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Jeff Young

@wildtwin.bsky.social

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Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer. Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books) Wild Twin was published by Little Toller on 18th Sept

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Jul 23

Yep. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

Envelope TLS Ackerley Prize
Wild Twin by Jeff Young

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 7d

Ladies and gentlepuffins we are floating in space.
One small step for puffin, one giant leap for puffinkind, with more Jill McDonald joy for my Sputnik Sweethearts.

Colourful cartoon cover of a 1968 Puffin Post magazine, in which a pink space rocket emits fierce fiery jets of flame from three booster rockets which are powering it.
The rocket is patterned in black flowers and orange pink and yellow zigzags speeds through a black starry sky with a big shiny sliver satellite spinning through space.
The rocket is crewed by three puffins in yellow space suits sitting at porthole windows and three on space walks outside tethered to the rocket by squiggly blue cables.
Above it, another rocket, this one striped red and yellow zooms across bearing the title Puffin Post in white, hand drawn capital letters outlined in black.
The style of the illustration is very much 1960s psychedelia for primary children and it gives a real sense of an unfolding scene in motion

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 2d

Now that most of the contributors have their copies. We are making the rest of sets of this imited edtion project available to buy.

Details here:

[email protected]

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 15d

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details:
[email protected]

Image shows a box of cards / a tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies

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donna enticknap @auuop.bsky.social · 15d

Many thanks to Alexander @wordkunst.bsky.social and @thearsonista.bsky.social for publishing one of my photographs over on Burning House Press >>>
#pinholephotography

wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 16d

MOTION PICTURE by Donna Enticknap @auuop.bsky.social

New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social

LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

burninghousepress.com/2025/09/29/m...

Motion Picture by Donna Enticknap

15 minute pinhole exposure, handprinted fibre-based silver print Donna Enticknap works with alternative photographic processes to create portraits of place and self, exploring ideas of connection t…

burninghousepress.com

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 5d

Can’t shut me up! Thanks Steve x

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Excellent! Glad it arrived safely Alex x

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 5d

Straight out of Liverpool, from Jeff Young's wonderful exhibition, 'Haunted Paper', which I was lucky enough to see this past August, accompanied by the artist himself @wildtwin.bsky.social

Reproduction of collage : Rimbaud's famous portraited face torn in two, smudge of dark pink unearthed rings of green & yellow horizontal above the words "falling through space," & horizontal below "upwards to unknown galaxies,"

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 5d

SOLD OUT! The Athenaeum event for Wild Twin and Catherine Cole's book 'A French House' Athenaeum is now sold out. You can still join the waiting list in case any tickets become available. Thanks to everyone who bought a ticket. See you on Thursday16th

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-pl...

Writing Place with authors Jeff Young and Catherine Cole

Join authors Jeff Young and Catherine Cole as they discuss their recent books in the Library Reading Room of Liverpool’s Athenaeum.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 5d

Wonderful!

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 7d

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 7d

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

draughtjournal.com

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 7d

Very good news to see that an exhibition of Denton Welch's work is on display at John Swarbrooke Fine Art at 11 Fitzroy Square, London from 10 October to 30 October. This portrait of Welch (1935) is by his friend Gerald Leet.

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Su Jacko @sujacko.bsky.social · 14d

How bloody marvelous!
My Ambagious Tactics card amongst some incredibly talented people.
Should you want a box to provoke inspiration, creativity, silly-sausageness:
fruishon.co.uk/artslab/

#AmbagiousTactics
#obliquestrategies #50yearsof

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 7d

You did! x

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 8d

Astonishing! Good to see you Andy x

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 15d

Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 9d

Esq Tom Phillips, [no title: p. 343], 1970
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1115204

Presented by the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 10d

Fred Ritchin, "Why Don McCullin Doesn’t Want to Be Called a War Photographer" (Aperture, #photography): aperture.org/editorial/wh...

Why Don McCullin Doesn’t Want to Be Called a War Photographer

McCullin speaks about navigating the battlefield, his fascination with ancient Rome, and how he finds drama in the landscapes of England.

aperture.org

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 14d

Event!
Writing Place.
Jeff Young and Catherine Cole discuss their recent books in the Library Reading Room of Liverpool’s Athenaeum.

Thursday, October 16 · 6 - 7:30pm

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-pl...

Writing Place with authors Jeff Young and Catherine Cole

Join authors Jeff Young and Catherine Cole as they discuss their recent books in the Library Reading Room of Liverpool’s Athenaeum.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 12d

What I value in Meades is not any organised body of opinion, but his attitude.

Jonathan Meades talks to Mark Lawson

Recorded in 2006: "It's as much music hall as it is lecture hall, the stuff I do, I think. I might want to be Geoffrey Hill, but part of me ...

liberalengland.blogspot.com

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 11d

It's a beautiful thing!

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 13d

Parceling up copies of Ambagious Tactics for the remaining contributors of the 123 people who gave a contribution.

To reserve a copy of Ambagious Tactics, email us here:
[email protected]

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 11d

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Evolution of the Cosmos from a single point (Bindu): Tantric painting — India, 18th c.
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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 11d

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Medusa 🐍🐍🐍
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Nils Gilman @nils-gilman.bsky.social · 11d

@wildtwin.bsky.social
Look what just arrived from Dorothy.
Wonderful souvenir of a great day.
Now it’s time to fire up the Ghost Radio. Transmissions incoming.

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