#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes from Matthew Craig-Greene, and was a bit of a b*stard to write, apparently.

#OneDrop Eleven is on the mic, featuring #reggae MC U-Roy and the poetry of Hannah Lowe... onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-e...

An #Otwituary for #JamesWatson, co-discoverer of the #DoubleHelix Science is a poem without rules, a solution to a twisted conundrum. Inside this poem are the molecules which make up every other poem, written, forgotten and yet to come.

An #Otwituary for actor #PaulineCollins Take this role as a gift in two acts, your audience willing you to risk what they never could. Leave them with those lines ringing: why do we get all this life if we don’t use it?

Transmission 37 from #ProjectAbeona is beamed in via Freya Sacksen in a decaying orbit with only plants for company...

An #Otwituary for actor #DianeLadd I saw you rouged in a dead man’s gore. I saw you work the diner. I saw the silence in your eyes fueling that barbed kindness, and though you don’t live there anymore, still I can never rinse away that wildness.

#OneDrop Ten is here. The 10th in Stephen Watt and Andy Jackson's series of poetic and musical celebrations of #reggae. This week's poem is a history lesson from Nick Toczek. Also, some serious Dub from Augustus Pablo and The Aggrovators/King Tubby. onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-ten

Double Dactyl of the Week is a masterpiece of design from the sarky pen of Sian Lang We've been publishing these for nearly three years - take a look at our archive here! doubledactyls.wordpress.com/double-dacty...

Bitesize Book Club Dundee - starts on November 12th, but you still have until Friday 7th to reserve a place! A Book Club with no homework - just the pleasure of a stress-free weekly read of something stimulating and rewarding. Details in the link below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bitesize-b...

An #Otwituary for actor #TchekyKaryo I am the prince of melancholy, my face an unchanging moon, my voice like low tide. There is drama in my stillness. You think you know what I’m thinking? You will know when I tell you.

An #Otwituary for film-maker #PeterWatkins The content of this Otwituary has been judged to be too horrifying for social media; no firestorms burning through Home Counties, no fallout, no looters shot on the street, only this nightmare, filmed as truth.

An #Otwituary for #FawltyTowers actor #PrunellaScales I hear a laugh from another room, the sound of Medusa cross-bred with a hyena. To see her up close is to step closer to death; death by stare, by word, by comic gelding.

Still time to get your tickets for this event at Glasgow's @AyeWrite festival on Friday 7th November - Bill Herbert and myself with some fantastic poetry! Just £6.72 for an evening's entertainment... www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/word...

#OneDrop Nine is out now, and features the overlap between #Reggae and Rabbie - Burns, that is! A great poem from Lorna Goodison celebrating the two cultures clashing. onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-n...

An #Otwituary for #Crossroads actor #TonyAdams I saw Mephistopheles checking out of the semi-derelict motel just off the Kings Oak bypass; moustache, and sta-prest suit, already on his third flirtation of the day, recording each soul in a double-entry ledger.

Transmission 36 in the #ProjectAbeona sequence of poems from a speculative future comes from David Lee Summers and is available now from : projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...

#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes from Penny Campbell, and is out of this world…

An #Otwituary for actor #SamanthaEggar Beauty begets terror, terror begets horror; before you can blink, you see the screen closing in like the walls of a cell, noticing that each role is darker than the last.

An #Otwituary for #SoftCell musician #DaveBall Life is a non-stop cabaret, and this is the sound of the house band, pitched somewhere between bliss and blitz, songs to dance to, songs of despair, battle-scars of all the good times.

The things I do for the @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social …have been sent to Tobermory to teach some senior pupils essay writing skills all day today. What a chore.

One Drop Eight focuses on the history and influence of reggae fashion, with the main feature being a poem from Tanya Shirley... onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-e...

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from Alice Meynell and quite rightly has a few things to say about women in the church. On trend - oh yes!

An #Otwituary for songwriter #BobbyHart Airwaves drip with saccharine in a poisonous world, but there’s a song that’s getting the funniest looks from everyone it meets. A man smiles, takes the last train, forever blowing bubblegum.

An #Otwituary for actor #TonyCaunter Would you buy a used plotline from this man, who looks like a bear but walks like a stray dog, cuckolded in the name of drama, looking for love and a decent pint in a postcode that doesn’t exist.

One Drop Seven features the mighty Steel Pulse, celebrating their 50th anniversary as a band - their message as vital now as it was back in the days of 'Handsworth Revolution'. Main feature is a poem from Peter Raynard... onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-s...

An #Otwituary for actor #DianeKeaton In the movies, there is always more than mere love and death; what about those dizzy ingénues, women caught between socialite and socialist, the lost and the sweetly damaged, playing for laughs in the diners and bedrooms of our hearts?

