Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎

They woke up to find the ground under them had dwindled to ice caps the size of a backyard, a bedstead, shrinking to the size of a coffin when the ice, getting smaller and smaller, turned to water and drifted unstoppably out to the rising sea.

Sleepers fall asleep on the ice after the 1698 Thames Frost Fair - from Daisy Hildyard's enthralling "Hunters in the Snow" for #SundaySentence

Outlandish in the Observer today

Chekhov's dog

“Poetry is not about language, but about what happens when language gets impossible.”
– Alice Oswald

Is that Iris Murdoch's White Album?

The first thing I did when I finished reading The Benefactors is read it all over again. Partly I didn't want to let go of the characters, partly I was trying to figure out how @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social did this. So powerful, so original, and so gripping. Lines from it keep coming back to me.

Sounds good :)

Memoirs of Hadrian is high on my list, if that's any help

'We Live Here Now' is now in shops. You know what to do.

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Thanks for the tip - bought :)

Is there anything in the whole world more delicious and tempting than sumptuous stacks of short stories?

I think it landed in the spray zone of some new *m*z** packaging initiative

Dionysia tacamahaca Liden
Primulaceae
Endemic
Dalahoo, Kermanshah, Iran
April 2025
Elevation: 1800m
This species was described in 2007 by professor Magnus Lidén
#dionysia #Primulaceae #sajadalipour #botany #ecology #iran

Balkan bounty: the little-known corner of Greece now ripe for walkers and nature tourism Mountains, butterflies, bears and pelicans are among the natural wonders in the stunning Prespa lakes region, which straddles three countries

I wrote about the Prespa lakes region in northern Greece for @theguardian.com today. At the crossroads of three countries and my home for the past quarter of a century, it's a place that continues to surprise me with its wild beauty and rich human cultures.
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

My biggest single learning in photography was to inject some of the interest in how the photo was made into why it was made. It opened up a whole new world of possibilities.
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Svetlana Alexievich book with a strip of sticky cardboard entirely covering the title

I was sent this as a birthday gift

I recently tried to write a book that was going to be called The Man Who Was a Lie. It was about a man who lied. He lied all the time, to everyone and about everything that had ever happened to him. Deception crossed his lips even before the words to express it. He didn't feel himself doing it. He didn't lie about Baudelaire or Joyce, or blow his own trumpet or boast about his amorous adventures. Nothing like that. He lied about the price of a pullover, or a journey he'd made on the métro. Or about the time a film began at the cinema, a meeting with a friend, a conversation, a menu, all the details of a trip he'd been on, including the names of the towns he'd visited. About his family, his mother, his nephews. It was completely uninteresting. At first it was maddening too. But after a month or two, you got used to it.

completely uninteresting

Marguerite Duras, from ‘The man who was a lie’, in ‘Practicalities’, tr Barbara Bray

Ok book ppl, need suggestions: my mother is a voracious reader constantly needing book recs. Nothing too depressing or dark. Nothing too commercial. Recent reads: Chaim Grade, the Condé Nast book, Doris Kearns Goodwin about her husband, new Shteyngart (didn’t love), Deaf Sentence, Anthony Horowitz

Really enjoyed @adamroberts.bsky.social's Lake of Darkness. Spent a little time wondering if some parts of it were a tribute to Halldór Laxness, and, if so, why more wasn't made of the fact that Jukie Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth begins in Snæfellsjökull

small hours big time half three - looking east enjoying this conjunction Venus over Jupiter closer than yesterday ( space is the place )

5/8/25 - nocturn

Yes - it couldn't be more different, but equally excellent

Isn't it good?!

😉 Such profusion!

Is this a vote? The moody one in the dark for me - just lovely

Best title ever

Next week I'll be at the Edinburgh International Book Festival with these rather wonderful writers. ✒️🥳📚😍 What an honour! @edbookfest.bsky.social

Fair enough :)

Is this the poem that Emma on the Archers liked?

Live tonight at 7pm! No one sees my bleets, so please pass on if you see!