Jeff Young
@wildtwin.bsky.social
Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin was published by Little Toller on 18th Sept
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin was published by Little Toller on 18th Sept
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New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon — Backlisted
Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
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The screwball psychedelia of this particular Puffin Post sent me off in the direction of the Bonzos Son of Exploding Sausage, which is always a place I’m happy to go
youtu.be/8WnQCSfnsFw
youtu.be/8WnQCSfnsFw
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The screwball psychedelia of this particular Puffin Post sent me off in the direction of the Bonzos Son of Exploding Sausage, which is always a place I’m happy to go
youtu.be/8WnQCSfnsFw
youtu.be/8WnQCSfnsFw
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Edith Head and Her Miniature Sewing Machine Collection — Robert Cumming, 1977
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Edith Head and Her Miniature Sewing Machine Collection — Robert Cumming, 1977
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Time Slips from Jeff
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Time Slips from Jeff
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Beautiful.
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Beautiful.
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Jeff's collages and mini-sculptures are SO COOL.
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Jeff's collages and mini-sculptures are SO COOL.
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Oh wow! Can’t wait to see this exhibition.
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Oh wow! Can’t wait to see this exhibition.
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@katherinelucyg.bsky.social @wildtwin.bsky.social @lindamaire.bsky.social and many more can be found in this starter pack of Brilliant People on BlueSky. Please follow and repost if you can
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
@katherinelucyg.bsky.social @wildtwin.bsky.social @lindamaire.bsky.social and many more can be found in this starter pack of Brilliant People on BlueSky. Please follow and repost if you can
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Searching through the streets again…
October 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Searching through the streets again…
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Jimmy Cliff had one of the sweetest voices in popular music of all time.
It was a pleasure to speak to him a dozen years ago for this profile. Rest in peace sir.
thequietus.com/interviews/j...
It was a pleasure to speak to him a dozen years ago for this profile. Rest in peace sir.
thequietus.com/interviews/j...
Many Rivers Crossed: Jimmy Cliff Interviewed | The Quietus
Jimmy Cliff was born James Chambers on April’s Fool’s Day, 1948 in the Somerton District of St. James near Montego Bay, Jamaica. He reputedly chose the stage name Cliff to reflect the heights he inten...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Jimmy Cliff had one of the sweetest voices in popular music of all time.
It was a pleasure to speak to him a dozen years ago for this profile. Rest in peace sir.
thequietus.com/interviews/j...
It was a pleasure to speak to him a dozen years ago for this profile. Rest in peace sir.
thequietus.com/interviews/j...
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Also my Dick Gaughan piece has had LOADS of traction on the Guardian website. Thanks so much to all of you who shared it. xxx www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Also my Dick Gaughan piece has had LOADS of traction on the Guardian website. Thanks so much to all of you who shared it. xxx www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Marbles . Something about marbles. The gutter, cracked or cobbled roads. The colours inside against a black & white world. ‘Steelies’ and ‘bollies’ . The string bag . Small objects that conjure so many thoughts. You always bring life to inanimate objects in a very comforting way 🙏👏
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Marbles . Something about marbles. The gutter, cracked or cobbled roads. The colours inside against a black & white world. ‘Steelies’ and ‘bollies’ . The string bag . Small objects that conjure so many thoughts. You always bring life to inanimate objects in a very comforting way 🙏👏
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Just finished ‘Wild Twin’ by @wildtwin.bsky.social I really don’t know where to start or end . You WILL laugh, cry, think, be immersed, transported, need a wash, a lie down, wake in the night & want to carry on reading ..and be sad when it’s over . To be in Jeff’s company is a privilege. Thank you
June 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Just finished ‘Wild Twin’ by @wildtwin.bsky.social I really don’t know where to start or end . You WILL laugh, cry, think, be immersed, transported, need a wash, a lie down, wake in the night & want to carry on reading ..and be sad when it’s over . To be in Jeff’s company is a privilege. Thank you
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Jeff, collagiste extraordinaire, in need of some Fahrenheit 451 in his studio. Froze to bone in his igloo home, he maybe, but he's still got his marbles. x
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Jeff, collagiste extraordinaire, in need of some Fahrenheit 451 in his studio. Froze to bone in his igloo home, he maybe, but he's still got his marbles. x
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A treasure trove of rare and historic American music—including songs by Memphis Minnie, the Carter Family, Blind Willie Johnson, and more—is now freely available to the public thanks to a new collaboration between the UCSB Library and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
news.ucsb.edu/2025/022193/...
news.ucsb.edu/2025/022193/...
