Rachel Deering
@racheldeering.bsky.social
Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
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Rachel Deering
@racheldeering.bsky.social
· Dec 23
Please review my collection on Amazon or Goodreads if you have been lovely enough to buy it. It really helps. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... In the Shadow of Gods amzn.eu/d/gRaCt0j
You snooze on sofa all day, I snooze on sofa all day. 🧛♂️
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
You snooze on sofa all day, I snooze on sofa all day. 🧛♂️
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Our Christmas and winter anthology advert by dynamic creative @helenlaycock.bsky.social with cover art by Emma Bissonnet!
Book at…
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Book at…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Our Christmas and winter anthology advert by dynamic creative @helenlaycock.bsky.social with cover art by Emma Bissonnet!
Book at…
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
Book at…
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Our hardback Christmas and Winter anthology adorning the Christmas tree.
Packed with festive, poetic gems!
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
Packed with festive, poetic gems!
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Our hardback Christmas and Winter anthology adorning the Christmas tree.
Packed with festive, poetic gems!
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
Packed with festive, poetic gems!
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
Snow and Hare, Allen Seaby, c. 1923.
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Snow and Hare, Allen Seaby, c. 1923.
Mistletoe, Edith Holden.
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Mistletoe, Edith Holden.
Robin of the Day:
Japanese Robin
📷 Kai Pflug
Japanese Robin
📷 Kai Pflug
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Robin of the Day:
Japanese Robin
📷 Kai Pflug
Japanese Robin
📷 Kai Pflug
Book Cover of the Day:
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
Postcard of wrens.
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Postcard of wrens.
Morning.
🖼️ Jay, Olivia Beaumont.
🖼️ Jay, Olivia Beaumont.
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Morning.
🖼️ Jay, Olivia Beaumont.
🖼️ Jay, Olivia Beaumont.
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"I fell deeply under the spell of dwarfs - those bright-hooded, snowy-bearded dwarfs. I visualised them so intensely that I came to the very frontiers of hallucination. Once, walking in the garden, I was for a second not quite sure that a little man had not run past me in the shrubbery."
- C S Lewis
- C S Lewis
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"I fell deeply under the spell of dwarfs - those bright-hooded, snowy-bearded dwarfs. I visualised them so intensely that I came to the very frontiers of hallucination. Once, walking in the garden, I was for a second not quite sure that a little man had not run past me in the shrubbery."
- C S Lewis
- C S Lewis
Goodnight moondrops.
🖼️ Sarah Slaughter
🖼️ Sarah Slaughter
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Goodnight moondrops.
🖼️ Sarah Slaughter
🖼️ Sarah Slaughter
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"WHEN SHE CAME TO THE GATE IN THE WALL
SHE KNOCKED UPON IT THREE TIMES"
(From Edric Vredenburg (ed.) “My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales”)
🎨 Jennie Harbour
#booksky #darkaesthetics #illustrationart #fairytale
SHE KNOCKED UPON IT THREE TIMES"
(From Edric Vredenburg (ed.) “My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales”)
🎨 Jennie Harbour
#booksky #darkaesthetics #illustrationart #fairytale
December 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"WHEN SHE CAME TO THE GATE IN THE WALL
SHE KNOCKED UPON IT THREE TIMES"
(From Edric Vredenburg (ed.) “My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales”)
🎨 Jennie Harbour
#booksky #darkaesthetics #illustrationart #fairytale
SHE KNOCKED UPON IT THREE TIMES"
(From Edric Vredenburg (ed.) “My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales”)
🎨 Jennie Harbour
#booksky #darkaesthetics #illustrationart #fairytale
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Swallow the air and mouthfuls of cold mist. Give voice, just
once. O how it echoed from the rock! What a profound, angelic
bell I rang!'
-Giant Toad, Elizabeth Bishop.
🎨Maggie Vandewalle
once. O how it echoed from the rock! What a profound, angelic
bell I rang!'
-Giant Toad, Elizabeth Bishop.
🎨Maggie Vandewalle
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Swallow the air and mouthfuls of cold mist. Give voice, just
once. O how it echoed from the rock! What a profound, angelic
bell I rang!'
-Giant Toad, Elizabeth Bishop.
🎨Maggie Vandewalle
once. O how it echoed from the rock! What a profound, angelic
bell I rang!'
-Giant Toad, Elizabeth Bishop.
🎨Maggie Vandewalle
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Annunciation to Mary in a wreath of flowers by an unknown artist. 17th century.
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Annunciation to Mary in a wreath of flowers by an unknown artist. 17th century.
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"The Banshee cries every time one of the Sionnacs dies. And when the old Captain died, the crows all left the place within two days, and never came back for a year."
(Lady Augusta Gregory)
🎨 Anna and Varvara Kendel
#darkfolklore #darkaesthetic #darkart #gothicart
(Lady Augusta Gregory)
🎨 Anna and Varvara Kendel
#darkfolklore #darkaesthetic #darkart #gothicart
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"The Banshee cries every time one of the Sionnacs dies. And when the old Captain died, the crows all left the place within two days, and never came back for a year."
(Lady Augusta Gregory)
🎨 Anna and Varvara Kendel
#darkfolklore #darkaesthetic #darkart #gothicart
(Lady Augusta Gregory)
🎨 Anna and Varvara Kendel
#darkfolklore #darkaesthetic #darkart #gothicart
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My monthly impertinent reminder that you could buy my 2024 poetry collection if you’d like to. Or review it if you’ve been lovely enough to already buy it. amzn.eu/d/6cNI5iX
May 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
My monthly impertinent reminder that you could buy my 2024 poetry collection if you’d like to. Or review it if you’ve been lovely enough to already buy it. amzn.eu/d/6cNI5iX
Bit of Bath in the morning.
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Bit of Bath in the morning.
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"The sky was as crimson as spilled wine that morning. Every shepherd and every seafarer knew what red skies foretell. Trouble. Trouble and hard times."
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O best beloved, in Ireland’s old tales, the deer were more than mere creatures of the wood—they were messengers of the divine, guides to the lost, and harbingers of change. In th…
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December 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
"The sky was as crimson as spilled wine that morning. Every shepherd and every seafarer knew what red skies foretell. Trouble. Trouble and hard times."
www.tumblr.com/whatthecrowt...
www.tumblr.com/whatthecrowt...
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A herd of deer might signify far more than just a few hoofed ruminant ungulates. At the very least according to Irish traditions.
Our 3rd #yulefolklore tale takes us to the banks of the Boyne in County Meath where we meet them near an old, old place.
Follow the deer in the link below.
🎨 C. Hyde
Our 3rd #yulefolklore tale takes us to the banks of the Boyne in County Meath where we meet them near an old, old place.
Follow the deer in the link below.
🎨 C. Hyde
December 2, 2025 at 5:57 AM
A herd of deer might signify far more than just a few hoofed ruminant ungulates. At the very least according to Irish traditions.
Our 3rd #yulefolklore tale takes us to the banks of the Boyne in County Meath where we meet them near an old, old place.
Follow the deer in the link below.
🎨 C. Hyde
Our 3rd #yulefolklore tale takes us to the banks of the Boyne in County Meath where we meet them near an old, old place.
Follow the deer in the link below.
🎨 C. Hyde
🖼️ Edith Holden
December 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
🖼️ Edith Holden
Deer, Stepan Fedorovich Kolesnikov.
December 2, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Deer, Stepan Fedorovich Kolesnikov.
