Andy Jackson
@azjackson.bsky.social
Writer, editor of poetry, including Poetry Scotland and Whaleback City Press. Knee-deep in assorted poetry-related malarkey including New Boots & Pantisocracies, the Otwituaries, Double Dactyl of the Week, Project Abeona and more.
An #Otwituary for designer, artist and novelist #MollyParkin
You can learn a lot of things about women
from racy novels; most of it untrue. A day
browsing in a boutique is more instructive;
trends wax and wane but the life you think
suits you best is always just out of reach.
You can learn a lot of things about women
from racy novels; most of it untrue. A day
browsing in a boutique is more instructive;
trends wax and wane but the life you think
suits you best is always just out of reach.
January 5, 2026 at 7:43 PM
An #Otwituary for designer, artist and novelist #MollyParkin
You can learn a lot of things about women
from racy novels; most of it untrue. A day
browsing in a boutique is more instructive;
trends wax and wane but the life you think
suits you best is always just out of reach.
You can learn a lot of things about women
from racy novels; most of it untrue. A day
browsing in a boutique is more instructive;
trends wax and wane but the life you think
suits you best is always just out of reach.
#PoetryScotland welcomes your submissions for Issue 111. A maximum of 3 poems - and please read the *submission guidelines* before you hit 'Send', or we will have to send the Poetry Scotland Submission Compliance Officer round to confiscate your quill.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:10 PM
#PoetryScotland welcomes your submissions for Issue 111. A maximum of 3 poems - and please read the *submission guidelines* before you hit 'Send', or we will have to send the Poetry Scotland Submission Compliance Officer round to confiscate your quill.
poetryscotland.com/submissions/
poetryscotland.com/submissions/
The first #DoubleDactyl of 2026 is from Matthew Craig-Greene under a suitably Wolfish Moon.
January 5, 2026 at 11:51 AM
The first #DoubleDactyl of 2026 is from Matthew Craig-Greene under a suitably Wolfish Moon.
An #Otwituary for #BrigitteBardot
I was in love with the idea of a woman,
a creation in medium shot, half insoluble,
half incendiary. Eventually, the camera
caught her in close-up, a picture of
disfigurement I once mistook for beauty.
I was in love with the idea of a woman,
a creation in medium shot, half insoluble,
half incendiary. Eventually, the camera
caught her in close-up, a picture of
disfigurement I once mistook for beauty.
December 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
An #Otwituary for #BrigitteBardot
I was in love with the idea of a woman,
a creation in medium shot, half insoluble,
half incendiary. Eventually, the camera
caught her in close-up, a picture of
disfigurement I once mistook for beauty.
I was in love with the idea of a woman,
a creation in medium shot, half insoluble,
half incendiary. Eventually, the camera
caught her in close-up, a picture of
disfigurement I once mistook for beauty.
Fancy a Christmas #DoubleDactyl? Here’s a Junior Choice from Penny Campbell, for whom the head of the herd is calling…
December 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Fancy a Christmas #DoubleDactyl? Here’s a Junior Choice from Penny Campbell, for whom the head of the herd is calling…
Transmission 40 from #ProjectAbeona is a Christmas poem. It comes via a FedEx SoLar pilot and is beamed back to us from 2080.
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projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...
December 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Transmission 40 from #ProjectAbeona is a Christmas poem. It comes via a FedEx SoLar pilot and is beamed back to us from 2080.
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...
#DoubleDactyl of the Week is a Beethoven double-header. Moonlighting on this one is Nicola Billington and some other guy…
December 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
#DoubleDactyl of the Week is a Beethoven double-header. Moonlighting on this one is Nicola Billington and some other guy…
An #Otwituary for musician #ChrisRea
Just when I thought the song was over,
a voice like a bank of smog rolled in,
fogging the road with a grey wisdom,
a melody it would be so easy to ignore,
driving us where we hope to follow.
Just when I thought the song was over,
a voice like a bank of smog rolled in,
fogging the road with a grey wisdom,
a melody it would be so easy to ignore,
driving us where we hope to follow.
December 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
An #Otwituary for musician #ChrisRea
Just when I thought the song was over,
a voice like a bank of smog rolled in,
fogging the road with a grey wisdom,
a melody it would be so easy to ignore,
driving us where we hope to follow.
Just when I thought the song was over,
a voice like a bank of smog rolled in,
fogging the road with a grey wisdom,
a melody it would be so easy to ignore,
driving us where we hope to follow.
#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from Alice Meynell, who may have met her Waterloo. Oh, sorry, wrong General!
December 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from Alice Meynell, who may have met her Waterloo. Oh, sorry, wrong General!
An #Otwituary for playwright and scriptwriter #JohnAntrobus
It took two minutes twenty-eight seconds
to write this. Hardly a big job; the time
it takes to annihilate an absurd world
with a sight gag or a joke from a show
we assumed someone else had written.
It took two minutes twenty-eight seconds
to write this. Hardly a big job; the time
it takes to annihilate an absurd world
with a sight gag or a joke from a show
we assumed someone else had written.
