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Own Sweet Time, CB editions
Sovetica, CB editions
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 23d
Many thanks to Richard Lea @fictionable.bsky.social for this enjoyable conversation!
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Write what you know or write what you don't? On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast Caroline Clark tells us she's certain of one thing – she's making it up

Catch it at www.fictionable.world/podcasts/car...

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
A portrait of the writer Caroline Clark, with a quote from her podcast interview: 'I can never say where the story started'
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sunset 3.58pm
Massive orange-reddening cloud over a street, some cars, a bare tree
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Looking forward to reading NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems (Volume 2) in which I have the tiniest thing ever

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Screenshot from the webpage showing the NOON anthology
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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David Rose's new story in @exactingclam.bsky.social (you'll need a pen and paper to work out the hidden message, oh yes)

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Dali and the Lobster | Exacting Clam
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November 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Thanks to Neil Warren for this audio recording of me reading the title story from my new collection 💛 ajashworth.com/audio-record... @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social
Audio recording of Maybe the Birds – A. J. Ashworth – Short Story Writer
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November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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It's such a treat to talk with others about writing and I was delighted to have this talk with Richard. I was surprised to find I had something to say about AI and writing, and the video game of Caroline Clark 👇🎮
fictionable.bsky.social Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social · 23d
Write what you know or write what you don't? On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast Caroline Clark tells us she's certain of one thing – she's making it up

Catch it at www.fictionable.world/podcasts/car...

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
A portrait of the writer Caroline Clark, with a quote from her podcast interview: 'I can never say where the story started'
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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first song thrush today, like always in the last days of November, sensing a new year coming
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Comes with a fridge magnet bearing the image of Soviet youths.

SOVETICA www.cbeditions.com/clark.html
Cover of the book Sovetica by me — Caroline Clark, along with an East European Christmas tree decoration in the shape of Father Frost’s granddaughter, Snegurochka. Christmas is not mentioned once. Said fridge magnets. I wasn’t joking. Screenshot from website. Text: FRIDGE MAGNETS! For as long as stock lasts, a fridge magnet (60 x 60mm) will be sent with each order of Sovetica from this page. There are two, each showing a photograph from the book: if you want to choose which, email info@cbeditions.com after placing your order. (Or buy two copies and get both.) One in colour: 4 lads standing on a concrete block, the other in black & white: a school boy standing on a desk about to stamp on two other boys. Hooligans.
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social #GermanLitMonth
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Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm
two! one two  – one two  –  three! .        two one two three  –   four .       two “a recounting,” the first number poem you encounter in Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock, opens with a lengthy note…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book!

“"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."

#greyhound #npr #bookreviews
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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morning ponies towards Newhaven
Group of 4 ponies, a brown one close foreground. In the distance the hills of Firle beacon and Mount Caburn, lower — the flood plains with sparkle on the river, into the sun lightly veiled by clouds.
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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season‘s arch
Beech hedge archway over wooden gate.
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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A hobby of mine is declaring a hobby of mine my book of the year: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Rishi Dastidar - A Hobby of Mine | Broken Sleep Books
In A Hobby of Mine, Rishi Dastidar’s unrelenting catalogue of cultural observations becomes an absurd and profound portrait of modern life. With a playful spirit and incisive wit, Dastidar examines id...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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A review by American poet Anthony Seidman of Michael Lee Rattigan’s book “as grass becomes flesh” can be read in The Loch Raven Review
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The book is available here
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Michael Lee Rattigan’s as grass becomes flesh, Reviewed by Anthony Seidman
as grass becomes flesh, Michael Lee Rattigan, Black Herald Press, 2023: Chartres-London. ISBN: 978-2-919582-35-8, 59 pages.  Gratitude must be extended to editor-poets Paul Stubbs and Blandine…
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November 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Paul is a fantastic reader of others' work. Details of his ms reading services 👇
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Paul is a fantastic reader of others' work. Details of his ms reading services 👇
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Reading this incredible book for the first time, a 1907 edition recently given to my family.
Jack London died on 22nd November, 1916 aged 40.
White Fang blue-green cover with gold lettering, silhouette of a wolf and tree, snow and moon. Inside inscription in neat pencil: ‘P. Lysaght Christmas 1907.
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Ice pond at sunset, 4.05pm
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Early start interpreting at the eye hospital. Reading Ned Denny’s envigorating versions in @pnreview.bsky.social while two old chaps discuss how ‘brown bread turns you out nicely. Surprisingly quickly actually.’
Ned Denny after Verlaine November Dusk Autumn and the departing sun, and I am wild with joy! Corpse hues drenched in blood, a five-alarm sky, death possessing a world of mud, torpid ponds, and man the sick child! This is, poet, your hour and your season, all illusions gone, your heart laid bare, that tender heart which the rats' feet of passion tear, your looking-glass, your festival! Let academics, dupes, and noted authors fawn over the springtime and the dawn, those two foxy virgins even costlier than their frocks; I choose you, autumn, prefer your dark grace to any little darling's face, you my implacable and strange-eyed courtesan.
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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some colours
beech going through yellows and oranges from green to dry brown
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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first ice
The dew pond is back. Oval pond, iced over, grass banks, wooden fence, winter hawthorn trees, in the distance those hills.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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fictionable.bsky.social
Write what you know or write what you don't? On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast @cclarklewes.bsky.social tells us she's certain of one thing – she's making it up

Catch it at www.fictionable.world/podcasts/car...

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
A portrait of the writer Caroline Clark, with a quote from her podcast interview: 'I always write what I don't know'
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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into the season
holly berries with dewy cobweb
November 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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A one-way system on the outskirts of Madrid is the road to hostility and blame in I Will Go by @cclarklewes.bsky.social But is there another way?

Find out at www.fictionable.world/stories/i-wi...

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A one-way sign on a wall, with a quote from Caroline Clark's short story I Will Go: 'We're still driving around that infernal one-way system…'
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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In the latest @poetrybrum.bsky.social 👇
cclarklewes.bsky.social Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · May 30
My latest essay in @poetrybrum.bsky.social on nightingales in poetry and life and learning Russian. With disconnected footnotes on interpreting in Russian for Ukrainian refugees.
Cover of Poetry Birmingham Literary Review First page of my essay: ‘The Making of the Moscow Nightingale: A Dual Time Essay’
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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bright day
Beech woods: leaf crisp ground, some green leaves still on the trees, blue sky
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM