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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 7d

Clapping good wishes!

Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 8d

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 7d

Haven't read the Sarah Hall yet, but if it's up to her usual standards it should be a string contender.

Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 8d

When a shortlist includes @cdrose.bsky.social and @benpester.bsky.social someone knows what they’re doing.

m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 8d

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 9d

New post just up on my Blog ... straight75nochaser.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/b...

Brian Patten 1946 – 2025

I first became aware of the poet Brian Patten in the late 60s, when, as one of the handily christened Liverpool Poets, his work, alongside that of Adrian Henri and Roger McGough, was published in P…

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 10d

The first issue - of thirty - of Slow Dancer poetry magazine and gently leaning on friends ...

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 10d

We’re sorry to learn of the death of poet Brian Patten aged 79. Brian was the youngest of the trio of best-selling Mersey Poets who shot to fame in the early 1960s. (Photo: Brian Patten by Chris Gleave).

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, Kate. Brian's work in that book, alongside that of Roger & Adrian, opened a sense of what was possible in poetry to many young people - that and how it might relate to their lives.

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 10d

RIP Brian Patten. He featured in one of my favourite poetry books when I was a teen 😢

Front cover of the penguin modern poets book “The Mersey sound” featuring Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 10d

Lovely tributes to poet Brian Patten throughout the news and press, as there should be. His wife Linda Cookson reminded me yesterday that he had been afforded the Freedom of the City of Liverpool, which made him so proud. www.itv.com/news/granada...

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 11d

I'm so sad to have lost my brilliant, mercurial friend, poet Brian Patten, with whom I worked for 39 years. This is how he signed off his last email to me: "It's dragonfly time here. The lake down the lane is alight with them..."
Brian, you left the world alight with your words.
Obit in comments.
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 10d

“He moved, spoke, gestured and breathed as if he knew for certain that behind the drab winter clouds a different kind of sky was waiting, and that beneath the exhausted and frost-bitten ground lurked every imaginable flower.”

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Brian Patten obituary — The Guardian

One of the Liverpool poets, along with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, who was a perceptive writer on love

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 10d

Very sad to learn of the death of the poet Brian Patten at the age of 79. I first heard Brian reading, alongside Roger McGough & Adrian Henri, in Nottingham in '67 or '68, after which our paths crossed, happily, many times. A fine poet and a lovely man.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 11d

Art work of the week - William Scott, 'The Harbour', Oil on canvas, 1952

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 18d

New review of my most recent pamphlet collection of poems ...
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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 18d

Just taken a slow wander down into Kentish Town - a piece of Skegness Blue (yes, really) from Earth and a couple of beauties from @owlbookshop.bsky.social

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 18d

Art Work of the week : Edward Burra - 'Road near Whitby'

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 23d

As celebrated by the late, great Guy Clark in song - Home-grown tomatoes!

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 26d

Artwork of the week - Roger Hilton 'Woman in a Red Dress', Gouache, 1974

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Martin Edwards @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social · 28d

Much appreciated!

UncleRobin @unclerobin.bsky.social · Sep 11

a new @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social went live on Kobo a few hours ago, really looking forward to reading it. It must be a great tribute to his writing that apparently he make it all REAL - at least according to the search categories at kobo 😀 #Mystery #booksky #Reading #Kobo

cover of the ebook of "Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife" by Martin Edwards, along with its rankings in Kobo's search categories, as follows:

#138 in Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Holidays, Christmas
#56797 in Mystery & Suspense
#153907 in Fiction & Literature

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · Sep 11

Found today amidst the treasure trove that is the Amnesty Bookshop in Kentish Town - first edition of this collection by Julia Casterton, whom I first met when she was an editor at Ambit magazine. Nottingham born, she was a fine poet and a caring & positive teacher of creative writing.

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · Sep 7

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On the Shelf …50 years of work …

Readers out there – new or old – spot anything here in multiple copies that you don’t possess, haven’t read, it never hurts to ask …

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · Sep 1

Art work of the week - Caroline Walker, 'Maternity 7', ink on paper, 2021

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · Aug 31

Mention of Brinsley Schwarz by my friend Tim brought back memories of Stevenage Saturdays in the early 70s. when listening to Charlie Gillett's excellent programme on BBC Radio London was often a highlight of the day. Surrendering to the Rhythm indeed!

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · Aug 30

Interior, August 2025. For more of my pics jbhphotos.tumblr.com

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Woody Haut @heywoodmike.bsky.social · Aug 28

There are many things I love about C. Burnett's To Sleep With Anger: my old SF State comrade Danny Glover, Mary Alice, Ethel Ayler. The way CB depicts families and kids. If you haven't seen To Sleep... or his other early films, you don't know what you're missing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMk7...

Charles Burnett, Danny Glover, and Sheryl Lee Ralph on TO SLEEP WITH ANGER

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · Aug 28

Good luck with Charlie!

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · Aug 27

Relevant to all of which, I've just begun re-reading 'Roseanna', the first of the Sjowall/Wahloo Martin Beck novels that were an inspiration for so many - Henning Mankel and myself included.

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · Aug 21

@johnbharveywriter.bsky.social
Just read your short entry on Peter Temple's The Broken Shore, for Connolly and Burke's Books to Die For: .."they use it as a tool, a tool with which to open up and expose a small area of society for us to examine and understand." Yes, you, too. Thank you.

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