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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
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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
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Edith Head and Her Miniature Sewing Machine Collection — Robert Cumming, 1977
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Thank you 🙏
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Thanks Nicola 🙏
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Thanks Nick x
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Time Slips from Jeff
Six Time Machines.
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Beautiful.
Six Time Machines.
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Thank you Kay🙏
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🤣 and 🙏 x 6!
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Thank you, lovely Rose! x
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Jeff's collages and mini-sculptures are SO COOL.
Six Time Machines.
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Thanks Simon!
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Same here!
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Oh wow! Can’t wait to see this exhibition.
Six Time Machines.
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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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
Thanks Paul 🙏
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Searching through the streets again…
October 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Six Time Machines.
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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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...
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...
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I don’t recall ever seeing the words art, curating, literature, teaching in the same sentence as Small Tesco. I’ll think about queuing to pay in Aigburth Road differently from now on… 🤣
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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
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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
Beautiful. Worlds of memory inside small spheres of coloured glass…
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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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