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Kieron Connolly
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Commissioning Editor, Old Street Publishing @oldstpublishing Previously Bloomsbury, Mail on Sunday, Amber Books Author of THE HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD and ABANDONED PLACES, among others. Editorial consultancy work at: kieronconnolly.com
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Kieron Connolly @kieronconnolly.bsky.social · May 14
My book ABANDONED PLACES has been lightly updated and is republished today by Amber Books.

First published in 2016, it was featured on the front page of the Guardian and widely translated - German, French, Japanese, among others - as well as launching a whole series of Abandoned books.
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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · Sep 4
UK screenwriters: BBC Writers Room ‘Open Call’ submission for TV dramas window opens on Tuesday 5th November and closes midday on Tuesday 3rd December.

Who doesn’t love a bit of cracking drama? Here’s a prime opportunity to be among those making it.

More info here: www.bbc.co.uk/writers/oppo...
How to submit a script to us
Open Call is our system for receiving unsolicited original scripts.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 2d
Earth at night viewed from space.
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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2d
Comedy = tragedy + time

Scarborough Fair = parsley, sage, rosemary + thyme
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 5d
Morning all.

Crown St, Gorbals, Glasgow 1970. Credit TSPL
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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d
South London.
The view out of a stationary train window, nothing but green fern like leaves very close up to the window.
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35 years ago, Germany was reunified.
German reunification celebrations in front of the Reichstag on 3 October 1990
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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 5d
“I tell my students, ‘Don’t put any abstract nouns into your poems. Just write about things you can count or put in a wheelbarrow’.”
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Poetry
The award-winning Northern Irish poet Sinéad Morrissey reveals why the inimitable Sylvia Plath is not always a good influence on young poets and why sublimation of the self is sometimes better than…
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 9d
Good morning: here’s Bahnhof Zoo in 1983 🙌 #berlin
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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10d
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Cartoon of a man asking a receptionist for directions to Mr Escher's office. The receptionist replies ""Up the stairs. Keep turning right."
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 27d
DePalma about to sing ‘You Can Call Me Al’ whilst promoting Carlito’s Way with Al Pacino
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11d
Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
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Kieron Connolly @kieronconnolly.bsky.social · 16d
Robert Redford helped popularise Pachelbel's 'Canon' in his 1980 movie Ordinary People. But he'd first heard the music more than 15 years earlier while stuck in a fogbound hotel in Big Sur. 'It was absolutely haunting,' he said. www.gramophone.co.uk/features/art...
Robert Redford | My Music: 'I went to concerts of Bach, Vivaldi and Wagner ... I responded to the depth and the feeling of it'
Robert Redford, The Sundance Kid, on the impact of classical music – particularly Pachelbel – on his film directing
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Kieron Connolly @kieronconnolly.bsky.social · 16d
And here's a piece I wrote for @bigissue.com in 2025 about the book: www.bigissue.com/culture/book...
What we can learn from the eerie and mysterious worlds we leave behind
Abandoned Places explores the worlds that we’ve left behind – eerie ghost towns, trains half-buried in the sand, forlorn movie palaces.
www.bigissue.com
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Kieron Connolly @kieronconnolly.bsky.social · 16d
Here's an extract the @theguardian.com ran when the book was first published: www.theguardian.com/travel/galle...
Abandoned places: the worlds we've left behind – in pictures
Kieron Connolly’s new book of photographs of more than 100 once-busy and often elegant buildings gives an eerie idea of how the world might look if humankind disappeared.
www.theguardian.com
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Pepe B. @srlansky.bsky.social · 29d
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Foto de la pared de mi despacho, con una foto de Chris Steele-Perkins pegada.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Jul 17
Blackpool, 1981, photo by Chris Steele-Perkins.
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Fritters @fritters.bsky.social · Sep 28
When kids ruled the streets.
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Killingworth, 1978.
Photo Chris Steele-Perkins
Kids on an incredibly huge winding chute which sits on a stone embankment on a housing estate. A block of flats sits at the top left.
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vintage.stuff @vintagestuff.bsky.social · Jul 14
Students at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre
Moscow, Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Chris Steele-Perkins
1988
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · Jul 19
Group of kids in Divis flats, West Belfast, 1978

📷Chris Steele Perkins
Photo of six children in various positions on a brick, terraced background. The oldest one, in the center, is resting on a road bicycle.
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · Jul 23
Morning all.

Photograph by Chris Steele Perkins, Middlesbrough, Back alley 1976.
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Natscute @bluesky2020.bsky.social · Sep 7
West Belfast, Irlande du Nord, Royaume-Uni, 1978 - Chris Steele-Perkins, photographe britannique, membre de l'agence Magnum Photos.
#photographie
#ChrisSteele-Perkins
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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 28d
Chris Steele-Perkins, 1947-2025
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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 28d
RIP, Chris Steele Perkins, the great Magnum photographer. This image is from ‘The Troubles‘.
He was a contemporary of mine at Newcastle University, always had a camera with him
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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 29d
RIP Chris Steele-Perkins, the man who shot the ultimate "What, me worry?" photo.
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