Tomorrow we release the final episode of Backlisted for the foreseeable future.* After ten years, it's a very odd feeling. I am looking forward to spending more time with my books and fewer times on social media. * Boats against the current, we beat on via Patreon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQK...

Live At the Witch Trials Collage made from 1960s Women’s Realm, Parade & Vogue magazines, 1960s wallpaper, Players cigarette cards, Ladybird books, watercolour, acrylic marker, felt tip pen

This clip is marvelous. The best bits begin at 14:40 including a tour of the interior. Barbican, 1969: The development of the Barbican Estate following World War II youtu.be/vLPlJsoVq8k?...

The Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Art Gallery.

that's why! I've got it in a book I think, maybe even a postcard...there are some others with band across forehead

She did photograph well, she seems poised yet natural i.e not posed, if you know what I mean... whether just in a beautiful frock or in a dance pose!

"... I love the thought these pastels once dusted Georgia O’Keeffe’s gorgeous hands" - Annie Leibovitz on her photograph of O'Keeffe's pastels, 2010 #Womensart (via P.Kenny FB)

Welsh artist Gwen John, Self Portrait, 1902 #womensart

BBC Two Wales screened a new documentary about Gwen John last night, now on iPlayer. It features contributions from curator of our new exhibition Lucy Wood, as well as from my amazing paintings conservation colleague Rachel Beard and also a tiny bit from me! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Phantom’, the Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Monday to Saturday until March 27th. Over a hundred Time Machines for your pleasure…

Little happy face. Base Notes paperback has landed in the office. It’s out in the shops this week. Published by @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. Signed / dedicated copies are now available to order @forumbooks.bsky.social Over and out x www.forumbooksshop.com/product/base...

FULL page review in the new Wire for Shane Parish's latest Autechre Guitar. Derek Walmsley says "uncanny" "brilliant" and other adjectives of that nature. Also out TODAY the latest single: "Slip" !! Stream it on bandcamp or whereever you do that stuff. shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

Full page review of Autechre Guitar in the new WIRE: “Autechre Guitar is elegant and crystalline, a set of fascinating miniatures composed of unexpected links and gaps. It's as confounding and crafted as an Escher staircase.” -Derek Walmsley

My new book Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94 is out in June on @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social . It's a love letter to the music of my youth and a flashback to the most exciting time of my writing life. Pre-order geni.us/StillInADream

What's happening to you, Milton? It's a big old Guardian feature, that's what. With a film about Ted, made by his own family, coming soon, I chatted with him about his poetry, puppetry and wayward life and times, with Roger Law of Spitting Image spitting facts www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper

Apparently it’s #ReadIndies month, when you’re all meant to go out & buy books from indie publishers. How about you go one better & buy books from indie authors? It’s only the literary world that sneers at creatives doing it themselves so buck the trend & buy my fucking book™ www.michelehowarth.com

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Magnificent documentary by writer (and one time New York taxi driver) Michael Goldfarb, about Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, 70s New York and the transformed city of today www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Contains; Jazz. Jokes. Nazis. The IRA. More jokes. Kinder Transport. Transport Caffs. Lenny Bruce. Samuel Beckett. Bits. Estate Agents. Harold Pinter. More jokes. Accidentally getting famous. Top of The Pops. Top of The Form. Stanislavski. Peter Cook. Peter Sutcliffe. "I wouldn't open with it".

£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)

www.violetterecords.com/science-and-... The 17th edition of Science & Magic, and my 17th missive from Magnetic North. And there’s a lovely review from Matt Lockett of The Sacred Memory Bank exhibition. Read and subscribe:

This is a stunning bookshop in Buxton, England

Just read Snowdrops..Just the balm I needed amidst life’s unexpected pressures.The whole newsletter is a most remarkable thing. Its two weekly arrival tops me up and keeps me going. Good to commune with kindred spirits. Hopefully visiting the Sacred Memory Bank soon. Hoping to get to

If you wish to participate in our upcoming exhibit in The Netherlands for Alzheimer’s, the call for artists is now open. To register, please visit postcardartexhibit.com Also visit our FAQ page for any questions: postcardartexhibit.com/faq We hope that many of you can join us 🙏❤️

www.violetterecords.com/science-and-... The 17th edition of Science & Magic, and my 17th missive from Magnetic North. And there’s a lovely review from Matt Lockett of The Sacred Memory Bank exhibition. Read and subscribe:

Five days left to help the @nationaltrust.org.uk purchase land in Cerne Abbas. Do chip in to keep the Giant's pecker up.

Liverpool Poets - BBC Radio 4 Documentary 15/02/03 In 1967, three young poets found fame and popularity with the publication of the anthology, The Mersey Sound. Pete McCarthy looks at the work of Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten. @wildtwin.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=epr5...

‘Phantom’, the Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Monday to Saturday until March 27th. Over a hundred Time Machines for your pleasure…

Morning snack on Meols beach.

Penultimate new episode up now. The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch, with guest Ian Patterson in Socratic dialogue with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/256...

The day the late John Carey went too far. open.substack.com/pub/mathewly...

Jeff, I love this so much. Two years after the death of my Dad we found a range of things/objects/stuff he’d kept in various folders and shoeboxes. I feel close to him when I sort through them from time to time.

The Sacred Memory Bank. Kirkby Gallery. Jeff Young & Mike Badger. Assemblag. Collage. Word. (photo: Steve Samosa)

RIP Sly Dunbar Saw Sly & Robbie at The Town & Country Club in 1986 and thought my ears were going to explode. But in a good way. youtu.be/VVIsTZPp0iM?...

Heard the sad news about Sly Dunbar on the school run of all places. I don’t even really know where to start with his immeasurable contribution to music and, well, everything, but watching him at work is best. Here’s Sly and Robbie in action with Black Uhuru at the Rainbow in Finsbury Park in 1981

These remind me of Joseph Cornell's work. I love a box full of things that tells a story. Precious fragments of memories ❤️

How lovely. You think about this often if you work with old things. To artists, archaeologists, collectors, restorers, or curators, the idea of layered meanings in things, and how those meanings are reshaped between owners/users, is endlessly fascinating. Looks like a fab exhibition.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Art Gallery.

Elementary Forms: Vertical-Horizontal Composition, embroidered in wool on canvas (1917) by Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, architect and dancer. #BOTD Komposition_mit_Diagonalen_und_Kreis, 1916

Joseph Cornell / Untitled (“Fountain of Youth”), ca. 1959 for @wildtwin.bsky.social & @wordkunst.bsky.social

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!

The end of the line. Coniston Old Man, February 2022

Pleased to be doing the northern leg of my book launch at @wcmlibrary.bsky.social with Isaac Rose and the Greater Manchester Tenants' Union on 26 Feb. Northerners, book now!

Hex Enduction Hour collage made from 1960s wallpaper, beauty magazines & Ladybird books, paint, acrylic marker & felt tip

𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓. Coming June 2026: the wildly inventive, magnificently surreal story of the impact of a pop group on one man's life, from Michael Bracewell - a writer unlike any other. geni.us/TheSmiths

Tucker Zimmerman tragically dies in house fire together with his wife at age 84 youtu.be/qTW_73VOcmY?...