Tony Williams
@tonywilliams.bsky.social
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Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT
https://linktr.ee/tonywilliamswriter
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Hi new followers 👋 I write poetry and fiction, most recently Cole the Magnificent, which is a novel with bits of verse tucked in here and there, such as this song about a dismembered housecarl
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#poetry
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New word just dropped. I do feel affectional about the Grauniad's legendary proofreading.
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I'd like my drag name to be 'Airy Thinness
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She's found something she loves more than her ball
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Marina Benjamin
about 1 month ago
The future of UK Independent presses hang by a thread. Supporting the sector is vital: this is where ALL the bravery lies. The big houses are risk averse, but copycat small press successes to revitalise their lists. Small presses are the motor!
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Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK
The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.
https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/open-letter-on-the-future-of-small-press-publishing-in-the-uk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20Briefing
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Please consider supporting indie publishing by contributing to this fundraiser for
@saltpublishing.com
You can of course also support Salt by buying a book or two - I particularly recommend Cole the Magnificent, Hawthorn City, Nutcase, etc...
gofund.me/0fe44ad35
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Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery
New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026
https://gofund.me/0fe44ad35
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Lydia Davis, from the Collected Stories
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I'm very much enjoying Andrew Neilson's pamphlet Summers Are Other from Rack Press, particularly the lovely lyric 'The Viaduct'
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Ind Coope's Story of Testicles
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Cherry plums
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I call it an OranGINa
3 months ago
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That's like a cross between turning in his grave and rolling in the aisles - he's fuming, but he's also amused, because he knows how inflation works.
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A classic of the genre* *the genre = M John Harrison novels
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Lecturer in Creative Writing (poetry) at Bath Spa, 0.6 FTE
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOB269/l...
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Lecturer - Creative Writing - Poetry (Part-time) at Bath Spa University
Recruiting now: Lecturer - Creative Writing - Poetry (Part-time) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOB269/lecturer-creative-writing-poetry-part-time
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Lecturer in Creative Writing (fiction) at Bristol, 0.5 FTE
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOF238/l...
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Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Bristol
Apply now for the Lecturer in Creative Writing role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOF238/lecturer-in-creative-writing
3 months ago
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You seem to have mistyped 'Life: A User's Manual, by Georges Perec'
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4 months ago
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Can't quite express how grateful I am to have a poem included in 'Ten Poems from the Peak District' from
@candlestickpress.bsky.social
- not only because it's a beautiful object, nor that I find myself among poets I deeply admire, but also because... 1/3
4 months ago
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"Sleaford Mods out of their minds on spice." Banging recommendation of Nutcase from
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
whose novel KESHED is out from Ortac Press next year
uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to...
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How To Get Keshed and Influence People
A list of titles related to Keshed. Some are works by my literary influences; some are by writers who other people have said Keshed reminds them of; and some are linked in other ways. To keep it inter...
https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to-get-keshed-and-influence-people
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Brilliant and brutal sounds right... KESHED by
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
will be ace
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4 months ago
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Polly Hember
4 months ago
Lecturer in Creative Writing at Exeter post, closes 15 July 💙https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS852/lecturer-in-creative-writing-education-and-scholarship
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Lecturer in Creative Writing (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
Recruiting now: Lecturer in Creative Writing (Education and Scholarship) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS852/lecturer-in-creative-writing-education-and-scholarship
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I've just heard about this book about a long journey, with a live story at its heart, which is apparently completely made up and written by a total crook 1/
4 months ago
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RIP Phil Lynott
4 months ago
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Maigret's subordinates are so endearing
4 months ago
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I know it's, in one sense, not a laughing matter, but, on the other hand, this paragraph 🤩🤩
4 months ago
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This fish doorbell is very moreish
visdeurbel.nl/en/
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The Fish Doorbell — The Fish Doorbell
Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! This alerts our lock operator to let the fish through. The Fish Doorbell is in Utrecht, NL.
https://visdeurbel.nl/en/
5 months ago
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"Ideas are simple and the world is complicated" - I thought that was William Empson in Some Versions of Pastoral, but I can't find it there. (He does say pastoral is "putting the complex into the simple".) Can anyone tell me where it's from - another Empson text, or someone else entirely?
