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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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)
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I was six when I first saw kittens drown.
Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits',
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound
(Seamus Heaney)
Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits',
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound
(Seamus Heaney)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I was six when I first saw kittens drown.
Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits',
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound
(Seamus Heaney)
Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits',
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound
(Seamus Heaney)
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Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues
Issues — Bad Lilies
Issues of Bad Lilies, a digital poetry journal.
www.badlilies.uk
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues
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'Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be.'
The Scotsman, on Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas
Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Fower Pessoas:
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Read the full article:
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The Scotsman, on Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas
Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Fower Pessoas:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464...
Read the full article:
www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scots...
Fower Pessoas
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025Shortlisted for the Scots Book O' the Year Award 2025 Fower Pessoas is the most original work of translation...
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December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
'Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be.'
The Scotsman, on Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas
Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Fower Pessoas:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464...
Read the full article:
www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scots...
The Scotsman, on Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas
Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Fower Pessoas:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464...
Read the full article:
www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scots...
Usual pre gig terror that no one will show up
December 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Usual pre gig terror that no one will show up
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Experienced this at a border and it is exactly as humiliating as you would expect.
December 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Experienced this at a border and it is exactly as humiliating as you would expect.
Tears by Sabrina Carpenter starts just like Yes sir I can boogie
December 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Tears by Sabrina Carpenter starts just like Yes sir I can boogie
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And as they're all in one place now: @theguardian.com's picks for books of 2025, including my poetry selections. Usual caveats re letting one of you down with my choices apply: www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-i...
The best books of 2025
New novels from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ian McEwan, plus the return of Slow Horses and Margaret Atwood looks back … Guardian critics pick the must-read titles of 2025
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December 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
And as they're all in one place now: @theguardian.com's picks for books of 2025, including my poetry selections. Usual caveats re letting one of you down with my choices apply: www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-i...
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Back in the early 00s, my friends coined a nickname for me: Binge-Purge.
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The Ballad of Binge-Purge
Binge-purge circa 2007 (image created from my own photo and the wonderful Retrospecs app) Back in the early 00s, my friends coined a nickname for me: Binge-...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Back in the early 00s, my friends coined a nickname for me: Binge-Purge.
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buttondown.com/niall/archiv...
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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i hope someday i win the fifa peace prize. maybe even the pizza hut medal of honor. or hell, why not, a costco oscar
December 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
i hope someday i win the fifa peace prize. maybe even the pizza hut medal of honor. or hell, why not, a costco oscar
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Last week, Amnesty International released a detailed statement documenting that “Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.”
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Last week, Amnesty International released a detailed statement documenting that “Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.”
My wonderful friend Kevin made me afternoon tea and I am so stuffed with sandwiches and scones it's a miracle I can still move
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
My wonderful friend Kevin made me afternoon tea and I am so stuffed with sandwiches and scones it's a miracle I can still move
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nothing hits like looking out the window on the train on the east coast of scotland
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
nothing hits like looking out the window on the train on the east coast of scotland
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Thrilled to be amongst such poetry powerhouses for book 4 next year. Good things are coming!
🥁Thrilled to share our 2026 #poetry list.
Full details and tantalising glimpses into these new titles are here: ninearchespress.com/about-us/news
Including books by @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Full details and tantalising glimpses into these new titles are here: ninearchespress.com/about-us/news
Including books by @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Thrilled to be amongst such poetry powerhouses for book 4 next year. Good things are coming!
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Mishearing the words 'the big Heaney book', my wife formed the impression that the large tome I was studying was something called 'the bikini book'.
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Mishearing the words 'the big Heaney book', my wife formed the impression that the large tome I was studying was something called 'the bikini book'.
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In the midst of everything, some good personal news: the worm is out of the bag! My debut collection Folkish will be published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social this spring ✨🪱
It's full of ghosts, worms, saints, and folklore. It's also absolutely furious. I hope you guys enjoy it. 💚
It's full of ghosts, worms, saints, and folklore. It's also absolutely furious. I hope you guys enjoy it. 💚
December 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
In the midst of everything, some good personal news: the worm is out of the bag! My debut collection Folkish will be published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social this spring ✨🪱
It's full of ghosts, worms, saints, and folklore. It's also absolutely furious. I hope you guys enjoy it. 💚
It's full of ghosts, worms, saints, and folklore. It's also absolutely furious. I hope you guys enjoy it. 💚
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Up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social; an in-depth interview with small press publishers on what they do and how they do it, how they differ from commercial publishing in content & form, on funding, their impact on literary communities, & some excellent book recommends🎄
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Life-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in Crisis
A recent letter co-written and signed by small press publishers has highlighted the significant pressures they face, threatening them with closure and potentially damaging the literary ecosystem ir…
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December 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social; an in-depth interview with small press publishers on what they do and how they do it, how they differ from commercial publishing in content & form, on funding, their impact on literary communities, & some excellent book recommends🎄
lithub.com/life-giving-...
lithub.com/life-giving-...
I'm launching my book in London on Sunday at 3pm, Werewolf Beer in Camden. Do come along. Turns from Tim Wells, Matthew Caley and Kathryn Gray
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I'm launching my book in London on Sunday at 3pm, Werewolf Beer in Camden. Do come along. Turns from Tim Wells, Matthew Caley and Kathryn Gray
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
This dude on the bus mansplaining handmade shoes to his wife lol
December 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This dude on the bus mansplaining handmade shoes to his wife lol
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
