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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know it well and its fellows - here are two or three from that very museio:

Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

Indeed: oot soon! Sneakity keek of the cover below:

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It seems the two images are not as unconnected as they might at first appear...

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ah, another chance to deploy ‘invasivorism’ as a descriptive term! The previous usage cropped up while introducing this cartoon. (I hasten to add I wasn’t suggesting anyone should eat #Trumpo - that could be dangerous, even assuming anyone would want to #EatTheRich, as #Motörhead once warbled.)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dye ken Ramsay’s version? (Apologies for this online copy’s weird typeface.)

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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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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I took a photo of this very object when I was there! (Although I remember I made the rather weird assumption it was an unborn baby and that the spiral was its umbilical cord.)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Very fond of the tale of Alexander’s submersible, complete with cat and cockerel - clearly the #YellowSubmarine of its day, only clearer, what with it being made of glass. The cat in this collage (from #TheIconostasisOfAnxiety is from that very vehicle:

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

Why, I know several of those octopuses by name, and call out to them, should we pass in the street. However, we’re currently in the mountains west of Rethymno, so opportunities are few…

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There’s something about a red bench that consoles the traveller:

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I couldn’t find an image of the Belgian Surrealists in a fake aeroplane, but there is this one of them in a sieve, perhaps planning a voyage by sea:

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

There are four or five quite odd songs I never thought would get through - Albania was one, #Lithuania another. #Eurovision

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

#Eurovision Only #Serbia so far have acknowledged that they (and indeed we) are at the Hellmouth:

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Sorry to hear that, Helen. Here’s a small sending of strength however that’s supposed to get there:

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

You’ve reminded me of this snap I took kind of for #Easter of the biggest dug in the wee-est snug. (Yes, the dog _is_ wearing an #EasterBunny outfit. Because it is a top hound.) #Dundee #HoundsOfDundee #StarAndGarter

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

Talking of which, I saw this fine example of the chair/steps at #Arbikie Distillery the other day.

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

@tamaryoseloff.bsky.social’s sonnet to #AnaMendieta ends on such a strong last line. Here’s the build to that, plus an image from @tate.bsky.social: …Blood sister, you bloom in flame, sprout feathers and fly, incite a riot of blossom. Here you never die… #NewBootsAndPantisocracies #ArtSonnetChain

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

…and her thinking about duration and durability: should art ‘last’? Is ‘probably’ an acceptable answer? (‘Untitled or Not Yet’, (1966) photographed in #EvaHesse’s Bowery apartment/studio in 1969 by Hermann Landshoff.) #ArtSonnetChain #KaddyBenyon

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

As ever, Thomas Bewick was ahead of us all on this one:

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

File this in the triquetra between Furniture, Futility, and Futurism:

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Basically, if you’ve got that yen to express, to make new patterns in language, and you’d quite like to explore where these sorts of impulses come from, then this is the course for you - just in time to go on your Xmas list… @faberacademy.bsky.social #WritingPoems (2/2)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

By a remarkable coincidence, I took a pic of a similar specimen on a nudibranch line in Bristol.

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The thought drifted back & forth between ghost, furniture, and catalogue that it would be good to mark #WilliamBlake’s birthday somehow in the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue… Imagine our delight when we stumbled upon this verse paragraph from ‘Jerusalem’ only barking our shins slightly!

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

On Valentine’s Day #LindaFrance began our #EcoSonnetChain for which 14 poets each wrote a sonnet linked by last & 1st lines. She said, ‘Our chain aims to embody the Amazonian ethic of mutirão – collective action based on the understanding everything is connected to everything else.’ (1/3)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

#MidnightWaterbearUpdates I suppose in a sense it’s always night practically everywhere in space:

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Here is the ghost of that very letter ‘s’ looking for the #BrendanCleary pamphlet referred to in yesterday’s post. #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I particularly like the swivel in perspective halfway through #MatthewCaley’s poem for the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue, where the poem begins to view something alarming in the distance that turns out not to be so far away after all. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #BlueprintPoetryPress

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

#NewBootsAndPantisocracies #ExecutiveDisobediences There’s an ironic call-and-response in @anneberkeley.bsky.social’s poem in which it seems one half of the page can’t hear what the other half is saying:

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Here’s Emma Must’s photo of her fragile subject and a link to her website: www.emmamust.com #EcoSonnetChain #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (2/3)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Just blaan in. Turns oot there are _fower_ seasons. Aa the Pessoas telt us till they were blue in the fisses… Plus a quartet o X-Men (and Shostakovich) micht hae mentioned it. Translations o a hotch o heteronyms frae @brambrella.bsky.social and @carcanet.bsky.social, and affy fine they are tae.

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Yes, I was given that edition by someone who didn’t realise I already had the Virago, and thought exactly the same thing. (All the Virago Carringtons feature her work, and very splendid they look as a result!) #LeonoraCarrington

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Loved this article about the elusive #GhostOrchid so much, I began a collage which, in the slant-wise fashion of such things, then hardly referred to it. Clearly a plant destined for the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue garden centre, there to remain ‘out of stock’. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Here’s a link to the #NewBootsAndPantisocracies website: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com And here’s a lovely pic of the pamphlet, with a cover by @sophieherx.bsky.social (2/2)

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