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

That’s me

"Ideally, I should aim to find myself less annoying . . . " Jake Goldsmith on being miffed. Online and in print. Exacting Clam Issue 18 Subscribe today. https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/on-annoyance/

I’m signing copies of my new essay collection ‘In Extremis’ (published by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social) 12th September at Woodbridge Books

Mongers, ranked: 1. Cheese 2. Fish 3. War 4. Fear 5. Iron 6. Hate 7. Coster 8. Conspiracy 9. Rumour 10. Gossip

Book signing 12th September @ Woodbridge Books 📚

#booksky #comingsoon #guillermostitch2026

I will be signing copies of my new book/latest essay collection In Extremis (published by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social) at Woodbridge Books, Friday 12th September from 11am

My brief essay 'On Annoyance' in the latest issue of Exacting Clam (@exactingclam.bsky.social). Also featured in my new essay collection 'In Extremis', published 9th September. www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18...

Published 9th September

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Recommended to my dentist @kvind.bsky.social

IN EXTREMIS, new essays by @jgoldsmith.bsky.social, is available now for preorder at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/in-e...

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

From @exactingclam.bsky.social & our #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list: This issue features “extraordinarily varied writing relating to disability and chronic illness,” including excerpts from four books longlisted for the 2023 Barbellion Prize. www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-8-...

A month since A Crumpled Swan was published. It's not alas, attracting ratings or comments on Goodreads (which count for a lot these days). www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_crumpled_swan/ Please consider posting a rating, or review. Thank you! www.goodreads.com/book/show/227784458-a-crumpled-swan

A brief glimpse inside my upcoming essay collection 'In Extremis'. Published this summer 🌞

I’m still waiting on my prize, @davidcollard.bsky.social

Cat Whisperer

If you love me, watch this film. It’s about my illness - ME - and it’s powerful. It's in Ger with Eng subs, co-directed while severely ill by my online friend, the filmmaker @sibylledahrendorf.bsky.social You can rent it on Vimeo. It’s only up for a short time. vimeo.com/ondemand/chr...

I met someone who watches ‘masculinity coaches’. He was unmanly, ungentlemanly. All masculinity coaches are fake men, sheep in wolves clothing, useful idiots for the degradation of man. The bitter irony: those who preach the most about lost masculinity drive us further down the road of dead men

Issue 17 of @exactingclam.bsky.social . I am inside, with my short essay 'Remembering Gracián'. Out now

@davidcollard.bsky.social 🦢🦢🦢

A Crumpled Swan by @davidcollard.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social , out today

Published today.

"Sometimes only brief words can produce superfluous thought. I’m sure Gracián was not considering the modern context of my intemperate peers, or my own folly." Jake Goldsmith on Baltasar Gracián. Exacting Clam No.17. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-17-summer-2025/remembering-gracián/