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.
#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from
Sharon Larkin, and is mercifully shorter than the novel that inspires it…
Sharon Larkin, and is mercifully shorter than the novel that inspires it…
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from
Sharon Larkin, and is mercifully shorter than the novel that inspires it…
Sharon Larkin, and is mercifully shorter than the novel that inspires it…
An #Otwituary for #StoneRoses bassist Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield #Mani
You lived at ground zero, where
the sound of a city drowned out
every other song in the world,
where a bassline could crumble
suburbs to dust, and to survive
meant you were made of stone.
You lived at ground zero, where
the sound of a city drowned out
every other song in the world,
where a bassline could crumble
suburbs to dust, and to survive
meant you were made of stone.
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
An #Otwituary for #StoneRoses bassist Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield #Mani
You lived at ground zero, where
the sound of a city drowned out
every other song in the world,
where a bassline could crumble
suburbs to dust, and to survive
meant you were made of stone.
You lived at ground zero, where
the sound of a city drowned out
every other song in the world,
where a bassline could crumble
suburbs to dust, and to survive
meant you were made of stone.
#OneDrop Twelve features #BobMarley's influence on Jamaican politics in the 1970s - a poem from Geoffrey Philp and some other paraphernalia exploring Marley's political side.
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One Drop Twelve
None but ourselves can free our mind...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
#OneDrop Twelve features #BobMarley's influence on Jamaican politics in the 1970s - a poem from Geoffrey Philp and some other paraphernalia exploring Marley's political side.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-t...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-t...
#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes once more from the cultured pen of Christopher Reid...
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes once more from the cultured pen of Christopher Reid...
#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes from Matthew Craig-Greene, and was a bit of a b*stard to write, apparently.
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes from Matthew Craig-Greene, and was a bit of a b*stard to write, apparently.
#OneDrop Eleven is on the mic, featuring #reggae MC U-Roy and the poetry of Hannah Lowe...
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onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-e...
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
#OneDrop Eleven is on the mic, featuring #reggae MC U-Roy and the poetry of Hannah Lowe...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-e...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-e...
An #Otwituary for #JamesWatson, co-discoverer of the #DoubleHelix
Science is a poem without rules,
a solution to a twisted conundrum.
Inside this poem are the molecules
which make up every other poem,
written, forgotten and yet to come.
Science is a poem without rules,
a solution to a twisted conundrum.
Inside this poem are the molecules
which make up every other poem,
written, forgotten and yet to come.
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
An #Otwituary for #JamesWatson, co-discoverer of the #DoubleHelix
Science is a poem without rules,
a solution to a twisted conundrum.
Inside this poem are the molecules
which make up every other poem,
written, forgotten and yet to come.
Science is a poem without rules,
a solution to a twisted conundrum.
Inside this poem are the molecules
which make up every other poem,
written, forgotten and yet to come.
An #Otwituary for actor #PaulineCollins
Take this role as a gift in two acts,
your audience willing you to risk
what they never could. Leave them
with those lines ringing: why do we
get all this life if we don’t use it?
Take this role as a gift in two acts,
your audience willing you to risk
what they never could. Leave them
with those lines ringing: why do we
get all this life if we don’t use it?
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
An #Otwituary for actor #PaulineCollins
Take this role as a gift in two acts,
your audience willing you to risk
what they never could. Leave them
with those lines ringing: why do we
get all this life if we don’t use it?
Take this role as a gift in two acts,
your audience willing you to risk
what they never could. Leave them
with those lines ringing: why do we
get all this life if we don’t use it?
Transmission 37 from #ProjectAbeona is beamed in via Freya Sacksen in a decaying orbit with only plants for company...
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Transmission 37 from #ProjectAbeona is beamed in via Freya Sacksen in a decaying orbit with only plants for company...
An #Otwituary for actor #DianeLadd
I saw you rouged in a dead man’s gore.
I saw you work the diner. I saw the silence
in your eyes fueling that barbed kindness,
and though you don’t live there anymore,
still I can never rinse away that wildness.
I saw you rouged in a dead man’s gore.
I saw you work the diner. I saw the silence
in your eyes fueling that barbed kindness,
and though you don’t live there anymore,
still I can never rinse away that wildness.
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
An #Otwituary for actor #DianeLadd
I saw you rouged in a dead man’s gore.
I saw you work the diner. I saw the silence
in your eyes fueling that barbed kindness,
and though you don’t live there anymore,
still I can never rinse away that wildness.
I saw you rouged in a dead man’s gore.
I saw you work the diner. I saw the silence
in your eyes fueling that barbed kindness,
and though you don’t live there anymore,
still I can never rinse away that wildness.
