Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎

ghosts, boggles, Bloody Bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, spectres, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins,[4] pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds,[5] lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles, korigans,

Making a list of all the types of readers who enjoy my novels www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...

a page of Krasznahorkai

This story sounds right up my street :)

A pleasure to have placed third in this year's Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize.

Anthology available in-store and at bricklanebookshop.org/product/brick-lane-bookshop-new-short-stories-2025

Based on the Wirral, @hazardpressuk.bsky.social is the imprint of queer poet and book artist Jeremy Dixon. Small runs often incorporate collage with the emphasis on handmade, happenstance, and recycling found text and images. We welcome him back to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall on 24/25 Oct

Lovely photo

Feels like it might be better to have a bakery equidistant between the flat and the top of the Down :)

ooh ooh ooh OOH!!!!!!!!

I wrote this quite a few years ago now. CW: what you'd expect. richarddsmyth.com/2020/11/03/o...

An old time-y illustration of a Sunflowers.

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate sunflowers. #JacobinDay

More information on sunflowers

Heartbreaking

Michael Longley, from 'Ghost Orchid'

In Bristol for a reading with the mighty Joshua Jones at the marvelous East Bristol Books tomorrow, yes, Friday 10 October, doors 18.30. Come & say hello!

BBC Radio 4 - Multitrack, Song of the Deer A mountain, a deer and a ghillie - a re-imagination of Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dobhrain.

Today on BBC Radio4: 'Song of the Deer' reimagines the monumental C18th Gaelic poem, 'Moladh Beinn Dobhrain' - 'In Praise of Ben Dorain' - a celebrated Munro in the Scottish Highlands - featuring my husband Garry MacKenzie's translation! 🥳
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Above "us", obvs - Above US would be a whole different story

Here's a short story by László Krasznahorkai that you can read for free thanks to @yalereview.bsky.social - An Angel Passed Above US, translated by John Batki yalereview.org/article/kras...

Did anyone manage to find the extract?

There is such poignancy in that single end-stopped line that opens the poem

'Just Once' by Anne Sexton

#poetry
#poemoftheday

I'm starting a free online course for readers and learners in Balochistan to explore literature and translation across Urdu, Persian, and English.
Places limited to the first fifteen sign-ups.
Message me here or email at hammadhrind@gmail.com to register

I wrote “Some Zombie Contingency Plans” on a plane on the way to a workshop. Got off the plane, looked up the nearest Kinko’s & printed it out.

I know I've said it before but I definitely need a longer fence 😲
It's getting to peak garden #Chough numbers now and it's only early October.
I'm guessing the daily count might top 70 this Winter.
Photos taken with my phone about 2 foot from the fence line.
#Anglesey
#WildWebsWednesday

"You know happy-sad songs? Songs that sound happy but, if you pay attention to the lyrics at all, will completely devastate you?"

@kristinaten.bsky.social shared a playlist for her story collection Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/07/k...

London! 🇬🇧 This is happening THURSDAY at @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social! The UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life! This Thus (Oct 9) I’ll be reading and talking with author Curtis Garner at 7 PM. If you’re in London, I would love to see you! ❤️ @alifeinbooks.bsky.social

Love this. I wrote about wonder often in Beast. Here is a quote from page 2017

Reading between the lines, they don't have enough good stuff yet - so a good opportunity if you've got a masterpiece almost ready - reasonably generous word limit and some cracking judges (although the way this is laid out makes it look like they're awarding 1st 2nd and 3rd prizes to the judges 🙂 )

From 'rotatory', 1993. 24 whole-page illustrations cut into equal parts and reassembled as new pictures. The collages all include one part from each in its original position.

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) at The University of Edinburgh Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) on jobs.ac.uk!

We're seeking a prose writer to cover my colleague's research leave. Academia as a whole is a shit show but we're a friendly team in a lovely department and as a part-timer you'd still have writing time. Imagine that! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY206/t...

My book came out on Friday!

Hybrid Novels has chapters on Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith & David Foster Wallace, before turning to Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole & Tao Lin.

c20/c21 scholars/students… order in to your libraries!

www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Novel...

random allusions to whales