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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Jan Noble
@jannoble.bsky.social
Knowing I’ll never reach you but being OK with getting close…”Jan Noble has gilded tonsils” (LPT) ★★★★★ https://jannoble.co.uk
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 · last mo.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 · 4mo agoOdes 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 · 5mo agoDeath 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 · 5mo agoSpring 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.
On this day in 1821 the poet John Keats died in Rome. #onthisday #otd #keats I’m launching a new work, ‘A Masque for Keats’, at Keats-Shelley House in Rome, 28 Feb, 5pm. More info here: ksh.roma.it/events/masqu...
An honour to be on this list… do come and find me on Substack and follow the series I’m writing about Keats…
Dave Bonta@davebonta.bsky.social · 6mo ago2/3 @mcrucefix.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @jntod.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @lisabrockwell.bsky.social @johnsiddique.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @collinkelley.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social www.vianegativa.us/2026/02/poet...
Launching ‘A Masque for Keats’ at Keats-Shelley house in Rome on 28th February, a new verse-drama at the intersection of theatre and poetry…
The critic John Lockhart began his savage attack on Keats by saying, “Of all the manias of this mad age, the most incurable, as well as the most common, seems to be no other than the Metromanie.”
Plaster cast of life-mask of John Keats by Benjamin Robert Haydon.
Going live at five to talk all things Keats… open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: John Keats: Vulgar Cockney
Starting Jan 11 at 12:00 PM EST
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My fourth essay on John Keats concerns letters, criticism and why shutting the fuck up is sometimes the only policy… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...
Dear John...
A fourth, short essay charting the last days of John Keats...
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