Matilda Bookshop

@reversediorama @clydebuiltradio @WhiteRabbitBks @leebrackstone okay, I'll bite :) Who is playing at around the twenty minute mark? Amazing song.

My Volcanic Tongue show for @clydebuiltradio is now available to stream, with tracks from White Heaven, Sweet Inspirations, This Kind of Punishment, The Dead C, Linda Smith, Shizuka, Harry Partch and more: on.soundcloud.com/4nc6s6XVfBbFfQ…

God speed the last and true literary matriarch of the 20th century. I’ll always remember her eyes lighting up in the darkness of her living room at Christmas, orchids everywhere. The definition of love & rage with a poets gift to articulate who we are and why. Love you Edna

A Book to Love on Wednesday 🧡 Monkey Grip by Helen Garner

A Book To Love On Friday ❤️‍🔥 Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight 👖

Genius.

@fbongiornoanu South Australians are a pain in the arse

A Book To Love On Friday Robbie Arnott’s Flames 🔥

@thebooksdesk Andrew O’Hagan’s article on Assange is great too.

Good piece this I reckon

Deep Creek Residency Fellowship Winner 2024 ✍🏽 🎉 Such a pleasure to be awarding our third Residency Fellowship to a South Australian writer✨ Time, space, mentoring (with Rachael Mead)—all in the deeply stunning deep creek 😍 @writerssainc @ultimopress

What Natalia Ginzburg said.

@Look_its_Rhonda So…follow @PartickThistle 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hi Glasgow! I’m here but I’m not taking sides. #football #notsoccer ⚽️

I've said it before, but the best live performance on The Word wasn't Nirvana or L7. It was this lot. Magnificent. youtube.com/watch?v=IH3aQJ…

@SCalliss Huge on KI in the late-sixties.

@MatildaBookshop It was either that or Captain Lamb Shank and his Magic Puffballs

Shayne Calliss and his Ring of White Puffballs is the name of my new 70's psychedelic prog rock band

Sylvia Beach & James Joyce in the doorway of Beach’s Paris bookshop "Shakespeare and Company" in 1922

Yesterday we sold books by...James Joyce, Vasily Grossman, Deborah Levy, Andrew O'Hagan, Thomas Bernhard, Natalia Ginzburg, Margarita Liberaki, Alexis Wright, Charlotte Wood, Favel Parrett, Kevin Barry and this, for some obscure reason, pleases me greatly.

A Book To Love On Friday 🧡 Annie Ernaux’s Simple Passion

A Book to Love on Thursday 🧡 A Theatre For Dreamers by Polly Samson

@robpalkwriter Yes fair enough. My ire is directed more at Dylan who I think was fairly repugnant in 66, and who I think has a wildly over-inflated legacy