Geoff Cox
@geoffcox.bsky.social
Working class author (memoir, NNF and folk-horror), better kept outdoors (whatever the weather) and well watered. Ageing runner with a passion for words, wild places and archeology.
"Traceless" (2020) Pub. Little Peak
"Traceless" (2020) Pub. Little Peak
I've lived in lots of houses, lots of places, but I don't think I've ever lived in a detached house - no neighbours. I'm only just coming to terms with how loud I can crank up the music when I'm here alone, it's curiously effective at rolling back the years, and at 70 that's something of a blessing.
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I've lived in lots of houses, lots of places, but I don't think I've ever lived in a detached house - no neighbours. I'm only just coming to terms with how loud I can crank up the music when I'm here alone, it's curiously effective at rolling back the years, and at 70 that's something of a blessing.
The often appalling genius of Brian Catling and what he demands of a reader.
Brian Catling's contribution to The William Blake Birthday Book (2007), on occasion of the visionary's 265th birthday
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The often appalling genius of Brian Catling and what he demands of a reader.
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🏆Win🏆the perfect Christmas 🎄 gift for a stones enthusiast:
STONE LANDS (on the Waterstones and Telegraph Best Books of 2025 lists) AND ALSO
THE OLD STONES (The Megalithic Portal guide, winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year)
To win a signed (and dedicated if you like) copy of both books… 1/
STONE LANDS (on the Waterstones and Telegraph Best Books of 2025 lists) AND ALSO
THE OLD STONES (The Megalithic Portal guide, winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year)
To win a signed (and dedicated if you like) copy of both books… 1/
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🏆Win🏆the perfect Christmas 🎄 gift for a stones enthusiast:
STONE LANDS (on the Waterstones and Telegraph Best Books of 2025 lists) AND ALSO
THE OLD STONES (The Megalithic Portal guide, winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year)
To win a signed (and dedicated if you like) copy of both books… 1/
STONE LANDS (on the Waterstones and Telegraph Best Books of 2025 lists) AND ALSO
THE OLD STONES (The Megalithic Portal guide, winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year)
To win a signed (and dedicated if you like) copy of both books… 1/
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News! The Sacred Memory Bank is an exhibition of assemblage, collage and word at Kirkby Gallery. It’s a joint exhibition with the mighty Mike Badger and we open on 19th January. We would love to see you there! @mikebadger.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
News! The Sacred Memory Bank is an exhibition of assemblage, collage and word at Kirkby Gallery. It’s a joint exhibition with the mighty Mike Badger and we open on 19th January. We would love to see you there! @mikebadger.bsky.social
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Things I saw from the highway today:
Mist rising from irrigation canals
The new sun like a furious eye between lids of cloud
A crow perched on a warning sign, indifferent to what it might portend
A white egret in a ditch
Two dark coyotes trotting across a sunrise pasture
Mist rising from irrigation canals
The new sun like a furious eye between lids of cloud
A crow perched on a warning sign, indifferent to what it might portend
A white egret in a ditch
Two dark coyotes trotting across a sunrise pasture
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Things I saw from the highway today:
Mist rising from irrigation canals
The new sun like a furious eye between lids of cloud
A crow perched on a warning sign, indifferent to what it might portend
A white egret in a ditch
Two dark coyotes trotting across a sunrise pasture
Mist rising from irrigation canals
The new sun like a furious eye between lids of cloud
A crow perched on a warning sign, indifferent to what it might portend
A white egret in a ditch
Two dark coyotes trotting across a sunrise pasture
...and, inevitably, they are thought provoking and beautiful.
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
...and, inevitably, they are thought provoking and beautiful.
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I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
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@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
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Rimbaud of Maghull
Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
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The intricacies of flock control - holding pen - Working Landscape - Lake District Observations
📷Olympus Pen EE2
🎞️Ilford HP5
🧪DDX
#believeinfilm #filmphotography
📷Olympus Pen EE2
🎞️Ilford HP5
🧪DDX
#believeinfilm #filmphotography
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The intricacies of flock control - holding pen - Working Landscape - Lake District Observations
📷Olympus Pen EE2
🎞️Ilford HP5
🧪DDX
#believeinfilm #filmphotography
📷Olympus Pen EE2
🎞️Ilford HP5
🧪DDX
#believeinfilm #filmphotography
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There's a hope in this beauty that seems particularly appropriate today 💚
Here’s Karine Polwart singing Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye” in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Phu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Phu...
“Freedom Come All Ye” performed by Karine Polwart in The Italian Chapel, Orkney, August 2013.
YouTube video by Alan Ferrier
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November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
There's a hope in this beauty that seems particularly appropriate today 💚
There's a hope in this beauty that seems particularly appropriate today 💚
Here’s Karine Polwart singing Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye” in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Phu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Phu...
“Freedom Come All Ye” performed by Karine Polwart in The Italian Chapel, Orkney, August 2013.
YouTube video by Alan Ferrier
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
There's a hope in this beauty that seems particularly appropriate today 💚
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I wrote about this decommissioned lighthouse for the 11th edition of Science & Magic, the Violette newsletter. You can read it here along with my previous Magnetic North missives and you can subscribe. Chock full of delights!
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I wrote about this decommissioned lighthouse for the 11th edition of Science & Magic, the Violette newsletter. You can read it here along with my previous Magnetic North missives and you can subscribe. Chock full of delights!
