Alcoholic Family: The Sobering Reality of the Joyces, followed by a wine reception 🍷😅To grow up in an alcoholic home is to grow up among chaos. Chaos brought about by fear, shame, guilt and grief. Christine Dwyer Hickey is great BTW, should be a stonker of an event. jamesjoyce.ie/events/alcoh...

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"Daddy was gone all at once, but now Mama feels thinner than smoke, vanishing a little at a time. I ask what happened to him, but her words go scarce as mosquitos in a dry spell" Fab piece from @tracieadams.bsky.social (who makes me sound like such a tyrant 😂) full of tension and voice

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"I waited for her to ask the question, had we been having an affair, but she never did and if she had, I would’ve told her no, you were my faraway friend." The one and only Anna Vangala Jones (@anniejowrites.bsky.social) returns to The Bulb Region with one of her trademark gut-punch micros.

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there are other ways to say I love you than the words and other ways to love someone than sleeping in their bed @anniejowrites.bsky.social , love this! ❤️@bulbregion.bsky.social

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First hard frost. The old gods gone to ground in drystane walls and silted ditchworks, sleet in squalls along the ridge, then nothing: silence; grey on grey on grey… —John Burnside, “October 2023” published in THE EMPIRE OF FORGETTING (Cape, 2025) #poem #poetry www.penguin.co.uk/books/456121...

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