Marian Christie
@marianchristie.bsky.social
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Learner, listener, poet.
https://marianchristiepoetry.net/
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My collection of essays on mathematical poetry, From Fibs to Fractals, can now be freely downloaded in pdf form from my website. Enjoy!
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From Fibs to Fractals: exploring mathematical forms in poetry
A few years ago I was contacted out of the blue by Michelle Moloney King, the founder of Beir Bua Press. She had read some of my blog posts on mathematical forms in poetry, and offered to publish t…
https://marianchristiepoetry.net/from-fibs-to-fractals-exploring-mathematical-forms-in-poetry/
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I loved collaborating on these hybrid pieces with my friend Samantha Vazhure and her musically gifted son Quinten. Thank you to
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
and
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
for giving our work such a beautiful home in
@icefloepress.bsky.social
🙏💙
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Palindrome, Houses of Stone, Mbira – Collaborations by Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure, Marian Christie & Quinten Vazhure: Art, Poetry, Photography, Music.
PALINDROME – A Collaboration. Painting: Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure, Ekphrastic Poem: Marian Christie Palindrome – the Process Samantha: This piece grew from a meditation on life’s cyclical na…
https://icefloepress.net/2026/01/07/palindrome-houses-of-stone-mbira-collaborations-by-samantha-rumbidzai-vazhure-marian-christie-quinten-vazhure-art-poetry-photography-music/
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Vikki C.
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Today at Process, Ice Floe presents a stunning collaboration by
@marianchristie.bsky.social
, Samantha Vazhure and Quinten Vazhure — Art, poetry, photography and music segue to explore life cycles, cosmic resonance and ancestry. Palindrome, Houses of Stone, Mbira 🔥
icefloepress.net/2026/01/07/pal…
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Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs)
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Our 2nd piece in PROCESS/MARGINALIA/ OTHERWOR(L)D(S) project now live at our website. We are honored to present this collaborative interweave of voices: Marian Christie
@marianchristie.bsky.social
& Samantha Rumbidzai & Quinten Vazuhre. UK/Zimbabwe poets/artists.🎹🎨📖
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Palindrome, Houses of Stone, Mbira – Collaborations by Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure, Marian Christie & Quinten Vazhure: Art, Poetry, Photography, Music.
PALINDROME – A Collaboration. Painting: Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure, Ekphrastic Poem: Marian Christie Palindrome – the Process Samantha: This piece grew from a meditation on life’s cyclical na…
https://icefloepress.net/2026/01/07/palindrome-houses-of-stone-mbira-collaborations-by-samantha-rumbidzai-vazhure-marian-christie-quinten-vazhure-art-poetry-photography-music/
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Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs)
6 days ago
Announcing New Series: PROCESS/MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)(D)S. Curated by Robert Frede Kenter & Vikki C. Each piece available via our New Works Blog email and on-line through January & into February 2026. Subscribe to our site for free email features! An exciting line-up of international contributors:
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Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs)
8 days ago
divine/ divination (2025/6) an eco poem for the new year (c)
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
#art
#vispo
#collage
#ecologies
#ecopoetry
#numinous
#artofbluesky
#hybrid
#poetsofbluesky
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Farewell, 2025. May 2026 be a better year for all.
9 days ago
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Lowdown Cryptic
17 days ago
It's my brand-new December
#Scrabblegram
🦌🎅🛷 Happy Holidays and New Year to all! 🎊☮️💕
#Rudolph
#Santa
#Christmas
#HappyHolidays
#Scrabble
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Aswirl
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is tiny and beautiful and always full of good things. I really enjoyed your poem in this latest edition, Mike. 🌀
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17 days ago
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Thank you Beaton, I really enjoyed reading this!
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17 days ago
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Anthony Etherin
25 days ago
2025 has been a very busy year for me. With it nearly over, I'd like to share my most significant publications of the last 12 months.
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Dave's daily poetry posts and weekly Poetry Blog Digests are always a pleasure to read. Thank you for including me this time round, Dave.
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24 days ago
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Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs)
about 1 month ago
Our New Works Series is live again. Running all month: poems, visual poetics, video, sound pieces, prose, an interview.... lots on the horizon. Subscribe at our blog: bottom of the page and we send you all new work for free! Help support & keep eyes/mind/voice alive
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NEW WORKS DECEMBER
Starting Tomorrow Dec. 8th 2025 A series of new works by international writers and artists curated by Robert Frede Kenter w/ Vikki C. and Moira J. Saucer to end 2025 Ice Floe projects. We conclude …
https://icefloepress.net/2025/12/07/new-works-december-2/
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Anthony Etherin
about 1 month ago
My main publications of new work in 2025: a poetry chapbook and six EPs. (All available here:
www.anthonyetherin.com
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Very happy to have three experimental pieces included in the SpaceByi pavilion at The Wrong Biennale, curated by Radoslav Rochallyi. Do enter and explore – brilliant mathematical poetry and artwork on display, by
@poitevin.bsky.social
and many others.
thewrong.org/SpaceByi
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SpaceByi — TheWrongBiennale
Before You Interact. Space BYI is an experimental digital platform at the intersection of mathematics, geometry, and artistic expression. It grows from two active...
https://thewrong.org/SpaceByi
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Thank you! Enjoy!
