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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Muninn as 'memory' is an almost universally accepted translation. Even so... thinking on what 'memory' is, the scale can vary from 1s & 0s on a floppy disc to a moment of such significance that it guides a life ever after, & that last, amongst soooo many moments remembered & forgot. #HeathenSky 1/2

Photo of wind-chimes in silhouette against white & lilac curtains. The lower-most part of the chimes is shaped as a raven.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My shortest ever poem, which is also my shortest ever magical spell, poetry workshop, & grimoire. Step in. #PoetrySky

Screenshot from an Instagram account, @mathjonespoetry. A metallic background with text superimposed, in an early computer font which suggests transition. Text reads: meaning changes

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

This the cover for the new anthology, The Honest Forger...

Photo of the book cover, for The Honest Forger, new poems & photographs for Iolo Morganwg, from www.cultureanddemocracypress.co.uk. Illustrated with a stained glass design, of a sun, or a flower, radiating warm colours.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This is part of 1 of 3 poems of mine included in the new edition of Mugwort Mag, edited by Kate Garrett. It's called Pooka. The other two are called Seer, & Cat as Psychopomp. You can read them & the works of other strange & spectral writers here: Ta x mugwortmag.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/s...?

Screenshot of part of a poem, Pooka by Math Jones, featured in Mugwort Magazine. Text reads:
The pooka slipped in at the funeral feast.
No one saw.
No one was sat at the seat it'd take, the seat left empty for the subject of the Wake,
and no one said a word of greeting or guard,
but it was felt by all, I'm told, sitting blithely once, now cold.
And those who were big pushed rank, grew bigger still to ward their share...

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

From a recent scratch at the Courtyard, Hereford. Bit of a culture clash - #poetry & #theatre. One relies on words; the other, the visuals, & the immediacy. The 'poetry show' is being seen more often. That's probably where this fits best, if I can find the opportunities. Photo: Jack Hayes

Photo of me on a bare theatre stage, stood in light, with the audience barely seen in the darkness. I've an arm raised dramatically, pointing towards them.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Not brand new, but I hope acceptable still... #LockedDoors, a #PoemsAbout prompt from @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Photo of an old wooden door in an exterior stone wall. Text superimposed reads: His secret fear: 'If you open me, I shan't exist'. Locked Door. Math Jones.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

*Altar & Sacred Objects Challenge* Pictures, as you fancy, of devotional objects special to you. No need to explain. #HeathenSky #PaganSky #AltarChallenge

Photo of a miniscule figure in bronze: they are seated in an ornate throne, carved with birds, whilst wearing a decorated dress. The style is Old Norse.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

#HeathenSky This gives the links to 1) a spoken word album, free to stream, of Heathen verse on bandcamp. 2) a linktr.ee with connections to Heathen & Pagan verses on YouTube. It's good listening. Let me know what you think. Ta. [Shield art by Þorskegga Þorn]

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

*Altar & Sacred Objects Challenge* Pictures, as you fancy, of devotional objects special to you. No need to explain. #HeathenSky #PaganSky #AltarChallenge

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

* Folklore Pagan Heathen Bookshare * As & when you fancy, show us a book from your shelves. No comment necessary. #Folklore #PaganSky #HeathenSky #Books #FolkWitchBookChallenge

Photo of a book: Frith Heart, A Little Book of Inclusive Heathen Devotional Practice, by Suzanne Martin. Illustrated with Thor's Hammer flying like a comet, & its tail is a rainbow.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

*Altar & Sacred Objects Challenge* Pictures, as you fancy, of devotionsl objects, special to you. No need to explain. #HeathenSky #PaganSky #AltarChallenge

Photo of a reproduction bracteate, a rectangular bronze, showing a figure in tunic & trews & a figure in long, pleated dress, with long hair, embracing & kissing. Of Scandinavian origin, Viking Age or earlier.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I made up this card to share links to 'eaglespit' & other things scop-like. eaglespit is a spoken-word album of verse inspired by Old English & Old Norse myth & poetic tradition, including alliterative verse. Featuring shield-art by Þorskegga Þorn. #HeathenSky #PoetrySky #AudiobookSky

