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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My 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
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This 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...
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Nº83 A tale of two Swans
Or Lord Snooty and his Pals
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This week: Creating consumer rivalry in poetry, necromancy and the utility company, and understanding patriarchal pocket privilege… jannoble.substack.com/p/n82-how-sw...
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N°82 How Swan made it San Francisco…
Or the fluff and the gold dust.
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This 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...
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Nº81 The Shakespeare Oak
Or reclaiming poetry for the people
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What 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-...
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N°74 Books are where poems go to die
Or publish and be damned…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This 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...
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Nº73 How Barbara Hepworth helped me recover from the World Cup
Or the fading blues
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Surviving 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...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 27
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This 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...
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N°72 A letter to Maradona
Or the poetry of the toilet wall
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This 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...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 26
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere, including Substack.
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This 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...
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Nº71 Is it suitable for children?
Or bidding on a pair of antique duelling pistols
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We 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...
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N°69 Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie
Or how the hydration break has ruined epic poetry…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
You can find my alternative World Cup commentary here...
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This 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...
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N°68 A game for poets
Or staying up late to watch the Democratic Republic of the Congo vs. Uzbekistan
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This 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...
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Nº66 Finding Fanny
Or the girl next door
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This 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...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 18
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This 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...
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Everything changes. Except the avant garde... open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...
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Nº60 What nourishes me destroys me
Or public displays at private views
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
More communing with poet ghosts... and why live ones still insist on using 'Poetry Voice' at readings... open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...
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Nº59 Dead networking (with Keats and Blake)
Or putting on the poetry voice…
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Poets 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...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 15
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“I am just going outside and may be some time.”
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Nº58 I’m just going out for a walk…
Or can you hold the line, caller?
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Not quite an announcement... just waving from here...
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Nº57 The secrets of Swan
Or the wealth or worth of feathers...
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Soft signals sent from a far island… the sound of a white wing beating…
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A First Glimpse - My Name Is Swan
Ink & Ribbon's Latest Poetry Book
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Another fine selection of essays, prime cuts and choice morsels…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I may write an essay a week but Dave reads dozens of them… and then picks a bunch… always a thrill to make this list…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Such 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...
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
At 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.
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
On 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...
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
An honour to be on this list… do come and find me on Substack and follow the series I’m writing about Keats…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Launching ‘A Masque for Keats’ at Keats-Shelley house in Rome on 28th February, a new verse-drama at the intersection of theatre and poetry…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The 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.”
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Plaster cast of life-mask of John Keats by Benjamin Robert Haydon.
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Going live at five to talk all things Keats… open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE SOON: John Keats: Vulgar Cockney
Starting Jan 11 at 12:00 PM EST
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
My fourth essay on John Keats concerns letters, criticism and why shutting the fuck up is sometimes the only policy… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...
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Dear John...
A fourth, short essay charting the last days of John Keats...
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Good artists steal, bad artists imitate... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dylan Thomas 'plagiarised other poets' repeatedly as schoolboy
He became a literary legend but as a schoolboy the young Dylan Thomas has been found to have copied poems.
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Here’s my third piece on the ‘vulgar cockney’ Keats. The first of the year and 45th overall… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...
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Nº45 John Keats: Vulgar Cockney
Or the story of a fall...
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Maresca left by ‘mutual consent’… but we pushed him over the edge on this podcast…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Starting out as I mean to go on… #blankpage
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
You might be tired of me prattling on about poetry… so here’s another subject I can speak about with even less authority…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The 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...
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Nº44 A new year with John Keats
The second of ten essays charting the last days of the poet...
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Fuck me did the King just quote T.S. Eliot? Nearly spat my spouts out… #tseliot #toilets #kingsspeach
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Closing 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...
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Nº43 Christmas with John Keats
The first of ten essays charting the last days of the poet...
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Ten, short lyric-essays charting the last days of John Keats in Rome… #onthisday #keats
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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...
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
On 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…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Sharing this consideration of Lennon at 85 on the anniversary of his death…
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Nº33 Half of what I say is meaningless
Or a consideration of John Lennon at 85...
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
In 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...
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N°41 A portrait of my mother doing the recycling during the apocalypse
Or the fine art of making something out of nothing…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Be healthy, stay sick…
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Nº40 Poetry is a neurosis. Get well soon.
Or what comes with the free breakfast…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Two figures, in a landscape. You and I, holding hands on a cold November day, watching the world go the other way…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Do a commercial and you’re off the artistic roll call. Forever. I was happy to take that risk…
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Nº37 How I never became the voice of a Parisian perfume brand
Or how I found out that I had a price…
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Jan Noble @jannoble.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Searching for a quick way out? Then this may not be for you… Sometimes we gotta go in deeper, we gotta push on through…
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Nº36 Click to immediately exit this site
Or the story of a fall
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