Andy Jackson
@azjackson.bsky.social
Writer, editor of poetry, including Poetry Scotland and Whaleback City Press. Knee-deep in assorted poetry-related malarkey including New Boots & Pantisocracies, the Otwituaries, Double Dactyl of the Week, Project Abeona and more.
For lovers of strong words and poetry with something to say, it's no.3 in #WhalebackCityPress 's sonnet chain pamphlets.
Available from the WCP website, along with very limited copies of the previous two sonnet chains, 'Peace' and 'Strike'
whalebackcitypress.co.uk/shop/
Available from the WCP website, along with very limited copies of the previous two sonnet chains, 'Peace' and 'Strike'
whalebackcitypress.co.uk/shop/
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
For lovers of strong words and poetry with something to say, it's no.3 in #WhalebackCityPress 's sonnet chain pamphlets.
Available from the WCP website, along with very limited copies of the previous two sonnet chains, 'Peace' and 'Strike'
whalebackcitypress.co.uk/shop/
Available from the WCP website, along with very limited copies of the previous two sonnet chains, 'Peace' and 'Strike'
whalebackcitypress.co.uk/shop/
Whaleback City Press brings you the third in our series of #SonnetChain pamphlets. Join us online via Zoom at 7.30pm on December 10th (link to follow nearer the event) as we present poems from Eco Sonnets with a team of fabulous poets. More details here:
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November 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Whaleback City Press brings you the third in our series of #SonnetChain pamphlets. Join us online via Zoom at 7.30pm on December 10th (link to follow nearer the event) as we present poems from Eco Sonnets with a team of fabulous poets. More details here:
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An #Otwituary for fashion designer #PamHogg
This season we’re all in catsuits,
stitched from skins of dead punks
and supermodels, bought from a
boutique on a dead-end street.
We know style moves on; till then
we’ll wear our art on our sleeves.
This season we’re all in catsuits,
stitched from skins of dead punks
and supermodels, bought from a
boutique on a dead-end street.
We know style moves on; till then
we’ll wear our art on our sleeves.
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
An #Otwituary for fashion designer #PamHogg
This season we’re all in catsuits,
stitched from skins of dead punks
and supermodels, bought from a
boutique on a dead-end street.
We know style moves on; till then
we’ll wear our art on our sleeves.
This season we’re all in catsuits,
stitched from skins of dead punks
and supermodels, bought from a
boutique on a dead-end street.
We know style moves on; till then
we’ll wear our art on our sleeves.
Transmission 38 from #ProjectAbeona sees what's left of the animals go in two-by-two. This transmission beamed in via M. Frost
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November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Transmission 38 from #ProjectAbeona sees what's left of the animals go in two-by-two. This transmission beamed in via M. Frost
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com
#OneDrop Thirteen features a tense yet tender poem of motherhood from Katharine Macfarlane plus some context and music from the late #JimmyCliff, pioneer of the #reggae sound.
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One Drop Thirteen
The hotter the battle you see is the sweeter the victory now...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#OneDrop Thirteen features a tense yet tender poem of motherhood from Katharine Macfarlane plus some context and music from the late #JimmyCliff, pioneer of the #reggae sound.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-t...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-t...
An #Otwituary for the first #reggae superstar, #JimmyCliff
Sit tight and listen keenly;
a sweet sound from the yard,
neither dread nor dancehall,
the sound of the flowing river
we all must cross someday.
Sit tight and listen keenly;
a sweet sound from the yard,
neither dread nor dancehall,
the sound of the flowing river
we all must cross someday.
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
An #Otwituary for the first #reggae superstar, #JimmyCliff
Sit tight and listen keenly;
a sweet sound from the yard,
neither dread nor dancehall,
the sound of the flowing river
we all must cross someday.
Sit tight and listen keenly;
a sweet sound from the yard,
neither dread nor dancehall,
the sound of the flowing river
we all must cross someday.
#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from
Sharon Larkin, and is mercifully shorter than the novel that inspires it…
Sharon Larkin, and is mercifully shorter than the novel that inspires it…
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from
Sharon Larkin, and is mercifully shorter than the novel that inspires it…
Sharon Larkin, and is mercifully shorter than the novel that inspires it…
An #Otwituary for #StoneRoses bassist Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield #Mani
You lived at ground zero, where
the sound of a city drowned out
every other song in the world,
where a bassline could crumble
suburbs to dust, and to survive
meant you were made of stone.
You lived at ground zero, where
the sound of a city drowned out
every other song in the world,
where a bassline could crumble
suburbs to dust, and to survive
meant you were made of stone.
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
An #Otwituary for #StoneRoses bassist Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield #Mani
You lived at ground zero, where
the sound of a city drowned out
every other song in the world,
where a bassline could crumble
suburbs to dust, and to survive
meant you were made of stone.
You lived at ground zero, where
the sound of a city drowned out
every other song in the world,
where a bassline could crumble
suburbs to dust, and to survive
meant you were made of stone.