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
An #Otwituary for playwright and scriptwriter #JohnAntrobus
It took two minutes twenty-eight seconds
to write this. Hardly a big job; the time
it takes to annihilate an absurd world
with a sight gag or a joke from a show
we assumed someone else had written.
It took two minutes twenty-eight seconds
to write this. Hardly a big job; the time
it takes to annihilate an absurd world
with a sight gag or a joke from a show
we assumed someone else had written.
An #Otwituary for TV’s #BuckRogers actor #GilGerard
We thawed out at the same moment: you
from the bliss of cryogenic slumber, into a
universe of cut-price skywalkers; I into too
much reality, too many earthbound futures,
unwinnable battles, unkissable Princesses.
We thawed out at the same moment: you
from the bliss of cryogenic slumber, into a
universe of cut-price skywalkers; I into too
much reality, too many earthbound futures,
unwinnable battles, unkissable Princesses.
December 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
An #Otwituary for TV’s #BuckRogers actor #GilGerard
We thawed out at the same moment: you
from the bliss of cryogenic slumber, into a
universe of cut-price skywalkers; I into too
much reality, too many earthbound futures,
unwinnable battles, unkissable Princesses.
We thawed out at the same moment: you
from the bliss of cryogenic slumber, into a
universe of cut-price skywalkers; I into too
much reality, too many earthbound futures,
unwinnable battles, unkissable Princesses.
#OneDrop Sixteen - #reggae poetry and culture - encourages you to skank close to the one you love and listen to some #LoversRock. Poems from Jo Gilbert and John McMahon, plus a whole host of interesting links to performances...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-s...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-s...
December 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#OneDrop Sixteen - #reggae poetry and culture - encourages you to skank close to the one you love and listen to some #LoversRock. Poems from Jo Gilbert and John McMahon, plus a whole host of interesting links to performances...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-s...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-s...
An #Otwituary for actor and director #RobReiner
Met a guy at the Electric Banana
who offered me a part in his movie;
maybe waiting tables, an extra in a
courtroom scene, a lonely novelist.
I asked what he wanted from me;
I want answers, he said. I want truth.
Met a guy at the Electric Banana
who offered me a part in his movie;
maybe waiting tables, an extra in a
courtroom scene, a lonely novelist.
I asked what he wanted from me;
I want answers, he said. I want truth.
December 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
An #Otwituary for actor and director #RobReiner
Met a guy at the Electric Banana
who offered me a part in his movie;
maybe waiting tables, an extra in a
courtroom scene, a lonely novelist.
I asked what he wanted from me;
I want answers, he said. I want truth.
Met a guy at the Electric Banana
who offered me a part in his movie;
maybe waiting tables, an extra in a
courtroom scene, a lonely novelist.
I asked what he wanted from me;
I want answers, he said. I want truth.
An #Otwituary for novelist #JoannaTrollope
We are all middlebrow now,
in thrall to he said she said,
the touchable worlds of love,
whether imagined or illicit,
or sometimes even true.
Someone should write this
down; we may be touched by
the significance of small things.
We are all middlebrow now,
in thrall to he said she said,
the touchable worlds of love,
whether imagined or illicit,
or sometimes even true.
Someone should write this
down; we may be touched by
the significance of small things.
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
An #Otwituary for novelist #JoannaTrollope
We are all middlebrow now,
in thrall to he said she said,
the touchable worlds of love,
whether imagined or illicit,
or sometimes even true.
Someone should write this
down; we may be touched by
the significance of small things.
We are all middlebrow now,
in thrall to he said she said,
the touchable worlds of love,
whether imagined or illicit,
or sometimes even true.
Someone should write this
down; we may be touched by
the significance of small things.
An #Otwituary for entertainer #StanleyBaxter
Welcome to the extravaganza;
Hollywood in a Glasgow studio,
a man with a thousand voices,
none of them his own, and yet
all of them. Parliamo Tinseltown,
parliamo the lingua franca of joy.
Welcome to the extravaganza;
Hollywood in a Glasgow studio,
a man with a thousand voices,
none of them his own, and yet
all of them. Parliamo Tinseltown,
parliamo the lingua franca of joy.
December 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
An #Otwituary for entertainer #StanleyBaxter
Welcome to the extravaganza;
Hollywood in a Glasgow studio,
a man with a thousand voices,
none of them his own, and yet
all of them. Parliamo Tinseltown,
parliamo the lingua franca of joy.
Welcome to the extravaganza;
Hollywood in a Glasgow studio,
a man with a thousand voices,
none of them his own, and yet
all of them. Parliamo Tinseltown,
parliamo the lingua franca of joy.
Transmission #39 from Project Abeona (poems from a plausible future) is beamed in via Andrew J Wilson.
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Transmission #39 from Project Abeona (poems from a plausible future) is beamed in via Andrew J Wilson.
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...
An #Otwituary for novelist #SophieKinsella
A book is the best way
to travel; a paperback
is a seat in First Class,
a gold card. Live a life
you could never afford,
where nothing is perfect
but everything balances
at the turn of a final page.
