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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maybe the moon is cheese because it improves every poem it's added to
December 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
maybe the moon is cheese because it improves every poem it's added to
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I know Spring feels a long way off right now, but it is coming, and I have just the thing for you when it does... Pre-order now at @ninearchespress.bsky.social: ninearchespress.com/publications...
December 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I know Spring feels a long way off right now, but it is coming, and I have just the thing for you when it does... Pre-order now at @ninearchespress.bsky.social: ninearchespress.com/publications...
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I am, as one does, reading one of Tolkien’s letters
It has footnotes
The first footnote includes a curse against Shakespeare
🤣
It has footnotes
The first footnote includes a curse against Shakespeare
🤣
December 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I am, as one does, reading one of Tolkien’s letters
It has footnotes
The first footnote includes a curse against Shakespeare
🤣
It has footnotes
The first footnote includes a curse against Shakespeare
🤣
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Why is the far right triumphing across the West?
Because ordinary citizens are told they're trapped in a zero-sum game - competing with migrants for scarce resources.
This is a lie.
A failed economic order is to blame:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Because ordinary citizens are told they're trapped in a zero-sum game - competing with migrants for scarce resources.
This is a lie.
A failed economic order is to blame:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Europe is a continent soaked in economic pessimism. Until we change that, the far right will rise and rise | Owen Jones
Since 2008, struggling communities have been told they are in competition with migrants. Only a model that gives them hope will halt the populists, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Why is the far right triumphing across the West?
Because ordinary citizens are told they're trapped in a zero-sum game - competing with migrants for scarce resources.
This is a lie.
A failed economic order is to blame:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Because ordinary citizens are told they're trapped in a zero-sum game - competing with migrants for scarce resources.
This is a lie.
A failed economic order is to blame:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My Christmas Poetry Quiz is now up! Which poet embroidered a scarf as a Christmas gift? Which poet asked Santa for a chameleon? Which poet loves holly, man? All these and more here:
The Some Flowers Soon Christmas Quiz 2025
Sixteen seasonal poetic puzzles
someflowerssoon.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
My Christmas Poetry Quiz is now up! Which poet embroidered a scarf as a Christmas gift? Which poet asked Santa for a chameleon? Which poet loves holly, man? All these and more here:
I forget how CDG is so enormous. Feel like I've walked miles and I only had to change terminal
December 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I forget how CDG is so enormous. Feel like I've walked miles and I only had to change terminal
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A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access
December 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
The more bodies pile on the bus, the more it smells like communion wafers
December 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The more bodies pile on the bus, the more it smells like communion wafers
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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...
www.penguin.co.uk
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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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)
open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...
open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...
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)
open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...
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)