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Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social · 3d

I'm right on the cusp of making that decision myself for the same reasons. It's a hard one, is it the right one? I'm ready to say 'fuck it' too.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 9d

Today I became an elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers, a reminder of the imminent entry deadline for the 2026 annual exhibition. Shown, engravings selected by SWE in 2023-5 and a probable entry for 2026. Good news in hard times.

johnaltringham.co.uk

@lakesstiles.bsky.social - 2 stiles!

Wood engraving print in black ink. A steep woodland path over tree roots leads to a stile in a broken fence. Beyond, a field, a tree and open sky.

Wood engraving print in black ink. Four thick curvy pine tree trunks dance on the edge of moorland, lit by a low sun from the right.

Wood engraving print in black ink. A narrow, rocky mountain arête, lit by a low sun from the right.

Wood engraving print in black ink. A bold male stonechat watches me from an unfurling bracken frond as I cross his path on my way to a stile in a drystone wall.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 21d

Happy Birthday Wild Twin, one year old today. Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book Award/ winner of the TLS Ackerley Prize. It’s done ok! Thanks to everyone who’s read it and if you haven’t yet you can buy it here:
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

@littletollerbooks.bsky.social

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 24d

Final week for the Haunted Paper exhibition at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. It’s been a great few weeks with visitors from near and far. Come and have a look! Mon-Fri 9-5.

Poster advertising Haunted Paper exhibition at Dorothy on Jamaica Street, Liverpool. Image shows collage of Rimbaud, flowers, altered Observer Book. Exhibition closes on Friday.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 27d

"Liverpool is always more beautiful in the rain."
Jeff Young discusses his relationship with the city.
An outtake from feature documentary, Liverpool Story,
available to stream on True Story now: www.truestory.film/liverpool-...
@sotl-films.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmo...

Liverpool Story | Voices on the Landscape | Jeff Young

YouTube video by Shut Out The Light Films

www.youtube.com

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE4k...

Jeff Young Haunted Paper - Exhibition at We Are Dorothy Liverpool

YouTube video by Mali Davies Photography

www.youtube.com

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Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social · Sep 6

Do your soul some good, go and visit Haunted Paper, but give yourself the time you need to digest the sheer breadth and brilliance of Jeff Young's artwork and words.

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Sep 6

“I feel what makes Haunted Paper so compelling is the way these works reveal Young’s creative process. With this comes a sense of vulnerability and relatability. The collages are not separate to the writing, but part of its very foundation.” Darcie Chazen.

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Sep 5

I wrote about this kinetic sculpture for the new edition of Science & Magic, the Violette Records newsletter. There's also a lovely review by Darcie Chazen of my 'Haunted Paper' show. AND my Misadventures in Music playlist! A feast!

Read and subscribe here:
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

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Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social · Aug 29

Wow, that's a special scene indeed.

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sunrise was beautiful this morning from the highway through California’s Central Valley. Feels like one of the most American photos I could take. #RoadTrip

A dazzling golden sun sending expanding rays out through layers of almost wave-like grey clouds, with their curling edges all gilded with light. Above the clouds, a porcelain turquoise sky. A flat landscape below, with an irrigation canal reflecting the sky’s pale light.

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Lily Dunn @lilydunn.bsky.social · Aug 27

Published on 7th October!

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Aug 26

In her latest book, acclaimed memoirist, teacher and mentor @lilydunn.bsky.social shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir.

'Into being' shows readers how to turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery - one that can be shared with the whole world. #booksky #memoir

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Aug 26

Haunted Paper exhibition continues at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. Weekdays, 9-5. Come along and see the Wild Twin and Ghost Town notebooks and collages!

Image shows framed collage of damaged Arthur Rimbaud photograph. A framed image, part of exhibition at Dorothy, Liverpool

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Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social · Aug 22

Too right Nicola 💚 So many memories of running (and biking) through those layers and being amazed how much the temperature changes - moreso than the UK or even the Alps. Beautiful!

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · Aug 22

@geoffcox.bsky.social I always think of you, saying “nobody does an inversion layer like Marin County.” 💚

Dense, drifting low clouds seen from above, filling a valley under a shining morning sky.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · Aug 16

"Like refugees leaving a place, we are leaving a time. What should we carry with us?"

— Rebecca Solnit, "Sky Full of Forests"

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'll address my "water profligacy" when the water profiteers have addressed their trillions of leaks; or a grown up government has addressed renationalisation. Until then I won't reward attempts to pass the buck by obscenely high-earning management. Sorry.

