Mike Ferguson
@mferguson-writer.bsky.social
teacher/writer/poet ~ for more info, go to 'About' at https://gravyfromthegazebo.blog/
New at Ice Floe Press we secured a leak...shhhhh.... Paul Woodford explores the conversational space between conceptual practice and poetic disorder. Within the department, he directs the Colliders fine tuning – guiding experiments and leaking notes and observations where appropriate.😎 Listen up!
Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026)@icefloepress.bsky.social · 4d agoNew features at Ice Floe Press Dis/enchantment/Anomie/ Spectacle autumn series. Welcome Paul Woodford's @visbardd.bsky.social Dept. of Visual Paradox... an incisive theoretical hybrid: essay/vision/image structures. Powerful work of this moment #hybrid #essay #visual icefloepress.net/2026/09/07/d...
On this day in 1858, Abraham Lincoln supposedly said in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time". There is no evidence he did.
New poem up at @internationaltimes.bsky.social thanks to Rupert and the good folks at IT. internationaltimes.it/blue-drift/
Blue Drift | IT
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Jimi Hendrix&The Move at The Royal Albert Hall; November 14, 1967.
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My Music Review Blog: Some Diurnal Aural Awe
I began writing this blog in 2011, driven by a love of music and need to have a forum for writing. If you look at the run of posts across the years, it is obvious how prolific I was at the beginnin…
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The new @icefloepress.bsky.social web series Dis/enchantment/Anomie/ Spectacle begins today w/ a potent #collaboration #hybrid piece by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & myself. Vikki performs my prose poem "Frost" on #keyboards, #voice, #sound & production; I created a new #visualpoem. A feast of senses.
Vikki C.@vikkicwrites.bsky.social · last wk.Honoured to lead off @icefloepress.bsky.social's ‘Dis/enchantment/ Anomie /Spectacle’ series with a collaboration FROST Poem & art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social Spoken word, music & production by Vikki C. A joy to create a soundscape for this startling piece 🔥 icefloepress.net/2026/09/03/f...
Our new series Dis/enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle launches today w/ a new collaboration between @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @rfredekenter.bsky.social image, text, sound, spoken word: a propulsive entry into a wealth of upcoming explorations by global writers & artists icefloepress.net/2026/09/03/f...
FROST (A Collaboration) – Text & Image – Robert Frede Kenter / Spoken Word, Music & Production – Vikki C.
FROST Vikki C. Performs Frost click to listen: Music, Spoken Word & Production: Vikki C. Text & Visual Poem: Robert Frede Kenter About the Authors Vikki C. is a writer and multidisciplinary…
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Our new web series begins to day & will run through autumn. Check back regularly & check out our website for updates, new books, & a brilliant living archive of 7 years of global contributors from Canada, U.S. UK, Ireland, Ghana, Nigeria, Europe, NZ. Artists on fire. icefloepress.net/2026/09/02/d...
Dis/enchantments / Anomie /Spectacle
Our new series Dis/enchantments/ Anomie / Spectacle begins Sept. 3rd 2026 and will feature a gathering of international writers, artists and hybrid creators including: Vikki C., Laura Kerr, Stephen…
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The Forked River Anthology by Augustus Young: A Review ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/t...
The Forked River Anthology by Augustus Young: A Review
The Forked River Anthology: Life, Love, Death, Cats and Dogs in Bras de Venus, Augustus Young , Ashgrove Publishing, 2025, ISBN: 978-1853982088, €27.38 Time repeats itself. That’s its job. This sta…
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A final plug for my poetry collection 'Tree Climbing' still available at Red Ceilings Press. I've actually prepared a short reading (for those who don't know how I would say 'Marshall Dillon'...). www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page...
Exhilarating. From a threading of the differing elements in its ‘literal’ story to the kaleidoscopic embroidery of disparate imaginings, this is a gripping, glorious poetic read. The virtuoso cut-up, collage and other findings constantly and creatively reconvene its memories.
🗣️ More funding, more teachers, and more space for the arts in schools 🚀
The Arts And Minds Campaign@artsmindscampaign.bsky.social · 2w ago“More funding, more teachers, more space." Jack Gamble knows what the government must do for the arts in schools. Sign our open letter if you agree ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/OpenLetterAM
In this week's Observer 'The New Review' interview with John Ironmonger, a positive shout-out for the small press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
‘In Love With Dust and Scratches’ internationaltimes.it/in-love-with... Kicking the Pricks: The Last of England, Derek Jarman Rupert Loydell
The Silence of calm surrounds the crackling fire internationaltimes.it www.internationaltimes.it/archive/inde...
My wonderful, beautiful, bright and distant granddaughter off to kindergarten with a giant rucksack last week - part days then all day yesterday
Three from Sacred Parasite: A Review ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/t...
Three from Sacred Parasite: A Review
No Dog, Andrei Codrescu illustrations by Catherine Tafur, Sacred Parasite, 2026, ISBN: 978-3-910822-17-7, €20.00 True Crime, Howie Good, Sacred Parasite, 2026, ISBN: 978-3-910822-16-0, €16.00 clown…
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The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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Elvis Presley Is Still The King/ Are You Sure Coleridge Done It This Way? internationaltimes.it/elvis-presle... Andrew Darlington