Photo of a business card for eaglespit by Math Jones. Text reads : Heathen poet & scop. eaglespit can be found here: mathjones.bandcamp.com or via this linktree: linktr.ee/mathjones

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Interrupting usual service for this new arrival - *Folklore Pagan Heathen book challenge* A book per day (as you're able), in no particular order. For inspiration & information. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #books #folklore #WitchSky #FolkWitchBookChallenge #FolkWitch #HeathenSky

Photo of a book; Sabrina, Discovering The Goddess Of The River Severn, by Brett Hollyhead. Illustrated with an original painting of a woman amidst water & flowers.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

*Altar & Sacred Objects Challenge* One picture a day (or as you're able), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the altars and other sacred objects you use in your personal devotions. No explanations. #WitchSky #AltarChallenge #HeathenSky #PaganSky #OccultSky #paganism #altar #runes

Photo of four ritual pieces. To the front, part of an antler, with a bell tied on by pink ribbon. To left, a seated figure of Thor, capped & bearded, holding his hammer on his lap; from an archaeological find. To right, an original design of a figure of Odhinn, standing in cloak & hood, holding a spear. His face is half hidden. Between & behind, a large block of wood, carved through pyrography, to a likeness of Loki: complicated knotwork, a leering face & long, lolling tongue marked with bindrunes.

Detail of the Loki figure; Elder Futhark runes burned into the side of the wood, spelling 'Troubles need...' continues to the other side.

Detail of the Loki figure; continuing from the other side, Elder Futhark runes burned into the side of the wood, spell '...bring treasures.'

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

*Folklore Pagan Heathen book challenge* A book per day (as you're able), in no particular order. For inspiration & information. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #books #folklore #WitchSky #FolkWitchBookChallenge #FolkWitch #HeathenSky

Photo of a book: The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe, by Hilda Ellis Davidson. Illustrated with a bronze figure, a woman kneeling in a grass skirt, arms up as if holding something. Large round eyes, glazed in trance?

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Photo of a ritual hammer against a wooden background. The hammerhead, half-seen, is solid metal. The short handle has a band of brass around it, embossed with the thorn rune. The rest of the haft has been skillfully carved to a bearded face, broad grin, wearing a cap or helmet. Suggestive of Thor, or Thunor.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Photo of a book: Myths & Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian & Celtic Religions, by H.R. Ellis Davidson. Illustrated with an ancient carved stone figure.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Photo of a woman’s face carved from wood. She has long straight hair falling to each side from a crown. A smooth & peaceful face.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

*Folklore Pagan Heathen book challenge* A book per day (as you're able), in no particular order, of some recent reads I enjoyed. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #books #folklore #WitchSky #FolkWitchBookChallenge #FolkWitch #HeathenSky

Photo of a book: Gods & Myths of Northern Europe, by H.R. Ellis Davidson, illustrated with three figures from a Viking tapestry.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Tomorrow, Tuesday, I'm reading live & online. From my book, The Knotsman, to launch the #audiobook The link's to the (free) ticket page. I hope you might join me. Ta The Knotsman's a Cunning-man, loosing binds. His story's told in verse & prose. www.outsavvy.com/event/26770/...

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Photos by Leena Batchelor & Script Haven, @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Deeply affirming for me, to set these words & their music onto the air, into the ear, off the page... The Knotsman will also be released as audiobook, with @arachnepress.bsky.social. News soon. #PoetrySky #AudioBookSky

A montage of photos of myself in animated performance, gestures, looks, pulled faces, in the warm & inviting bookshop, Script Haven, in Worcester, UK.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Up on Bache Camp, a hillfort in Herefordshire.

Landscape photo of ancient hillfort, green & rugged, under gathering dark cloud.

Landscape photo of a passage through ditches & ramparts into an ancient hillfort. Trees & shrubs. Blue sky mixed with clouds.