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Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social · Aug 16

Ageing is an attunement to time.

This subtle pause, the daytrippers have returned to their cars, the birds yet to begin their conversations with the night, a downy silence, the warmth of summer trapped beneath the trees, footsteps muted in the scents of pine.

Breathe… do not count the breaths.

A wide path through a mature pine forest. Sunlight filters through the canopy and falls across the pine straw that covers all of the forest floor.

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Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social · Aug 16

Ageing is an attunement to time.

This subtle pause, the daytrippers have returned to their cars, the birds yet to begin their conversations with the night, a downy silence, the warmth of summer trapped beneath the trees, footsteps muted in the scents of pine.

Breathe… do not count the breaths.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Aug 13

The ‘Haunted Paper’ exhibition at Dorothy on Jamaica Street opened a week ago. Thanks to everyone who’s visited so far. It’s on until September 19th, Monday to Friday 9-5. Come and have a look at the Ghost Town and Wild Twin notebooks and collages if you’re in Liverpool!

Image shows a board on Jamaica Street outside Dorothy advertising the Haunted Paper exhibition. Behind the board a man walks down the street

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Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social · Aug 9

In all my plans to visit this exhibition I never thought of it as an act of communing with ghosts. Now I'm wondering whether my own, very personal, ghosts will travel there with me?

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Aug 9

A film about my 'Haunted Paper' exhibition at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. The film was made by Matt Bell at Bellboy Studio and the music is by Joe McKechnie. The exhibition is on until September 19th, Monday - Friday, 9pm to 5pm.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CARO...

HAUNTED PAPER | Jeff Young | Dorothy

YouTube video by Bellboy Studio

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Haunted Paper exhibition is now open at Dorothy, Jamaica Street in the Baltic Triangle Liverpool. Thanks to everyone who came last night to the opening. Lots of you! And some great conversations. The exhibition is on until September 19th, weekdays. I would love you to see it.

Image shows a board outside Dorothy studios in Liverpool. The poster is a collage from the Haunted Paper exhibition, an altered Observer’s book

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Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social · Aug 6

Very much looking forward to getting down to Liverpool for this exhibition of Jeff's collage and writings.

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · Aug 2

Green Man – Summer and Winter

enveloped in green
stone face; a place of worship
none to venerate

in his winter gown
guardian of the wild wood
is frozen in time

bardofcumberland.com/poetry/
#haiku #greenman #poetrylovers

Green Man, Summer illustration by Stephen G. Rae

Green Man, Winter illustration by Stephen G. Rae

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Aug 1

A half page announcement in the TLS / TLS ACKERLEY PRIZE 2025 WINNER. Cover of WILD TWIN, quote from Peter Parker, Chair of Judges.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Jul 30

My exhibition 'Haunted Paper' opens at Dorothy, Liverpool next Wednesday August 6th. The Private View is from 5pm to 7pm.
The Ghost Town and Wild Twin notebooks and pages from them will be on view. It would be lovely to see you there! x

Image shows collage of found paper fragments, handwritten notes and inked abstract drawing. Block printed words Gh st and WILD TWIN. Invite to Private view, 6th August 2025, Dorothy 22B Jordan Street

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Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social · Jul 30

I'd love to see this disparity in funding broken down between the NE and Cumbria, the latter really is the "forgotten North". I guess it would be too much to expect any kind of 'trickle across' of funding from Newcastle to the NW?

New Writing North @newwritingnorth.bsky.social · Jul 30

Centre for Writing will 'support forgotten North'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hopes Newcastle Centre for Writing will help bridge funding gap

Mayor Kim McGuinness says a funding gap exists between the North of England and London.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ange Harker 🦻🦇🤘🥾 @ange-harker.bsky.social · Jul 27

Pleased to announce that all pre-orders of my #Cicerone Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West guidebook from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social will be signed!! ✍️

You can find the Sam Read website via linktr.ee/ange_harker & at www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...

#KCIIIECP

Photo of Sam Read Bookseller in Grasmere

A wide beach shot with low waves trickling across the sand towards dunes and distant buildings

A group of people walk along a wooded and grassed clifftop path above golden sands

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Jul 24

Coming soon, Haunted Paper, an exhibition of Ghost Town and Wild Twin notebooks and collages at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. More details soon.

@littletollerbooks.bsky.social

Image shows photos of Jeff Young and notebooks and information about forthcoming exhibition at Dorothy, Liverpool

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