Dr Maria Barrett
mariabarrett.bsky.social
Dr Maria Barrett
@mariabarrett.bsky.social
Associate Prof, Warwick. DCMS Parliamentary Fellow. Cultural Policy, theatre, audiences, class, Bourdieu, Arts management, Liverpool #WIASN. She, her
How fabulous! Not only new poems by @robertsheppard.bsky.social, not only new poems about jazz by @robertsheppard.bsky.social, but new poems about jazz by @robertsheppard.bsky.social dedicated to my good friend, the wonderful @jazzian.bsky.social!
My recent poems, from a series dedicated to JazzIan, may be read here: www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/robe.... They're (round and) about jazz!
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Wild Twin is off to London for this evening’s TLS Ackerley Prize event at Foyles, Charing Cross Road. Maybe we’ll see you there!
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
So pleased for Jeff and @wildtwin.bsky.social, a beautiful book that effortlessly tells many stories and redefines memoir. And the writing 🔥

‘To believe’.

Very proud xxx
Congratulations to Jeff Young, winner of this year’s TLS Ackerley Prize for his highly original and exhilaratingly written memoir ‘Wild Twin’, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Nantes, August 2019.

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July 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Fantastic news!

A wonderful book, important for its stories, social history, and personal politics, but most of all for Jeff’s beautiful writing.

Much deserved. Well done @wildtwin.bsky.social and @littletollerbooks.bsky.social ❤️
SOME BOOK NEWS!
Wild Twin has been shortlisted for the TLS Ackerley Prize 2025 along with Catherine Coldstream's 'Cloistered' and Clair Wills's 'Missing Persons'. The winner of the prize will be announced at Foyles on 23 July. Happy days!

@thetls.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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SOME BOOK NEWS!
Wild Twin has been shortlisted for the TLS Ackerley Prize 2025 along with Catherine Coldstream's 'Cloistered' and Clair Wills's 'Missing Persons'. The winner of the prize will be announced at Foyles on 23 July. Happy days!

@thetls.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Waiting for the parade

#LFC Victory Parade, Allerton Road, Liverpool. 26th May 2025

#dog

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June 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Bus at Greenway, August 2015.

#GreenwayHouse in #Devon is the former home of #AgathaChristie,
now owned by the #NationalTrust.

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June 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Ship’s Wheel.
Part of exhibition ‘The Sea’, by Helen Oliver Adelson and Alex Wolkowicz, Brick Aux Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Oct-Nov 2024.
Wheel astonishingly enough inspired by me

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June 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Manchester Day Parade. On this day, 2015

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June 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Last Brian of the day.
L-R Jilly Dickens, Gerry Potter, me, Brian King, Moe Evans and Mickey Poppins Jones in @wildtwin.bsky.social Jeff Young’s Family Values, Playhouse Studio, Liverpool.
Thanks to Jilly for sending the photo.
June 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Yesterday and forever ago. But we’ll call it thirty years.

Thinking of you, Brian Bradley Brenda Yardley King on this, your anniversary. I don’t know where the time went. I don’t know where you went. I don’t know where that laugh went..
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June 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Astonishingly, tomorrow will be the 30th anniversary of my friend Brian King’s death. And coincidentally, I’ve just listened to this for the first time, about #HIV and #AIDS in #Liverpool in the 80s, including stories told about Brian by me and Gerry Potter podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
June 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
June 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Heroic scrap wood #Pegasus. #Welshampton Fire Festival, October 2007
#shropshire #fire #fireworks #SundayPix #SundayPixSparkle
June 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
That’s my girl!

When you go on the BBC website to see the sad news about #LiverpoolPride being cancelled, and discover your daughter and her friends are the Pride poster people 🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩵🤍🩷🖤🤎🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
June 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Happy Birthday Again to my mum!

You may have thought it was her birthday yesterday. And so did she. She always celebrated it on the 30th. And then she picked up her birth certificate to get married and it said 31st.

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May 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Happy Birthday Monica! My lovely Mum would have been 84 today*.

Here she is as a mature student at the University of Liverpool. She left school at 15 having been told that even if she got into art college she couldn’t go as the family needed her wage.
May 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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#Skies. Pattern breaks out.
Liverpool, September 2024

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May 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Doorjamb (detail 2), Lancaster. July 2024

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May 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Doorjamb (detail). Lancaster, July 2024

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May 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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May 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Graffiti door, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife

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May 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Graffiti. Grunerlokka Vest, Oslo
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May 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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‘There is such a thing as society’ Everton, Liverpool in lockdown, April 2020

Three layers of pattern

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May 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM