@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 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.
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.
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!
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#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...
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.
@cerysmatthews.bsky.social thanks for sharing Chuckβ¦youβre very kind!
30.11.2025 10:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@cerysmatthews.bsky.social also in support of your tribute today!
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An #Otwituary for #StoneRoses bassist Gary βManiβ 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.
@cerysmatthews.bsky.social in support of your tribute this morning!
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An #Otwituary for playwright and screenwriter #TomStoppard
There is nothing as dramatic
as an idea; who will speak it?
Who will speak against it?
Who will be changed by it?
The idea sleeps in the pen of
its writer, and only awakens
when it is time to be spoken.
For lovers of strong words and poetry with something to say, it's no.3 in #WhalebackCityPress 's sonnet chain pamphlets.
Available from the WCP website, along with very limited copies of the previous two sonnet chains, 'Peace' and 'Strike'
whalebackcitypress.co.uk/shop/
Whaleback City Press brings you the third in our series of #SonnetChain pamphlets. Join us online via Zoom at 7.30pm on December 10th (link to follow nearer the event) as we present poems from Eco Sonnets with a team of fabulous poets. More details here:
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An #Otwituary for fashion designer #PamHogg
This season weβre all in catsuits,
stitched from skins of dead punks
and supermodels, bought from a
boutique on a dead-end street.
We know style moves on; till then
weβll wear our art on our sleeves.
Transmission 38 from #ProjectAbeona sees what's left of the animals go in two-by-two. This transmission beamed in via M. Frost
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com
#OneDrop Thirteen features a tense yet tender poem of motherhood from Katharine Macfarlane plus some context and music from the late #JimmyCliff, pioneer of the #reggae sound.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-t...
An #Otwituary for the first #reggae superstar, #JimmyCliff
Sit tight and listen keenly;
a sweet sound from the yard,
neither dread nor dancehall,
the sound of the flowing river
we all must cross someday.
#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from
Sharon Larkin, and is mercifully shorter than the novel that inspires itβ¦
An #Otwituary for #StoneRoses bassist Gary βManiβ 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.
#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...
#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes once more from the cultured pen of Christopher Reid...
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#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes from Matthew Craig-Greene, and was a bit of a b*stard to write, apparently.
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#OneDrop Eleven is on the mic, featuring #reggae MC U-Roy and the poetry of Hannah Lowe...
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.
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 donβt use it?
Transmission 37 from #ProjectAbeona is beamed in via Freya Sacksen in a decaying orbit with only plants for company...
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An #Otwituary for actor #DianeLadd
I saw you rouged in a dead manβs gore.
I saw you work the diner. I saw the silence
in your eyes fueling that barbed kindness,
and though you donβt 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
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...
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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