This week’s post is from Tamsin Hopkins, and features that monster in the cupboard - you know the one. (We all know the one. We just don’t like to talk about it.) ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/t... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

Poetic Gems for Topaz: Verses for the Bicentenary of McGonagall 19 Nov, Dundee – free, ticketed The Wyvern Poets will celebrate the life, works & legacy of William Topaz McGonagall, which have spread far beyond the city he called home #C19th #poetry 1/4 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetic-gem...

Delighted to welcome Julia Bird’s silver pig pin cushion to the Catalogue - wait, what’s that you say, Julia? It’s haunted?!? ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/j... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

From @tomjenksuk.bsky.social’s elegiac sequence, ‘Mum & Dad’, we are delighted to display this wardrobe, excellent for suits, jackets, and concealing yourself within* ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/t... *Narnia not included. #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

There's a new kitchen table in town, says Gill Learner, and it is the talk of said urban area. ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/g... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue (1/2)

Like that noted admirer of carpets, Walter Wall, we are terribly keen on floor coverings, us. We are therefore delighted by how well Elena Brake’s poem about her home town, Axminster, fits into the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/e...

If you sell a haunted house, in what sense is the ghost ‘free’? Benjamin Brake puts in his survey: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/b... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

One of the items we love most in the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue is that piece of furniture which, unnoticed and seemingly uncared-for, simply gets on with its task of bearing, preparing, cleaning, preserving, or containing. (1/2)

‘it's easy to imagine The Lives of Z joining the likes of Christensen's alphabet (1981) as an essential text ecopoetry for years to come‘ Wonderful review of ‘Lives of Z’ by @oliviamcc.bsky.social @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social in this issue of Poetry Review

Free tickets are still available for our online launch, taking place this Thursday at 6pm! www.eventbrite.com/e/online-boo...

It’s Double Collage Monday! Jay Morton’s portraits of her son and partner both complement each other and contrast, right down to the square window/round window framing: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/t... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

Welcome back @annermacaulay.bsky.social with a poem re that key Scottish kitchen implement, the spirtle, also used for unlocking doors in the memory. As she says, ‘It conjures my Dad at the Rayburn every morning’. ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/a... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue (1/2)

Collage, mes braves - or indeed ragazzi: it’s Monday, and so it’s time to post this ghost of a house by Andrea Albanese. ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

Let the record show that the record shows, says #SeanOBrien, or so it says here: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/s... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue @picadorbooks.bsky.social

Here’s #LindaFrance’s generous and thought-provoking post on the #EcoSonnetChain on her Substack. As she says: ‘Our chain has a cinematic quality – each individual sonnet a scene, directed by another eye.’ open.substack.com/pub/lindafra...

As #Satie gleefully remarks, ‘Anyone will tell you that I am not a musician. They are right... The first time I used a phonoscope, I examined a middling-sized B flat. I can assure you, I have never seen anything more revolting. I called my servant to have him look.’ (1/2)

A-furniture haunting we would have gone on Monday, but we forgot to charge our psychokinetic energy meter or something. Fortunately, here's an entity #DianeCockburn detected in the old disused warehouse: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/d... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue #Ghostbusters

As the old mnemonic goes, ESCDAC (Every Sonnet Chain Deserves A Crown), and the Eco Chain has acquired an excellent example thanks to the brilliance of its co-editor, #LindaFrance. Read it here: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/e... #EcoSonnetChain 15/14

Today is the perfect Bank Holiday Sunday to lose yourself in poetry and Geraldine Clarkson writes the stuff damn well.

Anither withering heicht is reached by Monsieur Reckless, on this occasion regarding my spirit animal #WilliamMcGonagall: ‘On yonder hill there stood a coo It must’ve moved cos it’s no there noo.’

This week’s post is a collage by Alice Agyeman which arrives bearing cutlery. And apples. ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/c... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue #Collage

Many thanks to the poets who took part in the #EcoSonnetChain: #LindaFrance, #EmmaMust, @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, #AnnSophieBalzer, @janeburn.bsky.social, #TishaniDoshi, #JemmaBorg, @jsaphra.bsky.social, #JacobPolley, @sophieherx.bsky.social, @helenmort.bsky.social, #SteveEly, & #GlynMaxwell.

