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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Future Karaoke is back on Friday 9th October as part of the Cambridge #Poetry Festival fringe! Join us for a quickfire evening of new work on the theme of 'Superwomen'. 6.30pm, LAB002. Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.com/e/future-kar...

Future Karaoke #17: Superwomen. Friday 9th October, 6.30-8.30pm at ARU, LAB 002. Free entry.

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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Cambridge #Poetry Festival is back after a four-decade hiatus. And CWC are right in the thick of it! Check out all the events so far here: www.cambridgepoetryfestival.org

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Cambridge Poetry Festival - October 10th & 11th 2026 A community-focused celebration of poetry in the beautiful city of Cambridge

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was part of a fan mailing list for a British folk singer in September 2001. It was dominated by liberal Americans. After 9/11 my inbox was chock full of rants about carpet-bombing the entire Middle East for weeks.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Poetry does not belong to a single medium. Poems are printed in books, magazines and newspapers, and shared online as digital text. But they’re also read aloud, performed live to audiences, recorded and shared as audio and video files ..." substack.com/home/post/p-...

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RESOURCE / “Are stage poems and page poems different things?”

A surprisingly thorny subject.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Don’t haul me up before a judge, boys; he’ll only try to marry me." Here's a puzzle poem from one of our Hipflasks books.

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POEM / Prisoner's Dilemma, starring Zelda Fitzgerald and Bathsheba Everdene

from Look Again: A Book of Hidden Messages

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Over on Substack: review of Eleanor Holmes' (@eleanorholmes.bsky.social) hybrid #poetry /fiction/art pamphlet #Moth, handmade by Sara Lefsyk for Ethel Zine and Micro Press. Plus some extra bug poems! substack.com/home/post/p-...

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REVIEW: #Moth by Eleanor Holmes

PLUS more bug poems and links to my latest book.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’d reiterate that the key incident that drove the Cancel Culture panic - a wholly elite project, imposed from the top down - was the sight of Harvey Weinstein being dragged sobbing from court to jail, unprotected by his wealth, and the internet-based movement for justice that went with it.

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Here is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong? | Nesrine Malik

A movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Sidekick Books @sidekickbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A quick look back on the year's live outings, including our appearance at Wilderness Festival, via Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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DIARY: Sidekick on Tour '26

Come buy our fruits, come buy.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Very excited to receive copies of 'Instar Hotel', winner of the @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Chapbook Prize (as it declares on the cover) and my first book of #poetry since 2021. UK residents can pre-order it exclusively from the London Review Bookshop: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/instar...

Cover to Instar Hotel, showing the interior of a well-used hotel (possibly from the 70s, judging by the wallpaper?) The cover artist is Elisa Root.

The dedication reads 'for Harriet, Clare and Orla'. Harriet is my partner and colleague; Clare and Orla are our cats, a void and a tortie.

The back cover contains an extract from 'How to Imagine These Arthropod-People': "That's up to you. Not entirely, of course -- sometimes you'll happen on a reference to an antenna, or to hands, perhaps even to a spine, and these specificities will limit the range of your imagination. After all, an arthropod is an invertebrate; how can it have a backbone? Well, suppose they are people dreaming, imperfectly, that they are arthropods? Or arthropods imperfectly dreaming they are people?"

An extract from 'Room 43: The Garden Tiger Caterpillar': "With all his stubbly, prickly soul he's waiting, / waiting to be turned, / waiting for that misty hostess / who will stick her little pins in his sorenesses, / natter him to jam. // I know you, Woollybear. Forget these fools. // For her, he'll become a venemous duke, drunk on misconstrued destiny, revenging himself on the town / with cacophonous hum. // Smile like a slit plum."

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The need for urgent media reform and a continuation of the Leveson Inquiry remains as stark today as it was following Hillsborough disaster, phone-hacking scandal and other failures in journalistic culture.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Accidentally stumbled on Copenhagen Pride the other night -- end of a 'Back to the 90s' set. Sure enough, it was all songs I remember from the school coach.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thanks to Poetry Wales for including me in their special teaching issue! I have a brisk article about using card games in poetry classes, plus an ekphrastic garden poem which adds a dash of danger to the original painting.