A book is the best way
to travel; a paperback
is a seat in First Class,
a gold card. Live a life
you could never afford,
where nothing is perfect
but everything balances
at the turn of a final page.
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
An #Otwituary for novelist #SophieKinsella
A book is the best way
to travel; a paperback
is a seat in First Class,
a gold card. Live a life
you could never afford,
where nothing is perfect
but everything balances
at the turn of a final page.
A book is the best way
to travel; a paperback
is a seat in First Class,
a gold card. Live a life
you could never afford,
where nothing is perfect
but everything balances
at the turn of a final page.
An #Otwituary for #Mavericks frontman #RaulMalo
Wind lifts the tin roof
on a forgotten cantina
down by the border.
A couple dance
by the jukebox.
A voice like añejo
carries over the desert;
please let her know
that I’m well.
Wind lifts the tin roof
on a forgotten cantina
down by the border.
A couple dance
by the jukebox.
A voice like añejo
carries over the desert;
please let her know
that I’m well.
December 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
An #Otwituary for #Mavericks frontman #RaulMalo
Wind lifts the tin roof
on a forgotten cantina
down by the border.
A couple dance
by the jukebox.
A voice like añejo
carries over the desert;
please let her know
that I’m well.
Wind lifts the tin roof
on a forgotten cantina
down by the border.
A couple dance
by the jukebox.
A voice like añejo
carries over the desert;
please let her know
that I’m well.
#OneDrop Fifteen looks at #reggae covers and sample culture - with a great poem from Dickson Telfer
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-f...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-f...
December 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
#OneDrop Fifteen looks at #reggae covers and sample culture - with a great poem from Dickson Telfer
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-f...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-f...
#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from Jim Lindop, who can definitelt tell his Arias from his elbow...
December 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from Jim Lindop, who can definitelt tell his Arias from his elbow...
An #Otwituary for architect #FrankGehry
What if we could make our buildings dance,
screw them up like rejected blueprints, fold
their planes into curves and corrugations?
It might be possible to twist dreams inside out,
and turn these meditations into a metropolis.
What if we could make our buildings dance,
screw them up like rejected blueprints, fold
their planes into curves and corrugations?
It might be possible to twist dreams inside out,
and turn these meditations into a metropolis.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
An #Otwituary for architect #FrankGehry
What if we could make our buildings dance,
screw them up like rejected blueprints, fold
their planes into curves and corrugations?
It might be possible to twist dreams inside out,
and turn these meditations into a metropolis.
What if we could make our buildings dance,
screw them up like rejected blueprints, fold
their planes into curves and corrugations?
It might be possible to twist dreams inside out,
and turn these meditations into a metropolis.
An #Otwituary for #Stax guitar legend #SteveCropper
They put a band together for you -
guitar, bass, drums, keys - tight,
and sharp, all the right moves,
like thunder, lightning, all new
licks made entirely out of light
by the Colonel of the groove.
They put a band together for you -
guitar, bass, drums, keys - tight,
and sharp, all the right moves,
like thunder, lightning, all new
licks made entirely out of light
by the Colonel of the groove.
December 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
An #Otwituary for #Stax guitar legend #SteveCropper
They put a band together for you -
guitar, bass, drums, keys - tight,
and sharp, all the right moves,
like thunder, lightning, all new
licks made entirely out of light
by the Colonel of the groove.
They put a band together for you -
guitar, bass, drums, keys - tight,
and sharp, all the right moves,
like thunder, lightning, all new
licks made entirely out of light
by the Colonel of the groove.
Just under a week to go till we launch the Eco Sonnet Chain - if you're interested in coming (and I hope you are!) we'll send you a Zoom link...please message me!
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Just under a week to go till we launch the Eco Sonnet Chain - if you're interested in coming (and I hope you are!) we'll send you a Zoom link...please message me!
#OneDrop Fourteen returns to #Ska - and who better than to exemplify that sound but #PrinceBuster? Check out the poem by Keiron Lee Higgins plus some dutty lyrics from the King of Ska in his infamous Ten Commandments.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-f...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-f...
December 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
#OneDrop Fourteen returns to #Ska - and who better than to exemplify that sound but #PrinceBuster? Check out the poem by Keiron Lee Higgins plus some dutty lyrics from the King of Ska in his infamous Ten Commandments.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-f...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-f...
An #Otwituary for #WestHamUnited footballer #BillyBonds
There is a factory by the Thames
where men are wrought from iron,
a number branded into their back,
a dream of Saturday beaten into
a breastplate with an old hammer.
There is a factory by the Thames
where men are wrought from iron,
a number branded into their back,
a dream of Saturday beaten into
a breastplate with an old hammer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
An #Otwituary for #WestHamUnited footballer #BillyBonds
There is a factory by the Thames
where men are wrought from iron,
a number branded into their back,
a dream of Saturday beaten into
a breastplate with an old hammer.
There is a factory by the Thames
where men are wrought from iron,
a number branded into their back,
a dream of Saturday beaten into
a breastplate with an old hammer.