@nick-allen-poet.bsky.social
Just me and words. Link to bookshop: https://linktr.ee/nickallenpoet
Splendid
29.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vote against another pay cut!
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So… Fitzcaraldo had a sale … (there’s a couple more to come)
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Art on t’moors
05.10.2025 13:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We will try and get there - I’m scared my jealousy will show! X
26.09.2025 16:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My copy is ordered - that is some company to be in!
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Quietly devastating: quiet then devastating.
Brilliant novel.
Join us.
25.09.2025 12:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well that’s another sold…
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Light
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Know your enemy
17.09.2025 07:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Interesting - 48 hours strike notice eh?
02.09.2025 06:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Apparently amongst “at least” 20,000 books at his home, Cormac McCarthy had 33 copies of Moby Dick.
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“Self-elegy is an established genre in Classical Arabic poetry… the living “I” bids farewell to its imagined dying other.”
From XVI, on Gaza: “You wonder: what kind of a linguistic or legal wunderkind could formulate a peace treaty and good neighbourliness between a palace and a shack?”
Luminous
Returned from Canada with rather more books than intended…
02.08.2025 16:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thunderbird
30.07.2025 13:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not read those, but they are now on my list cheers. Yes, this was brutal & brilliant!
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Spectacular debut novel: 200 pages of good v evil in 1950s Jamaica.
The village has a drunk for a preacher, he is fall-down piss yourself drunk in public much of the time. One day Apostle York arrives from nowhere to drive the Rum Preacher out of town and set the people back on the righteous path.
Citadel
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Parking
27.07.2025 12:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
early headland with
back to a rock, collar up
writing fresh poems
Casino
22.07.2025 13:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Covered bridge, Golden BC
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This is an outstanding short novel - but you have to not mind getting up to your elbows in gore. A family house deep in the mountains and the woods in Catalonia. There is witchcraft and devil summoning.
Fluid, beautiful, ugly, deranged and unputdownable. Essentially Angela Carter meets GG Marquez.
Takakkwa
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Local for a couple of nights.
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Field, BC
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Meryl McMaster: @ Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
stories of land, memory, female memory, displacement, colonialism, the horror of the school system that removed First Nation children from their homes & families.
Powerful, heartbreaking and wonderful.
Buy Bloodlines.
Humbling to be surrounded by life forms thought to be 800+ years old: Cathedral Grove.
17.07.2025 05:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Solidarity
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