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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 8d

Three weeks today! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)

Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Promotional card for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair, with a full list of the 66 participating artists and publishers. Full details at https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2025/

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 5d

Directed by writer and artist Erica Van Horn and poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts, Coracle is a printer-publisher and editor of spaces based in Tipperary. They return to #smallpublishersfair25 on 24 /25 October: this year's exhibition also draws on several decades of work by Erica Van Horn.

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · 11d

Me too. I fear for its future 'renovation' and 'improvements' (inevitable though this is) ... just as I worry about attempts to retain 'character'

Though the details mention a bomb shelter in the garden, there is no image and it doesn't elaborate further. An Anderson shelter?

Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks Richard -- must take a read of that

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · 11d

... and then details of "original features", the staircase banister handrail, some stained glass window, a bit moulding, dust and cobwebs.
check out: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · 11d

Interesting photos marketing Tom Phillips house on Talfourd Road "last on the market in 1953". Long shots of his living and working spaces "adorned with decades of its previous occupant's creative process - a living historical record of one of Peckham's most-celebrated artists" (look at the ceiling)

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gregorg @greg.org · 12d

Q: What is the role of art in society?
A:

Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 12d

"In Washington he dropped in on one of Trump’s crypto advisers at his office near the White House and presented him with a replica of a piece of conceptual art: a duct-taped banana. The original, by Maurizio Cattelan, had cost Sun $6.2 million at Sotheby’s." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A Crypto Billionaire’s Path From Pariah to Trump Moneyman

Justin Sun was facing an SEC fraud case, but $90 million of Trump coins later, he’s doing business with the president’s family.

www.bloomberg.com

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · 18d

Won't be long now before there is talk about the benefits of bleach, again.

history ... farce ... etc etc, again and again

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · 24d

That moment before the tall hands got stumbled into. End to a great evening last night at Conway Hall.

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Sep 10

@smallpublishers.bsky.social

Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking forward to the Small Publishers Fair next month, to seeing new books and new people, and hope that some exhibitors who weren't there last year might be there this year. But also thinking of the Mark Pawson-shaped hole there will be at Conway Hall.

smallpublishersfair.co.uk/2024-small-p...

2025 Fair - Small Publishers Fair

An update on plans for this year's Small Publishers Fair 2024 in London plus tips on how to be in the loop.

smallpublishersfair.co.uk

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.markpawson.uk

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking forward to the Small Publishers Fair next month, to seeing new books and new people, and hope that some exhibitors who weren't there last year might be there this year. But also thinking of the Mark Pawson-shaped hole there will be at Conway Hall.

smallpublishersfair.co.uk/2024-small-p...

2025 Fair - Small Publishers Fair

An update on plans for this year's Small Publishers Fair 2024 in London plus tips on how to be in the loop.

smallpublishersfair.co.uk

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Sep 7

Informative signs from the Ministry of Works

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Sep 7

some more gates

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Sep 7

Some gates

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Aug 26

was it? will it be?

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · Aug 24

The great concrete poet Eugen Gomringer died last week aged 100.

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Aug 20

Alert
Blackcurrant ice cream just about to drop

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Looking forward to this in a month's time
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patricia-l...

Patricia Lockwood: Will There Ever Be Another You

Patricia Lockwood’s only UK event for her latest novel Will There Ever Be Another You

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Aug 15

Not just something I want to see
Something I have to see
studiovoltaire.org/whats-on/hil...

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gregorg @greg.org · Jul 26

"Only those people practice destruction and betrayal who hunger to accept completely the values of the establishment in which they seek a place. It’s the establishment that makes people predatory."
Barnett Newman in his 1968 foreword to Kroptkin's Memoir of a Revolutionist greg.org/archive/2025...

barnett newman's 1955 painting uriel hanging on a white wall at the art institute of chicago, is eight feet tall and eighteen feet wide. the right quarter of the canvas is a deep reddish brown, the color of old blood, perhaps, and the rest of the canvas is a pale aqua blue that might have been used on fiestaware or a bathroom tile in the 1950s, a disturbing combination. the border between the two color fields is made of a couple of newman's so-called zips, vertical stripes with rough, brushy, or clean-taped edges. one of these stripes is a deep aquamarine blue, but tbh, that is not apparent from this photo, which was taken by tocho t8, a blogger, in 2021. uriel spent decades in two private european collections, and was rarely reproduced. most of the online images of it are garbage, tbqh

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 24

Gonna see the river man
Gonna tell him all I can
About the ban
On feelin' free

If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
I don't suppose
It's meant for me

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2bb...

Nick Drake - River Man (Peel Session)

YouTube video by Vibracobra23 Redux

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 24

Optimistic fortune cookie from the other evening.

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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Saw Tim Price's Nye on Monday night and it, the staging, the ensemble company acting, the affecting brilliance of Michael Sheen just wont stop bouncing around in my mind. I haven't been so wrapped up in something I have seen on stage for some time Thank you
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/...

Nye | National Theatre

Michael Sheen is Nye Bevan in an epic Welsh fantasia about one man's dream of the NHS.

www.nationaltheatre.org.uk

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