𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗹 𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝟱𝘁𝗵 - 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲

I’m pleased to share my conversation with artist and poet James Knight. @badbadpoet.bsky.social

𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗴

A game of secrets and lies. 'Bloody Orkney' is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in Orkney during World War Two. The Bishop’s Palace in Kirkwall has an important role as the book reaches its climax. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/blork/index....

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see” by American poet Theodore Roethke a line of brevity if a poem unseen rests easy

this reckless hour beyond eternities grasp is your brief life #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

2026 New Ground

𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝘁

Tight Curve

even golden plovers wait for winter's worst to pass before returning home #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

this thin thread sowing each breath to the next weaving your life #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

Tailor Made, Interface and its Lining THREAD MASKING TRACE

The 2026 version of the #WhiskySpreadsheet will be out soon, any ideas for improvements or additional stats please get in touch! malt-musings.blogspot.com/p/whisky-spr...

𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲

each passing year pushing past new and old and on into eternity where the years don't count and all things are equal

The Gravity of Language

“The Liminal Timestamp” An experimental poetry criticism on how archival evidence is rendered historically illegible by market-validated historiography.

I don’t see “AI Slop” I see AI Soup. Quality judgments miss the point. What’s relevant is how hierarchies render archival evidence historically illegible.

2011 Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them. Kenneth Goldsmith

The Rendering of Great Great etc. Victorian Lucy Technological Afterlife From my Archive

in the moment between now and then . . . indescribable unimaginable how that went even now looking back retracing revisiting re-enacting regressing reliving — regretting still sitting in my formaldehyde memory unresolved

on this long dark night a donkey braying haiku into the silence #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #tanka

“Welcome to the Great AI Bubble, a metastasized trillion dollar tech tumour so massive it’s practically visible from space.” open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

From my Everlasting Rendering Garden Once, gladiolus climbed— scaled the fence, cell by cell, rung by rung— ascending past the reach of any sun, and still not one could come undone. Destiny’s Fable #forensicPoetry

Issue |03⟩: X-ray X for Unknown

Issue |02⟩: Decoherence Grows

Issue |01⟩: The Thought Machine

I’M CONTRIVING DISRUPTION AND IT’S WELL VERSED. STAY BACK, IT’S REVOLUTIONARY. SUCH IS POETRY.

📣 THE VERSE ENGINE Open call: Forensic Visual Poetry Treat the algorithm as evidence. Manual labor as testimony. 2 works | Jan 26, 2026 sedserio.com/theverseengine ‘Leaf Margins’

the thin dusty line between desire and desolation a point of contact #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. Stockholm’s Grand Hotel, ‘the listening post of Europe’, has an important role. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple: www.kenlussey.com/tsr/index.html

𝟮 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀

Word of the Day: SOCKENSCHLÄFER (German) a wimp, literally ‘someone who sleeps with socks on’.

𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆, 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗴𝗼

Where the Algorithms Leave Their Body

Material Drift (After the Record) #quantumPoetic

Silence is the lab where my next medium forms its nervous system.

Collapse of the Typewriter Field (Resolves)

a poem uploads— its voice still

New #StrongMessageHere is here. Stewart Lee, Natalie Haynes and I pull apart the phrases ‘Spooking the markets’ and ‘Banter’.

Before I leave The Messenger and His Life (The Fisherman and His Wife)Will be a new conceptual art. The idea—opulence, greed, god, are largely at your feet.

a poem mark-makes nothingness

Sky Answers Tried

Rage for the Machine speech bubbles no speech, only heat

A poem generated by its material surface.