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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

CITY SCAFFOLD: A sonnet of no fixed rhyme scheme, composed in iambic trimeter. Each line has exactly 14 letters. The poem's Ts are arranged such that they form a symmetrical, X-shaped scaffold.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was looking back at the photos I took here and... Note the small white figure in the bottom right, and the tall dark figure behind it. Fuck.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am spending tonight at the most haunted hotel in the UK. Woooooo!

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

THE SCREAM (Anagram-Haiku) The curves charm, madden, vent a much redder chasm— Edvard Munch: The Scream.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here I am, being wizardly in the woods.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

ANAGRAM-TRIOLET FOR KEATS — a triolet that repeatedly anagrams the final line of “Ode to a Nightingale”.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I've posted photos of the radio telescope near my home before, in a "can you spot it" context. Easy to see it today!

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ANAGRAM-SONNET FOR JORGE LUIS BORGES — on the occasion of Borges’ 127th birthday:

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Wenlock Priory. It was too noisy to record audio, so I've put some of my music over it ("Twelve Pints at the Talbot" is the name of the piece). I couldn't narrate, so I dicked about instead. Enjoy!

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sitting in England, watching the eclipse over Wales.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I had a vest made, such is my commitment to the Penguin. Mission statement and submission details below.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The view from Old Oswestry Hill Fort, Shropshire.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

WORD FACT The “minim” is a short vertical stroke used in handwriting. In Gothic scripts, many letters — such as m, n, and u — were made up of minims joined by fine connecting strokes. As a result, words like minimum could appear as a confusing row of vertical lines. [1/3]

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Coming in 2027. A journal for people who love words for more than just their meaning.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This was our home for the last three days. Yes, we played big chess.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Here I am, looking small against the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The very wonky — and apparently very haunted (I saw no ghosts) — Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today, I visited Sandbach to see these Anglo-Saxon crosses. They've survived for around 1,200 years — through Viking raids, the Norman Conquest, the Reformation, and Puritan iconoclasm. It's extraordinary that they are still standing. Sandbach is a lovely town, by the way.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I'm back in Stratford-upon-Avon with my old mate Falstaff, looking forward to tonight's performance of The Tempest.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

BLOOD FOR THE MUMMY A sonnet in amphibrachic tetrameter, also employing the principles of alliterative verse: The two beats in each hemistich (or half-line) alliterate. Thus, in line 1, ‘read’ alliterates with ‘rite’, and ‘form-’ alliterates with ‘frees’.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

THE RISE OF CTHULHU The sonnet contains one pre-selected Lovecraftian word in each line. (The words are: Stygian, Cyclopean, Gibbous, Chthonian, Squamous, Foetid, Lurking, Tenebrous, Nameless, Eldritch, Loathsome, Shadow, Iridescent, & Ululating.)

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

And it is, of course, the favourite literary device of this little weirdo:

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

GREAT FIRE OF LONDON (Chronogram*-Sonnet) *In each line, the Roman Numeral letters (i, v, x, l, c, d, & m) add up to 119. Thus, the total Roman Numeral count for this sonnet is 119 x 14 = 1666.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Sunset in Aswan, with gin. (@Claraetherin.bsky.social's photo)

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The Nile today, before and during a sandstorm:

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

LADY OF THE LAKE (Triolet) A triolet in anapaestic tetrameter, with alliterative beats in each hemistich (all lines rhyming):

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

WORD FACT This is the Sator Square. A true word square, the Sator Square reads the same horizontally top left to bottom right as it does vertically top left to bottom right. [1/4]

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

HALT ME A line-for-line perfect anagram of Hamlet’s "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy.

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