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Rachel Deering
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Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · Dec 23
Please review my collection on Amazon or Goodreads if you have been lovely enough to buy it. It really helps. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... In the Shadow of Gods amzn.eu/d/gRaCt0j
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Went to this online tonight. Excellent.
Post for SEED TALKS ENGLISH MAGIC & WITCHCRAFT Spells, trials and tales from England's dark past LIVESTREAM TICKETS AVAILABLE MAGIC with Dr Tabitha Stanmore Tue 25 Nov | 7pm | Arches, London Bridge Symbols of witchcraft in centre, white text and decoration on a grey background.
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Claro de luna y luces, Leon Spilliaert.
Moonlight and lamplight from a bridge like architecturual structure; blacks, grays, and deep greens, with striking points of light. Columns and an archway form the main structure against, swirling darkness. Several smaller, glowing red and white lights are dotted along a path or structure. The moon is full in a swirling sky of clouds at night. Painting.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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A labour of love 🕯️ ❤️‍🔥 🕯️

Incredible writers and a super artist!

Hopefully out end of the week 📖 💝
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 9h
A proof copy of our Christmas-Winter anthology no. 6, which should be available by the end of the week!

Cover and artwork by Gower artist Emma Bissonnet

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❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

#poetry #Christmas #books #xmas #winter
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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A proof copy of our Christmas-Winter anthology no. 6, which should be available by the end of the week!

Cover and artwork by Gower artist Emma Bissonnet

🌟 💫 🌟 💫 🌟 💫 🌟

❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

#poetry #Christmas #books #xmas #winter
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Waxing crescent on way home.
Photo of clear night sky, waxing crescent moon, rooftop with chimneys, church steeple. Taken by me on way home.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Book of Hours
Netherlands, Haarlem, 1445-1460
MS M.1031 fol. 52v.
Red squirrel wearing a collar sat on a book, surrounded by foliage and pine cones? Marginalia.
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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🖼️ Tunnicliffe
Two badgers in wooded setting, painting.
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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🖼️ Quint Buchholz
Painting of six figures are standing in a semi-circle on a grassy field. Five of the figures have fox heads and fur but human-like bodies and attire (shorts or skirts and shoes). One figure in the centre-left is a bird with speckled plumage and human-like legs and shoes. The figures are in a field with a line of bare trees in the background under a heavily overcast, grey sky. A small, blue and white toy drum lies on the grass in the foreground.
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
Blue cover with giant yellow sun with wavy rays and birds in flight in black across the rays.
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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🖼️ Selynn Lee
Forest of Owls by Selynn Lee, painting. The artwork depicts a dense, lush forest scene with dark tree trunks and abundant green and brown foliage. The trees are laden with bright orange-red fruit, possibly apples. Numerous owls are perched among the branches. In the foreground, two dogs are seated. One dog wears a blue bow tie. A smaller person? wearing a green hood or outfit is visible on the left side of the foreground.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Hello Tuesday.
🖼️ Lily Seika Jones
Black-capped Chickadee perched on a small stump, smoking a pipe, holding an acorn lamp, painting.
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Morning.
Painting of blue-winged teal and scarlet tanager birds by William Savage, 1890.
As described. The teal is perched on a rounded stone and the tanager is perched on a branch with red berries.
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Tove Jansson
A black and white illustration from the Moomins.The illustration is of a wooded landscape at night with bats in flight and low misty clouds. Moomintroll, Snufkin and Sniff are walking through the wooded area looking a little scared.
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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#POD today is Soulfire77's ongoing Sci Fi piece that grips from part one. The Harvest Floor (Ch.Three) is plausible & convincing, with echoes of Soylent Green, Do give it a try and share if you like it too fellow ABCTalers.
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Pt 1 & 2 www.abctales.com/user/soulfir...
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Monday plans:
🖼️ Heinrich Schlitt
Painting of a small, elderly-looking gnome with a pointed black hat, glasses, white shirt, and brown trousers. The gnome is using a mortar and pestle preparing a substance in a brass-colored vessel beneath a giant fly agaric, the scene is set in a forest floor environment with moss, leaves, and other smaller fly agarics. 🍄
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Sitting Hare, Wood engraving, Tunnicliffe.
Hare in patch of foliage with rolling hills in background, trees in distance.
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Hello Monday.
🖼️ EH Shepard, 1931.
An illustration of the character Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Mr. Toad is depicted in a brown trench coat with a white fluffy collar, a plaid waistcoat, a flat cap, and goggles. Above, it says, ‘and Mr Toad, arrayed in goggles,’
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Maurice Pillard Verneuil, 1897.
Repeated pattern of red squirrels amongst autumn leaves on dark brown background, design.
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
THE GOLDEN GOBLIN BY CURTIS DUNHAM and GEORGE F. KERR Olive grey cover with white lettering, decorated with two children, one in red clothing, riding a fish.
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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A splash of colour for November…lest we forget.
🖼️ Pansy Blue, John Powell.
Blue pansies in ornate tin on blue and orange checkered tablecloth on table with turquoise wallpaper with pink flowers in background, painting.
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Snow hill with Ravens, Caspar David Friedrich.
Dawn or dusk sky with ravens on snowy hill, some in flight, some perched on branch or ground, trees in distance, painting.
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Morning.
🖼️ A Saint, from the 'Jackdaw of Rheims', Briton Rivière.
Painting inspired by a poem by Tennyson which tells the story of a jackdaw that steals a cardinal's ring. It shows a jackdaw perched on top of a stack of red books. The scene is set within a church or monastery, it has stone walls and the ornate stained-glass window.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Last year’s Christmas - Winter anthology featuring Matthew Hollis, a dazzling array of poetic talent, and artwork by Emma Bissonnet.

❄️ 🧊 🐻‍❄️ 🌟 🌊

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November 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Introducing our fourth Christmas -
Winter anthology from two years ago with stunning artwork by Emma Bissonnet

🎄 📖 💝 🧝‍♀️ 🎅 🛷 ❄️ 🤶

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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Introducing our third Christmas - Winter anthology from three year ago. With beautiful artwork by Emma Bissonnet

🧊 ❄️ ⛄️ 🪵 🔥 🎁

www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM