Annie Brechin
@anniebrechin.bsky.social
Poet, bellringer. The Mouth of Eulalie currently out from Blue Diode Press https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-mouth-of-eulalie-by-annie-brechin-isbn-9781915108012
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Okay a short thread on some of the stuff I did in 2025. First my paperback of The Modern Fairies came out in the US and UK. An adult novel about the fairytale salons at the time of Louis XIV. www.penguin.co.uk/books/459466...
The Modern Fairies
Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a...
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December 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Okay a short thread on some of the stuff I did in 2025. First my paperback of The Modern Fairies came out in the US and UK. An adult novel about the fairytale salons at the time of Louis XIV. www.penguin.co.uk/books/459466...
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We do a major disservice to novels as a medium when we assert they MUST follow screenwriting conventions. They certainly *can*, but to insist they ought to is to overlook the strengths of the novel format. Novels are not movies.
December 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We do a major disservice to novels as a medium when we assert they MUST follow screenwriting conventions. They certainly *can*, but to insist they ought to is to overlook the strengths of the novel format. Novels are not movies.
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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Matthew Paul reviews 'Summers Are Other' by Andrew Neilson (Rack Press, 2025)
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Matthew Paul reviews 'Summers Are Other' by Andrew Neilson (Rack Press, 2025)
The Friday Poem on 12th December 2025
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December 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Matthew Paul reviews 'Summers Are Other' by Andrew Neilson (Rack Press, 2025)
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open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...
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If I read the book that I buy then it doesn’t count as spending money.
December 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
If I read the book that I buy then it doesn’t count as spending money.
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... these songs I've
built from things too difficult
to speak of
—Carl Phillips, from "Fist and Palm"
built from things too difficult
to speak of
—Carl Phillips, from "Fist and Palm"
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
... these songs I've
built from things too difficult
to speak of
—Carl Phillips, from "Fist and Palm"
built from things too difficult
to speak of
—Carl Phillips, from "Fist and Palm"
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FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Magma 95 - 'Architecture'
Closing date: Wed 10th Dec 2025
Editors Leo Boix and Stav Poleg look forward to receiving your poems!
📷Oscar Niemeyer
More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
Magma 95 - 'Architecture'
Closing date: Wed 10th Dec 2025
Editors Leo Boix and Stav Poleg look forward to receiving your poems!
📷Oscar Niemeyer
More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
December 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Magma 95 - 'Architecture'
Closing date: Wed 10th Dec 2025
Editors Leo Boix and Stav Poleg look forward to receiving your poems!
📷Oscar Niemeyer
More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
Magma 95 - 'Architecture'
Closing date: Wed 10th Dec 2025
Editors Leo Boix and Stav Poleg look forward to receiving your poems!
📷Oscar Niemeyer
More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
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Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres.
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
HODDER & STOUGHTON OPEN SUBMISSIONS
Visit the post for more.
www.hodder.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres.
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
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Thank you all, the update than we can barely believe we get to make.
To everyone who supported us through this last month, we couldn’t have even come close to this outcome without you all.
Have a peaceful festive period, we’ll see you in the bookshop soon 🧡
To everyone who supported us through this last month, we couldn’t have even come close to this outcome without you all.
Have a peaceful festive period, we’ll see you in the bookshop soon 🧡
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Thank you all, the update than we can barely believe we get to make.
To everyone who supported us through this last month, we couldn’t have even come close to this outcome without you all.
Have a peaceful festive period, we’ll see you in the bookshop soon 🧡
To everyone who supported us through this last month, we couldn’t have even come close to this outcome without you all.
Have a peaceful festive period, we’ll see you in the bookshop soon 🧡
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
December 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
My reading companion from yesterday's launch at Werewolf Beer
December 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
My reading companion from yesterday's launch at Werewolf Beer
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At a dance class I complimented a woman on her grippy-bottomed socks. “I love the psych ward socks,” I said. And she goes “I call them Pilates socks.” And those, my friends, are the two types of people.
