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Billy Mills
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Irish poet, cricket fan, book reviews, Bob Dylan.
See my blog: https://ellipticalmovements

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"I give as examples Billy Mills, Susan Howe and J.H. Prynne, although the assumption that they write for themselves is entirely my own" J.C.C. Mays
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I had no idea what most of those things were.
Performative Purity Test score 90
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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For our overseas friends, Galway hookers are built to last but responsive to the gentlest touch:
A Galway hooker at sea.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Happy Birthday, Doctor Williams:
The Great Figure By William Carlos Williams Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.
September 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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At Vermeer’s Window take three rooms a few friends the ordinary days this quiet house in a familiar city a muted conversation or music or a letter read, a letter answered it is, perhaps, sufficient to describe this colder, northern light
August 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Now playing
Music is the key: Michala Petri / Keith Jarrett BACH Sonatas album cover
July 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Bill Griffiths: Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80), Collected Poems & Sequences, (1981-91) and Collected Poems Volume 3 (1992-96).
July 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Of time, more or less A brief ramble, possibly the beginnings of a much longer ramble.
June 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Tao 21 & 22 21 virtue cleaves to the Way the Way in its movement evades & confounds yet implies form evades & confounds yet implies being
May 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Shameless self-promotion. I'm not on Facebook, but someone sent me this.
Screenshot of Charles Bernstein praising my blog on FB.
May 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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On my Substack now:

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Small Language Models: A draft of something or another.
May 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima book cover.
April 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Remember Barry Tebb? You read him in 'The Children of Albion' and then never again. This is an oldie, but his work is available out there. And you can read reviews on my blog.
Poems by Barry Tebb Cover of Bridge Over the Aire by Barry Tebb.
April 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Teaser for Patreon post on the Tao
April 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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#FavouritePoem
Larry Eigner pamphlet cover Larry Eigner Poem
April 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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It's #FavouritePoem time, with Robert Lax
in me in me in me is the watcher in me in me in me is the watcher in me is the watcher in me is the watcher in me in me in me is the watcher
April 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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It being Seachtain na Gaeilge #SnaG25, here's a great Irish poem along with translation into English for you to enjoy:

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Cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan adhmad? Tá deireadh na gcoillte ar lár Níl trácht ar Chill Chais ná ar a teaghlach Is ní bainfear1 a cling go bráth An áit úd a gcónaiodh an deighbhean Fuair gradam is meidhir thar mhnáibh Bh https://lyricstranslate.com/en/caoineadh-cill-chais-lament-cill-chais.html
March 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Four #haiku of mine included in this fine online anthology of Irish haiku.

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a dog barks & a dog barks at the barking dog *** moss from the roof softly falling – the crows are up *** distant thunder – even the grasses tingle *** morning rain – slugs still on the glazed tiles
March 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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A little song from my 'a book of sounds'

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patterns of air we make without meaning the great wheel turns we turn to nothing more than all we are
March 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Bob Dylan Tempest album cover.
February 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Vegetarian blues classics 1: Little Red Rooster.
Small rooster potato.
February 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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A poem.
No Images By William Waring Cuney She does not know her beauty, she thinks her brown body has no glory. If she could dance naked under palm trees and see her image in the river, she would know. But there are no palm trees on the street, and dish water gives back no images.
February 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Larry Eigner:
among various hills parallels verticals wires straight light past the church, building the words, gathering traffic through goods windows store banks massing to the side, large back of you green grown up the air crooked the end of the street © 1968, Larry Eigner, courtesy of the Eigner Estate
February 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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What am I doing when I'm Writing Poetry, some scattered thoughts, for want of a better word.
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Versions from Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703 - 1775), poet and Buddhist nun, from my unpublished book Very Far After.
January 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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If you're interested, this is what I'll be reviewing next.
The cover of Elaine Randell's Collected Poems and Prose, featuring Bird Script #15 by Basil King
January 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM