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julietwest.bsky.social
Author of Before the Fall and The Faithful published by Pan Macmillan. Poetry in Magma, Hippocrates Prize anthology. Books, gardening, cats. https://www.julietwest.com/
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On International Women’s Day, here’s a pic of my mum who has just turned 84 and climbed to the top of Vesuvius with me and my sister this week (tbf, a bus took us some of the way up, but it was still quite a hike to reach the crater) ❤️🌋 #InternationalWomensDay

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Sun rising in Pompeii. I channelled #ARealPain movie and went up on the hotel roof

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Read about our festival in The Guardian, featuring @kitdewaal.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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A cartoon for #worldbookday (coming on Thursday 6th) for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

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My sister took this amazing sunset pic on Worthing beach tonight. What’s that on the horizon below the sun? Is this the planetary parade?? Astronomy not my strong point 🪐

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🌱 Mega planting task for gardeners at Potters Fields Park by London Bridge. Looks like they’re going for a dry garden - exactly what I’d do if I was starting from scratch #plantsky

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How publishers should fight back against the greatest heist in history - new from Matthew Scott Goldstein on how AI companies are mining and underming human creativity pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Saw Richard II @bridgetheatre.bsky.social yesterday. Jonathan Bailey is breathtakingly good. Loved the nods to Succession (music, costume) - half expected Kieran Culkin to stride out on stage ☺️Congrats to all the cast (and behind the scenes people). Just brilliant.

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He’s not allowed on the island #catsofbluesky

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Be the 22,800th! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!

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Props to the yew. This tree in Walberton, E Sussex, is 1600 years old, planted by pagans before the church was built, and now supported by beams. (With apologies for unforgivable spelling error in previous, deleted, post. Ewe tree - wtf?)

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Chagall window at Chichester Cathedral looks stunning even on a dull February day

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Thrilled to be guest poet on Simon Armitage’s Laureate Library Tour at my local Liskeard Library in Cornwall, 6 March, especially as libraries were where I first fell in love with the earth’s wildernesses through encyclopaedias of natural wonders of the world!

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Lovely January surprise - my PLR statement dropped today. I'm amazed and delighted that library readers are still borrowing my debut novel 11 years after it was published. Thank you #PLR, libraries, and everyone who's borrowed Before the Fall or The Faithful! 😘📚

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#Authors! You'll have seen the government's plan for #AI announced today. Many authors, agents and publishers are deeply concerned by the plan to change the UK's copyright regime. *This is a disaster!* The existing law is fine and a licensing model is already emerging. Please email your MP 👇

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Can’t help thinking Ed aka Prince Chunk is looking particularly handsome tonight #catsofbluesky

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Just finished Small Bomb at Dimperley - a glorious novel to round off my reading year. Such a brilliant cast of characters including Allison (aged 3) who is priceless. Thank you @lissakevans.bsky.social for a great read.

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Moniack Mhor, a beautiful writers centre in Scotland is running a gothic writing course starting in January, all online. Lots of residential, day and online courses on their website too. Check it out. www.moniackmhor.org.uk Please share

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Have a hobby, not a side hustle and other great pearls of wisdom. Words to Live By Number 157

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Just back from an extremely fun evening at Steyning bookshop making linocut Christmas cards. Also, spot the ginger tail

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I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

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PS I wrote about The Process of Poetry and other fave reads over on Claire Fuller’s blog clairefuller.co.uk/2024/07/22/d...

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The Unpicking is a gripping read and The Process of Poetry is absolutely FASCINATING whether you write poetry or prose. Please support this indie press! 🎁🎄

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My sister gave me this for my birthday (I might have hinted). Cannot wait to get stuck in @lissakevans.bsky.social

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Hands up everyone who identifies with this.

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