This week: Under the influence of poetry influencers, what decorative slippers can do for your sales and breaking into the slicks... jannoble.substack.com/p/n85-i-have...

Nº85 I have new wounds to pursue

Or why I’m giving up smiling for a while…

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🏛️ #1: My Name Is Swan by Jan Noble Here's an interview I did with Cara Waterfall whose collection 'The Lost Stations' is now available for pre-order from Ink & Ribbon Press, our publisher on Bainbridge Island, Washington... carawaterfall.substack.com/p/1-my-name-...

🏛️ #1: My Name Is Swan by Jan Noble

From performance to print: a book 10 years in the making.

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Oh the texture of echos...

Dave Bonta@davebonta.bsky.social · last wk.

An expansive view of pandemonium, the shared texture of echoes and more with @samrasnake.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/10/poet...

This week: A brief reflection on Elizabeth Smart’s masterpiece, how it has influenced my own work and why finding the thing that you love and letting it destroy you might occasionally be a very good idea… jannoble.substack.com/p/by-milano-...

Nº84 By Milano Centrale I sat down and wept

Or the trammelling ecstasy of loss...

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My Name Is Swan. A work in three parts. Published today by Ink & Ribbon press. "What has lived across film, theatre and recording now takes definitive shape as a modern poetic epic... moving from river to city to underworld..." inkandribbon.org/mynameisswan

This week: The death of a princess, the politics of poverty and how a footballer helped inspire a state of national mourning… jannoble.substack.com/p/n83-a-tale...

Nº83 A tale of two Swans

Or Lord Snooty and his Pals

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This week: Creating consumer rivalry in poetry, necromancy and the utility company, and understanding patriarchal pocket privilege… jannoble.substack.com/p/n82-how-sw...

N°82 How Swan made it San Francisco…

Or the fluff and the gold dust.

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This week: A walk in the park, a march for a bard and a field guide to delicately doorstepping the dead… jannoble.substack.com/p/n81-the-sh...

Nº81 The Shakespeare Oak

Or reclaiming poetry for the people

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What I learned from the back cover of an old LP, why jazz drummers are heavenly messengers and why the minor key is essential to poetry… jannoble.substack.com/p/n74-books-...

N°74 Books are where poems go to die

Or publish and be damned…

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This week: muddling on, what to do when the pain won’t go away and how winning ugly is ruining poetry… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

Nº73 How Barbara Hepworth helped me recover from the World Cup

Or the fading blues

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Surviving the summer with poets @shawnalemay.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @sallythomasnc.bsky.social @adamcairnspoet.bsky.social @coastalpoet.bsky.social @mariapopova.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @ren-powell.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/07/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 27

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

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This week: The hand of God, short-form verse and the long-form poem and how to get one over on the cool kids. N°72 A letter to Maradona open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

N°72 A letter to Maradona

Or the poetry of the toilet wall

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This week in the poetry blogs with @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @coastalpoet.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 26

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere, including Substack.

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This week: the perils of pitching your work to producers, how silence is the best way to kill a poet and entering a prize marrow in a county fair. open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

Nº71 Is it suitable for children?

Or bidding on a pair of antique duelling pistols

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We poets are not in the results business, we're in the business of scuffing the turf, of hoofing it up the park, we are in the business of vague and hopeful shots in the dark because there is more to poetry, much, much more to poetry than just winning cups... open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

N°69 Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie

Or how the hydration break has ruined epic poetry…

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You can find my alternative World Cup commentary here...

Dave Bonta@davebonta.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This week in the poetry blogs with @sbpoet.bsky.social @oyoguhito.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...

This week: football punditry and poetry, how the beautiful game isn’t beautiful any more and my run in with the Bereitschaftspolizei… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

N°68 A game for poets

Or staying up late to watch the Democratic Republic of the Congo vs. Uzbekistan

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This week: An overheard conversation on a train, a top one hundred list and whatever became of the poet’s girlfriend? open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

Nº66 Finding Fanny

Or the girl next door

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This week in the poetry blogs with @beckyltuch.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @jntod.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/05/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 18

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

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This week’s essay recalls a walk lead by Niall McDevitt and retraces one of my own, from Shakespeare to Mary Wollstonecraft - from where theatre was made to where the money is made - to find a very English revolutionary… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

Everything changes. Except the avant garde... open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

Nº60 What nourishes me destroys me

Or public displays at private views

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More communing with poet ghosts... and why live ones still insist on using 'Poetry Voice' at readings... open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

Nº59 Dead networking (with Keats and Blake)

Or putting on the poetry voice…

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Poets on Na/GloPoWriMo and other spring things @suefinch.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social 2/4 www.vianegativa.us/2026/04/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 15

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

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“I am just going outside and may be some time.”

Nº58 I’m just going out for a walk…

Or can you hold the line, caller?

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Not quite an announcement... just waving from here...

Nº57 The secrets of Swan

Or the wealth or worth of feathers...

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Soft signals sent from a far island… the sound of a white wing beating…

A First Glimpse - My Name Is Swan

Ink & Ribbon's Latest Poetry Book

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Another fine selection of essays, prime cuts and choice morsels…

Dave Bonta@davebonta.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Odes to mushrooms, the greenness of grief & more with @jannoble.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @lisamariebasile.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/poet...

I may write an essay a week but Dave reads dozens of them… and then picks a bunch… always a thrill to make this list…

Dave Bonta@davebonta.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Death stuck in traffic, puritans vs. mermaids and more with @emmalee1.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @jkepfer.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/poet...

Such a great resource this... it gets my endorsement not simply because I made the list again but for the wealth and diversity of material Dave curates here each week...

Dave Bonta@davebonta.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Spring blizzards, midwinter mojo, and more with poets @shawnalemay.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @iralightman.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/02/poet...

At about 4pm in the afternoon of 23rd February 1821 John Keats called out to his friend Joseph Severn: “lift me up—I am dying—I shall die easy; don't be frightened—be firm, and thank God it has come” He died at around 11pm.