The Sharp Judge.
The gatekeepers won’t like it but maybe you will.
#reading #writing #dusseldorf #booksky
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 11d
I’m on a roll (forgive the terrible pun).
I’ve drafted another chapter for The Sharp Judge with even more lovely baked goodies on display.
#writing #indie #germany
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 11d
Wonderful.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11d
#OtD 5 Oct 1789 thousands of women in Paris, angry over the high price and scarcity of bread, ransacked the city armoury for weapons and besieged the Palace of Versailles in one of the opening salvos of the French revolution shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 12d
63 sales so far this month. 625 in total.
Not bad for an unknown working class translator.
#poetry #translation
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 13d
Back to school with my current work in progress The Sharp Judge.
#weimar #literature #dusseldorf
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 14d
Cologne cathedral is mentioned in my work in progress.
You wonder how those twin spires survived all the bombing.
Almost miraculous you might say given that the building was hit 14 times.
#writing #Cologne #war
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 15d
You might find some of these useful. Valerie Shaw might be a good starting point.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 15d
Always nice to be in good company with the masters.
#poetry #indie #translation
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 19d
I watched the TV version of V when it was first broadcast.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 19d
Tonight’s view.
#debussy #wagner #rachmaninov #glasshouse
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 19d
Today’s photo.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 20d
For info. These are the total earnings for my book Autumnal Elegies since it was published in 2019.
#poetry #trakl #indie
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 20d
Not this adult.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 21d
I’d scoff that.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 21d
Writing another chapter to be included in my novel The Sharp Judge.
Postmen feature in all of my books of fiction, so here’s another example.
#wip #war #germany #writing
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