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What's up? I've got the first draft of a wonderful poetry collection by a very talented young poet that we're going bring out into the world next year. I think 2026 is going to be an excellent year for books!

This lovely thing by @callumbellwriter.bsky.social should be hitting the streets early in 2026. A magical read. #booksky #books #newbooks #writing

New stuff that we're cooking up: panswed.co.uk/2025/09/28/n...

🤩I think @bernardokastrup.bsky.social would also concur with this sentiment (with a little added dissociation, of course)

Yes to utopian thinking in and about universities!

Off down to Mandala Café on Chesterfield Road later to give a talk about the collective unconscious... and music... and neo liberal capitalism... and the digital paradigm (á la my book 'Collective'). It's free, so join me from 7pm if you're kicking about in #Sheffield later. #SheffEvents #120325

New stock day. Grab 'em while they're hot! 📚https://panswed.co.uk/product/collective-by-callum-bell-pr2/

"Mytho recommends: Accidental Poetry Roadie by Dan Sumption This pamphlet of poems expands and contracts as much like a sea anemone as a lung, responding to encounters as much as to rhythms or compulsions. At the literal centre of the pamphlet is an epic car (roadie) journey 'skirting Sheffield' and down to South West England, to where 'above Stone House / shutted spiritualist church / still keeps slow wyrms in its walls /everdrenched in overdrying ectoplasm'. This encounter with a slow worm story is a curl around from the poet's earlier meeting with 'God's anima / slinking from sedge -thatched verge.... that sheer mass glides / down a hole'. The snakes are there again, in a den, when Sumption wanders Dartmoor, loses loved gloves, and sails a 'land... made of water'. Interspersed with these poems of place and genii loci, are experiments in picking apart the logics of poem-making, both in the song and dance of a baby's first words and in an undoing interface with an Al Large Language Model, doing chaos poetry. Sumption's great achievement here is to marry his ascetic attention to the icy structures of words with a warm melt of associations. Slim the pamphlet is, but thick with affect and meanings."

Really chuffed with this review of my first poetry collection. Get it here: peakrill.com/products/acc...

"Sumption's great achievement here is to marry his ascetic attention to the icy structures of words with a warm melt of associations. Slim the pamphlet is, but thick with affect and meanings."

DOORS - Portals in the psyche Is it possible that the mere act of imagining a door can open a portal to alternative realms of the psyche? Years ago, when he was a psychology undergraduate, director…

Lovely. It brings to mind (and you might quite like) this short Sheffield documentary made by our good friend Peter Play vimeo.com/883617836

Sunlight hitting a blue vase below an Yves Klein blue artwork print

#sunlight #yvesklein #blue #art

Jazz | Louis Armstrong Returns to Europe Louis Armstrong's triumphant return to Europe.

(Early) #Jazz. And #quantum mechanics. And Werner #Heisenberg. This captures the spirit of what I have written about in 'Collective' www.pbs.org/video/jazz-l... #Booksky #writing #philosophy

Sticky things. Soon to be lying around in excellent #Sheffield cafés including: Hagglers, Mandala, Chantrey, Kollective (Nether Edge), Mows, and more.

What we're selling doesn't sit well with social media. We're pushing ideas, humanity, the collective. The physical book is none of these things. The alchemy that it sparks in the reader's mind is what is important.

Anyway, here's a picture of some beautiful #Sheffield countryside. #FridayVibes #FF

Callum Bell (author of Collective) will be at Mandala café in Heeley, #Sheffield on 12.03.25 @ 7pm. The talk is entitled 'The Dancefloor and the Collective Unconscious'. He will explore the synergies between Afro-diasporic dancefloor culture and new and old theories of the collective psyche. #books

I've been reading this, and it's great... what do you get when you cross Carl Jung, Rupert Sheldrake, Bernardo Kastrup, and LOTS OF DANCING... why, this book!

Hello world.
We're a new indie publisher based in #Sheffield UK. Our mission is to promote 'positive books for enquiring minds'.

Our first volume is all to do with the collective unconscious and Afro-diasporic music (plus some analysis of neo-liberal capitalism, materialism and individualism)

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