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gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 5h

You probably know that "'I am a yellow fly' and the tale of a greasy button", songs, stories and poems from Ivor Cutler, are on BBC Radio 4 Extra tomorrow, @billherbert.bsky.social? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cgss2

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle, Episode 1

Ivor Cutler and friends present poems and songs, including 'I Am a Yellow Fly'.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Out very soon...

Ivor Cutler: Selected Poems (Hoorgi House 2026)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 13h

What’s this? It appears to be some sort of volume. Yes. That was a rhetorical question. Is it obtainable? Yes, and soon! How soon? Possibly tomorrow. You can check with the publisher. _You_ can check with the publisher. Yes. Let’s do that. Fine. You first. No, after you. #IvorCutler #HoorgiHouse

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of my favourite bits in the #ArtSonnetChain was when ed. #NancyCampbell’s final sonnet generated the category of a ‘side sonnet’. Coincidentally, her fellow ed. @sophieherx.bsky.social has been working on a side sonnet chain of her own: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/a...

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Art Sonnet Chain Postscript: Sophie Herxheimer (a side chain, 2)

Sophie Herxheimer is co-editing the Art Sonnet Chain with Nancy Campbell. Her most recent publication is Ode to Joy, a collaboration with Sarah Gavron published by Pushkin Press. (The side chain is…

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Scottish Poetry Library kindly selected a poem from my new collection Disco Biscuits to feature in today’s Scotsman newspaper as poem of the week! Thanks to them and to Rob Mackenzie at Blue Diode and Stephen Watt at Nutmeg magazine, where it first appeared. @ByLeavesWeLive

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And, just like that, our latest sonnet chain was complete! Begun by editor @sophieherx.bsky.social on Valentine’s Day and concluded by her fellow editor #NancyCampbell on whatever day yesterday was (the afterfeast of the Dormition?). #ArtSonnetChain #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (1/2)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This post on my Tumblr site* contains a group poem by #VaneWomen & friends, and a link to the #NurdleHunt website also given in the Comments below, plus good advices by Supernurdleman, Mark Husmann: www.tumblr.com/billherbert2... *’What’s Tumblr, Bill?’ ‘I don’t rightly know, please stop asking!’

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💬 1 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Contra Nurdles When the horrendous intrudes into our would-be peaceful routines, we ought to be (but rarely are) shaken enough to note that it is neither the horror nor the peace…

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Great to have something rather special from Sean O’Brien on New Boots and Pantisocracies today…

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Some favourite lines from the 10th sonnet in our #ArtSonnetChain by Emily Haworth-Booth: I have not made any art because I woke late and the light was gone. The bed was hard. The pillows were soft and didn’t support my neck. I didn’t sleep. I slept too well… #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (1/2)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Looks like #PaulMcCartney has an advance copy of #IvorCutler’s Selected Poems, out soon from #HoorgiHouse it says here: hoorgihouse.link/hoorgi-house... (Although 59 years before it appears is _highly_ advanced, especially as 1967 is decades before any of the poems in it were written.)

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Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I participated in an art sonnet chain and wrote a poem inspired by Tanaka Atsuko’s Electric Dress!💡⚡️ 🌈 ♥️

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#AndyBurnham to the tune of ‘Devolute’ by #TheFall cut with #Bowie’s #Warhol: wonderful and frightening, all on a #FallFriday too.

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Our twelfth sonnet in the #ArtSonnetChain is a fraught & taut shape poem by Keren Macpherson after #TraceyEmin’s sculpture ‘It’s Not the Way I Want to Die’ (link in following post): newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/a... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (1/2)

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Art Sonnet Chain, 12: Keren Macpherson

To separate above from below and see what’s truly there requires mettle; enduring slow, clicking climbs, and big dips. To live this way …

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Lydia Kennaway @lydiakennaway.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Honoured to have a poem in this series. Thank you, New Boots and Pantisocracies.

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

More for the ever-expanding Bouncy Gormenghastly Castle that is the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue - with kind regards to noted psychic furniture-watcher, @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social, for pointing out such stuff/kelpie-hair stuffing as these images appear to be made of.

