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David Hayden
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 5m
Frankfurt am Main, city and river at night
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 34m
Cobbled park path by lamplight
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 6h
And Clare telling you to fear the owners and that trespass is good.
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 7h
That's really excellent. As is the Veronese and Peter Burke's new book 'The Connossieur'. Thanks!
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 8h
Books on Auden, Mao, Qaddafi, Edwin Morgan's concrete poetry, Stooges' Raw Power, fascism & the global far right, 'The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments', Katherine Harvey's superb 'Medieval Guide to Healthy Living' & more coming @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/wp-content/u...
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 8h
Just one highlight from the new Reaktion catalogue
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The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments | Reaktion Books
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments is a guided tour through centuries of instruments that never existed. From ancient myths to futuristic media, these imagined devices appear in literature, t...
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 8h
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 22h
something precious

Henry Dumas, from ‘Ark of Bones’
Bones. I saw bones. They were stacked all the way to the top of the ship. I look around. The underside of the whole ark was nothing bur a great bonehouse. I looked and saw crews of black men handlin in them bones. There was a crew of no or three under every cabin around that ark. Why, there must have been a million cabins. They were doin it very carefully, like they were holdin onto babies or something precious.
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 1d
Bare black boughs and branches
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 2d
Vivian Gornick‘s 2016 Boston Review essay ‘Feeling Paranoid:
Phyllis Schlafly, Trump, and the Terror of Difference’. www.bostonreview.net/articles/viv...
Feeling Paranoid - Boston Review
Phyllis Schlafly, Trump, and the Terror of Difference
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 2d
Vivian Gornick‘s 2016 Boston Review essay ‘Feeling Paranoid:
Phyllis Schlafly, Trump, and the Terror of Difference’. www.bostonreview.net/articles/viv...
Feeling Paranoid - Boston Review
Phyllis Schlafly, Trump, and the Terror of Difference
www.bostonreview.net
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 4d
Good luck!
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 4d
After Reading A Novel David Hayden April 2024
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 4d
The Asthenic Syndrome and The Long Farewell by Muratova are favourites. As are Killer of Sheep and When It Rains by Burnett.
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 5d
‘Clouds of Albion’, a short story @stingingfly.bsky.social stingingfly.org/2023/11/15/n...
Norman played dominoes in the kitchen, not waiting for the lost ones to show. Spots under his palms. Norman, the once upon a time beautiful boy, shattered twink, reverb child, horny fingered string bender, had lost his hair in one big surprise. Ivory rectangles clacked together to make patterns that Norman was sure would eventually be the key, the number, that might turn behind his eyes and release a flow of awe and rage and tunes from where they were trapped, whirring like thugs' knives forever in that alley in 1972. Over and over, he moved the tiles and stared into the new shapes chance had made. He liked a small glass to drink out of, as he emptied the skinny green bottle of red wine that tasted of raspberries and smoke.
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 6d
Nothing ever absolutely has to happen

Matt Rasmussen, ‘Chekhov’s Gun’
CHEKHOV'S GUN Nothing ever absolutely has to happen. The gun doesn't have to be fired. When our hero sits on the edge of his bed contemplating the pistol on his nightstand, you have to believe he might not use it. Then the theatre is sunk in blackness. The audience is a log waiting to be split open. The faint scuff of feet. Objects are picked up, shuffled away. Other things are put down. Based on the hushed sounds you guess: a bed, some walls, a dresser. You feel everything shift. You sense yourself being picked up, set down. A cone of light cracks overhead. The audience's eyes flicker toward you like droplets of water.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 6d
If you’ve got access to @criterion.bsky.social channel, they’re running unmissable retrospectives of two of the greatest filmmakers: Charles Burnett and Kira Muratova.
Directed by CHARLES BURNETT Featuring KILLER OF SHEEP, TO SLEEP WITH ANGER, THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH, MY BROTHER'S WEDDING, and more Directed by Kira Muratova Featuring The Asthenic Syndrome, The Long Farewell; Brief Encounters, The Tuner, and more:
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 7d
the catbird storm

Paul Metcalf, from ‘Genoa’
I am lifted from my chair, headlong. I stand, leaning over the desk, my head whirling, consonant with the gusts of blackberry winter, of the catbird storm. Decision crowds upon me, and, like one of the sperm whales crowding for the Straits of Sunda, pursued by a Nantucket madman who is in turn pursued by Malays, I push for a gateway, an entrance upon and beginning of things.
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 7d
A.J. Krailsheimer. B&P heavily raided by Paul Auster for his ‘The Music of Chance’, I recall.
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 7d
the catbird storm

Paul Metcalf, from ‘Genoa’
I am lifted from my chair, headlong. I stand, leaning over the desk, my head whirling, consonant with the gusts of blackberry winter, of the catbird storm. Decision crowds upon me, and, like one of the sperm whales crowding for the Straits of Sunda, pursued by a Nantucket madman who is in turn pursued by Malays, I push for a gateway, an entrance upon and beginning of things.
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · Aug 4
My story ‘From the Mountains’ in @winterpapers.bsky.social archive. winterpapers.com/selected-wor...
Winter Papers - IRELAND'S ANNUAL ARTS ANTHOLOGY — ARCHIVE 2015 - 2023 SELECTED WORK / VOLUME 8 FROM THE MOUNTAINS David Hayden The countryside was empty now, and for an age past. Theresa and Martin sat at the kitchen table and waited for the oven to warm up, which it never really did. Martin, and then Theresa, thought about going to bed, ate some cheese and crackers, threw away the raw lasagne, and went to bed. There were two kinds of silence, one inside that was a still and boundaried quiet, and another outside that was like the totality of all absences that, when the lights were out, forced its way through the bittood t there that
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