I’m really excited to be speaking with Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social about #Cymbeline and its ‘infinit questions of the circumstance of strange chances’ (as one c17th reader put it) on Monday 2 March!

Saturday 28 February 2026 at 7pm. Blacksburg Books, Virginia, USA. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Poetry #Theatre #Shakespeare

Jackie Oates, When I Was a Fair Maid, 2022. with my big hat and feather if you’d’ve only seen you’d sworn from your very heart a young man I’d’ve been my waist being small and slender my fingers thin and small I could rattle up the drum a dee the best among them all www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlRW...

Publication-day book launch event. Poem and response. Come and join me to celebrate the release of A Twist of Rotten Silk #ATwistOfRottenSilk at Blacksburg Books, Virginia, USA, on Saturday 28 February 2026. Details here – www.blacksburgbooks.com/events/autho...

The audiobook of A Twist of Rotten Silk #ATwistOfRottenSilk, read by Jackie Oates @jackieoates.bsky.social, with the afterword read by Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, is available on all major audiobook platforms. Here it is on Libro.fm – libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Jackie Oates @jackieoates.bsky.social is the voice of the audiobook of A Twist of Rotten Silk #ATwistOfRottenSilk, with Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social reading her own afterword. In Oxford on 21 November 2025, Jackie recorded Emma reading the afterword.

Book giveaway day 7/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me the word Silk. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 6/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me the word Kickshaws. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 5/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me the word Kerelybonto. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 4/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me the longest poem title in the book. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 3/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me the shortest poem title in the book. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 2/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me one poem title that stays with you. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 1/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me two poem titles you’d place side by side. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Shakespeare

14 February to 20 February 2026. Seven day giveaway open internationally. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk each day. Answer by DM a poem-title related question. Questions will be posted at varying times. Please DM only if happy to share postal address. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky

Velcome (page 39) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Undone (page 38) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

This Is and Is Not (page 37) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

This Abruption (page 36) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

These Words (page 35) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Teach Me (page 34) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Swerve (page 33) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Sun Wheel Flower (page 32) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Storical Pastoral (page 31) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Spices, Ink, and Paper (page 30) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Snip (page 29) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Recreation (page 28) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Proclamation (page 27) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Play (page 26) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Nettles and Strawberries (page 25) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

My Crown (page 24) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

King and Queen (page 23) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Kickshaws (page 22) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Kerelybonto (page 21) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

I Will Begin (page 20) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

I Am the Shadow (page 19) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

I Am Not What I Am (page 18) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

I Am Hers I Am His (page 17) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

I Am a Feather (page 16) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

How Like a Dream (page 15) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Here Is My Space (page 14) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Dear Creature You Are (page 13) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Dear Creature I Have (page 12) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Darkling (page 11) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Carcanet (page 10) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Brutish (page 9) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Beware My Follower (page 8) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

A Twist of Rotten Silk (page 7) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

11 January to 13 February 2026 one poem title a day #ATwistOfRottenSilk