#OneDrop Ten is here. The 10th in Stephen Watt and Andy Jackson's series of poetic and musical celebrations of #reggae. This week's poem is a history lesson from Nick Toczek. Also, some serious Dub from Augustus Pablo and The Aggrovators/King Tubby.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-ten
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-ten
One Drop Ten
Keep On Dubbing...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#OneDrop Ten is here. The 10th in Stephen Watt and Andy Jackson's series of poetic and musical celebrations of #reggae. This week's poem is a history lesson from Nick Toczek. Also, some serious Dub from Augustus Pablo and The Aggrovators/King Tubby.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-ten
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-ten
Double Dactyl of the Week is a masterpiece of design from the sarky pen of Sian Lang
We've been publishing these for nearly three years - take a look at our archive here!
doubledactyls.wordpress.com/double-dacty...
We've been publishing these for nearly three years - take a look at our archive here!
doubledactyls.wordpress.com/double-dacty...
November 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Double Dactyl of the Week is a masterpiece of design from the sarky pen of Sian Lang
We've been publishing these for nearly three years - take a look at our archive here!
doubledactyls.wordpress.com/double-dacty...
We've been publishing these for nearly three years - take a look at our archive here!
doubledactyls.wordpress.com/double-dacty...
Bitesize Book Club Dundee - starts on November 12th, but you still have until Friday 7th to reserve a place! A Book Club with no homework - just the pleasure of a stress-free weekly read of something stimulating and rewarding. Details in the link below!
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Bitesize Book Club
A five-week course with Andy Jackson. 12th November - 10th December 2025. Wednesday mornings. 10 a. m. -12 p.m.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Bitesize Book Club Dundee - starts on November 12th, but you still have until Friday 7th to reserve a place! A Book Club with no homework - just the pleasure of a stress-free weekly read of something stimulating and rewarding. Details in the link below!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bitesize-b...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bitesize-b...
An #Otwituary for actor #TchekyKaryo
I am the prince of melancholy,
my face an unchanging moon,
my voice like low tide. There is
drama in my stillness. You think
you know what I’m thinking?
You will know when I tell you.
I am the prince of melancholy,
my face an unchanging moon,
my voice like low tide. There is
drama in my stillness. You think
you know what I’m thinking?
You will know when I tell you.
November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
An #Otwituary for actor #TchekyKaryo
I am the prince of melancholy,
my face an unchanging moon,
my voice like low tide. There is
drama in my stillness. You think
you know what I’m thinking?
You will know when I tell you.
I am the prince of melancholy,
my face an unchanging moon,
my voice like low tide. There is
drama in my stillness. You think
you know what I’m thinking?
You will know when I tell you.
An #Otwituary for film-maker #PeterWatkins
The content of this Otwituary
has been judged to be too
horrifying for social media;
no firestorms burning through
Home Counties, no fallout, no
looters shot on the street, only
this nightmare, filmed as truth.
The content of this Otwituary
has been judged to be too
horrifying for social media;
no firestorms burning through
Home Counties, no fallout, no
looters shot on the street, only
this nightmare, filmed as truth.
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
An #Otwituary for film-maker #PeterWatkins
The content of this Otwituary
has been judged to be too
horrifying for social media;
no firestorms burning through
Home Counties, no fallout, no
looters shot on the street, only
this nightmare, filmed as truth.
The content of this Otwituary
has been judged to be too
horrifying for social media;
no firestorms burning through
Home Counties, no fallout, no
looters shot on the street, only
this nightmare, filmed as truth.
An #Otwituary for #FawltyTowers actor #PrunellaScales
I hear a laugh from another room,
the sound of Medusa cross-bred
with a hyena. To see her up close
is to step closer to death; death
by stare, by word, by comic gelding.
I hear a laugh from another room,
the sound of Medusa cross-bred
with a hyena. To see her up close
is to step closer to death; death
by stare, by word, by comic gelding.
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
An #Otwituary for #FawltyTowers actor #PrunellaScales
I hear a laugh from another room,
the sound of Medusa cross-bred
with a hyena. To see her up close
is to step closer to death; death
by stare, by word, by comic gelding.
I hear a laugh from another room,
the sound of Medusa cross-bred
with a hyena. To see her up close
is to step closer to death; death
by stare, by word, by comic gelding.
Still time to get your tickets for this event at Glasgow's
@AyeWrite festival on Friday 7th November - Bill Herbert and myself with some fantastic poetry! Just £6.72 for an evening's entertainment...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/word...
