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Agnes Owens: Out of the Margins YouTube video by Alasdair Gray Archive

Delighted to share our new short film on Agnes Owens, marking her 2026 centenary, now live on AGA’s YouTube. Discover her life, work, and legacy—or watch it on a retro TV at the Lillie Art Gallery exhibition from today!

Monochrome photograph featuring a view looking uo at two women sitting on an exterior wall of a building

Female Bauhaus students c.1927 #womensart

A black and white pinhole photograph of daffodils in the woods, painted over with watercolours and now it looks like somewhere else entirely. Typed words at the bottom say “into these weird solitudes” which is maybe to legible so that might be removed.

Experimenting with hand-colouring pinhole photos with watercolours. I‘m terrible and impatient with painting, but it‘s turned the forest into something else and I quite like that.

air pump air this is your country dont let the big men take it away from you., a shack in the background

Dorothea Lange, Gas Station, Kern Couny, California, 1938

a young child being attacked by soap bubbles

Gianni Boradori, La Fillette et les Bulles de Savon

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DELÍRIA (SIGNED COPIES) - Jeff Young ROUGH TRADE EDITION NO. 56 Set against the backdrop of ‘the city’—as activation point for dreams, for visions, as a receptacle for memory, as a canvas for meaning, for art, poetry, sex, for the very s...

For ROUGH TRADE's 50th celebrations and for this year‘a NATIONAL YEAR OF READING
all Rough Trade pamphlets are down to just £5 for the rest of 2026 or until stock lasts. Get your Deliria madness and other delights here:

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Moss Side, Manchester, 1964, photo by Sefton Samuels, L.S. Lowry's favourite photographer.

This is a properly weird book. Highly recommended.

Agreed 👍 !

DELÍRIA (SIGNED COPIES) - Jeff Young ROUGH TRADE EDITION NO. 56 Set against the backdrop of ‘the city’—as activation point for dreams, for visions, as a receptacle for memory, as a canvas for meaning, for art, poetry, sex, for the very s...

For ROUGH TRADE's 50th celebrations and for this year‘a NATIONAL YEAR OF READING
all Rough Trade pamphlets are down to just £5 for the rest of 2026 or until stock lasts. Get your Deliria madness and other delights here:

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It was amazing! Great conversation, lots of laughter, a few tears. Perfect 👌

Saul Leslie discusses A Working Title I Want To Change | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Saul Leslie discusses A Working Title I Want To Change today.

My friend and neighbour Saul Leslie isn’t on social media. His debut novel is out soon, the launch is at @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social on 21 April. It’s called A Working Title I Want To Change. It’s brilliant. He’s in conversation with @davidhering.bsky.social
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Saul Leslie discusses A Working Title I Want To Change | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Saul Leslie discusses A Working Title I Want To Change today.

My friend and neighbour Saul Leslie isn’t on social media. His debut novel is out soon, the launch is at @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social on 21 April. It’s called A Working Title I Want To Change. It’s brilliant. He’s in conversation with @davidhering.bsky.social
www.waterstones.com/events/saul-...

Buy tickets – Total Stranger: The Unseen Photographs of Pete Burns and Dead or Alive – Café Tabac Total Stranger: The Unseen Photographs of Pete Burns and Dead or Alive – Café Tabac, Tue 14 Apr 2026 - Before the fame, there was a different Liverpool — more experimental, more chaotic, and full of c...

Come have a drink, bring burning questions and cherished memories.

📅 Tuesday 14 April
☕ Café Tabac, Bold Street
⏰ Arrive from 18:30 (19:00 start, lasting around 1 hour)

Tickets available below, get them while you can 🪩

The Post presents: "Total Stranger: The Unseen Photographs of Pete Burns and Dead or Alive." An evening with photographer Francesco Mellina and writer Melissa Blease at Cafe Tabac. Get your tickets today: www.livpost.co.uk/total-strang...

I wrote a very personal piece about Boyhood, angels and astonishment and how writers must learn to fly backwards for @unherd.com

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The Boyhood tour continues tonight in Liverpool where I’ll be in conversation with Jeff Young. Looking forward to seeing everyone!

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Amazing review of Boyhood in the Sunday Times today: “An exuberant novel bursting with punk rock, outré sex and grisly murder.” What more could you ask?!

@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence What is power? It is at its most essential the ability to influence an outcome on any or all scales, to protect one's own at a minimum and to influence, even control others at a maximum. Violence is c...

I think my 90th essay at my newsletter is one of my best there. A meditation on cooperative power versus violence, with detours on Iran/Vance/Orban/Swalwell, and a zen ending, literally.

Stuart Sutcliffe 1940 -1962. 85 Years Ago Today. Stuart Sutcliffe was born 85 years ago today.

Stuart Sutcliffe was born 85 years ago today

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Photograph of Stuart Sutcliffe’s family grave in St Michaels churchyard, Huyton

For my 22nd Magnetic North column in the 23rd edition of Science & Magic I went to ‘Fifth Beatle’ Stuart Sutcliffe’s grave and had ‘a big think’. You can read and subscribe to Violette’s excellent magazine here:

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TONIGHT!

Ace!

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