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SoMrHarris @somrharris.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Rod Liddle has died. Odious columnist for The Times & Spectator who hated on minorities including the disable, immigrants, and trans people. Here are Rosie Duffield, Kathleen Stock & Julie Bindel mourning his death, coupled with screenshots from two articles Rod wrote defending paedophilia.

Screengrabd of Rosie Duffield's twitter mourning Rod Liddle, and retweets of Kathleen Stock and Julie Bindel doing the same.

Spectator article written by Rod Liddle where he says he couldn't be a teacher as he couldn't imagine not shagging kids.

Screenshot from a Guardian article by Rod Liddle defending people watching child SA porn.

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Dr Harriet Fletcher @harrietfletcher.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I wrote a guest blog for Open Graves, Open Minds about my book #Gothic #Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from #LordByron to #LadyGaga - a study of the relationship between the modern phenomenon of celebrity and the Gothic mode. You can read it here 👇 www.opengravesopenminds.com/books-and-ar...

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Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga

Our guest blog is by Dr Harriet Fletcher, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Anglia Ruskin University. Her new book, Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga (…

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"Art is not an end in itself, but a practical measure. Making and studying it is research and communion — it spurs us towards an ever more complete, more finely calibrated view of how things really are." Yes, it's a new Substack post! shotscarecrow.substack.com/p/essay-what...

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ESSAY: What is a bad poem exactly? (Part 2)

Further thoughts on taste and the role of criticism in forming it.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 13/07/2026

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, there can be no mainstreaming of far-right politics without the active complicity of the mainstream elite The rise of the far right is therefore not irresistible, inexplicable or people-driven but carefully orchestrated in a top down manner

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Short Substack post on burglary and trespass games I've been making. open.substack.com/pub/shotscar...

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DIARY / Games of Intrusion

"Not quite a hand on the door, or a key’s nicked teeth ..."

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Want to try out a new ludokinetic poem? You play as a thief. Takes about four minutes to read/play through all three scenes. shotscarecrow.itch.io/scenes-from-...

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Scenes from a Flit by Jon Stone

A three-part ludokinetic poem

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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 11/07/2026

I could kiss, say, (@shotscarecrow.bsky.social) "It is a ‘ludokinetic poem’; that is, a poem that imbues the reader with responsibility for (and implicates them in) one or more outcomes via interactivity." Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/07/11/i...

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Some mini-posters with extracts from 'The Eyed #Ladybird', a poem from 'Instar Hotel', which is out with @sarabandebooks.bsky.social next month. You can also hear a full audio recording of the poem here: shotscarecrow.substack.com/p/poem-the-e... #poetry

a surly split dress of watermelon flesh and watermelon seed

a vicious crown, a crown of eyes, a crown of sniggering eyes

Photo of several rows of spare dolls' eyes. Taken at the Dolls' Hospital, Lisbon.

The Eyed Ladybird. From Instagram Hotel, winner of the Sarabande Chapbook Prize. Available 18th August.

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Lisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This has been utterly destructive for post-92 HEIs, who have seen their cohorts poached, wrecking the opportunities for the talent of both staff + students to thrive at local institutions. The original language talked about caps - something constraining HE. It forgot it was really DISTRIBUTION 3/

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm at British #DiGRA in Cardiff today with some prototype poetry card games.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

there is no morally or logistically viable path to 'depolarizing' this nation that does not involve the defeat and normative marginalization of the radicalized right

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Sidekick Books @sidekickbooks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

