The Spoons That Are My Ears!

The blog of writer Rhys Hughes

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Songs Gone Wrong

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  My new poetry book has been published. It will be one of my last ever poetry books. After this one, there will be my monumental Unrequited...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Streetlamp Astrology

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My new poetry book is now available from Hybrid Sequence Media .  “Rhys Hughes’ latest poetry collection, Streetlamp Astrology , is a wonder...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

The Percolated Stars Returns

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My first published novel, out of print for more than twenty years, has just been republished by Mission Creep Press.   THE PERCOLATED STARS ...
Monday, June 15, 2026

He Felt a Ghost So He Stole It

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Mission Creep Press is now up and running. June 10th was the launch day. Still a lot of work to be done, but the inaugural title has been r...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Imaginary Hotheads

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My new book has just been published. Black Scat Press , who published my Weirdly Out West a few years ago, have taken another gamble on me....
Monday, April 13, 2026

Mission Creep Press

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Now that the redoubtable and excellent Chris Harrendence has created a logo for me, I think it's a good time to say that I will soon be...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

The Unfair Dinkum

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The second book in the "Knick Knack Trilogy" has just been published. But it's not a conventional trilogy because the books ca...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Trumpet Strudel Mineshafts

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TRUMPET STRUDEL MINESHAFTS , my second book of plays, has been published after a long delay. Eighteen short plays, absurdist comedies, rambu...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Review of 2025

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Publications It was an extremely good year for me in terms of books published. The Devil's Halo was published by Elsewhen Press , and f...
Friday, December 26, 2025

Trojan Donkey Chapbooks

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It is almost time for me to write my 'Review of the Year' but I am going to make one more post before I do. This is to mention an ex...
Tuesday, November 04, 2025

Tangents Paperback and Ebook

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TANGENTS was my thousandth story and therefore the climax of my 'Pandora's Bluff' story-cycle. The project took 33 years in tot...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

My Plays Performed

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Since I returned to writing plays seven years ago, I have often wondered if any of them would ever be performed. Well, two of them have now,...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Volcano Theatre

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The premiere of two of my plays will take place this coming Saturday (11th October) and I am delighted by the fact. The venue is Volcano The...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Trivialities

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My most recent book is collection of tribute stories to Daniil Kharms . Eighty linked flash fictions that attempt to express and reflect the...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Trumpet Face

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My new book is a short novel, a comedic fantasy full of strange characters and stranger incidents. It is the first book in the "Knick K...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

Tangents

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It appears that my book Tangents has finally been published. It's a novella that is actually a framed series of flash fictions. It was ...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

That Other Egypt

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This book took a long time to come together. I never intended to write a linked series of fictions themed on Egypt. It just happened. The ...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Robots in Love

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Three years after I wrote it (fifteen years after I first had the idea) my science fiction novella, ROBOTS IN LOVE , is a reality. In other...
Friday, August 01, 2025

Signs of the Times

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I rarely write poetry these days. I haven't stopped but my production rate has dropped. I now average maybe five or six new poems every ...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Podcast Extracts and Interview

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The publishers of my recent book, THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT , have been a dream to work with. They interviewed me for a podcast and that inte...
Friday, June 13, 2025

The Eleventh Commandment

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My new book has just been published and I am delighted with it. My delight isn't surprising really, as I tend to be delighted with most ...
Sunday, March 09, 2025

Flapping Doodles

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The third and final Gibbon Moon poetry anthology has just been published. Last August, for no good reason, I took a photo of my washing hang...
Friday, March 07, 2025

Romantic Onion Antics

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Four months ago I asked: Which is the better title for a collection of quirky poems? (1) Romantic Onion Antics . (2) Amorous Onion Antics . ...
Friday, January 24, 2025

The Devil's Halo

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My best fantasy novel (in my view) is a subterranean pilgrim's progress. It's also an eschatological epic, a paranormal picaresque, ...
Tuesday, January 07, 2025

Dabbler Omnibus

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I think I can safely say that after today I never need to think about drabbles again. DABBLER IN DRABBLES is done and dusted: the Omnibus e...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

End of 2024 Review

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Writing In 2024 I wrote 55 stories. Most were very short and can be found in my SECOND HAND HANDS collection. But I did manage a few more s...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Dabbler in Drabbles #4

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I have finished writing the fourth volume of my Dabbler in Drabbles project. Together, all four volumes contain exactly 1000 drabbles. The ...
Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Second Hand Hands

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My new story collection features fifty stories, the vast majority of which have never been published before (47 are new). These are mostly b...
Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Growl at the Moon

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My novel Growl at the Moon was recently published by Telos Publishing . It's a Weird Western, not the first I have written but (in my o...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Triple Obscura #2

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The second anthology in the TRIPLE OBSCURA series has been published. TRIPLE OBSCURA #2 is available as a paperback and ebook. The TRIPLE ...
Saturday, July 06, 2024

In This Poem

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My first book to be published in Britain under a non-Tory government is a poetry collection that I happen to regard as my best poetry book s...
Monday, July 01, 2024

Around the World in Eighty Ways

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My new book is here... It should have been published four years ago by an independent publisher based in India (with a unique typographical ...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Dabbler in Drabbles #3

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The third volume of my Dabbler in Drabbles project has been published. As I have said elsewhere, this is a four volume work. There will be ...
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