Marian Christie
@marianchristie.bsky.social
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From Fibs to Fractals: exploring mathematical forms in poetry
A few years ago I was contacted out of the blue by Michelle Moloney King, the founder of Beir Bua Press. She had read some of my blog posts on mathematical forms in poetry, and offered to publish t…
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My collection of essays on mathematical poetry, From Fibs to Fractals, can now be freely downloaded in pdf form from my website. Enjoy!
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Thank you! Enjoy!
Just arrived, from Penteract Press:
@marianchristie.bsky.social, _Sky, Earth, Other_
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social, _The Robots of Babylon_
We just happened to be discussing poetry by constraints on the way home. Ms17, “These are such me books! How did you find them?!”
@marianchristie.bsky.social, _Sky, Earth, Other_
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social, _The Robots of Babylon_
We just happened to be discussing poetry by constraints on the way home. Ms17, “These are such me books! How did you find them?!”
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Thank you! Enjoy!
Some notes on Desolation Row and The Waste Land ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/s...
Some notes on Desolation Row and The Waste Land
Not intended as a coherent essay, just some interconnected thoughts. For a more coherent discussion of Eliot and Dylan, you could do worse than read the ‘Dylan and the Literary Tradition’ chapter i…
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June 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Some notes on Desolation Row and The Waste Land ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/s...
Some notes on Desolation Row and The Waste Land
Not intended as a coherent essay, just some interconnected thoughts. For a more coherent discussion of Eliot and Dylan, you could do worse than read the ‘Dylan and the Literary Tradition’ chapter i…
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June 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Some notes on Desolation Row and The Waste Land ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/s...
Dave Bonta's weekly selections from the poetry blogs are always an interesting and enjoyable read. Thank you, Dave, for including my tribute to Penteract Press this time round.
Poetry, despite everything w/ @roblucastaylor.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @angelatopping.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @jntod.bsky.social @dharmabam.bsky.social 2/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 22
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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June 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Dave Bonta's weekly selections from the poetry blogs are always an interesting and enjoyable read. Thank you, Dave, for including my tribute to Penteract Press this time round.
Immensely proud of my HCU hero grandson Nico and his family. 💙
Read Nico's story here:
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Read Nico's story here:
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June 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Immensely proud of my HCU hero grandson Nico and his family. 💙
Read Nico's story here:
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Read Nico's story here:
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My poem “Scaling the Mountain of Winter” is available from Penteract Press: penteractpress.com/store/scalin...
The poem is a strict erasure of an article about K2 by Michael Powell.
If you'd like to read my poem for free, you can find a PDF on my website: lukebradford.xyz/Scaling%20th...
The poem is a strict erasure of an article about K2 by Michael Powell.
If you'd like to read my poem for free, you can find a PDF on my website: lukebradford.xyz/Scaling%20th...
Scaling the Mountain of Winter - Luke Bradford — Penteract Press
Paperback, 105x148mm, monochrome, 28pp A strict erasure of the article “Scaling the World’s Most Lethal Mountain, in the Dead of Winter,” by Michael Powell, originally published in the online edition...
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March 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My poem “Scaling the Mountain of Winter” is available from Penteract Press: penteractpress.com/store/scalin...
The poem is a strict erasure of an article about K2 by Michael Powell.
If you'd like to read my poem for free, you can find a PDF on my website: lukebradford.xyz/Scaling%20th...
The poem is a strict erasure of an article about K2 by Michael Powell.
If you'd like to read my poem for free, you can find a PDF on my website: lukebradford.xyz/Scaling%20th...
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Penteract Press is having a sale!
Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout.
Buy these beautiful books of constrained, visual, and formal poetry...
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Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout.
Buy these beautiful books of constrained, visual, and formal poetry...
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Store — Penteract Press
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May 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Penteract Press is having a sale!
Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout.
Buy these beautiful books of constrained, visual, and formal poetry...
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Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout.
Buy these beautiful books of constrained, visual, and formal poetry...
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MATHEMATICS OF A FROZEN LAKE
(Palindrome-Haiku)
Slam ice, dynamic.
A bad loch: Cold abaci —
Many decimals.
(Palindrome-Haiku)
Slam ice, dynamic.
A bad loch: Cold abaci —
Many decimals.
May 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
MATHEMATICS OF A FROZEN LAKE
(Palindrome-Haiku)
Slam ice, dynamic.
A bad loch: Cold abaci —
Many decimals.
(Palindrome-Haiku)
Slam ice, dynamic.
A bad loch: Cold abaci —
Many decimals.
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And the good news is, Penteract Press is currently having a sale!
Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout
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Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout
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May 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And the good news is, Penteract Press is currently having a sale!
Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout
penteractpress.com/store
Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout
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New blog post: A celebration of Penteract Press!
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social @claraetherin.bsky.social
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A Paean to Penteract Press
In early spring a book arrived that I had been eagerly anticipating. Atomic Masquerade by Clara Etherin did not disappoint. Witty, exuberant, layered and innovative, this visual poetry co…
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May 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New blog post: A celebration of Penteract Press!