December 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
At a dance class I complimented a woman on her grippy-bottomed socks. “I love the psych ward socks,” I said. And she goes “I call them Pilates socks.” And those, my friends, are the two types of people.
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Spotlight on our new monthly display! ✨
This holiday season, come browse our Extremely Specific Interest Books corner to find the next perfect gift for special people in your life!
We will keep restocking this as the month goes on, so keep an eye on it!
#typewronger #BookSky💙📚
This holiday season, come browse our Extremely Specific Interest Books corner to find the next perfect gift for special people in your life!
We will keep restocking this as the month goes on, so keep an eye on it!
#typewronger #BookSky💙📚
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Spotlight on our new monthly display! ✨
This holiday season, come browse our Extremely Specific Interest Books corner to find the next perfect gift for special people in your life!
We will keep restocking this as the month goes on, so keep an eye on it!
#typewronger #BookSky💙📚
This holiday season, come browse our Extremely Specific Interest Books corner to find the next perfect gift for special people in your life!
We will keep restocking this as the month goes on, so keep an eye on it!
#typewronger #BookSky💙📚
I can verify that when the sun sets in winter it is incomparably beautiful and the memory of it lasts a long time. I think this means there was no night. The night was in my head. (L Gluck)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I can verify that when the sun sets in winter it is incomparably beautiful and the memory of it lasts a long time. I think this means there was no night. The night was in my head. (L Gluck)
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I was six when I first saw kittens drown.
Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits',
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound
(Seamus Heaney)
Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits',
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound
(Seamus Heaney)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I was six when I first saw kittens drown.
Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits',
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound
(Seamus Heaney)
Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits',
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound
(Seamus Heaney)
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Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues
Issues — Bad Lilies
Issues of Bad Lilies, a digital poetry journal.
www.badlilies.uk
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues
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'Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be.'
The Scotsman, on Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas
Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Fower Pessoas:
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Read the full article:
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The Scotsman, on Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas
Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Fower Pessoas:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464...
Read the full article:
www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scots...
Fower Pessoas
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025Shortlisted for the Scots Book O' the Year Award 2025 Fower Pessoas is the most original work of translation...
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December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
'Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be.'
The Scotsman, on Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas
Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Fower Pessoas:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464...
Read the full article:
www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scots...
The Scotsman, on Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas
Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Fower Pessoas:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464...
Read the full article:
www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scots...
Usual pre gig terror that no one will show up
December 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Usual pre gig terror that no one will show up
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Experienced this at a border and it is exactly as humiliating as you would expect.
December 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Experienced this at a border and it is exactly as humiliating as you would expect.
Tears by Sabrina Carpenter starts just like Yes sir I can boogie
December 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Tears by Sabrina Carpenter starts just like Yes sir I can boogie
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And as they're all in one place now: @theguardian.com's picks for books of 2025, including my poetry selections. Usual caveats re letting one of you down with my choices apply: www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-i...
The best books of 2025
New novels from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ian McEwan, plus the return of Slow Horses and Margaret Atwood looks back … Guardian critics pick the must-read titles of 2025
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December 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
And as they're all in one place now: @theguardian.com's picks for books of 2025, including my poetry selections. Usual caveats re letting one of you down with my choices apply: www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-i...
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Back in the early 00s, my friends coined a nickname for me: Binge-Purge.
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The Ballad of Binge-Purge
Binge-purge circa 2007 (image created from my own photo and the wonderful Retrospecs app) Back in the early 00s, my friends coined a nickname for me: Binge-...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Back in the early 00s, my friends coined a nickname for me: Binge-Purge.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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i hope someday i win the fifa peace prize. maybe even the pizza hut medal of honor. or hell, why not, a costco oscar
December 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
i hope someday i win the fifa peace prize. maybe even the pizza hut medal of honor. or hell, why not, a costco oscar