Vast collection of historic American music released via UCSB Library partnership with Dust-to-Digital Foundation
Thousands of rare and uniquely American songs from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression are available for free listening thanks to a partnership between UCSB and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
news.ucsb.edu
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A treasure trove of rare and historic American music—including songs by Memphis Minnie, the Carter Family, Blind Willie Johnson, and more—is now freely available to the public thanks to a new collaboration between the UCSB Library and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
news.ucsb.edu/2025/022193/...
news.ucsb.edu/2025/022193/...
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Plaudits to whoever put this poster up next to the Park Road Tesco in Toxteth.
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Plaudits to whoever put this poster up next to the Park Road Tesco in Toxteth.
Time Machine Factory…(photo: Mike Badger)
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Time Machine Factory…(photo: Mike Badger)
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My wife died some years ago and so with much gratitude to @ccohanlon.bluesky.social for the invitation to publish this piece through Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social on her anniversary:
Mòran taing
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/18/e...
Mòran taing
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/18/e...
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
My wife died some years ago and so with much gratitude to @ccohanlon.bluesky.social for the invitation to publish this piece through Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social on her anniversary:
Mòran taing
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/18/e...
Mòran taing
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/18/e...
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I usually stay well offshore of anything 'literary' but I've drifted into shoal waters this month...as a guest editor of UK-based online journal, Burning House Press.
Submissions are open for another five days.
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...
Submissions are open for another five days.
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I usually stay well offshore of anything 'literary' but I've drifted into shoal waters this month...as a guest editor of UK-based online journal, Burning House Press.
Submissions are open for another five days.
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...
Submissions are open for another five days.
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...
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It's a privilege to publish new work by the brilliant Autumn Richardson in @thearsonista.bsky.social : six poems assembled under the title, Boreal.
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/20/b...
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/20/b...
Boreal by Autumn Richardson
i.carnelian willows flint veins of the riverhoof-worn rock and a drifting scent of ungulates (scars in stone fossil trails)magnetic north pilgrimageI bow to the illuminations within woundsthe work …
burninghousepress.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It's a privilege to publish new work by the brilliant Autumn Richardson in @thearsonista.bsky.social : six poems assembled under the title, Boreal.
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/20/b...
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/20/b...
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'Winter Beehives'
Ink on Paper
'Time of the Season'
Collaborative Exhibition at Two Doors Studio. Alsager.
alsager.nub.news/whats-on/art...
Ink on Paper
'Time of the Season'
Collaborative Exhibition at Two Doors Studio. Alsager.
alsager.nub.news/whats-on/art...
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
'Winter Beehives'
Ink on Paper
'Time of the Season'
Collaborative Exhibition at Two Doors Studio. Alsager.
alsager.nub.news/whats-on/art...
Ink on Paper
'Time of the Season'
Collaborative Exhibition at Two Doors Studio. Alsager.
alsager.nub.news/whats-on/art...
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Can I also just point out there are two small indie publishers shortlisted amongst the big names with their big authors, us and @eyebooks.bsky.social
Damian Barr’s The Two Roberts (Canongate), Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Jonathan Cape) and Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul (Hutchinson Heinemann) have been shortlisted for the 2025 Nero Book Awards 👇 #BookSky
Damian Barr, Ian McEwan and Lyse Doucet shortlisted for 2025 Nero Book Awards
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November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Can I also just point out there are two small indie publishers shortlisted amongst the big names with their big authors, us and @eyebooks.bsky.social