Anthony Etherin
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social
Poetry and music born from rules and rebellion.
KNIT INK (AND OTHER POEMS): https://store.deepvellum.org/products/knitink
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AnthonyEtherin.com
I LOVE THE STARS (Sonnet)
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I LOVE THE STARS (Sonnet)
I use delays to harmonise with myself within a single guitar track. Listen here:
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I use delays to harmonise with myself within a single guitar track. Listen here:
Watch my interview with Samuel Andreyev on YouTube and witness dramatic moments like this: youtu.be/2bRBwaqeeQA?...
November 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Watch my interview with Samuel Andreyev on YouTube and witness dramatic moments like this: youtu.be/2bRBwaqeeQA?...
October 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
ANAGRAM-TRIOLET FOR KEATS — for John Keats’ 230th birthday: a triolet that repeatedly anagrams the final line of “Ode to a Nightingale”.
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
ANAGRAM-TRIOLET FOR KEATS — for John Keats’ 230th birthday: a triolet that repeatedly anagrams the final line of “Ode to a Nightingale”.
TRIONNET: A poem that, depending on where its line breaks are placed, can be read either as a sonnet in iambic tetrameter or as a triolet in iambic heptameter.
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
TRIONNET: A poem that, depending on where its line breaks are placed, can be read either as a sonnet in iambic tetrameter or as a triolet in iambic heptameter.
Freiburg Cathedral and the Black Forest
October 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Freiburg Cathedral and the Black Forest
Here I am at the Whale House, Freiburg, whose facade was replicated for the film SUSPIRIA:
October 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Here I am at the Whale House, Freiburg, whose facade was replicated for the film SUSPIRIA:
Strasbourg Cathedral
October 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Strasbourg Cathedral
I have two brand new haiku in the first edition of BIG FAT TOAD magazine.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I have two brand new haiku in the first edition of BIG FAT TOAD magazine.
Use the discount code BFT-20%-59H43H2 at checkout to get 20% off!
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Use the discount code BFT-20%-59H43H2 at checkout to get 20% off!
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The ruins of Haughmond Abbey, near Shrewsbury
September 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The ruins of Haughmond Abbey, near Shrewsbury
ARROW OF TIME (Sonnet)
September 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
ARROW OF TIME (Sonnet)
THE LITERATURE OF STARS (Villanelle)
September 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
THE LITERATURE OF STARS (Villanelle)
LOVE SONNET OF THE CAUTIOUS ROMANTIC
August 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
LOVE SONNET OF THE CAUTIOUS ROMANTIC
New podcast. Coming soonish.
August 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
New podcast. Coming soonish.
My new custom-made 3-string crwth:
August 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
My new custom-made 3-string crwth:
CITY SCAFFOLD: A sonnet of no fixed rhyme scheme, composed in iambic trimeter. Each line has exactly 14 letters. The poem's Ts are arranged such that they form a symmetrical, X-shaped scaffold.
August 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
CITY SCAFFOLD: A sonnet of no fixed rhyme scheme, composed in iambic trimeter. Each line has exactly 14 letters. The poem's Ts are arranged such that they form a symmetrical, X-shaped scaffold.
In the mail today! My contributor's copy of Christian Bök's The Xenotext Book 2 (Special Edition)... Here's my bookmark, alongside some other favourites from this edition (which is huge!).
July 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
In the mail today! My contributor's copy of Christian Bök's The Xenotext Book 2 (Special Edition)... Here's my bookmark, alongside some other favourites from this edition (which is huge!).
THE REIN THEREIN — Two Shakespearean sonnets, each in iambic pentameter.
The two sonnets use the same letters, in the same order, but have different spacing and punctuation:
#sonnet
The two sonnets use the same letters, in the same order, but have different spacing and punctuation:
#sonnet
July 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
THE REIN THEREIN — Two Shakespearean sonnets, each in iambic pentameter.
The two sonnets use the same letters, in the same order, but have different spacing and punctuation:
#sonnet
The two sonnets use the same letters, in the same order, but have different spacing and punctuation:
#sonnet
Scene from my morning walk, North Shropshire.
July 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Scene from my morning walk, North Shropshire.
WIDOW ELM, from my new EP.
Grungy, gothic folk.
Grungy, gothic folk.
July 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
WIDOW ELM, from my new EP.
Grungy, gothic folk.
Grungy, gothic folk.
KNIT INK, my exploration of the possibilities and limits of formal poetry and literary constraint, is available now from @deepvellum.bsky.social! Get yours here: store.deepvellum.org/products/kni...
June 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
KNIT INK, my exploration of the possibilities and limits of formal poetry and literary constraint, is available now from @deepvellum.bsky.social! Get yours here: store.deepvellum.org/products/kni...
FLOREAT SALOPIA (A Shakespearean sonnet about getting wasted in Shrewsbury):
June 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
FLOREAT SALOPIA (A Shakespearean sonnet about getting wasted in Shrewsbury):
GREAT FIRE OF LONDON (Chronogram*-Sonnet)
*In each line, the Roman Numeral letters (i, v, x, l, c, d, & m) add up to 119. Thus, the total Roman Numeral count for this sonnet is 119 x 14 = 1666.
*In each line, the Roman Numeral letters (i, v, x, l, c, d, & m) add up to 119. Thus, the total Roman Numeral count for this sonnet is 119 x 14 = 1666.
May 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
GREAT FIRE OF LONDON (Chronogram*-Sonnet)
*In each line, the Roman Numeral letters (i, v, x, l, c, d, & m) add up to 119. Thus, the total Roman Numeral count for this sonnet is 119 x 14 = 1666.
*In each line, the Roman Numeral letters (i, v, x, l, c, d, & m) add up to 119. Thus, the total Roman Numeral count for this sonnet is 119 x 14 = 1666.
Big day of cricket and beer ahead!
May 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Big day of cricket and beer ahead!