Landscape photo, a green steep slopes to one side, a wide, flat plain to the other, grassed & empty looking. Deep, roiling grey clouds above.

Landscape photo from a grassed hilltop, a wide view of fields & hills. The image is blurred to right & left, the middle part is clear. Due to a raindrop on the camera lens.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Photo of a framed print of a painting. In a richly coloured & primitive style, a powerful female figure in robes & furs holds a staff & shield. Her long hair is surrounded by a golden glow, & a snake-like circle makes an aurora around her.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Photo of a framed picture, scratch board, where scratches on a black overlay reveal white beneath. Picture shows a robed & hooded figure, long beard, holding a staff and a boardgame: tafl. In front of the frame is a wooden bowl crammed full of pieces: arm-rings and bracelets, woven cords, a hessian pouch.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

* Bsky esoteric book challenge.* A book / day (as you’re able), no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best folklore etc. books in your library. No explanations, just covers! #WitchSky #FolkWitch #HeathenSky #FolkWitchBookChallenge #EsotericBookChallenge

Photo of a very thick hardback book, illustrated with two ravens by Arthur Ransome: The Poetic Edda, A Dual-Language Edition, ed. Edward Pettit. The book just happens to have a plush toy of Kipper the Dog stood next, his paw on the cover.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Photo of a silk-screen print, showing a brawny figure holding a hammer (Thor) in a boat, his foot bursting through. Below, caught on a fishing line, a writhing serpent (Jormungandr). All in a primitive style.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Photo of a book: Hrafnagaldur Óðins (Forspjallsljóð).

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This was a lovely moment from last summer. Pigeons as a domesticated species thrown out & abandoned. This one remembered.

Photo in a garden, with a birdtable in the distance. The photographer's feet & legs can be seen stretching away, crossed, & sat on a small footstool. Perched on the toe of a slipper is a white & brown feathered pigeon, facing the photographer, its head coquettishly to one side.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Photo of a round shield with metal boss, covered with red suede. Pictures are painted on the shield in primitive style in bright colours. They show people in Old Norse style clothing: a woman with long curling hair, a man beside her with shears; a woman displaying a necklace, among four much shorter men; a red-bearded man in a boat, throwing a hammer at a sea serpent; a man in a chariot pulled by a boar.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One minute we're pointy-out, the next we're pointy-in...

Screenshot of an Instagram post by MathJonesPoetry. Three straight lines converge at the centre of the image. They define three flat surfaces at right angles to each other. One moment, they may appear as the corner of a box, projecting out, the top & two sides. The next, they may appear as a ceiling & two walls, a recessed corner, projecting in.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Photo of a book: The Haustlọng of Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, edited by Richard North.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This from an Eostreblot some years ago... Other things we did were cheese rolling, egg catching, & hunt the golden hare. Also, stick dancing, which was improvised movement with a staff, with eyes closed, while the rest of us watched out for you. Good fun, #HeathenSky

Photo of a painted egg, here a male face with red hair & beard, eyes closed as sleeping. It has been set amongst roots of a tree, amidst the greenery there.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

These opening lines retain their truth: "When love has proved, not fleeting, but Susceptible to circumstance..." #PoetrySky

Text of a poem: Silence, by Math Jones, 2012. Text reads: When love has proved, not fleeting, but susceptible to circumstance, I fear,I cannot help but fear, to put the feeling into words, to let you hear. When all my heart is caught within the simple specificity of how your ear folds, the pattern made by moles upon your skin, the flurry of your hair, and yet, such details kept of other loves, though distant now, once so sincere in my desire, brought about such moves, such starts and fits, that sitting here, your memory scored within, the axis altered on my planet's spin, and plummet sheer beneath my dangling feet, my language falters... and wordlessly, I long - how I long - to have you near, that the eloquence in silence might speak it clear.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Photo of a drum, an Irish bodhran, hung on a wall. Painted on the drum skin, a primitive illustration of the world tree, a wyrm in its roots, two deer eating its branches, & an eagle at its top.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Photo of a book: The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown. Illustrated with sea waves crashing against great wedges of rock.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Photo looking up to a high shelf on which sits the figure of a carved wooden eagle. It is perched, wings at rest, looking off into some distant place.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Photo of a book, illustrated with a one-storied Orcadian cottage under a huge blue sky. An Orkney Tapestry, by George Mackay Brown.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Photo of a large wooden bowl, a blessing bowl, coloured deep red inside from the offerings of wine. Just visible within is the scored decoration of an eagle. Runes have been scored around the rim of the bowl. Those that are visible spell 'Arnsted' - place of the eagle.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A pile of rune staves jumbled up. Old English runes, each cut against the grain into a slender finger of wood. Visible are Os, Beorc, Peorth.

