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Bill Herbert
@billherbert.bsky.social
Visitor, scriever, ex-prof/-makar/-you name it, loser. Still seeking your poems for endlessly subdividing online/print projects: Ghost Furniture Catalogue; New Boots and Pantisocracies (Eco Sonnet Chain); New Gude & Godlie Ballatis (Dundee Renga), etc.
On Valentine’s Day #LindaFrance began our #EcoSonnetChain for which 14 poets each wrote a sonnet linked by last & 1st lines.

She said, ‘Our chain aims to embody the Amazonian ethic of mutirão – collective action based on the understanding everything is connected to everything else.’

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November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#MidnightWaterbearUpdates I suppose in a sense it’s always night practically everywhere in space:
August 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Here is the ghost of that very letter ‘s’ looking for the #BrendanCleary pamphlet referred to in yesterday’s post.

#GhostFurnitureCatalogue
June 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I particularly like the swivel in perspective halfway through #MatthewCaley’s poem for the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue, where the poem begins to view something alarming in the distance that turns out not to be so far away after all.

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #BlueprintPoetryPress
May 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#NewBootsAndPantisocracies #ExecutiveDisobediences
There’s an ironic call-and-response in @anneberkeley.bsky.social’s poem in which it seems one half of the page can’t hear what the other half is saying:
April 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Here’s Emma Must’s photo of her fragile subject and a link to her website:

www.emmamust.com

#EcoSonnetChain #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

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February 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Just blaan in. Turns oot there are _fower_ seasons. Aa the Pessoas telt us till they were blue in the fisses…

Plus a quartet o X-Men (and Shostakovich) micht hae mentioned it.

Translations o a hotch o heteronyms frae @brambrella.bsky.social and @carcanet.bsky.social, and affy fine they are tae.
January 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Yes, I was given that edition by someone who didn’t realise I already had the Virago, and thought exactly the same thing.

(All the Virago Carringtons feature her work, and very splendid they look as a result!)

#LeonoraCarrington
January 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Loved this article about the elusive #GhostOrchid so much, I began a collage which, in the slant-wise fashion of such things, then hardly referred to it.

Clearly a plant destined for the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue garden centre, there to remain ‘out of stock’.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
January 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Here’s a link to the #NewBootsAndPantisocracies website:

newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com

And here’s a lovely pic of the pamphlet, with a cover by @sophieherx.bsky.social

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January 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Finny stair
December 7, 2024 at 3:42 PM