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Katy Evans-Bush’s searing Masque on the occasion of the US semiquincentennial follows on the heels of Shelley’s like a 2nd giant centipede of horror clowns led by ‘the Orange Nightmare’: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/k... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies #TheFallOfAmerica #Trumpo

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Katy Evans-Bush: The Masque of Fascarchy

on the Anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence by a Band of the Most Free-Thinking and Scientific Deists Ever to Enter Politics; and Upon the Occasion of History’s Most Venal …

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Our 10th sonnet is by Emily Haworth-Booth, and it stitches a few telling quotes into its sharp mock-apology, shifting the #ArtSonnetChain’s focus deftly between collage and allusion: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/a... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

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Art Sonnet Chain, 10: Emily Haworth-Booth

It’s possible both certainties are true: I have not made my art todaybecause art can contribute nothing to solving urgent social problemsand I have not made my art today because I am a victim of ch…

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

While we’re on (or were on) the topic of #MacDiarmid’s publishing centenary (see @byleaveswelive.bsky.social’s #GiesAScotsPoem project), I keep meaning to post a link to this essay on MacD published in the #RobertGravesReview: robertgravesreview.org/essay/500 (1/3)

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The Fingers of MacDiarmid Contract in a Report to the Recording Angel

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I think this page went live on the @byleaveswelive.bsky.social’s website on Monday? A bunch o meh fellow makars aa speakin back tae or awa fae Grecht Shug o the MacDs, as curated by the skeely @brambrella.bsky.social www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots... #GiesAScotsPoemDay

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Gies a Scots Poem Day 2026

This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe...

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Whoa, we missed sharing a week of the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue back there due to excessive staring out/at the window! It was this neat combination of zine and poem from Martina De Camillis, where the collages bookend a pair of domestic scenes: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2026/06/06/m...

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Martina De Camillis: The houses that inhabit me

I Turn left: small kitchenforest green counterreligious trinkets on the shelvesbrown terracotta tilesfake wooden tableempty espresso cups and half a cigarettehandmade curtains with crocheted hemmov…

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Threid re new threids for the makar:

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Alison Winch’s sonnet is exactly what we need as no.8. It summarises the themes so far; moves back from its image-centred predecessors to a focus on text; and is painterly as well as sonnety. Hurrah! #NewBootsAndPantisocracies #ArtSonnetChain newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/a...

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Art Sonnet Chain, 8: Alison Winch

Alison Winch writes poems about lettuces and other significant topics, as well as academic stuff on tech, media and markets. Her poetry collection is Darling, It’s Me (Penned in the Margins) and sh…

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My Ice Tree Sonnet and Ice Tree Canopy art! For #ArtSonnetChain

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The 2nd quartet of our #ArtSonnetChain opens with this fine poem by #TishaniDoshi (who also contributed to our #EcoSonnetChain). As you might expect at this point, it shifts parameters to focus on one of #BhartiKher’s ‘Intermediary’ figures: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/a...

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Art Sonnet Chain, 5: Tishani Doshi

after Bharti Kher’s Ancestor Heart and eye braided in ampersandthe way descendant and ancestor link handsacross waves of mitochondrial inheritance.Here is an abdomen, a thorax; herdof stampeding bu…

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Today is publication day for our new Expanded Edition of Scenes from a Long Sleep: New & Collected Poems by Peter Didsbury, published to celebrate his 80th birthday! shorturl.at/WwLgi Includes the collection A Fire Shared (2020) as well as new, previously uncollected poems.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Happy eightieth birthday to that fine poet Peter Didsbury, from Sean O’Brien, me, and all the contributors to During the Late and Long Continuing Cold, a Festschrift in his honour published by Broken Sleep Books. Hoping he enjoys the work we have taken such pleasure in secretly assembling.

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

As the first of several updates this #Easter weekend, we’re delighted to welcome a wibbly-wobbly and/or knockity-kneed table or tables to the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue, c/o Sigrun Hodne’s perfectly-matched drawings+texts: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/s...

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Sigrun Hodne: French Garden Poem

Sigrun Hodne is a Norwegian artist working at the intersection of drawing and found text. Her practice explores how language can function as material and how images can be read as utterances, often…

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Another week, another cabinet. But, after our previous, surreal if somewhat snippy, cabinet, Jo Colley has caught a whiff of something much worse - and, tragically, topical - about this latest item of furniture: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/j... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Loved this list made manifesto from @kaddybenyon.bsky.social ’s sonnet about #EvaHesse: She wore her installations like a crown of bivalves, netted pomelos, glass-blown fishing floats caught in the drag tides of fear, of loss, of mockery… #ArtSonnetChain

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