Alex Woodcock

Alex Woodcock

@beakheads.bsky.social

Writer, artist, and former cathedral stonemason. King of Dust published by Little Toller Books out now. MD ANT. www.alexwoodcock.co.uk

2,335 Followers 246 Following 7 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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4 months ago

Wonderful! Hope you enjoy it and yes I was completely delighted to have David write a blurb for the paperback. Good luck with the stonecarving - looking good.

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1 year ago
A colour photograph of pink foxgloves growing in lush green grass and ferns.

I'd like to inject this summer scene directly into my veins.

Medium Format - Kodak Ektar 100

#Photography #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #MediumFormat #Kodak #Nature #Scotland #Flowers #Film #Perthshire #FilmIsNotDead

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1 year ago

Trying to do the same!

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1 year ago

Fabulous piece, both writing and photography. Really looking forward to your book!

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1 year ago
A striking silhouette of a Woodcock in flight is captured against a glowing full moon, casting an ethereal backdrop. The bird's rounded wings and long, pointed bill are distinct, creating a dramatic profile as it glides through the night. Delicate, dark pine tree branches frame the scene, evoking an almost mystical atmosphere. Woodcock silhouette has been superimposed onto photograph of a full moon.

Tonight, the Woodcock Moon rises. 🌕

Folklore whispers of Woodcocks awaiting this moonlit night to cross the seas and arrive in huge numbers on our shores.

It was believed tiny Goldcrests journeyed with them—riding on their backs!

Look up for the final Supermoon of the year.

Moonrise: 15:29*

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1 year ago
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IT’S ALIVE! If you are interested in folklore, folk horror, magic and the occult in Britain, HELLEBORE has come to Bluesky:
@helleborezine.bsky.social

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1 year ago

It’s me! Talking with a lovely guy about things dear to me.

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1 year ago
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Polly Atkin in Conversation | Books Cumbria Join Bookends on Tuesday 12th November at 7:30pm at Cakes and Ale cafe in Bookends, Carlisle for an evening with bestselling local author Polly Atkin. Polly will talk about her latest book, ‘The Compa...

My next in-person book event is this Tuesday coming, November 12th, at Cakes and Ale / Bookends Carlisle. Tell owl your friends, your workmates, even your natural predators and come join The Company Of Owls. Booking details here:

www.bookscumbria.com/product/uk-b...

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1 year ago

Morning. I've just set up a starter pack on life writing. Please, please share around so I can develop the life writing community & add to the 25 writers on the list. Thank you!

go.bsky.app/27hdHdG

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1 year ago
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Monsters!! This class studies some of the earliest human-form monsters in world literature, tracing the evolution of them in literature through the advent of the Gothic horror novel. Surveys monstrous figures…

From mythical beasts to legendary creatures—join our Monsters in the Middle Ages course! https://medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/monsters #Education #monsters #history

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2 years ago

It lives! Congratulations!

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2 years ago


It is TODAY!! MOVING MOUNTAINS IS ALIVE...

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& you can join me & guest contributors in celebrating this new anthology of 'exquisite' nature writing TONIGHT ONLINE with the Centre for Place Writing @drdavidcooper.bsky.social & Manchester Poetry Library

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I cannot wait to see you!

📚💙🐌🦋🌱

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2 years ago

Thanks Dan!

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2 years ago
Parrots in a scrolling leaf pattern from a wall-painting at Rochester cathedral, early 1300s. Painted by me in watercolour, 2021.

Parrots in a scrolling leaf pattern, from an early 1300s wall-painting at Rochester Cathedral (watercolour, 2021).

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2 years ago
A winged grotesque with floppy ears and a weary face, carved in the 1300s on the canopy of a tomb at Winchelsea, East Sussex.

World-weary since the early 1300s, this grotesque from the church at Winchelsea seems a suitable image with which to start my new account!

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