A full set of Old English rune-staves arranged neatly. Each rune is carved against the grain into a slender finger of wood (which has been split along the middle to make a flat face).

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Photo of a rune row, the Old English fuþorc, carved into a slender wand of wood which has sadly broken in three. The runes are carved against the grain & are coloured red. Close by is a silver Mjolnir amulet.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Much of what we know of Norse myth comes from a 'poetry manual' writ by Snorri Sturluson: his "Prose Edda". What a heavy chunk of prose it is. I'm recasting that prose as poetry, in alliterative form, 'Gylfaginning in Verse'. It begins so: #HeathenSky #AlliterativeVerse #PoetrySky #PaganSky 1/3

Text of a poem: an excerpt from Gylfaginning in Verse, by Math Jones. Text reads:

1. Gylfi deceived

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Gylfi was glad to give to the woman, (she'd made him laugh), as much of his land as she with four oxen to furrows could plough, in a single turn of the sun and the moon.

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"Come to me, sons!" Crafty Gefjon brings her children, (born in the north, their sire a giant,) sinks her ploughshare deep into Sweden, draws out an island.

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Her ox-lads leave a lake for Gylfi, bays matching headlands, as Bragi says:

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Gefjon’s boys,
Bright with sweat,
The steaming oxen,
Stole the island;
Eight bright eyes
Left inlets four,
Aesir children
Chuffed with their plunder.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Photo of two wooden staves, each about 1 foot long, 1 inch wide. Each is carved with a face at the top. One face is coloured with blue, has one bulging eye, the other closed or missing. Blue beard & hair. A rope is carved around the neck, and a cord has also been tied there in a noose. Below, carved in red, are four runes spelling RUNA. The other face is coloured red, beard & hair, intense brow, red eyes, over a broad & beaming smile. Below, a hammer, with a metal ring in the handle. Below that, a pattern of snakes. In the forehead, a metal shard has been inserted.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A poem for Freyja, in her travelling, in her moments of fatigue. #HeathenSky #PoetrySky

Text of a poem: Fálkafjaðrir, by Math Jones. Text reads:

When the bird settles, whipped as it was by crosswinds and vectors, tired wings, it is as if She has alighted on her own heart.

Falcon-Freya weeps tears from her fierceness - amber and gold - knows their necessity.

Lifts once more to fly, strength of mind revived, knows the world will take her weight, as will the sky.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

*Altar & Sacred Objects Challenge* One picture a day (or as you're able), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the altars and other sacred objects you use in your personal devotions. No explanations. #WitchSky #altarchallenge #HeathenSky #pagansky #occultsky #paganism #altar

Photo of an eggbox holding six decorated eggs. Three are faces, suggesting Freyja, Thor & Tyr. One is of a horn maiden. One shows a pair holding a leak between them. The sixth is decorated to suggest the Venus of Willendorff figure, a replica of which stands nearby.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

*Altar & Sacred Objects Challenge* One picture a day (or as you're able), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the altars and other sacred objects you use in your personal devotions. No explanations. #WitchSky #altarchallenge #HeathenSky #pagansky #occultsky #paganism #altar

Photo a a banner of black felt, illustrated with an image of the Irminsul, column-like, with two curved branches from the top, all drawn in gold.

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