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Jeff Young

@wildtwin.bsky.social

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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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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · Jul 23

Yep. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

Envelope TLS Ackerley Prize
Wild Twin by Jeff Young

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 1d

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 57m

Beautiful.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 22h

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

draughtjournal.com

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 23h

Very good news to see that an exhibition of Denton Welch's work is on display at John Swarbrooke Fine Art at 11 Fitzroy Square, London from 10 October to 30 October. This portrait of Welch (1935) is by his friend Gerald Leet.

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Su Jacko @sujacko.bsky.social · 7d

How bloody marvelous!
My Ambagious Tactics card amongst some incredibly talented people.
Should you want a box to provoke inspiration, creativity, silly-sausageness:
fruishon.co.uk/artslab/

#AmbagiousTactics
#obliquestrategies #50yearsof

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 1d

You did! x

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Astonishing! Good to see you Andy x

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 8d

Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 2d

Esq Tom Phillips, [no title: p. 343], 1970
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1115204

Presented by the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 3d

Fred Ritchin, "Why Don McCullin Doesn’t Want to Be Called a War Photographer" (Aperture, #photography): aperture.org/editorial/wh...

Why Don McCullin Doesn’t Want to Be Called a War Photographer

McCullin speaks about navigating the battlefield, his fascination with ancient Rome, and how he finds drama in the landscapes of England.

aperture.org

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 8d

Event!
Writing Place.
Jeff Young and Catherine Cole discuss their recent books in the Library Reading Room of Liverpool’s Athenaeum.

Thursday, October 16 · 6 - 7:30pm

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-pl...

Writing Place with authors Jeff Young and Catherine Cole

Join authors Jeff Young and Catherine Cole as they discuss their recent books in the Library Reading Room of Liverpool’s Athenaeum.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 5d

What I value in Meades is not any organised body of opinion, but his attitude.

Jonathan Meades talks to Mark Lawson

Recorded in 2006: "It's as much music hall as it is lecture hall, the stuff I do, I think. I might want to be Geoffrey Hill, but part of me ...

liberalengland.blogspot.com

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 4d

It's a beautiful thing!

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 6d

Parceling up copies of Ambagious Tactics for the remaining contributors of the 123 people who gave a contribution.

To reserve a copy of Ambagious Tactics, email us here:
[email protected]

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 4d

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Evolution of the Cosmos from a single point (Bindu): Tantric painting — India, 18th c.
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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 4d

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Medusa 🐍🐍🐍
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Nils Gilman @nils-gilman.bsky.social · 4d

@wildtwin.bsky.social
Look what just arrived from Dorothy.
Wonderful souvenir of a great day.
Now it’s time to fire up the Ghost Radio. Transmissions incoming.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 4d

Wonderful!

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 4d

Jeff"s given you a sneak preview into some of the collaborators on Ambagious Tactics, showing cards by Alan Moore, Judy Nylon, Robert Fripp, Melinda Gebbie and Jim Jarmusch from our Oblique Strategies tribute act.

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 9d

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details:
[email protected]

Image shows a box of cards / a tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote about this buddleia portal for the 9th edition of Science & Magic. You can read it here and you catch up on the back issues here too. Subscribe, it’s a splendid thing!

www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 5d

The Egg in the Star, created c.1950s, by Brenda Marshall, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital where she was compelled to live.
This is one of a number of her works in The Adamson Collection featuring recurring motifs of eyes & masks which explore her distress & traumatic family history

Painting on paper crumbling and browning with age, of a white skinned, dark haired person whose intestines are visible, surrounded by other red viscera , contained within an egg shape, surrounded by masks, eyes and colourful jagged tiles

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 6d

Self-portrait created by Brenda Marshall c.1957 in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital where she was compelled to live.
Her body of surviving work combines the abstract & fantastical with the real to explore distressing family relationships which she wrote about on the backs of her paintings

Painting of a white woman with cropped black hair and pale blue green eyes standing in a park, wearing a black boat neck top and an ambiguous facial express, behind her, leafless winter trees, a long path receding into the distance and the small shadowy figures of someone walking a dog

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 5d

Ha! Yes, darker. Fits my mood. If you go, I'm not going with you! Thanks for this Nils, a lovely response.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for the portal & also for introducing me to Science & Magic. If I’m not back by teatime, send the dog.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 5d

🤣😂🤣! You’re welcome Nicola. Science & Magic is a wondrous thing x