#OneDrop Twelve features #BobMarley's influence on Jamaican politics in the 1970s - a poem from Geoffrey Philp and some other paraphernalia exploring Marley's political side.
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One Drop Twelve
None but ourselves can free our mind...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
#OneDrop Twelve features #BobMarley's influence on Jamaican politics in the 1970s - a poem from Geoffrey Philp and some other paraphernalia exploring Marley's political side.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-t...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-t...
#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes once more from the cultured pen of Christopher Reid...
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes once more from the cultured pen of Christopher Reid...
#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes from Matthew Craig-Greene, and was a bit of a b*stard to write, apparently.
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes from Matthew Craig-Greene, and was a bit of a b*stard to write, apparently.
#OneDrop Eleven is on the mic, featuring #reggae MC U-Roy and the poetry of Hannah Lowe...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
#OneDrop Eleven is on the mic, featuring #reggae MC U-Roy and the poetry of Hannah Lowe...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-e...
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An #Otwituary for #JamesWatson, co-discoverer of the #DoubleHelix
Science is a poem without rules,
a solution to a twisted conundrum.
Inside this poem are the molecules
which make up every other poem,
written, forgotten and yet to come.
Science is a poem without rules,
a solution to a twisted conundrum.
Inside this poem are the molecules
which make up every other poem,
written, forgotten and yet to come.
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
An #Otwituary for #JamesWatson, co-discoverer of the #DoubleHelix
Science is a poem without rules,
a solution to a twisted conundrum.
Inside this poem are the molecules
which make up every other poem,
written, forgotten and yet to come.
Science is a poem without rules,
a solution to a twisted conundrum.
Inside this poem are the molecules
which make up every other poem,
written, forgotten and yet to come.
An #Otwituary for actor #PaulineCollins
Take this role as a gift in two acts,
your audience willing you to risk
what they never could. Leave them
with those lines ringing: why do we
get all this life if we don’t use it?
Take this role as a gift in two acts,
your audience willing you to risk
what they never could. Leave them
with those lines ringing: why do we
get all this life if we don’t use it?
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
An #Otwituary for actor #PaulineCollins
Take this role as a gift in two acts,
your audience willing you to risk
what they never could. Leave them
with those lines ringing: why do we
get all this life if we don’t use it?
Take this role as a gift in two acts,
your audience willing you to risk
what they never could. Leave them
with those lines ringing: why do we
get all this life if we don’t use it?
Transmission 37 from #ProjectAbeona is beamed in via Freya Sacksen in a decaying orbit with only plants for company...
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Transmission 37 from #ProjectAbeona is beamed in via Freya Sacksen in a decaying orbit with only plants for company...
An #Otwituary for actor #DianeLadd
I saw you rouged in a dead man’s gore.
I saw you work the diner. I saw the silence
in your eyes fueling that barbed kindness,
and though you don’t live there anymore,
still I can never rinse away that wildness.
I saw you rouged in a dead man’s gore.
I saw you work the diner. I saw the silence
in your eyes fueling that barbed kindness,
and though you don’t live there anymore,
still I can never rinse away that wildness.
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
An #Otwituary for actor #DianeLadd
I saw you rouged in a dead man’s gore.
I saw you work the diner. I saw the silence
in your eyes fueling that barbed kindness,
and though you don’t live there anymore,
still I can never rinse away that wildness.
I saw you rouged in a dead man’s gore.
I saw you work the diner. I saw the silence
in your eyes fueling that barbed kindness,
and though you don’t live there anymore,
still I can never rinse away that wildness.
#OneDrop Ten is here. The 10th in Stephen Watt and Andy Jackson's series of poetic and musical celebrations of #reggae. This week's poem is a history lesson from Nick Toczek. Also, some serious Dub from Augustus Pablo and The Aggrovators/King Tubby.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-ten
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-ten
One Drop Ten
Keep On Dubbing...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#OneDrop Ten is here. The 10th in Stephen Watt and Andy Jackson's series of poetic and musical celebrations of #reggae. This week's poem is a history lesson from Nick Toczek. Also, some serious Dub from Augustus Pablo and The Aggrovators/King Tubby.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-ten
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-ten
Double Dactyl of the Week is a masterpiece of design from the sarky pen of Sian Lang
We've been publishing these for nearly three years - take a look at our archive here!
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We've been publishing these for nearly three years - take a look at our archive here!
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November 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Double Dactyl of the Week is a masterpiece of design from the sarky pen of Sian Lang
We've been publishing these for nearly three years - take a look at our archive here!
doubledactyls.wordpress.com/double-dacty...
We've been publishing these for nearly three years - take a look at our archive here!
doubledactyls.wordpress.com/double-dacty...
Bitesize Book Club Dundee - starts on November 12th, but you still have until Friday 7th to reserve a place! A Book Club with no homework - just the pleasure of a stress-free weekly read of something stimulating and rewarding. Details in the link below!
