Adelle Stripe’s wonderful review of Wild Twin in Tribune popped up on instagram today so posting it here again . Thanks Adelle! @adellestripe.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/rimb...

I wrote about my years living in this house for my Magnetic North column in the 19th edition of Science & Magic, the Violette Records magazine. Nice piece about Jimmy Campbell by Fiona Bird too, plus Mike Stoddart on Atticus bookshop. Link: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

Today is Ghost Town’s 6th birthday. The children on the cover are my grandmother Dorothy and her brother Tom in the early 1900’s. This book changed my life as did my wonderful publisher @littletollerbooks.bsky.social More about the book here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

"In the creek, we scoured for crayfish, sucked the meat straight from their tails. We buried their skeletons to solidify the floor. One of us said we were pioneers, the other said we were just playing" @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social writing brilliant things as usual: ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Art Gallery.

Up the Rainbow Stairs. The Sacred Memory Bank. Kirkby Gallery. Works by Mike Badger and Jeff Young. Monday 19th January - Friday 27th March. Come and see us!

Looking forward to a visit to this exhibition - I know it will rekindle the flame that makes reflection a rich source of creativity.

‘When we were angels…’

Bowland - where your vocabulary searches out words that mean lonely.

22 Boxes of Hope & Optimism.

The Sacred Memory Bank ready to be packed up and shipped to Kirkby Gallery. The exhibition opens on 19th January and it’s VERY exciting! Come along. x

Good morning. Coffee in hand. Bob Dylan on repeat. There is something about his voice in the early hours that feels like a companion. One more cup, one more reason to slow down and listen. Some mornings just belong to Dylan. #GoodMorning #BobDylan #Desire #WritersLife #CoffeeAndWords #Booksky

Ghost Town & Wild Twin, for the wanderers in your life... Wild Twin: ‘This exceptional memoir…’ Adelle Stripe, Tribune ‘A surging heart-song.’ Iain Sinclair Ghost Town: ‘A book of beauty and longing.’ Anthony Quinn, Observer @littletollerbooks.bsky.social www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

I've lived in lots of houses, lots of places, but I don't think I've ever lived in a detached house - no neighbours. I'm only just coming to terms with how loud I can crank up the music when I'm here alone, it's curiously effective at rolling back the years, and at 70 that's something of a blessing.

The often appalling genius of Brian Catling and what he demands of a reader.

🏆Win🏆the perfect Christmas 🎄 gift for a stones enthusiast: STONE LANDS (on the Waterstones and Telegraph Best Books of 2025 lists) AND ALSO THE OLD STONES (The Megalithic Portal guide, winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year) To win a signed (and dedicated if you like) copy of both books… 1/

News! The Sacred Memory Bank is an exhibition of assemblage, collage and word at Kirkby Gallery. It’s a joint exhibition with the mighty Mike Badger and we open on 19th January. We would love to see you there! @mikebadger.bsky.social

Six Time Machines.

Things I saw from the highway today: Mist rising from irrigation canals The new sun like a furious eye between lids of cloud A crow perched on a warning sign, indifferent to what it might portend A white egret in a ditch Two dark coyotes trotting across a sunrise pasture

...and, inevitably, they are thought provoking and beautiful.

I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)… @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @wildtwin.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...

The intricacies of flock control - holding pen - Working Landscape - Lake District Observations 📷Olympus Pen EE2 🎞️Ilford HP5 🧪DDX #believeinfilm #filmphotography

Now's the time of testing. Deny the training miles, stay home where it's warm and dry? Or choose the winter path, see beauty in free-coursing water and look through veils of rain. #running #cumbria

There's a hope in this beauty that seems particularly appropriate today 💚

There's a hope in this beauty that seems particularly appropriate today 💚

I wrote about this decommissioned lighthouse for the 11th edition of Science & Magic, the Violette newsletter. You can read it here along with my previous Magnetic North missives and you can subscribe. Chock full of delights! www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

There’s a signed copy of Wild Twin in this year’s Children in Read auction. All proceeds are in aid of the Children in Need appeal. Lot 281, get your bids in! @childreninread.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

I wrote about this house and a memory evoked by Patti Smith’s Birdland at the Lond Palladium. You can read it in the current edition of Science & Magic. Available here along with my previous 9 Magnetic North musings: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

Happy Birthday Wild Twin, one year old today. Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book Award/ winner of the TLS Ackerley Prize. It’s done ok! Thanks to everyone who’s read it and if you haven’t yet you can buy it here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l... @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

Final week for the Haunted Paper exhibition at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. It’s been a great few weeks with visitors from near and far. Come and have a look! Mon-Fri 9-5.

"Liverpool is always more beautiful in the rain." Jeff Young discusses his relationship with the city. An outtake from feature documentary, Liverpool Story, available to stream on True Story now: www.truestory.film/liverpool-... @sotl-films.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmo...

Do your soul some good, go and visit Haunted Paper, but give yourself the time you need to digest the sheer breadth and brilliance of Jeff Young's artwork and words.

Wow, that's a special scene indeed.

Published on 7th October!

Haunted Paper exhibition continues at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. Weekdays, 9-5. Come along and see the Wild Twin and Ghost Town notebooks and collages!

Too right Nicola 💚 So many memories of running (and biking) through those layers and being amazed how much the temperature changes - moreso than the UK or even the Alps. Beautiful!

"Like refugees leaving a place, we are leaving a time. What should we carry with us?" — Rebecca Solnit, "Sky Full of Forests"

Ageing is an attunement to time. This subtle pause, the daytrippers have returned to their cars, the birds yet to begin their conversations with the night, a downy silence, the warmth of summer trapped beneath the trees, footsteps muted in the scents of pine. Breathe… do not count the breaths.

Ageing is an attunement to time. This subtle pause, the daytrippers have returned to their cars, the birds yet to begin their conversations with the night, a downy silence, the warmth of summer trapped beneath the trees, footsteps muted in the scents of pine. Breathe… do not count the breaths.

The ‘Haunted Paper’ exhibition at Dorothy on Jamaica Street opened a week ago. Thanks to everyone who’s visited so far. It’s on until September 19th, Monday to Friday 9-5. Come and have a look at the Ghost Town and Wild Twin notebooks and collages if you’re in Liverpool!

In all my plans to visit this exhibition I never thought of it as an act of communing with ghosts. Now I'm wondering whether my own, very personal, ghosts will travel there with me?

The Haunted Paper exhibition is now open at Dorothy, Jamaica Street in the Baltic Triangle Liverpool. Thanks to everyone who came last night to the opening. Lots of you! And some great conversations. The exhibition is on until September 19th, weekdays. I would love you to see it.

Very much looking forward to getting down to Liverpool for this exhibition of Jeff's collage and writings.

Green Man – Summer and Winter enveloped in green stone face; a place of worship none to venerate in his winter gown guardian of the wild wood is frozen in time bardofcumberland.com/poetry/ #haiku #greenman #poetrylovers