Stu Hennigan

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Giving a bump to Andrew's post from earlier. If you've not seen it, it's an amazing bit of telly.

Two versions of a Weird-ass photo from earlier. Did i say it's been a productive day? 😳

In Memoriam Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich

Well, i'm sorry to hear that. I've had some of those too. Here's a weird birthday story, tho it's a sad one, be posting again next week for sure.

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(Apols btw, i thought i followed you yonks ago 😳)

Hehe, it's the ADHD you can tell the synapses are fizzing 🤣 I probs overshare sometimes but i can't help it, ADHD + bipolar is a spicy combo and think folk are used to my rambling now. Oh look, a 27 thread post from Stu in reply to a music vid, he must've had a good sesh in The Lair 🤣🤣🤣💯💯💯💯💯

Thnx dude 👌 they come n go, i've never been one for marking em and age is much in the mind, but another year survived is de facto a win and i've got loads of interesting lit stuff going on despite giving less of a fuck now than ever so no complaints here🤘 🤣

So much "writing" is done when you're not writing, or certainly is for me. Lots of unconscious processing then intense bursts of delivery, as @robtruestories.bsky.social so beautifully put it to me once.

Tl:dr arguing with my brain over what is and isn't "writing," knowing the real answer all along

Be great, the sheer fucking volume of stuff is overwhelming, esoecially when so many themes overlap and i'm writing about thousands of references in eight different novels. Stupifying to contemplate, but it's all being sorted and sifted unconsciously atm while i'm doing all this other stuff.

Enough i'll go back and start DOING it in a way that's much more direct than me shitting myself in the shadow of half a million words of notes, none of which i want to leave out, even though i know full well i have to and will. But i've done so much hard work on the MS and i can see it will

Wrote and sent my SubStack, sorted some events stuff and other adnin-related bollocks and i'm into the next research text now. "Should" be writing but so much structural stuff in the BEE MS is formulating while i'm doing this stuff so i'm just making notes of it as ir presents and when i have

A Colossal Wreck Alexander Cockburn was without question one of the most influential journalists of his generation, whose writing stems from the best tradition of Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken and Tom Paine. Colossal Wrec...

I didn't wake up till nearly 11 but i planned on doing shitloads of work today and have proceeded to do just that. Finished reading and annotating this monster tome from the always awesome @versobooks.bsky.social, which i've devoured in three days......

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I'm 45 on Fri and totally endorse. So much for getting more conservative as you get older. I've gone the other way, and my high school English teacher used to call me Kropotkin 🤣🙏✊️

@serenitybookshop.bsky.social the great @heidijames.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Waterstones Leeds @robinince.bsky.social and i THINK that's everyone 🤣🙏✊️

Shouts to @robtruestories.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social Naomi Booth @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social @jamesscudamore.bsky.social @leebrackstone.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social Terri White, Juno Roche, Jae Auxjera @markabowles.bsky.social angarrad Hampshire @susannacrossman.bsky.social

Hey, thanks my man. In theory you can order it from anywhere that sells new books if you give them the ISBN [978-1-7384667-6-4]; I know some people in the US have ordered it from Blackwells too cos the shipping costs are really low from there so might be worth checking that out too 🙏👍

Blatant self-promotion alert! Oh please fuck off with that.......

New thing here collating all the blurbs for the book, pre-order etc.

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You know I say I'm pathological editing, I've just done the final proof corrections for Keshed; have flagged on the doc and then emailed as well to make sure that a single comma inserted by the proofreader comes out, for VERY important reasons 🧐

Y'might laugh but it's critically important to me 💪

Can't wait to read this 💯💯💯

I thought you'd probs know em but always pays to check just in case 💯💯💯 really like Collected Machine Music by plinth too, i first heard em when @normanrecords.com put that out but he'd already been around for aaaaaaaages by that point i reckon 😳

Music For Smalls Lighthouse, by Plinth 16 track album

I watched this after @luketurner.bsky.social posted about it, unbelievable telly. Sent him in the direction of this, which you may know, heartily recommend if not. @claypipemusic.bsky.social always top notch 💯💯💯

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Is that the same fella wrote Dark Heart?

TS Eliot Prize 2025 shortlisted collections: Gillian Allnutt Lode Bloodaxe Books Isabelle Baafi Chaotic Good Faber & Faber Catherine-Esther Cowie Heirloom Carcanet Press Paul Farley When it Rained for a Million Years Picador Poetry Vona Groarke Infinity Pool The Gallery Press Sarah Howe Foretokens Chatto Poetry Nick Makoha The New Carthaginians Penguin Books Tom Paulin Namanlagh Faber & Faber Natalie Shapero Stay Dead Out-Spoken Press Karen Solie Wellwater Picador Poetry

Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025 - Natalie Shapero, Stay Dead

Big news. Big. Huge. 🌝

Delighted that Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025

🙏 to the judging panel & congratulations to all shortlisted poets. We hope this recognition can bring her work to more UK readers 🙏

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It's a load of blusterfuck from an ivory tower. I know tons of incredibly curious and creative people who never have the time to be either of those things cos managing life is impossible. He sounds like a pompous old toerag.

Photo of book cover for "Aftershocks: Contemporary Syrian Prose"

I highly recommend this compendium of stories, plays and excerpts by Syrian writers, edited by @aliamalek.bsky.social. Beautiful work.

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Still having a great time with these, research goldmine. Just noted:

"WILD stats about porn consumption in churchgoers 😃"

And i'll always share cos, y'know, amplifying voices that deserve to be heard an that, we're all in different permutations of a very similar water-going vessel i think and we're all fighting to be heard over the fucking perpetual cacophanous NOISE so i share all the good stuff when i can 🙏💯