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about 2 months ago
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Via
@billymills.bsky.social
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7 months ago
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Some notes on Desolation Row and The Waste Land
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Some notes on Desolation Row and The Waste Land
Not intended as a coherent essay, just some interconnected thoughts. For a more coherent discussion of Eliot and Dylan, you could do worse than read the ‘Dylan and the Literary Tradition’ chapter i…
https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/some-notes-on-desolation-row-and-the-waste-land/
7 months ago
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Dave Bonta's weekly selections from the poetry blogs are always an interesting and enjoyable read. Thank you, Dave, for including my tribute to Penteract Press this time round.
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7 months ago
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Immensely proud of my HCU hero grandson Nico and his family. 💙 Read Nico's story here:
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https://hcunetworkamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/June-2025-HCU-Herald.pdf
7 months ago
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Luke Bradford
10 months ago
My poem “Scaling the Mountain of Winter” is available from Penteract Press:
penteractpress.com/store/scalin...
The poem is a strict erasure of an article about K2 by Michael Powell. If you'd like to read my poem for free, you can find a PDF on my website:
lukebradford.xyz/Scaling%20th...
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Scaling the Mountain of Winter - Luke Bradford — Penteract Press
Paperback, 105x148mm, monochrome, 28pp A strict erasure of the article “Scaling the World’s Most Lethal Mountain, in the Dead of Winter,” by Michael Powell, originally published in the online edition...
https://penteractpress.com/store/scaling-the-mountain-of-winter
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Anthony Etherin
8 months ago
Penteract Press is having a sale! Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout. Buy these beautiful books of constrained, visual, and formal poetry...
penteractpress.com/store
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Store — Penteract Press
https://penteractpress.com/store
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Anthony Etherin
8 months ago
MATHEMATICS OF A FROZEN LAKE (Palindrome-Haiku) Slam ice, dynamic. A bad loch: Cold abaci — Many decimals.
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And the good news is, Penteract Press is currently having a sale! Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout
penteractpress.com/store
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8 months ago
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New blog post: A celebration of Penteract Press!
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social
@claraetherin.bsky.social
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A Paean to Penteract Press
In early spring a book arrived that I had been eagerly anticipating. Atomic Masquerade by Clara Etherin did not disappoint. Witty, exuberant, layered and innovative, this visual poetry co…
https://marianchristiepoetry.net/a-paean-to-penteract-press/
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And the good news is, Penteract Press is currently having a sale! Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout
penteractpress.com/store
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New blog post: A celebration of Penteract Press!
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social
@claraetherin.bsky.social
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A Paean to Penteract Press
In early spring a book arrived that I had been eagerly anticipating. Atomic Masquerade by Clara Etherin did not disappoint. Witty, exuberant, layered and innovative, this visual poetry co…
https://marianchristiepoetry.net/a-paean-to-penteract-press/
8 months ago
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A Book of Sounds by
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reviewed by
@keithjebb.bsky.social
in Tears in The Fence:
tearsinthefence.com/2025/05/17/a...
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A Book of Sounds by Billy Mills (Shearsman Books)
‘… the drag of syntax each wa…
https://tearsinthefence.com/2025/05/17/a-book-of-sounds-by-billy-mills-shearsman-books/
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I love this 🏏
antigonejournal.com/2022/09/cert...
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The First Cricket Match Report: Goldwin's In Certamen Pilae
WILLIAM GOLDWIN Cricket 1700-style.
https://antigonejournal.com/2022/09/certamen-pilae-cricket/
9 months ago
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Sunset rhythms
9 months ago
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A full stop.
10 months ago
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MJ Saucer.bsky.social
10 months ago
Thanks to your generosity, we’ve raised $7,024—nearly 60% of the goal! I still urgently need $4,976 to cover expenses related to fittings, adjustments, and travel. ✅ $50 from 100 people would get me there. ✅ Even $25/$10/$5 makes a big difference.
gofund.me/d602a52e
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Donate to Moira J. Saucer needs dental work to end pain & eat normally, organized by Robert Kenter
Our friend, Moira J. Saucer, a brilliant writer, editor, and … Robert Kenter needs your support for Moira J. Saucer needs dental work to end pain & eat normally
https://gofund.me/d602a52e
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Anthony Etherin
10 months ago
FALL OF MAN (Anagram-Snowball) A., as sad, said ideas raised despair. Paradise, appraised, disappears.
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Billy Mills
10 months ago
Another gem form
@davebonta.bsky.social
www.vianegativa.us/2025/03/on-a...