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
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There’s a signed copy of Wild Twin in this year’s Children in Read auction. All proceeds are in aid of the Children in Need appeal. Lot 281, get your bids in! @childreninread.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
Children in Read 2025
Authors and Illustrators around the globe, sign, dedicate, and send their books to their successful bidders.All Postage & Packaging is free.All proceeds are in aid of the B.B.C. Children in Need A...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
There’s a signed copy of Wild Twin in this year’s Children in Read auction. All proceeds are in aid of the Children in Need appeal. Lot 281, get your bids in! @childreninread.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
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I wrote about this house and a memory evoked by Patti Smith’s Birdland at the Lond Palladium. You can read it in the current edition of Science & Magic. Available here along with my previous 9 Magnetic North musings:
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
October 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I wrote about this house and a memory evoked by Patti Smith’s Birdland at the Lond Palladium. You can read it in the current edition of Science & Magic. Available here along with my previous 9 Magnetic North musings:
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
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Today I became an elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers, a reminder of the imminent entry deadline for the 2026 annual exhibition. Shown, engravings selected by SWE in 2023-5 and a probable entry for 2026. Good news in hard times.
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@lakesstiles.bsky.social - 2 stiles!
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@lakesstiles.bsky.social - 2 stiles!
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Today I became an elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers, a reminder of the imminent entry deadline for the 2026 annual exhibition. Shown, engravings selected by SWE in 2023-5 and a probable entry for 2026. Good news in hard times.
johnaltringham.co.uk
@lakesstiles.bsky.social - 2 stiles!
johnaltringham.co.uk
@lakesstiles.bsky.social - 2 stiles!
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Happy Birthday Wild Twin, one year old today. Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book Award/ winner of the TLS Ackerley Prize. It’s done ok! Thanks to everyone who’s read it and if you haven’t yet you can buy it here:
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Happy Birthday Wild Twin, one year old today. Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book Award/ winner of the TLS Ackerley Prize. It’s done ok! Thanks to everyone who’s read it and if you haven’t yet you can buy it here:
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
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Final week for the Haunted Paper exhibition at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. It’s been a great few weeks with visitors from near and far. Come and have a look! Mon-Fri 9-5.
September 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Final week for the Haunted Paper exhibition at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. It’s been a great few weeks with visitors from near and far. Come and have a look! Mon-Fri 9-5.
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"Liverpool is always more beautiful in the rain."
Jeff Young discusses his relationship with the city.
An outtake from feature documentary, Liverpool Story,
available to stream on True Story now: www.truestory.film/liverpool-...
@sotl-films.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmo...
Jeff Young discusses his relationship with the city.
An outtake from feature documentary, Liverpool Story,
available to stream on True Story now: www.truestory.film/liverpool-...
@sotl-films.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmo...
Liverpool Story | Voices on the Landscape | Jeff Young
YouTube video by Shut Out The Light Films
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September 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"Liverpool is always more beautiful in the rain."
Jeff Young discusses his relationship with the city.
An outtake from feature documentary, Liverpool Story,
available to stream on True Story now: www.truestory.film/liverpool-...
@sotl-films.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmo...
Jeff Young discusses his relationship with the city.
An outtake from feature documentary, Liverpool Story,
available to stream on True Story now: www.truestory.film/liverpool-...
@sotl-films.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmo...
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Do your soul some good, go and visit Haunted Paper, but give yourself the time you need to digest the sheer breadth and brilliance of Jeff Young's artwork and words.
“I feel what makes Haunted Paper so compelling is the way these works reveal Young’s creative process. With this comes a sense of vulnerability and relatability. The collages are not separate to the writing, but part of its very foundation.” Darcie Chazen.
I wrote about this kinetic sculpture for the new edition of Science & Magic, the Violette Records newsletter. There's also a lovely review by Darcie Chazen of my 'Haunted Paper' show. AND my Misadventures in Music playlist! A feast!
Read and subscribe here:
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
Read and subscribe here:
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
September 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Do your soul some good, go and visit Haunted Paper, but give yourself the time you need to digest the sheer breadth and brilliance of Jeff Young's artwork and words.
Wow, that's a special scene indeed.
Sunrise was beautiful this morning from the highway through California’s Central Valley. Feels like one of the most American photos I could take. #RoadTrip
August 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Wow, that's a special scene indeed.
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Published on 7th October!
In her latest book, acclaimed memoirist, teacher and mentor @lilydunn.bsky.social shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir.
'Into being' shows readers how to turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery - one that can be shared with the whole world. #booksky #memoir
'Into being' shows readers how to turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery - one that can be shared with the whole world. #booksky #memoir
August 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Published on 7th October!
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Haunted Paper exhibition continues at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. Weekdays, 9-5. Come along and see the Wild Twin and Ghost Town notebooks and collages!
August 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Haunted Paper exhibition continues at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. Weekdays, 9-5. Come along and see the Wild Twin and Ghost Town notebooks and collages!
Too right Nicola 💚 So many memories of running (and biking) through those layers and being amazed how much the temperature changes - moreso than the UK or even the Alps. Beautiful!
@geoffcox.bsky.social I always think of you, saying “nobody does an inversion layer like Marin County.” 💚
August 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Too right Nicola 💚 So many memories of running (and biking) through those layers and being amazed how much the temperature changes - moreso than the UK or even the Alps. Beautiful!