An #Otwituary for #MoodyBlues bassist #JohnLodge Isn’t life strange? I have lived mine through music, each era a disguise, each movement like a new religion. Not for me the future in the past; I would have given anything to be the singer in a rock’n’roll band.

Transmission 35 from #ProjectAbeona has arrived - from Eugen Bacon via the struggling fields and meadows of Mars projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...

If you’re near Stow in the Scottish Borders on Saturday then why not come along and see poets make a complete Trossachs of taking penalties. All in support of the magnificent Nil By Mouth organisation, challenging sectarianism in football. www.nilbymouth.org/post/poets-p...

Part 6 of #OneDrop, our poetic celebration of #reggae has...dropped! This week we look at all things #Wailers, with a great poem from Geoffrey Philp and some great tunes... onedroppoetry.substack.com

An #Otwituary for evergreen actor #JohnWoodvine Whenever I change channels there is the residue of a face in the blink before and after static, a man of a thousand faces, all of them the same, all carved from cold stone.

An #Otwituary for novelist #JillyCooper I write this from my lover’s unmade bed, far from her paddocks and gymkhanas. She dresses me in hunting pinks, asks me to spank her with her daddy’s crop before handing me a novel, sighing, saying Why can’t you be more like him?

A slightly belated Otwituary for poet Brian Patten. (I should say I’m wary of Otwituarising fellow poets - I feel that should fall to writers with a better insight into the late poet’s work. Thanks to Kevin McCann for the encouragement to do this one.)

An #Otwituary for actor #PatriciaRoutledge Here is the mirror of a furtive England; telephone voices and antimacassars, foundation garments and Rotary Clubs, the arch drama of sweet domesticity, artificial and yet authentic all at once.

An #Otwituary for anthropologist and conservationist #JaneGoodall I ask, one primate to another, where I came from, imagining my simian family on their lonely hillside, of their devoted steward offering gifts of love and curiosity, holding out a hand like a mother.

#OneDrop is a celebration of reggae through poetry accompanied by image and sound. #5 in the sequence is a celebration of Trojan Records, led by Mark Fiddes and his brilliant poem 'This Extraordinary General Meeting is brought to you by Trojan Records'. onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-f...

An #Otwituary for politician #MenziesCampbell Don't you long for the old politics;? Where the middle way is still a way, where to have convictions does not mean that you have been convicted, where the race is only with oneself and the mediocre need not apply.

The thirty-fourth Transmission from the future via #ProjectAbeona has been plucked from the spirit world by Suzannah Evans. open.substack.com/pub/projecta...

Hello Dundee/Angus/Fife people - you may like to know that the effervescent Christy Aliu is running a new creative writing workshop later in year: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/so-you-thi...

An #Otwituary for bass player #DannyThompson At the root of everything is bass; a fluid heartbeat picked out on four fat strings. Let them talk about technique; style is the only style, trusting your ears to tell your fingers where to go, what to say.

#OneDrop Four features the #reggae dancefloor experience with a sweat-streaked poem from Stephen Watt and a few bits and pieces related to Wayne Smith's revolutionary 1985 dancefloor smash 'Under Mi Sleng Teng'... onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-f...

A Book Club with no homework? In Dundee? In November-December? Why yes! Here are the details of Bitesize Book Club. We read something new each week for pleasure - no prior experience required, just a love of the written word... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bitesize-b...

An #Otwituary for cricket umpire Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird #dickiebird The light meters are coming out, but something more than light is fading. The bails come off, the nightwatchman shakes your hand, certain in the knowledge that there is a corner of a foreign field that is forever Barnsley.

An #Otwituary for journalist and presenter (and Man City fan) #JohnStapleton We cannot live our lives on the small screen; we must find our time, our place, unknown to all except the journalist who realises that there are no bigger stories than our own.

An #Otwituary for #Crickets musician #SonnyCurtis What did they play on the radio, on the day after the music died? They played songs you don’t hear anymore; stories of strange lives made straight, written for no-one. You wrote the songs; the songs won.

#DoubleDactyl of the Week sees Jim Lindop conducting himself in an appropriate manner…

In 24 hours we'll be on our way on the Madoch Centre's Race Around Scotland...stay tuned!

Project Abeona has been on a deceleration path over the summer but has now engaged the boosters for the next leg of the journey. Mission Specialist Simon Barraclough has sent this update: projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/project-ab...

One Drop Poetry celebrates reggae - songs, styles, artists, culture. Week 3 features the UK's Two-Tone label of the late 70s-early 80s. Poem from Jeff Dawson, a BBC documentary, a guide to essential Two-Tone cuts, and an elegy for the late Terry Hall. onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-t...