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On a tear
rummaging and tearing sorting the night into moth or wisp a mad first visit
https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/03/on-a-tear/
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Rémi Forte
10 months ago
Do you have any good theoretical books to recommend on the history of combinatory literature? I’m coming up empty! (I read English and French)
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Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs)
10 months ago
Happy International Women's Day
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@jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social
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&&& ❤️🔥💐
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Ash Wednesday
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Ash Wednesday
We like sausage and maple syrupso we had pancakes for supper yesterday, which was Shrove Tuesday. I didn’t have a miniature plaster figureof a baby to buryin a pan of king cake, but I said wh…
https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/03/ash-wednesday-4/
10 months ago
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Kazmier Maślanka
10 months ago
Here is a mathematical visual poem of mine titled "Delusions of Control" It uses a similar triangles poem structure - There is a interesting review of this piece on my substack feed.
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Look at this beautiful book from Carnelian Heart Publishing
carnelianheartpublishing.co.uk
🥰 Nominated for the
#NAMA
National Arts Merits Award for fiction n Zimbabwe, and deservedly so! Thank you, Samantha Vazhure, can't wait to read!
11 months ago
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Moonbeams
11 months ago
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David L O'Nan (Fevers of the Mind)
11 months ago
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Free PDF: Before the Bridges Fell by David L O’Nan
This is my poetry book influenced by art & music, life’s highest highs and lowest lows. Read by many wonderful poets, musicians & artists. I’ve received high praises and nominat…
https://feversofthemind.com/2024/11/27/free-pdf-before-the-bridges-fell-by-david-l-onan/
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Honoured to have my hybrid visual poetry sequence “All is Number” featured in the Ice Floe New Work series 💙💜
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Delighted and honoured to have my hybrid visual poetry sequence “All is Number” featured at the wonderful
@icefloepress.bsky.social
today 🤍💙
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All is Number – Hybrid Visual Poems and Texts by Marian Christie
πάντα τὰ ὄντα ἀριθμοὶ καὶ ἐξ ἀριθμῶν “All things are numbers and are from numbers”. Aristotle, De Caelo 303a4 All is Number (a Fibonacci poem) words shells flo…
https://icefloepress.net/2025/02/10/all-is-number-hybrid-visual-poems-and-texts-by-marian-christie/
11 months ago
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Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs)
11 months ago
Starting today! NEW WORKS FEB from Ice Floe Press. 20+ contributors will roll out throughout the month. SUBSCRIBE to receive the work in your email inbox -- No charge to receive the charge of international work -- elegant, thoughtful, experimental, incisive -
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NEW WORKS FEBRUARY 2025
NEW WORKS INCLUDING PIECES BY: Su Zi Marian Christie Elisabeth Horan Sa’ada Isa Yahaya Monty Reid David L’O Nan Rose Knapp Robert Frede Kenter & a dozen others! UNROLLING as the MON…
https://icefloepress.net/2025/02/03/new-works-february-2025/
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Johnston Gardens in Aberdeen, beautiful even in winter.
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'From Fibs to Fractals' is featured today in JoAnne Growney's blog post about collections of mathy poetry😊 Read the beautiful Fib poem she quotes by B.A. France, and follow the link she provides to the extraordinary life and work of Ilse Bing:
poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2025/01/coll...
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Collections of Mathy Poetry
mathematics poetry
https://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2025/01/collections-of-mathy-poetry.html
12 months ago
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Anthony Etherin
12 months ago
Listen to me read my quartet of poems THE MAIN:
youtu.be/VG13SrJx2Is
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THE MAIN -- Anthony Etherin
YouTube video by Anthony Etherin
https://youtu.be/VG13SrJx2Is
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Dave Bonta
12 months ago
Poets coping w/ current events
@billymills.bsky.social
@matriches.bsky.social
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@mcrucefix.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 4
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/01/poetry-blog-digest-2025-week-4/
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Susie Campbell
12 months ago
Here’s a treat I’ll be enjoying this weekend!
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Billy Mills
12 months ago
Collected Poems and Prose by Elaine Randell: A Review Collected Poems and Prose, Elaine Randell, Shearsman Books, 2024, ISBN 9781848619562, £22.95 / $35 Elaine Randell adopts a refreshingly novel approach to introducing her monumental Collected Poems and Prose, inasmuch as she almost doesn’t.…
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Collected Poems and Prose by Elaine Randell: A Review
Collected Poems and Prose, Elaine Randell, Shearsman Books, 2024, ISBN 9781848619562, £22.95 / $35 Elaine Randell adopts a refreshingly novel approach to introducing her monumental Collected Poems and Prose, inasmuch as she almost doesn’t. Almost? Well, she provides a two-sentence kind-of preface: The publication of a collected volume is significant and one which I often speculated might happen after my death, if indeed at all.
https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/collected-poems-and-prose-by-elaine-randell-a-review/
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