Nols Nathankski

HOW TO GET TESTED AT BÀRD BOOKS MAKE POETRY WEIRD AGAIN · Episode

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MAKE POETRY WEIRD AGAIN Podcast · Nols Nathankski · A poetry experiment from Nols Nathankski for weirdos that love words.

made a gay little podcast - if you wanna be on it email me

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lol my picture was stolen from a group show and now they organisers are ghosting me

front cover of the book 7 deadly sins KATHY ACKER LESLIE DICK ZOE PAIRBAIRNS ALISON FELL SARA MATTLAND AGNES OWENS MICHELE ROBERTS "Seven fine writers, seven vices probed to the quick. Splendid." Angela Carter

todays chazza bookshop find so sexy

really looking forward to tony in conversation at bárd books in august.

Why would anyone want to read a book nobody wanted to write?

i mean i hate the late capitalism as much as the next queer but having a poetry book arrive thousands of miles into your little london post box in 4 days is wild. thank you @asterismbooks.bsky.social 🫴✨🦋

Orbit open mic blew open my
soul windows last night. Felt like weeping with joy this morning 🫰

Linda DiLeva #folkart

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full text of "I’m not a religious person but" by Chen Chen

"God sent an angel. One of his least qualified, though."

Quite a stretch of poems for #PoemADayJuly — and today's is no different, with "I’m not a religious person but" by Chen Chen

A poem is a conversation between the text and the reader.

Let's listen.

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people need to stop writing books about my life innit

Linda Gregg

HOW WE ARE SPARED At midsummer before dawn an orange light returns to the mountains Like a great weight and the small birds cry out And bear it up

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From 'Poetry' magazine (1967)
—W.S. Merwin

#poetry #poem #booksky

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

this is loneliness Since I could remember water I’ve had a fear of a shark attacking me One fear is the shark eats everything Contained in my pants And becomes either too full Or sickened to finish And I must drag myself Like a red marker To a teenage lifeguard The other fear is I am consumed Like the head of a corndog And am forced to discover There is air inside a shark to live As a teenager the superpower I always wanted was teleportation It seemed to me the ability to teleport Meant I would never Have to be alone with my thoughts This is loneliness my elevator Carries me 444 years below the ice I teleport to where I can meet any celebrity I want They all hate me

There is air inside a shark to live

Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi (@pizamapress.bsky.social)

not me spending $20 on UPS because of this description 🤭 also the @tomsnarsky.bsky.social post sealed the deal.

can confirm the new lorde record is a good soundtrack to a visit to the clap clinic

the salma amrou poem “full
moon on suicide watch” in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social today shook me to my core - 🤯

got taken by a cutie to Adam & Yves @barbican.bsky.social and can confirm queer frivolity ensued

i needed more gay porn growing up

Last will and If I die in sleep it will be in a convulsion whose "terror" and "beauty" proved irresistible at last. I rise, the quivering bud afraid to blossom. It comes out of dreams where music, color and objects interchange but for their continual flame. It is within this flame- flower I am drawn up sweating half awake and horizontal. Spine arches in short spasms. I see nothing above. Darkness everywhere or are my eyes gone out. Before now: I gave in to life and awoke trembling — a coward. But every time more rigid, every time more pull, I hurt with desire to explode and vow no more retreats. God wants to fuck me too, and death will be my final lover. I give her all. 9/7/61 Dave this is all true Recall N.Y.C. Xmas last, one night alone

Alden Van Buskirk

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Old Mother Aron Dahl · Loosening Orion's Belt · Song · 2018

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got rejected by Propel Magazine but did a get a facial this morning so the universe do be like that

things i’ve been called recently - selfish, indulgent, cute, an empathetic soul, emotionally immature, daddy, mate, bro, sir.

i wanted to tell my mum if i’m not a poet i will hang myself! but instead she gave me a couple of grand! 🙏 parents - some buy us to see if we will forgive them/🤭 pocket money to keep us there i guess /🫴✨ poets need to be spoon fed - 😋 silver / gold / plastic / bent. where are the mothers of the lost/kids under bridges do their spirits keep them in cardboard-soggy sleeping-bag-caresses sucking green glass teats 6-4-£5🤪 smoking to the butt - formula from a fostered bottle survival served in pyjamas they had no right to choose what can you become / when no one gets to name you why isn’t it the first thing we make (for ourselves) there would be a lot more kids called BLUEY! i’m here for it 😎 but no kids for me pweeze i still weep for the 🐈 “nols is dissapointed easily, most jobs eagerly started are left unfinished.” ain’t that what most parents pray for? the hoping, the going first / the never knowing we put everything we love in boxes in the end

i spent £500 on a poetry course 😉

portrait of a sad clown inscribe pastels and a3 archival paper by nols nathankski

#queerart - let me go 🫴😔

3rd april - word zoo
6th april sweet sundays
8th april - verses
9th april - free mind
15th april - full moon drum circle wheatsheaf hall
16th April - Ava word poetry CLF art cafe peckham

25th march - process poetry
26th march - Firepit poetry
27th march - poets together london cockney festival
29th march - open mic lgbt centre
1st april - hidden literature - grow hackney
2nd april - testing grounds

Lent poetry performances
3rd March - Sweet sundays
5th March - testing grounds
9th March - The Jago solidarity open mic
12th march - morrocco bound books
15th march - words scarlets letters poetry
16th march - wordspacepoems workshop
19th march - Yer Bard
20th march - verbal discharge