Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain

Happy New Year's Eve! Europe has been marking the change of year with pyrotechnics since at least the 16th century. @simon_werrett looks at how artists have represented fireworks displays through the centuries: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-pyrotechnics #Fireworks #NewYearsEve

In Extremis Published 9th September 2025 @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...

My essay collection ‘In Extremis’ was published in September (from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social) . www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e... My next project is a long essay titled ‘Envying Artists’, about art, artists I’m privileged to know, friendship, and the desire for connection

Just to make sure I’m in the clear I want everyone to know that I think, based on solid evidence, that the President of the United States is a rapist and a liar 🤥 .

Please support CB Editions. It's a serious, pioneering Press run by one unconventional guy. Offer a book, or a hint, to a friend, if possible. List of their books here: cbeditions.com/books.html You can read excerpts from each book too...

My essay collection ‘In Extremis’ was published in September (from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social) . www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e... My next project is a long essay titled ‘Envying Artists’, about art, artists I’m privileged to know, friendship, and the desire for connection

'Inclement' is far too good an adjective to be confined to describing weather, and 'smithereens' is far too good a noun to be reduced to the state of being blown

If you see this please share (i.e. repost, not just like)! The Barbellion Prize is a unique award for writers with disabilities. We need to raise £20k to secure its future, so please make a donation, no matter how large, no matter how small, here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you!

I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

My two essay collections are available direct from the publisher or other reliable suppliers. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/mult... www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_cr... 150 essays in all, so if you read one a day starting on 1st January you'll be at it until the end of May. Real value, I'd say.

3 (New) Books I Enjoyed in 2025: A Crumpled Swan by David Collard. Books - A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library by Ian Patterson. Raising Hare by Clare Dalton.

Today, as we mark the international day of persons with disabilities #IDPD2025, we're also celebrating 15 years of the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at LSHTM. Our co-directors, Hannah Kuper and Tom Shakespeare, reflect on this milestone www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Happy Publication Day to Kurt Luchs' TRIBUTARIES — an anthology of twenty poems by twenty poets, accompanied by essays and tribute poems by Kurt. @deborahkalb.bsky.social  talks with him about the book here: https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/q-with-kurt-luchs.html

CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY. If you’d like to gift a copy of Who Wants Normal? to someone who needs it this Christmas (but can’t afford it), I’m giving away my last author copy I just found. I’ll sign and dedicate it. RT and I’ll pick an account at random. Ends Wednesday 3rd December 8pm. U.K. only.

Congratulations to my pal Kurt Luchs, whose 'Tributaries' is published today You can order a copy here: www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/trib... We had a wide -ranging natter about it as an Exacting Clam cephalopodcast: exactingclamcephalopodcast.com/episode/davi...:

Banipal Prize Announces 2025’s 6-book Shortlist Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."

My December newsletter is sent out to around two thousand clued-up subscribers tomorrow. If you're not already on the mailing list and would like a free copy, contact me via my website (scroll dowjn for email address): davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

Flies on the wall, fear not the swatter for this video of "More Abundant Waters", the Sagging Meniscus event at the Poetry Society in London on Nov. 20th.

More pictures from last night's gathering (courtesy of Mary Beer).

A full house at last night's gathering of five authors published by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social A marvellous evening. More pictures to follow.

Tonight! All welcome.

LONDONERS: this Thursday, Sagging Meniscus sails to @poetrysociety.org.uk with the able crew of @davidcollard.bsky.social, Melissa McCarthy, Rufo Quintavalle, @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social, & Philip Terry — plus a SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE by @jgoldsmith.bsky.social. It's free. RSVP bit.ly/3Jl0JLN

Alice’s memoir ‘Year of the Tiger’ 🐅 was longlisted for the 2022 Barbellion Prize. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688504...

Went to a book club on Wednesday in Saxmundham and the book I suggested for next time (Books - A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library by Ian Patterson) was picked out of the hat. Thanks to @davidcollard.bsky.social for putting the book on my radar

The Barbellion Prize is a very Good Thing: a book prize for chronically ill and disabled authors. Find out more here: barbellionprize.org/our-story/ And please consider making a donation to support its future. It takes only a click or two, and you'll feel good about it for the rest of the week.

A showcase for five European authors published by New York's Sagging Meniscus Press. Free, but you have to register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/more-abund...

A round of applause for @jgoldsmith.bsky.social following tonight's relaunch of The Barbellion Prize, which he founded. You can donate to this unique and essential literary award here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you! (You may wish to note the above)

Online tonight from 7pm (GMT): the relaunch of the Barbellion Prize, hosted by founder @jgoldsmith.bsky.social. All welcome! If you haven't already received an invitation and would like to join us please email me via my website davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site More details here: barbellionprize.org

Here's your periodic reminder that Sagging Meniscus relies on your support to publish literature that, quietly or loudly, defies convention, in book form and in the quarterly journal @exactingclam.bsky.social. Make a tax-deductible contribution: fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/sagging-meni...

Next Saturday (1st November) online at 7pm: the re-launch of The Barbellion Prize barbellionprize.org. Hosted by prize founder @jgoldsmith.bsky.social with some very special guests. The submission window for the 2026 prize will open on the night. All welcome!

Supergroup.

The Barbellion Prize (barbellionprize.org) will be relaunched online on Saturday 1st November at 7pm (London Time). It's hosted by prize founder Jake Goldsmith and special guests. f you're not on my mailing list and would like to come please email me via my website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

In the latest Exacting Clam Encephalopodcast, a wide-ranging conversation between two authors of unconventional books on poetry: @davidcollard.bsky.social  (A CRUMPLED SWAN) and Kurt Luchs (TRIBUTARIES).

@kvind.bsky.social Should we trust him?

Just caught @ronanhession.bsky.social on BBC Radio 2 after seeing this post 2 mins before the show. Excited to see Leonard and Hungry Paul on screen soon!

Latest purchase ( recommended by @ronanhession.bsky.social )

@avecsesdoigts.bsky.social @jgoldsmith.bsky.social Some recent book post 📚💪

I've just sent out several thousand emails with my October newsletter attached. Hundreds have bounced back as the file was too large. I sent a smaller file with the same results. So you can find a 'penny plain' version online here: davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... Thinking cap on.

Lots of British people may not know what ‘tylenol’ is because it is an American brand. The active ingredient in tylenol is paracetamol. The American regime are now making a big song and dance over the fraudulent claim that ‘tylenol’ (paracetamol) causes autism…

Attention all Yankeedoodleland dwellers. Go to Brooklyn today and find books

New Yorkers: please come say hello tomorrow (Sunday, Sep. 20) at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We'll be at Booth 333 with books old, new and forthcoming, and we'll have a video giveaway: read an excerpt on camera, get a book. @bkbookfest.bsky.social

Are you a disabled, chronically ill, or neurodivergent writer with a recent or forthcoming book? If so, query us about our new book review and interview series. We'd love to celebrate your work!

"The Coming Age of American Putinism". Putinism and Trumpism share ideological DNA. They are two versions of the same global ideology - a kind of consumerist monarchism that makes might into right. 🎥Watch now on the main YouTube channel

Family gathering today to celebrate 🥂 my new book 'In Extremis' (from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social)

Met @davidcollard.bsky.social at my book signing today

My book signing at Woodbridge Books is this Friday (12th September) from 11AM ... I will be signing copies of my latest essay collection 'In Extremis' (from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social). @davidcollard.bsky.social should also be there if the tube strike doesn't halt him.

My 3rd Mister Herbert sculpture for my 3rd book (In Extremis, published by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social), from Sally Dunham

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