5 months ago
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Gavin Higgins reflects on his new song cycle celebrating the North of England, which premiers at Aldeburgh on Tuesday. I'm honoured that it includes my poem 'How Good It Sounded', after Heine.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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Look north: composer Gavin Higgins on his new song cycle celebrating northerness
From the high energy and high rises of Manchester to the wild beauties of the moors and mountains, the north of England has enriched and inspired Gavin Higgins. His newest work explores the idea – and...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/12/gavin-higgins-speak-of-the-north-song-cycle
5 months ago
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Colleagues attending my 20-minute talk on Monday will be pleased to hear my ppt is 122 slides long and 27MB
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Bill Herbert
6 months ago
How the Willow Pattern led
@tonywilliams.bsky.social
’s poem to echo the pattern of a poem on an imagined urn: Who are those people under the catkins And what, in the temple, do the worshippers sing? Blue’s the low fence that was built to climb over A bundle of secrets you were told to bring
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Poem about the place I was when I was looking at the place in the willow pattern plate
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6 months ago
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The footage from the Sycamore Gap case looks like it was taken by Nicéphore Niépce
7 months ago
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reposted by
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Salt Books
7 months ago
🔍 Who are the UK indie publishers redefining books in 2025? Discover 10 bold presses + their must-read new titles — from Salt to Dead Ink, Bluemoose to Fitzcarraldo. 📖 Read the roundup:
#indiebooks
#ukbooks
#boooksky
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Indie Publishers to Watch in the UK This Year
At a time when the UK’s publishing landscape is narrowing, indie presses are opening doors — to voices, stories and forms that might otherwise be silenced or overlooked. These publishers are curating ...
https://www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/magazine/indie-publishers-to-watch-in-the-uk-this-year
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Yesterday I found myself at Porto airport during the power cut. I'd toyed with the idea of walking to the city centre (one night stopover before my flight today) and the transport issues and general chaos decided me
7 months ago
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺
7 months ago
This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse. A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c
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I'm going in. I may be some time.
8 months ago
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Recycling at its best
8 months ago
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Drinking whisky and listening to birdsong in the dusk because there's a dog asleep on me
8 months ago
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Lovely recent review of Nutcase, which you can obtain from any good bookshop or indeed from LibGen if you're a techbro crook
8 months ago
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A poem about cows for
#worldpoetryday
from my @ninearchespress collection The Midlands. MOOOOO!
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New Cormac McCarthy just dropped
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Tennessee man shot by his dog while lying in bed
A bullet grazed the Memphis man’s thigh after his one-year-old pit bull got his paw stuck in a gun’s trigger guard
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/tennessee-man-shot-by-dog?fbclid=IwY2xjawI-RsBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUWWGwZ9Kb4P1Py8C3p3j8RVmtV4xvoCtqAXSwCOmTcLNjbIRTPdOYSnHw_aem_rowtBeu6JUHArfrbvEu2Yg
8 months ago
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Hoist by their own petard
10 months ago
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My poetry collection Hawthorn City is currently on sale for a fiver
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Hawthorn City, Tony Williams
Tony Williams is roaming the earth. The poems in 'Hawthorn City' record the tales we tell ourselves to make a home in the live we find ourselves living.
https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/hawthorn-city-9781784632120
10 months ago
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Pick up a copy of Nutcase for a fiver in the
@saltpublishing.com
sale
www.saltpublishing.com/products/nut...
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Nutcase, Tony Williams
In this darkly hilarious and seriously horrifying book Williams tells the story of Aidan, a vigilante and young offender from one of Sheffield’s roughest estate
https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/nutcase-9781784631062
10 months ago
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No, you are
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Kletterzentrum Innsbruck is the best climbing wall in Europe but perhaps my favourite element is the lemon-yellow gents which has minimalist trance playing very quietly
11 months ago
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"Their half was full of things that were all at different stages in the process of decay, so that the boundary between ornament and junk had been obscured." Rachel Cusk, Transmit 😍
11 months ago
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It'll make a change from turkey
11 months ago
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From Ivan Klima's magnificent Love & Garbage
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Morning
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