@AyeWrite festival on Friday 7th November - Bill Herbert and myself with some fantastic poetry! Just £6.72 for an evening's entertainment...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/word...
Words from Whaleback City: Andy Jackson & Bill Herbert - Glasgow Life
Aye Write 2025 presents Words from Whaleback City: Andy Jackson & Bill Herbert
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October 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Still time to get your tickets for this event at Glasgow's
@AyeWrite festival on Friday 7th November - Bill Herbert and myself with some fantastic poetry! Just £6.72 for an evening's entertainment...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/word...
@AyeWrite festival on Friday 7th November - Bill Herbert and myself with some fantastic poetry! Just £6.72 for an evening's entertainment...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/word...
#OneDrop Nine is out now, and features the overlap between #Reggae and Rabbie - Burns, that is! A great poem from Lorna Goodison celebrating the two cultures clashing.
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One Drop Nine
And then she made the lasses-o...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#OneDrop Nine is out now, and features the overlap between #Reggae and Rabbie - Burns, that is! A great poem from Lorna Goodison celebrating the two cultures clashing.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-n...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-n...
An #Otwituary for #Crossroads actor #TonyAdams
I saw Mephistopheles checking out
of the semi-derelict motel just off
the Kings Oak bypass; moustache,
and sta-prest suit, already on his
third flirtation of the day, recording
each soul in a double-entry ledger.
I saw Mephistopheles checking out
of the semi-derelict motel just off
the Kings Oak bypass; moustache,
and sta-prest suit, already on his
third flirtation of the day, recording
each soul in a double-entry ledger.
October 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
An #Otwituary for #Crossroads actor #TonyAdams
I saw Mephistopheles checking out
of the semi-derelict motel just off
the Kings Oak bypass; moustache,
and sta-prest suit, already on his
third flirtation of the day, recording
each soul in a double-entry ledger.
I saw Mephistopheles checking out
of the semi-derelict motel just off
the Kings Oak bypass; moustache,
and sta-prest suit, already on his
third flirtation of the day, recording
each soul in a double-entry ledger.
Transmission 36 in the #ProjectAbeona sequence of poems from a speculative future comes from David Lee Summers and is available now from : projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...
Transmission #36 - Sailing Winds Made of Light
Transmission from: Phillip van Vogt (44), flight director of the Asbolus Light Sail Mission to Alpha Centauri.
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October 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Transmission 36 in the #ProjectAbeona sequence of poems from a speculative future comes from David Lee Summers and is available now from : projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...
#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes from Penny Campbell, and is out of this world…
October 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes from Penny Campbell, and is out of this world…
An #Otwituary for actor #SamanthaEggar
Beauty begets terror, terror begets horror;
before you can blink, you see the screen
closing in like the walls of a cell, noticing
that each role is darker than the last.
Beauty begets terror, terror begets horror;
before you can blink, you see the screen
closing in like the walls of a cell, noticing
that each role is darker than the last.
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
An #Otwituary for actor #SamanthaEggar
Beauty begets terror, terror begets horror;
before you can blink, you see the screen
closing in like the walls of a cell, noticing
that each role is darker than the last.
Beauty begets terror, terror begets horror;
before you can blink, you see the screen
closing in like the walls of a cell, noticing
that each role is darker than the last.
An #Otwituary for #SoftCell musician #DaveBall
Life is a non-stop cabaret, and this is
the sound of the house band, pitched
somewhere between bliss and blitz,
songs to dance to, songs of despair,
battle-scars of all the good times.
Life is a non-stop cabaret, and this is
the sound of the house band, pitched
somewhere between bliss and blitz,
songs to dance to, songs of despair,
battle-scars of all the good times.
October 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
An #Otwituary for #SoftCell musician #DaveBall
Life is a non-stop cabaret, and this is
the sound of the house band, pitched
somewhere between bliss and blitz,
songs to dance to, songs of despair,
battle-scars of all the good times.
Life is a non-stop cabaret, and this is
the sound of the house band, pitched
somewhere between bliss and blitz,
songs to dance to, songs of despair,
battle-scars of all the good times.
The things I do for the @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social …have been sent to Tobermory to teach some senior pupils essay writing skills all day today. What a chore.
October 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The things I do for the @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social …have been sent to Tobermory to teach some senior pupils essay writing skills all day today. What a chore.
One Drop Eight focuses on the history and influence of reggae fashion, with the main feature being a poem from Tanya Shirley...
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onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-e...
One Drop Eight
This one coming like a well hot plugged-in electric iron...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
One Drop Eight focuses on the history and influence of reggae fashion, with the main feature being a poem from Tanya Shirley...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-e...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-e...