Now that it’s complete, we’d like to thank #LindaFrance for everything she’s done to make the #EcoSonnetChain such a success - it’s our best one yet, and that’s entirely down to her selection and editing nous. If you’d like to check it out in… #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (1/3)

Very pleased to announce that the final sonnet in our #EcoSonnetChain is by a certain #GlynMaxwell, and it certainly ends the chain with wit, style and… well, see for yourself how/if we escaped our certain fate: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/e... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

This week’s post combines image and text, as have several poems (photopoems?) in this second phase. It’s by Jock Stein and concerns a mangle left stranded outside an inn and by the outgoing tide of technology: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/j... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

What’s this in the coveted 13th spot on the #ExecutiveDisobediences list? Why, it’s an alphabet of approved terms for placards to welcome Pseudo-Imperator #Trumpo II with on the occasion of his 2nd State Visit. newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/e... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

Here’s an essay from eco-sonneteer, #JemmaBorg, which argues: ‘Poetry can get past all the kinds of barriers we set up within and between ourselves and between us and what we’ve historically called nature – that which we are embedded in.’ poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/what-do-we-m... #EcoSonnetChain

This week’s additions to the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue are two poems by Natalie Perman: our second piano and that always puzzling item, a door.* Both poems play nimbly with ideas of embodiment and interiority. ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/n...

It’s Lucky 13 in the #EcoSonnetChain and it appears to be some bloke banging on about his holidays. It was all going so well, too… newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/e... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (13/14)

Another one of those greatest things ever out of #TheMagicalCutleryDrawer, and you don’t even have to queue. #IvorCutler #JohnLennon

Another of @azjackson.bsky.social’s tentacular online projects, this one a collaboration with @simonbarraclough.bsky.social, which features a future self, Oor Wullie Nemo XVII/17. #NewBootsAndPantisocracies & #ProjectAbeona - together we’re space bootsier (and snudge)!

Here's a taster for the new book on Whaleback City Press from Catia Montagna and myself. They're going fast, so don't hang about! youtu.be/tpty0FOlIM8

Always an exciting day when your new poetry book arrives. This one is quite a special one – a collaboration between myself and photographer Catia Montagna. I’m a little bit biased but I think it’s really beautiful. It’s out now via Whaleback City Press: whalebackcitypress.co.uk/shop/

At last the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue has added a games room! To celebrate this we have invited over #NewBootsAndPantisocracies editor, @azjackson.bsky.social, for a game of confußball: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/a... Now, who has 50p for the machine? (1/2)

Next in #NewBootsAndPantisocracies’ series of #ExecutiveDisobediences is this magnificent takedown in the style of Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’ of the hauf-Scottish orange pudden himsel (nou en route tae a golf course near you) by Marianne Berghuis: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/e...

In today's post by Keren Macpherson, a strange and moving sort of resurrection takes place, whereby a mother is conjured by the dynamic reimagining of her old home: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/k... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

This week’s #EcoSonnetChain post is by #SteveEly and it is a big, beautiful and (appropriately) terrifying thing: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/e... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

Here’s #TomEdwardPhillips cocking a snoot at #Trumpo’s Presidential Memorandum 8485: PROMOTING BEAUTIFUL FEDERAL CIVIC ARCHITECTURE! newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/e... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies #ExecutiveDisobediences

Thanks goodness: David Bleiman’s found the search committee - we wondered where they’d got to! Very glad to welcome David back to Phase 2 of the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue with this ekphrastic elegy for #JohnBurnside: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/d...

Didn’t stay in Bill - I’m always ‘in’ - just thrilled to see my poem published!

My poem ‘Living Room’ has made it into The Ghost Furniture Catalogue today - such a good place for it - thankyou @billherbert.bsky.social : ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/a...

A little later this week in posting - we hope you didn’t stay in all day waiting for delivery… @anne-bailey.bsky.social returns with a prose poem focussing on the unchanging and yet not eternal living room: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/a... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

Wonderful sonnet by Helen Mort. The closing couplet!

Our eleventh poem in the #EcoSonnetChain is by #HelenMort and deploys the motif of the Ark to powerful effect - the last few lines in particular take a moving, unpredictable turn: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/e... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

Is this a case of camouflage or une flamme au cage? #BernadetteMcAloon revisits the Catalogue with a feat of ekphrastic mimetismo. Who or what haunts whom or which? Who knows - cat, cloud or cabinet? ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/b... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

Next in our series of #ExecutiveDisobediences is by Gordon McInnes and takes exception to EO 14162: ‘Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements’, weather #Trumpo likes it or not: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/e... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

Beep beep! #Trumpo coming through!! In his Pretty Radically Awesome Tank!!! (New #ExecutiveQuatrains.) www.tumblr.com/billherbert2... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

Fine but forlorn #FurniturePoetry from @imogenforster.bsky.social:

Really delighted to post this brilliant, simultaneously solemn and subtle poem by #TamarYoseloff: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/t... #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

Every now and then - and now, fittingly, at #Midsummer - our various projects align and a thin thread of light can be seen to link them. So every other Thursday we post a sonnet from our third chain, and a furniture poem from #GhostFurniturePoetry… #EcoSonnetChain #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (1/4)