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Elizabeth Loudon
@esloudon.bsky.social
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Poet, novelist, teacher, charity worker. MA 25 yrs, now back in UK. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) 2024 SIBF award for Best International Fiction. Best New Poets 2025. LL/Bridport. See www.elizabethloudon.com for more.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · Nov 16
This btw is the cover of my first and so far only novel. I pinned it over at Twitter and it had 9.5K views and for me that was extraordinary. The publisher (AUC Hoopoe) managed to find a picture of pretty much the exact Baghdadi house where the novel mostly takes place.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 11h
Aw thank you. This one made me a little nervous, to write and to share.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 2d
I once made a confused class of first year comp students write about capuchin monkeys, long story, it was an elegant and multi-layered assignment that required them to read a peer reviewed article on how they gather fruit..... should have stuck to My Summer Holidays prob.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 2d
There are and the names are related. I could tell you how I know this but would expose myself as a nerdy and tedious pseudo biologist.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 2d
Indeed. And posh people say they don't see why they should support charities (or charity staff be paid). And there go Universities, museums, medical research, opera, theatre and Hospices, for starters - the stuff they need -- before you even get to people in need of foodbanks and housing.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 3d
Totally. Prepare for the worst (but no hellfire surely) and hope for the best. Who can say? JG herself was strong in her spiritual beliefs.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 3d
That Emily, she needed a pink heart couch.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 3d
Me neither on both counts, but in heaven? Who knows.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 3d
She and Robert Redford are now the official greeters in the great ballroom of heaven. Imagine arriving there and RR takes your coat with a roguish smile, and JG leads you to a seat with a forest view. And both offer you a fabulous white wine. Imagine.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 4d
How on earth did I not know this before - or this poet's work - how much better my life is already for knowing it. Thank you Sean. (Just read The Prodigal Son too....)
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 4d
What a brilliant teacher.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 5d
Just don't do what I do and delete it tomorrow. And then decide to go adverb hunting (shoot em on sight).
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 6d
She was extraordinary and I love this poem too.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 9d
Oh wow. New love.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 9d
and then there's suicide....
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 9d
Dear LRB Bookshop, you set a timer on your phone. Three of them. PS thank you for once carrying my book when I begged!
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 10d
Well wow.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 10d
Is that your garden???
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 12d
She’s the bees’ knees.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 13d
Also don't buy one if you have a dog with a prey drive.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 13d
And she's wearing a smart watch thingy, which may be a bit show offy but she can well afford the gesture. Presumably it counts each note as a step, so can rack up a million a day.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 13d
Ridiculous. She's straight from the stars.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 13d
I've been involved with Wayward Productions from its inception six years ago. The new name says it all: Judith Dimant is an outstanding leader in theatre, we're lucky to have her, and there are brilliant things to come. www.judithdimant.com @waywardprods.bsky.social @judithdimant.bsky.social
Judith Dimant Productions – Extraordinary theatre and live performance
Judith Dimant Productions make extraordinary theatre and live performance. We develop work from unexpected sources, producing relevant, inclusive theatre for a broad contemporary audience.
www.judithdimant.com
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 14d
Here you go. I don't have a young child any more but all I do is knock about at home with a dog, and write. www.boden.com/products/evi...
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 14d
I think it's Boden and I nearly ordered it yesterday.
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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 14d
Ladies?