OUT NOW: Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service! Feat. @abrackenbury.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social @mconley.bsky.social Grace Ellis, Jac Harmon, Safa Maryam, Claire Orchard, Jess Richards @robertsheppard.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social 📚💙 #BookSky Book 🔗 in bio!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Gaza had 12 universities at the start of the genocide. Now it has none, because its civilian populace has been subjected to World War II-level crimes, with the direct assistance of the governments of the white people world. All of whom already knew Israel’s government was fascist and genocidal, BTW.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Global warming has clearly been a major factor in the radicalisation of the Western right-wing. A truth so inconvenient for their interests and ideology that they preferred to cut ties with empirical reality itself. This then bred habits of belligerence and dishonesty that fed into other issue areas

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Sidekick Books @sidekickbooks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The latest Sidekick title is Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae, featuring Tim Dooley, Alec Finlay, Yvonne Reddick and others. If you've not started collecting the Ten Poets series yet, now's the best time to start! sidekickbooks.com/booklab/book...

Orla with the pink and purple cover of Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae. #fae #poetry

The title page to Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae.

The marigold yellow back cover of Ten Poets in the Land of the Fae. It's #9 in the Ten Poets series!

The full set of nine Ten Poets books so far: Land of the Fae, Secret Service, In Search of Plunder, Dark Side of the Moon, Ten Historical Figures, Favourite Ghost Story, Vampire's Castle, Grisly Crimes, Giant Strange Beasts.

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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Are you a fan of (a) animals and (b) collective nouns? Future Karaoke: The Compaẏnẏs of Beestẏs -- happening on Friday at a new venue, as part of the Weirding Sustainability Festival! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-compay...

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Speaking as someone who has a new tech gripe almost every day, I don't think it's that technology has failed to make things easier, but rather that we're gradually losing the eternal arms race against the forces of chaos, manifested in the wealthy elite and their sociopathy.

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Plasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Misdiagnosis. No one thinks they're incapable of doing these things -- there are just too many of them to do at once. We've been robbed of free time and AI is taking advantage of that.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

How is this not a picture from an abandoned wax museum.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Deploying the new sign for the first time at the City of Lit Publishing Fair.

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Sidekick Books @sidekickbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This Sunday (24th May) we'll be smuggling AT LEAST ten spies into the Norwich City of Literature Publishing Fair! Come and say hello in the gorgeous medieval Dragon Hall, then browse the #indiepublishing goodness from tons of presses and check out some of the lightning talks! #BookSky

A parent and two children browse a busy book fair in a medieval hall.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A non-problem intentionally turned into a national travesty by the world’s most malignant media outlets, who recognised the self-radicalisation of their nastiest colleagues was an excellent opportunity to push back hard against ideas like equality and inclusion, and to beat down people they despise.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm glad we're asking this question and I hope the answer we eventually arrive at is that letting a few august institutions with huge pots of money have so much influence on our literary tastes was always a really, really, really bad idea.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Have to say, it looks a lot like there’s a common theme and recurring characters through all the poisonous hatred, toxicity and infighting in the Labour Party this last ten years, and it isn’t the presence of - say - Richard Burgon

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Hilary Watson poet @poetryhilary.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

In today's Saturday Roundup of #BendingTheArcMagazine Edition 3 we have wonderful poetry artwork by @shotscarecrow.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who contributed to this Edition, and to those who submitted to our open call 💚 . bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/final-satu... #Thrutopia #Moths

Moth visual poem by Jon Stone. It says 'Brimstone Moth: Opisthograptis luteolata'. The rest of the writing is in the shape of a moth and says 'Dear S., I have kept just one dull gem of your scent. Sealed it in a ring. Where I keep that ring I could not say.'

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Some exciting news. I won last year's Sarabande Chapbook Prize, which means 'Instar Hotel' comes out in August and is available for pre-order. It's a short #poetry book in which each poem takes place in the same hotel at the same time on a Friday evening. www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

Cover to Instar Hotel, a short poetry book. The cover shows the interior of a slightly sinister hotel, with garish wallpaper that suggests insect eyes/faces.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

At Islington Library today selling mystery micro books plus all our mainline anthology series with multi-buy discounts.

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Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Idea: rename the white Russian mocha 'Leon Chocski'.

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