Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My Name Is Swan. A work in three parts. Published today by Ink & Ribbon press. "What has lived across film, theatre and recording now takes definitive shape as a modern poetic epic... moving from river to city to underworld..." inkandribbon.org/mynameisswan 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This week: The death of a princess, the politics of poverty and how a footballer helped inspire a state of national mourning… jannoble.substack.com/p/n83-a-tale...jannoble.substack.comNº83 A tale of two SwansOr Lord Snooty and his Pals 011
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This week: Creating consumer rivalry in poetry, necromancy and the utility company, and understanding patriarchal pocket privilege… jannoble.substack.com/p/n82-how-sw...jannoble.substack.comN°82 How Swan made it San Francisco…Or the fluff and the gold dust. 001
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This week: A walk in the park, a march for a bard and a field guide to delicately doorstepping the dead… jannoble.substack.com/p/n81-the-sh...jannoble.substack.comNº81 The Shakespeare OakOr reclaiming poetry for the people 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What I learned from the back cover of an old LP, why jazz drummers are heavenly messengers and why the minor key is essential to poetry… jannoble.substack.com/p/n74-books-...jannoble.substack.comN°74 Books are where poems go to dieOr publish and be damned… 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This week: muddling on, what to do when the pain won’t go away and how winning ugly is ruining poetry… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comNº73 How Barbara Hepworth helped me recover from the World CupOr the fading blues 000
Reposted by Jan NobleDave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Surviving the summer with poets @shawnalemay.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @sallythomasnc.bsky.social @adamcairnspoet.bsky.social @coastalpoet.bsky.social @mariapopova.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @ren-powell.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/07/poet...vianegativa.usPoetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 27A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere. 174
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This week: The hand of God, short-form verse and the long-form poem and how to get one over on the cool kids. N°72 A letter to Maradona open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comN°72 A letter to MaradonaOr the poetry of the toilet wall 000
Reposted by Jan NobleDave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This week in the poetry blogs with @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @coastalpoet.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...vianegativa.usPoetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 26A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere, including Substack. 196
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This week: the perils of pitching your work to producers, how silence is the best way to kill a poet and entering a prize marrow in a county fair. open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comNº71 Is it suitable for children?Or bidding on a pair of antique duelling pistols 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 24/06/2026We poets are not in the results business, we're in the business of scuffing the turf, of hoofing it up the park, we are in the business of vague and hopeful shots in the dark because there is more to poetry, much, much more to poetry than just winning cups... open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comN°69 Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I DiiieOr how the hydration break has ruined epic poetry… 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 24/06/2026You can find my alternative World Cup commentary here... 010
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 14/06/2026This week: football punditry and poetry, how the beautiful game isn’t beautiful any more and my run in with the Bereitschaftspolizei… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comN°68 A game for poetsOr staying up late to watch the Democratic Republic of the Congo vs. Uzbekistan 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This week: An overheard conversation on a train, a top one hundred list and whatever became of the poet’s girlfriend? open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comNº66 Finding FannyOr the girl next door 000
Reposted by Jan NobleDave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 05/05/2026This week in the poetry blogs with @beckyltuch.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @jntod.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/05/poet...vianegativa.usPoetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 18A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere. 2146
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 26/04/2026This week’s essay recalls a walk lead by Niall McDevitt and retraces one of my own, from Shakespeare to Mary Wollstonecraft - from where theatre was made to where the money is made - to find a very English revolutionary… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble... 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Everything changes. Except the avant garde... open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comNº60 What nourishes me destroys meOr public displays at private views 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 18/04/2026More communing with poet ghosts... and why live ones still insist on using 'Poetry Voice' at readings... open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comNº59 Dead networking (with Keats and Blake)Or putting on the poetry voice… 000
Reposted by Jan NobleDave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Poets on Na/GloPoWriMo and other spring things @suefinch.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social 2/4 www.vianegativa.us/2026/04/poet...vianegativa.usPoetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 15A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond. 274
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 05/04/2026“I am just going outside and may be some time.”open.substack.comNº58 I’m just going out for a walk…Or can you hold the line, caller? 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Not quite an announcement... just waving from here...open.substack.comNº57 The secrets of SwanOr the wealth or worth of feathers... 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Soft signals sent from a far island… the sound of a white wing beating…open.substack.comA First Glimpse - My Name Is SwanInk & Ribbon's Latest Poetry Book 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Another fine selection of essays, prime cuts and choice morsels… 031
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I may write an essay a week but Dave reads dozens of them… and then picks a bunch… always a thrill to make this list… 010
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Such a great resource this... it gets my endorsement not simply because I made the list again but for the wealth and diversity of material Dave curates here each week... 112
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 23/02/2026At about 4pm in the afternoon of 23rd February 1821 John Keats called out to his friend Joseph Severn: “lift me up—I am dying—I shall die easy; don't be frightened—be firm, and thank God it has come” He died at around 11pm. 100
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 23/02/2026On this day in 1821 the poet John Keats died in Rome. #onthisday #otd #keats I’m launching a new work, ‘A Masque for Keats’, at Keats-Shelley House in Rome, 28 Feb, 5pm. More info here: ksh.roma.it/events/masqu... 020
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 23/02/2026An honour to be on this list… do come and find me on Substack and follow the series I’m writing about Keats… 020
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Launching ‘A Masque for Keats’ at Keats-Shelley house in Rome on 28th February, a new verse-drama at the intersection of theatre and poetry… 120
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 08/02/2026The critic John Lockhart began his savage attack on Keats by saying, “Of all the manias of this mad age, the most incurable, as well as the most common, seems to be no other than the Metromanie.” 100
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Plaster cast of life-mask of John Keats by Benjamin Robert Haydon. 100
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Going live at five to talk all things Keats… open.substack.com/live-stream/...open.substack.comLIVE SOON: John Keats: Vulgar CockneyStarting Jan 11 at 12:00 PM EST 010
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 11/01/2026My fourth essay on John Keats concerns letters, criticism and why shutting the fuck up is sometimes the only policy… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comDear John...A fourth, short essay charting the last days of John Keats... 010
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Good artists steal, bad artists imitate... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDylan Thomas 'plagiarised other poets' repeatedly as schoolboyHe became a literary legend but as a schoolboy the young Dylan Thomas has been found to have copied poems. 110
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Here’s my third piece on the ‘vulgar cockney’ Keats. The first of the year and 45th overall… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comNº45 John Keats: Vulgar CockneyOr the story of a fall... 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Maresca left by ‘mutual consent’… but we pushed him over the edge on this podcast… 020
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 30/12/2025You might be tired of me prattling on about poetry… so here’s another subject I can speak about with even less authority… 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 28/12/2025The second of ten pieces I’m writing about the last days of John Keats. This week we find the poet caught between the nut sack of Christmas and arsehole of New Year… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comNº44 A new year with John KeatsThe second of ten essays charting the last days of the poet... 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Fuck me did the King just quote T.S. Eliot? Nearly spat my spouts out… #tseliot #toilets #kingsspeach 110
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Closing out the year and rolling into the next with a series of ten essays charting the last days of the poet Keats in Rome. Consider this my Christmas special (sans sleigh bells, fake snow and santa hats) open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...open.substack.comNº43 Christmas with John KeatsThe first of ten essays charting the last days of the poet... 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Ten, short lyric-essays charting the last days of John Keats in Rome… #onthisday #keatssubstack.comJan Noble (@jannoble)On this day in 1820 the police in Rome began an investigation into the poet John Keats. On 18 December a local magistrate, Stanislao del Drago, first filed a report at the head office and the police o... 000
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 18/12/2025On this day the police in Rome began an investigation into the poet John Keats. On 18 December 1820 a local magistrate, Stanislao del Drago, first filed a report at the head office and the police opened a case, adding Keats’ name to the investigations register… 100
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Sharing this consideration of Lennon at 85 on the anniversary of his death…open.substack.comNº33 Half of what I say is meaninglessOr a consideration of John Lennon at 85... 010
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 07/12/2025In the moments before we’re all vaporised, before we become shadows against walls, before the walls themselves becomes shadows against the scorched earth she will be carefully peeling the paper wrapper from a tin, placing the wrapper in one box, the tin in another...open.substack.comN°41 A portrait of my mother doing the recycling during the apocalypseOr the fine art of making something out of nothing… 010
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Be healthy, stay sick…jannoble.substack.comNº40 Poetry is a neurosis. Get well soon.Or what comes with the free breakfast… 010
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Two figures, in a landscape. You and I, holding hands on a cold November day, watching the world go the other way… 020
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Do a commercial and you’re off the artistic roll call. Forever. I was happy to take that risk…open.substack.comNº37 How I never became the voice of a Parisian perfume brandOr how I found out that I had a price… 010
Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Searching for a quick way out? Then this may not be for you… Sometimes we gotta go in deeper, we gotta push on through…open.substack.comNº36 Click to immediately exit this siteOr the story of a fall 010