A digital illustration of the character Ginko from the anime series Mushishi. He is pictured from behind walking barefoot through a river of light in the darkness, surrounded by mushi and large green lotus leaves.
River of Light 🍃🌕
Folkish by kym deyn and the vanishing song by jay hulme
The dedication page of folkish, reading "for jay, my funhouse mirror"
The dedication page of The Vanishing Song, which reads "for Kym, who hunted the saints with me"
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The Devil Monologues from 'Folkish' by Kym Deyn If God comes hollering I was never here. I get these terrible, oh, what would you call them? Boils? Pustules? I come out in frogspawn and glitter when I think about them. My face breaks out in seashells. Maybe God's out there exhaling a desert's breath over Jerusalem. Watching the Lambton boy dickswinging his sword. Oh, he ran off. There was this peasant girl who grew round as the moon and John's wife, well put out would be the phrase – he was an absent father, absolutely. We have that in common, Johnny boy and I. At least I was only in Hell. You know, God's eyes are sea-dark? My baby girl killed half the village in the end, but her eyes are the same shade as her granddaddy's. You think on that one. Quick, John is on his way. With a sword on his hip and a knighthood fresh as blood.
Part of 'Folkish' is a series of poems about the Lambton Worm here's one of them:
The Devil Monologues
by Kym Deyn
"If God comes hollering I was never here. I get these terrible, oh, what would you call them? Boils? Pustules? I come out in frogspawn and glitter when I think about them."
If Polari was a kind of Birdsong from 'Folkish' by Kym Deyn The landscape is gay because I am. The moor's crushed heather curves, the wide woke ocean with her singing tides will upset some of you, I'm sure. The pink mushroom with infinite sexes, the bees like tiny vibrators between the flowers. All the ways nature fucks and flows. The land reacts to me in it. Gales cradle me, storms slip wetly down my spine. Each footstep of mine is queer. My eyelash mites have only sucked lesbians – oh God! My little world revolves in a sexy way. Camp sunsets. A moth with flirtatious lashes: a queen with his wings out. There are things that aren't for you, whispered behind the bins, ugly as a fox's climax, sequinned as mackerel scales, butch as a moray's square jaw, undiminished by filth, enmeshed as lichen, natural as the trees wearing each wild season.
'If Polari was a kind of Birdsong'
by Kym Deyn
"Each footstep of mine is queer. My eyelash
mites have only sucked lesbians – oh God!"
The cover of "folkish" by kym deyn. Published by nine arches press.
Reading @kymdeyn.bsky.social's 'Folkish' and whispering "fuck offfff" after every poem because it's just so good.
Here's me losing a fight against the wind, featuring a poem about my hometown 💚
📢TONIGHT: Triple Online Launch with #poetry from these glorious new books by @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social & @kymdeyn.bsky.social
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On a bookshelf shared with Coleridge and Dante, is a poetry collection titled Folkish, by Kym Devn.Twisting on the chartreuse cover is a serpentine creature in black and white, its motion somehow both playful and unsettling. Looking at it, you know you’re in for a wild ride.
Look what made its way to me across the water! Can’t wet to read this gorgeous collection by @kymdeyn.bsky.social.
Kasamatsu Shirō (Japanese, 1898–1991)
"Night Rain at Shinobazu Pond", 1938.
Woodblock Print, 38.6 × 26.5 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
stone artefacts🥰
hey, sorry for ignoring ur texts. I'm making weird cults in pokopia. yeah, turns out the pokemon are easily influenced and they'll pretty much do anything I say.
In my conversation with @kymdeyn.bsky.social we explore how they use punctuation in their debut collection Folkish, how Tarot card reading can be like structured improv, and the importance of tricksters.
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Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Come and hear some weird and wonderful folkloric tales from the Oaths and Offerings contributors! Plus an evening's discussion with the profoundly magical @kymdeyn.bsky.social and I about folklore and writing, in Durham next month.
Thank you so much, Rachel! 💚💚
Front cover of Folkish by Kym Deyn
Back cover of Folkish with a commendation by RM
Delighted to receive a physical copy of this fantastic poetry collection by @kymdeyn.bsky.social … a great debut. Go buy! @ninearchespress.bsky.social
The Atmospheric Stillness of Hasui Kawase’s Summer Rain This 1932 woodblock print by Hasui Kawase, titled Summer Rain, captures a tranquil river scene in Japan during a gentle downpour. The composition is dominated by a vast, greenish-blue body of water reflecting a distant shoreline and a sailboat, while a small cluster of houseboats is moored in the foreground. A solitary figure with a blue umbrella walks along the grassy bank, adding a sense of quietude and human presence to the misty landscape.
Summer Rain - by Hasui Kawase. 1932, Japan
ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.
Poor Sleep Linked To Gong Instrument’s Loud, Resonant Crash Can Be Disruptive
Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/
Image of chapbook cover, with title 'every house needs a ghost' and author name 'Timothy Fox'. Spooky little house in the background. And also maybe the top of a spooky little circus tent.
Got word from @thebraag.bsky.social that my chapbook of Southern Gothic poetry and weird flash fiction is going into a second printing!!! Thanks to @kymdeyn.bsky.social for all their support and to all who have bought a copy!!!
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Not that the work is above critique, not that the author should listen to nobody’s criticism ever, not that public discourse on a work is invaluable. Just that these things don’t have to steer the ship lmfao.
“authors have no obligation to listen to the opinions of their readership on how the work should progress” does not mean “you aren’t allowed to criticize the work” it just means the author doesn’t have to obey feedback from the general public. Like hello
So tired today, but here's the Braag's newsletter + Carmen et Error Issue 15.0, and a continuation of me sending emails Like This.
an extremely tense looking venomoth plush
Her name is GADfly, it stands for Generalised Anxiety Disorder Fly.
The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
front cover art for Knock's folklore bestiary, OSR version. it shows a trio of adventurers facing a tentacled monster which coils around the edges of the frame, bristling with eyes and pincers. the adventurers - a hooded rogue, a burly knight, and a short, haunted-looking wizard all group togehter, looking daunted.
ink drawing of a figure stabbed through the back by a sword. the sword is in red ink, the figure in black. the figure has a wizened, anguised face, and wears a shaggy cape and hood made from ragged reeds. they have long-nailed hands moving as if to clutch at the blade run through them.
An illustrated map, bisecting several interwoven grass basket buildings clinging to the side of a tree. Small animals like rodents, shrews and hedgehogs bustle around a busy market and show ground, while larger animals like birds peer in through skylights above. Smaller floral chambers are attached to the main hall, overflowing with wild flowers and each occupied by a colourful pageant competing butterfly.
a page of black and white illustrations showing multiple artefacts and depictions of tombs and burials of many kinds, including a bog body, terracotta warriors, an air burial and an ossuary.
Hi #portfolioday I'm an illustrator maily working in games and narrative art, shedule currently clear so give me a bell if you want some weird monsters or obsessively detailed greenery!
portfolio: toadlett.com
contact: email is in my profile, please don't dm I can't see it cos I'm UK based.
Pottery cup fragment from Roman Peterborough (Durobrivae) depicting a magnificent hare. Now part of the collections at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #Peterborough