Mike Ferguson
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teacher/writer/poet ~ for more info, go to 'About' at
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pinned post!
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Flocks of birds cross in the silence between the spaced.
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Today, the patently self-serving Tory Jenrick gets an immediate BBC interview with The Kuennesberg to self-servingly declare he isn't self-serving in defecting to Reform yesterday...
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Robert Jenrick: an apology.
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Brown Hound Press
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Guess what? We are open for business! Short story submissions now welcome at
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Brown Hound Press
A small press based in Lexington, Kentucky that publishes offbeat mystery and literary fiction.
https://brownhoundpress.com
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My thanks to Nick and Rupert for posting
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Devendra Banhart - The Allen Ginsberg Project
The Fall of America, Allen’s oh-so-prophetic 1973 book-title, and the stepping-off place for two remarkable celebratory musical tributes, gathered together in the spirit of our dear much-missed frien...
https://allenginsberg.org/2026/01/m-j-12-3/
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from 'The Alien Buddha’s Best of 2025'
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International Times
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Wild is the wind....
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On the tenth anniversary of his death and genuinely sad loss, a cut-up poem I wrote in memoriam then ~
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Bowie | IT
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~ Renée Nicole Good (RIP)
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2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
https://poets.org/2020-on-learning-to-dissect-fetal-pigs
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Shame that sort of thing didn't happen when Tom was alive. I've just posted an elegy 'Tombeau' to a dead friend on my blog. But this post leads to my elegy for TR, called 'Tom Beau'.
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On this day in 1964, American comedian and TV host Jack Paar showed a clip of the Beatles singing 'She Loves You' and said he understood that science was working on a cure for the Beatlemania phenomenon...
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HNY 🕊️💙🌹🐴
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The Literary Business by Peter Finch (Parthian Books)
elshCan Peter Finch really be so successful as a poet and editor, and so nice at the same time? In this episodic autobiography, Finch has kind words for everyone he has ever met, for every book he …
https://tearsinthefence.com/2026/01/01/the-literary-business-by-peter-finch-parthian-books/
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Marcus Silcock
17 days ago
DREAM DUST IN FAVORITE READS OF 2025 Thank you to Benjamin Niespodziany for including my book Dream Dust for his favorite reads of 2025. I have always loved Benjamin Niespodziany's end of year of list of books. I am honored to be included this year. Check out the roundup over here
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DREAM DUST IN FAVORITE READS OF 2025
Thank you to Benjamin Niespodziany for including my book Dream Dust for his favorite reads of 2025. I have always loved Benjamin Niespodziany's end of year of list of books. I am honored to be included this year. Check out the roundup over here
http://nevermindthebeasts.com/2025/12/31/dream-dust-in-favorite-reads-of-2025/
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Compressing the Cornered: a TextArt riff on Irving Penn's 'Portraits in a Corner' and one of mine (with thanks to
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Fun to play a part in Rupert Loydell's 'Five' series here:
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Five Unknown Bands from 1971
Five Unknown Bands from 1971 Catapilla – Catapilla Catapilla is a progressive jazz peach, if y...
https://stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/12/five-unknown-bands-from-1971.html
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Two treated views of rooks early in this morning's distance...
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Morning XXVII by Pablo Neruda
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Morning XXVII by Pablo Neruda
Naked you are blue as a night in Cuba
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Poetry Aswirled
A lovely little press producing lovely little publications – tactile in their openings and readings. Pleased to be in issue twelve, winter 2025 You can buy past and present issues here:
https://gravyfromthegazebo.blog/2025/12/23/poetry-aswirled/
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Took with me this morning to read while waiting in an area. Wonderfully inventive work from
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On this day in 1960, Ornette Coleman recorded his influential album 'Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation', introducing a name for the Free Jazz sound. On the album's recording, the two quartets are heard in separate channels.
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On this day in 1843, 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens was published, with 6,000 copies sold
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Billy Mills
29 days ago
My midwinter poem, from the Old Irish: news for you stag tongues winter snows summer's gone wind high-cold low sun short course tide's run deep-red bracken's hidden form brent geese cry's norm cold's caught bird's wing ice-time that's my news
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As 'history' is now, and universal: on this day in 1776, Thomas Paine published his first "American Crisis" essay beginning "These are the times that try men's souls" (date disputed, apparently, but as this is timeless...)
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Imogen Reid
30 days ago
A huge thank you to
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for nominating my essay, "The Time of Suspense and The Time of Suspension" for the Pushcart Prize, alongside poetry by Karen Elizabeth Bishop ,“le oiseau parts” Paul Rooney, “Broken Token” Andrew Taylor “Noz”
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ALCS
30 days ago
This year, we paid out an incredible £47.5 million to our members, the highest ever amount in a single year! We hope to keep up our momentum in 2026.
#ALCSAdvent
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My Stride review
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A Startling Line-Up
My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat – Ian Seed (41pp, 16€, Sacred Parasite) There is a musical prelude to these prose...
https://stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-startling-line-up.html
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thank you for the significant catch-up, Ian! I am reading your latest and loving that opening sequence: it is as tender as it is oblique, and the uncertain and the certain glow together. I hope that makes some sense...
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Marian Christie
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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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I know the Steve Spence and can recommend as well, and would like to see the Peter Dent but am also having trouble tracking down... Great reviews as always, Billy.
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from Jazz Fingerings #16
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A Home in Space | Reaktion Books
Edwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland’s foremost national poet, a bold, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness, politics and post-war life. But Morgan was also a restless experime...
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/a-home-in-space
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On this day in 1959, the album 'Time Out' by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is released, peaking at #2 on the Billboard pop albums chart, becoming the first jazz album to sell a million copies
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Far-out!
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A wonderful review and beyond...
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International Times
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Learning to balance is certainly a skill that requires much falling over...
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Wonderful review (and beyond) of Peter Finch's 'The Literary Business' by Rupert Loydell in IT today ~
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Demystification | IT
https://internationaltimes.it/demystification/
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Laura Kerr
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Mnemonic Trains — Nick Piombino & Laura Kerr Published by Penteract Press Only six copies left. This collaboration changed the course of my practice. Working with Nick was a true highlight—his brilliance on the page and in conversation shaped this book in ways I’ll always value.
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Sunsets
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