Jeff Young

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...

Presented by the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

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

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.

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

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...

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 ...

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

It's a beautiful thing!

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:
ambagious_tactics@fruishon.co.uk

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Evolution of the Cosmos from a single point (Bindu): Tantric painting — India, 18th c.
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@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.

Wonderful!

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.

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!

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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 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

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

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

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

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

Thanks Rob.

Thanks Bruce.

Thanks Rose x

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-...

small hours big time night through the trees at the back of the house go outside to look up - sing Orion to the tune of Gloria by Them

1/10/25 - nocturn

Never a Tourist, by Nicole Flattery Jane Bowles’s spiritual transformations

Nicole Flattery, "Never a Tourist: Jane Bowles’s spiritual transformations" (@harpers.bsky.social): harpers.org/archive/2025...

All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook part 2

New episode up now. All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook: part 2, with guest Jason Hazeley in conversation with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @jasonhazeley.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlW...

The Cardinal and The Corpse: Deeper into Iain Sinclair's world Reminiscing about a lost Stamford bookshop , I mentioned Iain Sinclair's novel White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings. This film takes us deep...

This film takes us deeper into its world of disreputable book scouts.

We meet - still alive and thoroughly respectable - Michael Moorcock and Alan Moore.

Then there's David Seabrook (dead), Michael Stone (dead) and Driffield (disappeared, though see the recent court case).

Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry review – a brilliant meditation on mortality The Essex Serpent author offers a moving account of her father-in-law’s final illness that will resonate widely

I reviewed Sarah Perry's Death of an Ordinary Man here www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

This is a beautiful review Joe, a meditation. I look forward to reading the book.

Image shows black and white cat, Pepper. RIP X

Farewell Pepper, best cat ever. Best friend, comedian, typist, spirit animal, constant shadow, juggler, gourmand, recluse, dreamer, surrealist. What will we do without her… xx

Hello everyone, I wrote about the extraordinary lives of Lee Miller ahead of a major retrospective of her photography at Tate Britain – which opens tomorrow. And it's looking beautiful in the i Paper today! Read online here: inews.co.uk/culture/arts...