All of you about to enjoy The Noise: I salute you.

The AA side of our last 12”, but live.

Did you still need a reason to read Whatever You Do, Just Don't?! Well, here are five excellent ones, provided very generously and with great insight by Andy Hopkins @nightjrrs.bsky.social DM me to grab your signed copy...! andyhopkinspoet.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/m...

“I’m wearing someone else’s clooo-oooothes…”

Sat in the floor, listening to The Fall. Listening to The Fall. Reading about The Fall. Thinking about The Fall.

Big broodfish winter at sea: enter the river each spring to seek their redds—Gironde, Garonne, Dordogne. Everything’s against them: bycatch, gravel works, Golfech’s hydroelectric plant and pressurised water-cooled reactors. 'Eely' Steve Ely Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Very honoured that you would say that.

This is magical. Thank you

Canon.

I love Blurt.

Some Nightjrrs records ready to fly. Thanks if you bought one.

Feels like a morning to lie on the floor and listen to Drew Mulholland’s soundtrack to “A Haunting Strip of Marshland”.

Woke up this morning and wanted to listen to our record. So did.

“God save strawberry jam and all the different varieties…”

I have 15 copies of this beautiful folk album left. Some indie shops may still have them, but when I’m sold out that’ll be it. Ampwall: ampwall.com/a/unspunhero... Bandcamp: unspunheroes.bandcamp.com/album/chance...

The Frosted Orange. Limited edition holographic moth.

Today is a day when the pittas puff up right.

24 species of moth last night.

Spreading a little serenity. Avro Part.

Blurt! 45 on one side. 33 on the other.

“Don’t give me that…”

Hello? Is that Friday night? I’d like to order some noise, please. Lots of it, please.

Where the bricks were.

Less moth species on the wing each night. A sense that much moth business has been done, and all the summer fliers have moved to the next stage.

First sunlight cast along the canal represents eight Canada geese as a golden flotilla. Under their gold they worry and watch as usual. What kills me in love is when the world falls into the song and laughs itself out again. 'Truth, Justice...', Peter Riley longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Thinking quite a lot about evil. Here’s part of a reading of a piece with that name.

This Saturday has been brought to me by Balloon.

Interesting - and sadly still pertinent- lyrics from 1990 They Might Be Giants.

Really enjoying this.

@lukehaines.bsky.social I would like to say thank you for writing the piece in RC. I bought this based on your words about it: thank you.

Felt like a William Basinski sort of afternoon.

“It’s easy to believe in you…”

So hoist the mainsail and stutter the chronicle of days and swell those organs with radical pride and declare we’re going back to the home no longer there. From 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls', Peter Riley longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

A stellar line-up that would grace any of the top poetry festivals in the country. Except this time it's all free. We'd be delighted if you could join us in London on 22nd Oct...!

Shake. Rattle. Roll.

25 moth species last night. Well into 2nd generations for some. Definitely an ‘end of the festival’ feeling to the count this morning.

Live Nightjrrs from 2022, with some moths and seed heads from the garden.

They’ve been there all day.

Corncockle seeds.

36 species of moth last night. It really was ‘Night of the Setaceous Hebrew Characters’ with 53 in the trap - more than ever before.

Field magic.

Very much enjoying this.

Was embarrassed of this record for quite a while. But that’s just self consciousness and awkwardness. We all need ‘Peace in Our Time’. Simple: ‘Give is peace in our time’.

Annotation in Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets’. Made by my dad, nearly 60 years ago. One of only three annotations in the volume. Just pencil lines. He failed his exams. But those lines meant enough to him to mark them.

Sadly, I am 43 years too late to send off for ‘The Illustrated Poetry of Martin Stephenson’. Otherwise I would.

If you don’t own these books then can I recommend them from the bottom of my small heart and insufficient brain.

There’s a slim chance you follow for the poetry, but if you do here’s something I wrote about a brilliant poetry book (or maybe… ‘book’). andyhopkinspoet.wordpress.com/2021/07/02/d...

Weight of Days, 2025. Sifting two decades of material, rearranging, finding new connections... Join us at the Poetry School (@poetryschool.bsky.social) this autumn to examine the use of archives in the writing of poetry. poetryschool.com/courses/tran...

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