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Gavin Wade

@gavinwade.bsky.social

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artist-curator www.eastsideprojects.org songs https://newrealityrecords.bandcamp.com/artists Is this the way the universe works? (555 Verses) with Paul Conneally, Out now https://www.setmargins.press/books/is-this-the-way-the-universe-works/

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · Nov 18

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every city I go
Free Gaza Free Gaza
Free Gaza
the conker in my pocket
comforts me

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#tantwenga @littleonion.bsky.social
#BrusselsMyLove #haiku #tanka #poetry #autumn #kewgardens

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 2h

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bad material
careless checks
terrible workmanship

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#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 2h

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listening bar
the sound of vinyl
folding into a jacket
Blood Orange returns
to his home in Essex

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#tanskenga
#bloodorange

Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 2h

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listening bar
the sound of vinyl
folding into a jacket
Blood Orange returns
to his home in Essex

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#tanskenga
#bloodorange

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Little Onion @littleonion.bsky.social · 3h

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listening bar
the sound of vinyl
folding into a jacket

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#tanskenga @gavinwade.bsky.social #haiku #listeningbar #mucropietry

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Little Onion @littleonion.bsky.social · 3h

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what do the woodcutter
and the fisherman
get up to next?
a charity shop copy
of Trout Mask Replica

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#haiku #tanskenga
#tanrenga #yuqiao
@littleonion.bsky.social @gavinwade.bsky.social #tanka #vinyl #micropoetry

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 23h

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reasons
why are some lives
worth saving and some are not?

Modi celebrates
one billion tonnes of coal
dug from the ground

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 6d

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all my fellow fireflies
turning on and off
and on again

if they ask
say I’m writing verses
in another world

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#twohaiku
#haiku
#chinejo
#sokan

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 6d

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what do the woodcutter
and the fisherman
get up to next

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#haiku #tanskenga
#tanrenga #yuqiao
@littleonion.bsky.social

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 6d

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all my fellow fireflies
turning on and off
and on again

if they ask
say I’m writing verses
in another world

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#twohaiku
#haiku
#chinejo
#sokan

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 7d

One week to go! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks.

Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)

Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Promotional card for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair, with a full list of the 66 participating artists and publishers. Full details at https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2025/

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 9d

If in London on Thursday this week, join me for some Verses and songs at Minor Attractions in the Mandrake Hotel 7.30pm Book in for free on the Minor Attractions site. minorattractions.com A little quick video edit for you from the garden with a snippet of 66 Verses. Hope you can come x

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 15d

From our networks: Minor Attractions returns to London 14–18 October 2025

For its third edition at The Mandrake, the fair is back bigger and more diverse than ever — doubling in size with 70+ international galleries and a week-long programme.

Free and open to all → RSVP at minorattractions.com

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 9d

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 9d

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a clearing
in an enclosed space
for killing things

the release
of living hostages
cloth wicks ready to burn

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#twohaiku
#haiku

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 28d

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white cranes red cranes
devils and angels caught
in Digbeth’s golden shaft

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#tanskenga #haiku
@littleonion.bsky.social
#micropoetry

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Little Onion @littleonion.bsky.social · 12d

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words keep tumbling out
walking down the street
with my producer
just how many songs
are there in one life?

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#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social @gavinwade.bsky.social #tanka #micropoetry

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 12d

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thousands of people
making their way North
along al-Rashid Road

wheat pasting
pictures to the walls
so they can’t be moved

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#twohaiku
#haiku

Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 14d

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I’ll make you
kiss my fuckin trainer
lick it fuckin clean

polysemic love
stacking up stones
like Ugo Rondinone

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#twohaiku
#haiku

Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 19d

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words keep tumbling out
walking down the street
with my producer

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#haiku #tanskenga
@littleonion.bsky.social

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 22d

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so so many leaves
and yet one jumps out at us
forty years of love
we keep pulling it out
it keeps coming back

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#haiku #love #autumn #tanskenga

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 22d

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so so many leaves
and yet one jumps out at us
forty years of love
we keep pulling it out
it keeps coming back

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#haiku #love #autumn #tanskenga

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Little Onion @littleonion.bsky.social · 22d

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so so many leaves
and yet one jumps out at us
forty years of love

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#haiku #love #autumn #tanskenga @gavinwade.bsky.social #micropoetry

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Little Onion @littleonion.bsky.social · 22d

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new garden cities
green fingers burned
by the promise of profit
Dyson hoovers up
the green pea market

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#tanskenga #haiku
@littleonion.bsky.social
#micropoetry @gavinwade.bsky.social #tanka #micropoetry #dyson #farming

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Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 22d

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growth is division
a continuous process
of ignoring the signals

the exchange of fluids
of contracts and verses
photos and files

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#twohaiku
#haiku

Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social · 24d

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new garden cities
green fingers burned
by the promise of profit

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#tanskenga #haiku
@littleonion.bsky.social
#micropoetry

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