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social @claraetherin.bsky.social
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@anthonyetherin.bsky.social @claraetherin.bsky.social
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And the good news is, Penteract Press is currently having a sale!
Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout
penteractpress.com/store
Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout
penteractpress.com/store
May 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And the good news is, Penteract Press is currently having a sale!
Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout
penteractpress.com/store
Get 30% off everything, using the code SALE2025 at checkout
penteractpress.com/store
New blog post: A celebration of Penteract Press!
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social @claraetherin.bsky.social
marianchristiepoetry.net/a-paean-to-p...
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social @claraetherin.bsky.social
marianchristiepoetry.net/a-paean-to-p...
A Paean to Penteract Press
In early spring a book arrived that I had been eagerly anticipating. Atomic Masquerade by Clara Etherin did not disappoint. Witty, exuberant, layered and innovative, this visual poetry co…
marianchristiepoetry.net
May 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New blog post: A celebration of Penteract Press!
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social @claraetherin.bsky.social
marianchristiepoetry.net/a-paean-to-p...
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social @claraetherin.bsky.social
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A Book of Sounds by @billymills.bsky.social reviewed by @keithjebb.bsky.social in Tears in The Fence:
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A Book of Sounds by Billy Mills (Shearsman Books)
‘… the drag of syntax each wa…
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May 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A Book of Sounds by @billymills.bsky.social reviewed by @keithjebb.bsky.social in Tears in The Fence:
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Thanks to your generosity, we’ve raised $7,024—nearly 60% of the goal! I still urgently need $4,976 to cover expenses related to fittings, adjustments, and travel.
✅ $50 from 100 people would get me there.
✅ Even $25/$10/$5 makes a big difference.
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✅ $50 from 100 people would get me there.
✅ Even $25/$10/$5 makes a big difference.
gofund.me/d602a52e
Donate to Moira J. Saucer needs dental work to end pain & eat normally, organized by Robert Kenter
Our friend, Moira J. Saucer, a brilliant writer, editor, and … Robert Kenter needs your support for Moira J. Saucer needs dental work to end pain & eat normally
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March 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thanks to your generosity, we’ve raised $7,024—nearly 60% of the goal! I still urgently need $4,976 to cover expenses related to fittings, adjustments, and travel.
✅ $50 from 100 people would get me there.
✅ Even $25/$10/$5 makes a big difference.
gofund.me/d602a52e
✅ $50 from 100 people would get me there.
✅ Even $25/$10/$5 makes a big difference.
gofund.me/d602a52e
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FALL OF MAN (Anagram-Snowball)
A.,
as
sad,
said
ideas
raised
despair.
Paradise,
appraised,
disappears.
A.,
as
sad,
said
ideas
raised
despair.
Paradise,
appraised,
disappears.
March 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
FALL OF MAN (Anagram-Snowball)
A.,
as
sad,
said
ideas
raised
despair.
Paradise,
appraised,
disappears.
A.,
as
sad,
said
ideas
raised
despair.
Paradise,
appraised,
disappears.
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On a tear
rummaging and tearing sorting the night into moth or wisp a mad first visit
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March 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Do you have any good theoretical books to recommend on the history of combinatory literature?
I’m coming up empty! (I read English and French)
I’m coming up empty! (I read English and French)
March 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Do you have any good theoretical books to recommend on the history of combinatory literature?
I’m coming up empty! (I read English and French)
I’m coming up empty! (I read English and French)
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Happy International Women's Day @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social @gjgreenlea.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social @the-ethelzine.bsky.social @chelsdingman.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social &&&
❤️🔥💐
❤️🔥💐
March 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Ash Wednesday
We like sausage and maple syrupso we had pancakes for supper yesterday, which was Shrove Tuesday. I didn’t have a miniature plaster figureof a baby to buryin a pan of king cake, but I said wh…
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March 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Here is a mathematical visual poem of mine titled "Delusions of Control" It uses a similar triangles poem structure - There is a interesting review of this piece on my substack feed.
March 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Here is a mathematical visual poem of mine titled "Delusions of Control" It uses a similar triangles poem structure - There is a interesting review of this piece on my substack feed.
Look at this beautiful book from Carnelian Heart Publishing carnelianheartpublishing.co.uk 🥰
Nominated for the #NAMA National Arts Merits Award for fiction n Zimbabwe, and deservedly so!
Thank you, Samantha Vazhure, can't wait to read!
Nominated for the #NAMA National Arts Merits Award for fiction n Zimbabwe, and deservedly so!
Thank you, Samantha Vazhure, can't wait to read!
February 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look at this beautiful book from Carnelian Heart Publishing carnelianheartpublishing.co.uk 🥰
Nominated for the #NAMA National Arts Merits Award for fiction n Zimbabwe, and deservedly so!
Thank you, Samantha Vazhure, can't wait to read!
Nominated for the #NAMA National Arts Merits Award for fiction n Zimbabwe, and deservedly so!
Thank you, Samantha Vazhure, can't wait to read!