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Michael Jarvie
@michaeljarvie.bsky.social
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Samizdat novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, poet, editor.Translator of Georg Trakl and Gerhart Hauptmann. Working Class. Marxist. Atheist. Coming soon Transformer: Writing the Black Country by Zero Books. Despised by New Writing North.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 14d
For info. These are the total earnings for my book Autumnal Elegies since it was published in 2019.
#poetry #trakl #indie
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 1d
The Nobel Prize for Literature no less.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 1d
Bad Enoch would have been described by Malcolm X as a house negro. She has no shame.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 2d
Indeed. Bad Enoch will be replaced next year by a middle-aged white man. She might even defect to Reform UK once that happens.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 2d
Latest total: 28,159 words.
The Sharp Judge forging ahead.
#booksky
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 3d
More new material. This time it’s book burning. Soon be burning people.
From my work in progress The Sharp Judge.
The gatekeepers won’t like it but maybe you will.
#reading #writing #dusseldorf #booksky
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 5d
I’m on a roll (forgive the terrible pun).
I’ve drafted another chapter for The Sharp Judge with even more lovely baked goodies on display.
#writing #indie #germany
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 5d
Wonderful.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 5d
#OtD 5 Oct 1789 thousands of women in Paris, angry over the high price and scarcity of bread, ransacked the city armoury for weapons and besieged the Palace of Versailles in one of the opening salvos of the French revolution shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 6d
63 sales so far this month. 625 in total.
Not bad for an unknown working class translator.
#poetry #translation
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 6d
Back to school with my current work in progress The Sharp Judge.
#weimar #literature #dusseldorf
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 8d
Cologne cathedral is mentioned in my work in progress.
You wonder how those twin spires survived all the bombing.
Almost miraculous you might say given that the building was hit 14 times.
#writing #Cologne #war
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 9d
You might find some of these useful. Valerie Shaw might be a good starting point.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 9d
Always nice to be in good company with the masters.
#poetry #indie #translation
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 13d
I watched the TV version of V when it was first broadcast.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 13d
Tonight’s view.
#debussy #wagner #rachmaninov #glasshouse
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 13d
Today’s photo.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 14d
For info. These are the total earnings for my book Autumnal Elegies since it was published in 2019.
#poetry #trakl #indie
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 14d
Not this adult.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 15d
I’d scoff that.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 15d
Writing another chapter to be included in my novel The Sharp Judge.
Postmen feature in all of my books of fiction, so here’s another example.
#wip #war #germany #writing
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 16d
www.goodreads.com/book/show/44... despite selling 620 copies, my book only has 3 reviews and 14 ratings.
That’s what happens when you’re a working-class writer.
Autumnal Elegies: The Complete Poetry of Georg Trakl
This is the most comprehensive and ambitious edition of…
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 16d
Has everyone been raptured on here?
Seems quiet as a fucking grave these days.
Where’s all the bastard writers? Are you fucking shy or what?
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 17d
The middle-class gatekeepers may have hated it, but the poetry aficionados aren’t of that opinion.
Latest sales.
#poetry #translation
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 18d
Three poetry workshops in Darlington library.
And yes, my proofreading head is always active so I did see it!
Anyway, why not get yourself along if you live in the area.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 18d
Latest rejection.
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Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social · 19d
This is a comment from a few years ago in connection with a YouTube video I made about my book Autumnal Elegies.
“I’m stunned as to how this wasn’t picked up by any publishing house.”
Quite.