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Pamela Petro

@pamelapetro.bsky.social

Writer and artist treading water in the Atlantic between New England (live there) and Wales (love it there). Books include The Long Field — a Best Travel Book of 2021 — Travels in an Old Tongue, Slow Breath of Stone and Sitting up with the Dead.

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Thank you for following me!

27.11.2025 12:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it!

19.11.2025 22:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations!! Llongyfarchidau!! Wish I could be there.

19.11.2025 22:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Horrors!

19.11.2025 22:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fantastic book on turning biography into a two-way mirror. Can’t recommend Hester Kaplan’s memoir/biography (of her father, gleaned from his own award-winning biography of Mark Twain)/fictional speculation more highly. It’s thought provoking, wise, and beautifully written. #biography #memoir #books

19.11.2025 22:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I love this photo of me with @mikeparker.bsky.social and @anniegarthwaite.bsky.social ! So lucky to have e good pals in writing and walking! #writers #walkers

17.11.2025 14:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Newly out in paperback, @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 'The Company of Owls' (@eandtbooks.bsky.social) demonstrates how we can be better neighbours to the nonhuman, writes Abi Andrews 🦉 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/the-...

16.11.2025 11:21 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2
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It’s been four years since Little Toller published The Long Field. I have hiraeth for hiraeth…. #wales #cymru #hiraeth #memoir @anniegarthwaite.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @mikeparker.bsky.social

15.11.2025 22:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wonderfully atmospheric!

12.11.2025 14:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
An index card with handwriting in blue ink that says, "'I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller.'" Below is the source, "The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller" by Will J. Darling (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1932).

An index card with handwriting in blue ink that says, "'I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller.'" Below is the source, "The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller" by Will J. Darling (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1932).

Pardon my suddenly watery eyes, but a long-time regular just stopped in with this.

He'd been reading, found this line, and thought of me, so he wrote it out and brought it in.

"I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller."

📚❤️

11.11.2025 18:37 — 👍 4134    🔁 468    💬 51    📌 25

Hey Paul! It’s so good to be back l in touch. I just got on Blue Sky today. How’ve you been?

12.11.2025 00:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I’m new to Blue Sky. Starting off very literally.

11.11.2025 20:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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