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Bitesize Book Club
A five-week course with Andy Jackson. 12th November - 10th December 2025. Wednesday mornings. 10 a. m. -12 p.m.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Bitesize Book Club Dundee - starts on November 12th, but you still have until Friday 7th to reserve a place! A Book Club with no homework - just the pleasure of a stress-free weekly read of something stimulating and rewarding. Details in the link below!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bitesize-b...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bitesize-b...
An #Otwituary for actor #TchekyKaryo
I am the prince of melancholy,
my face an unchanging moon,
my voice like low tide. There is
drama in my stillness. You think
you know what I’m thinking?
You will know when I tell you.
I am the prince of melancholy,
my face an unchanging moon,
my voice like low tide. There is
drama in my stillness. You think
you know what I’m thinking?
You will know when I tell you.
November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
An #Otwituary for actor #TchekyKaryo
I am the prince of melancholy,
my face an unchanging moon,
my voice like low tide. There is
drama in my stillness. You think
you know what I’m thinking?
You will know when I tell you.
I am the prince of melancholy,
my face an unchanging moon,
my voice like low tide. There is
drama in my stillness. You think
you know what I’m thinking?
You will know when I tell you.
An #Otwituary for film-maker #PeterWatkins
The content of this Otwituary
has been judged to be too
horrifying for social media;
no firestorms burning through
Home Counties, no fallout, no
looters shot on the street, only
this nightmare, filmed as truth.
The content of this Otwituary
has been judged to be too
horrifying for social media;
no firestorms burning through
Home Counties, no fallout, no
looters shot on the street, only
this nightmare, filmed as truth.
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
An #Otwituary for film-maker #PeterWatkins
The content of this Otwituary
has been judged to be too
horrifying for social media;
no firestorms burning through
Home Counties, no fallout, no
looters shot on the street, only
this nightmare, filmed as truth.
The content of this Otwituary
has been judged to be too
horrifying for social media;
no firestorms burning through
Home Counties, no fallout, no
looters shot on the street, only
this nightmare, filmed as truth.
An #Otwituary for #FawltyTowers actor #PrunellaScales
I hear a laugh from another room,
the sound of Medusa cross-bred
with a hyena. To see her up close
is to step closer to death; death
by stare, by word, by comic gelding.
I hear a laugh from another room,
the sound of Medusa cross-bred
with a hyena. To see her up close
is to step closer to death; death
by stare, by word, by comic gelding.
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
An #Otwituary for #FawltyTowers actor #PrunellaScales
I hear a laugh from another room,
the sound of Medusa cross-bred
with a hyena. To see her up close
is to step closer to death; death
by stare, by word, by comic gelding.
I hear a laugh from another room,
the sound of Medusa cross-bred
with a hyena. To see her up close
is to step closer to death; death
by stare, by word, by comic gelding.
Still time to get your tickets for this event at Glasgow's
@AyeWrite festival on Friday 7th November - Bill Herbert and myself with some fantastic poetry! Just £6.72 for an evening's entertainment...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/word...
@AyeWrite festival on Friday 7th November - Bill Herbert and myself with some fantastic poetry! Just £6.72 for an evening's entertainment...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/word...
Words from Whaleback City: Andy Jackson & Bill Herbert - Glasgow Life
Aye Write 2025 presents Words from Whaleback City: Andy Jackson & Bill Herbert
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October 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Still time to get your tickets for this event at Glasgow's
@AyeWrite festival on Friday 7th November - Bill Herbert and myself with some fantastic poetry! Just £6.72 for an evening's entertainment...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/word...
@AyeWrite festival on Friday 7th November - Bill Herbert and myself with some fantastic poetry! Just £6.72 for an evening's entertainment...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/word...
#OneDrop Nine is out now, and features the overlap between #Reggae and Rabbie - Burns, that is! A great poem from Lorna Goodison celebrating the two cultures clashing.
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One Drop Nine
And then she made the lasses-o...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#OneDrop Nine is out now, and features the overlap between #Reggae and Rabbie - Burns, that is! A great poem from Lorna Goodison celebrating the two cultures clashing.
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-n...
onedroppoetry.substack.com/p/one-drop-n...
An #Otwituary for #Crossroads actor #TonyAdams
I saw Mephistopheles checking out
of the semi-derelict motel just off
the Kings Oak bypass; moustache,
and sta-prest suit, already on his
third flirtation of the day, recording
each soul in a double-entry ledger.
I saw Mephistopheles checking out
of the semi-derelict motel just off
the Kings Oak bypass; moustache,
and sta-prest suit, already on his
third flirtation of the day, recording
each soul in a double-entry ledger.
October 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
An #Otwituary for #Crossroads actor #TonyAdams
I saw Mephistopheles checking out
of the semi-derelict motel just off
the Kings Oak bypass; moustache,
and sta-prest suit, already on his
third flirtation of the day, recording
each soul in a double-entry ledger.
I saw Mephistopheles checking out
of the semi-derelict motel just off
the Kings Oak bypass; moustache,
and sta-prest suit, already on his
third flirtation of the day, recording
each soul in a double-entry ledger.