Home of the Otwituaries - tweet-length poetic elegies for the departed, plus assorted poetry-related malarkey from Andy Jackson.
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Huge game at Anfield this weekend
The team who are disliked, have been cheating for years and who have had the refs in their back pocket forever will take on Man City
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🎙 "The rules were concocted by Arsenal, Liverpool & Man Utd that decided nobody else was joining their club" 😡
"The cartel came and said, we dont like this! We can't have #ManCity coming in and doing the same"👏
"We need to get rid of these obscene, anti-competitive rules" 👀
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More Ivory Cutlery for #NationalPoetryDay!
Apparently the #SelectedPoems is out today - ie you can wander into a shop* and order a copy (the actual copies will follow shortly).
Here’s the back cover. (Text of the blurb in thread.)
*Preferably a bookshop.
#IvorCutler
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I’ve often thought* those signs on the tops of taxis could double up as toasters.
‘Follow that car!’
‘Certainly, sir. And some hot buttered toast?’
*As always when deploying this phrase, the idea has only just occurred to me BUT it feels like I’ve been thinking it for years.
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A library is a lie, a brae, and a railway.
A library is a place where Librans gather.
A library is a raree-show at liberty.
#InformationistHomophonics
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We aim to displease, nonplus, and generally piss off.
But also to delight! More soon on this breaking story…
#NewBootsAndPantisocracies
One for @NEUboots26 where the role of the satiric if ephemeral poem has occasionally been considered…
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While between #ArtSonnetChain sonnets, we at #NewBootsAndPantisocracies like to sit, inert as hollow persons, heads stuffed with straw dust, but occasionally we do get caught up in rewriting the lyrics of ‘Andy Warhol’ for #DailyReckless as follows:
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[Voice-over] ‘And so, dear voters, it proved to be…’
Near, far, wherever you rage, it’s just a little bit of #FarceMajeure repeating…
#EditTheWorld: replace ‘gift’ with ‘grift’ and ‘received’ with ‘was party to’ in all sentences involving the political clarss.
(One for @NEUboots26, perhaps at 2pm this very arfternoon.)
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Is it the #FallOfAmerica or did #Trumpo dive?
Good editor @Azjackson doubles down on the dactyls…
#DoubleDactyl
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#FIFA2026 kicks-off in [checks watch] just over 2 hours. It's a relief, therefore, that these have just arrived!
They're selling fast, so if you'd like a copy, don't miss a sitter - order now for just £6!
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We’re delighted to welcome back our #EcoSonnetChain editor, #LindaFrance, to conclude the opening quartet of our #ArtSonnetChain.
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#NewBootsAndPantisocracies (1/2)
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In between art sonnets, New Boots is running an occasional series reflecting on the #FallOfAmerica from not exactly grace but certainly through realms of greed.
This week, Peter Daniels is contemplating a certain US-ymandias:
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#NewBootsAndPantisocracies
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Features naughty bits.. Link to best platform here: podfollow.com/through-the-sq…
Through the Square Window episode 7 is out now - wherever you get your podcasts. @SamiraAhmedUK and @grahamkw looking at shows from March 1979: #Blakes7, Man Alive, Star Signs (with Michael Aspel, Joanna Lumley and Peter Cook) and The Kenny Everett Video Show.
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A couple of #Tanka from the ongoing #WinterRenga. (I’d better check how many verses that is now.) This first one is illustrated:
A shopping trolley
abandoned on Bedford Street
considers Grieve’s Stairs.
Steep steps for the two-legged;
but for the inanimate…
(1/2)
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There’s laconic, then there’s Darlo laconic. #VaneWomen’s Marilyn Longstaff eulogises a phone seat/table:
…scraps of paper, dying biros, phone book of the mainly dead,
…I’ve received bad news here, lots of it.
Now it’s mostly spam…
#GhostFurnitureCatalogue #Darlington
Marilyn Longstaff notes that, just because an item of furniture becomes obsolete, it doesn’t mean that the memories and emotions we associate with it become obsolete too. (It’s a pretty darn close thing, though.)
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#GhostFurnitureCatalogue
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I've been working for Project Abeona, writing for plausible space futures. Here's one of my alter egos, Karim Glinchy Shanti, transmitting from a thousand years beyond as they work on a Relay Wharf. #scifi #prosepoems #poetry #spaceexploration
#ProjectAbeona is back with another poem from a plausible future. This one comes hot off the Mass Driver from Richard Price, and is a reminder that even in the vastness of space, there are always little jobs that need doing.
projectabeonapoetry.substack…
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Sophie and Nancy will be looking for art structured like a sonnet, for sonnets that can be drawn, snipped, or modelled. As long as it is reproducible on paper in black and white, and something like a last line can be handed on, let's see how far we can go!
#ArtSonnetChain
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We hope this theme might allow not just ekphrasis or poems about iconic (and less well-known) figures, but experiment: sonnets about processes, techniques, ideas - about art-making itself.
#ArtSonnetChain #NewBootsAndPantisocracies
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Sonnet Chain News!
As in previous years, we interrupt yr #ValentinesDay to bring you a collaborative sonnet-y announcement:
For our 4th chain, #WhalebackCityPress have asked #SophieHerxheimer & #NancyCampbell to edit an #ArtSonnetChain posting on #NewBootsAndPantisocracies…
