@MushtaqBilalPhD @i_spell_good_ @odavies9 To paraphrase Santayana, ‘Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it’. We want our coming generation to learn from the past to make a better future, surely?
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@Azjackson
Home of the Otwituaries - tweet-length poetic elegies for the departed, plus assorted poetry-related malarkey from Andy Jackson.
Scotland, United Kingdom Joined Mart 2009
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@i_spell_good_ @odavies9 "long history" Making my point for me.
Do you want the coming generation to be ready for the future or history?
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So, my university is wiping out all Humanities teaching.
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We're very near the end of the #OneDropPoetry series - No.24 is the penultimate posting. We celebrate a mixed bag of ska, dance styles and #reggae sauciness from Max Romeo, plus a poem from the great Stephen Watt.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-twe…
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#6 in the Art #SonnetChain (curated by Sophie Herxheimer and Nancy Campbell) is now live. The latest posting is a treat for the eyes and the soul from Chrissy Williams.
…wbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/05/02/art…
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I have a new book of poetry out - Disco Biscuits! It’s been 5 years in the making…I hope you’ll buy a copy from
bluediode.co.uk/product-page/d…
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Day 1 of the Budding Writers workshop programme was a great success! 30 people enjoyed a mindful and relaxing writing workshop led with wisdom and compassion by Sukhema. There's still time to join the fun - sign up here for the remaining 19 workshops!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/budding-writ…?
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Transmission 46 from #ProjectAbeona comes from F.J. Bergmann, expertly channeling the dreams of a sleeping passenger on the longest of journeys.
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com
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Budding Writers from Lapidus Scotland starts on Friday- 20 one-hour writing workshops in 20 days, starting 9am on May 1st with a session from Sukhema, followed by Elaine Konopka, John Glenday and more.
One small payment gets you into all 20 workshops!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/budding-writ…?
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An #Otwituary for 1970s singer #KathyDooley
I saw you on Top of the Pops,
reeling from the suffocation
of grinding Cabaret nights,
your lipstick-smudged teeth
and hen-night choreography,
your 'can’t believe I’m here'
smile. Many were called, yes,
but few were ever so chosen.
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We've got a little behind ourselves here at #DoubleDactyl Towers - here are the previous two for your delectation - from Christopher Reid and Sharon Larkin.
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One Drop Poetry is a poetic celebration of reggae music, style and culture. No.23 features the reggae we heard on our radio back in the gilded age of the 1970s. #BobMarley and #JohnnyNash take centre stage, with a poem from the great Geoffrey Philp.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-twe…
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An #Otwituary for movie designer #DeanTavoularis
There are some places in the past
that only the movies can take us to,
designing, dressing and detailing
the darkness at the heart of America,
through time and tone and narrative.
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An #Otwituary for musician #AlanOsmond
I did not choose the Seventies,
and yet it poured its light into me,
offering an Elysium in bell-bottoms,
promising summer without autumn,
a place where all the rivers are lazy
and people, like horses, are crazy.
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An #Otwituary for zoologist #DesmondMorris
He writes of homo finalis, last
of the apes, up on its hind legs
yet stooping under the weight
of its own intellect. He writes
the story of a curious species,
not knowing that the last page
will be written by someone else.
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An #Otwituary for DJ and music lover #AndyKershaw
Today I heard a song I didn’t know I needed;
born at the frontier of music and ethnography.
Bring me real music from an unreal world,
from Rwanda to Rochdale, these curiosities
of sound, the pleasures of the unlikely groove.
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An #Otwituary for #Clannad singer #MáireBrennan
If the rain owned a voice
it would sound like you.
It would settle like dew,
a shimmer of glissando,
the plainsong of a people
who still believe that music
is the cláirseach of the soul.
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