Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
Jeff Young
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Memory, counterculture, bookshops, nostalgia, sacred places, deep listening, squatting, close observation, sadness… all kinds of stuff in this conversation for the Turning World podcast with Jon Egan and Keith Hitchman which I enjoyed very much!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qktl...
Memory, counterculture, bookshops, nostalgia, sacred places, deep listening, squatting, close observation, sadness… all kinds of stuff in this conversation for the Turning World podcast with Jon Egan and Keith Hitchman which I enjoyed very much!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qktl...
Totally misremembered David Hockney as being part of this episode of Monitor, but it is so well worth watching anyway. Not least for the wonder of Pauline Boty and her work
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
AI data centres are coming to Britain - from the US and beyond.
This one's in the village where I write my books.
It'll use the same amount of power equivalent to 1 million homes and will wreck the natural environment.
Please sign if you value nature.
www.change.org/p/save-the-l...
I was delighted to join this wide ranging and free flowing conversation about landscape, XTC, the ancient and modern.
Link below!
Mathew Street, Liverpool, 6th June 2026.
Mensi ✊
This women's group wanted to raise £1,000 to help the victims of last night's attacks in Belfast. It's already at £56,000.
chuffed.org/project/1854...
Tribute to Rufus Collins (1935-1996)
@wildtwin.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
The Lammermuirs are one of Scotland’s most treasured rural landscapes. This morning, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social wrote to us with news of plans to build an industrial data centre on them.
Help 66 locals defeat a $2 billion project by signing the petition: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/save...
Ken Russell's 1962 film on the young British artists who were pioneering the pop art movement. Featuring Peter Blake, Peter Phillips, Derek Boshier and Pauline Boty.
A profile on Rufus Collins, an Afro-American theater pioneer, whose legacy echoes through the Dutch cultural landscape as he challenged norms and ignited multicultural voices.
In today's episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, @jonwoolcott.bsky.social talks about The Tattooed Hills, his new book about the chalk figures of southern England, including the Uffington White Horse, cover star of XTC’s English Settlement. www.xtclimelight.com/2026/06/12/c...
Caught by the River
Singer of the Angelic Upstarts predicted it.
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Jon Woolcott talks about the chalk figures of southern England, including the Uffington White Horse, cover star of XTC’s English Settlement
