Thank you 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
@valsif.bsky.social
A full colour illustration of spring nature including blossom, bluebells, cowslips, catkins, willow, a daffodil, snowdrops, wood anemones, and buttercups.
I now have a shop again!
tamzincavendish.co.uk
It has art prints, including ones with FSC certified frames.
There are hoodies and T-shirts made with 50% recycled materials.
Plus notebooks, bags, etc.
So my work is now available worldwide again.
#Wildflowers #Nature #Art
It feels so very much between first one thing then another, thinking you recognise, but you don't, shadows not where you thought they were, and altogether its own.
Truly marvellous
Photo of the book cover, for The Honest Forger, new poems & photographs for Iolo Morganwg, from www.cultureanddemocracypress.co.uk. Illustrated with a stained glass design, of a sun, or a flower, radiating warm colours.
This the cover for the new anthology, The Honest Forger...
I am, to my surprise & delight, to be part of this celebration of Iolo Morganwg, on the second centenary of his death.
Organised by Bardic Books, & marked by a new anthology, The Honest Forger.
I've my poem to read & a part in the Druidic blessing.
7 March, 7pm, St. Illtud's, Wales
Thank you! Very much appreciated, and very great fun to do :-)
#PoetsofDoom @sonnetsmith.bsky.social
Text of a poem, full of nonsense words: The flight of the hungalump, by Math Jones. Text reads: The glimp of the pixicleana, & the glike of the horoborosch, Had them flixing together in tempo, Till the hungalump went Bosch! The conductor dropped their pisola! The composer chocked on their flosh! & the orchestra all juckled under, When the hungalump went Bosch!!! This musical contra-coblation Had the classical world all aswash, Still, there followed a standing aplaition For the hungalump going Bosch!!!
With a poem you've written,
it's like you're asking the reader
to hold the other side of it.
#PoetrySky
Here's what may be an even easier read. My free online translation's up to 80% complete, working on finishing the Green Chapel scene.
alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/
The Winter, 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained is now live, the theme:
PSALMS AND MEDITATIONS
#alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoets #potsofbluesky #psalms #meditations
alliteration.net/current-issue/
Though I am wondering, who are the barons in this?
Whitehall, the window, the platform, the extra vest...?
#HeathenSky #PoetrySky
Just published on bandcamp:
Gylfaginning in Verse
A recasting of Snorri's Prose Edda, source for Old Norse myth, in alliterative verse.
Free to listen to, for now.
Also, Tales of Godhome, by Thorskegga Thorn, pt 1.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
It's astonishing to consider the age of some of these now...
The OE Rune Poem, in the users for 'thorn', says 'anfeng ys yfyl': 'to grasp it [the thorn] is evil'. Not something of 'the devil', just something that harms. Harms us with our soft, paddy paws, while other creatures can happily chomp away at it...
I think it's justified. Write in the runes you know. I gravitate to the OE futhorc, though perhaps I'd also phrase it in OE.
Interesting about the acronym. I had the first thought of using only the Ice rune to stand for the whole, but your thought makes much more sense.
...
for that which had seemed unreachable.
Safety. Math Jones 2026. #PoetrySky
2/2
Yours was the last book of poetry,
Did you notice? The others
did not arrive. My own was too late.
After, there was no stopping.
We had to grab our breaths as we ran.
Shouting at times the words - Poem!
Song! Geste! - Ro - Ro... Romance! Folded knees,
Bowed heads, clutching as before
...
1/2
The poetry calls that shout for 'your most --- ing poems, your --- est'...
...for me, they're off-putting, far from encouraging, or enticing. I wonder how others react to them.
Is my poem '---ing' enough? '---est' enough?
It feels like jumping for hype, & hype never serves poetry.
#PoetrySky
A poem of mine, toadish, from In the Shadow of Gods. Have a read of it! 🐸
From a place of knowing
What you know, you come
To think it common knowledge,
Learning with some surprise
That it never touched another's thought,
Or crossed another's eyes...
So all that time spent silent,
In the know, but of no use,
Was time you might have taught.
Wondering how much of this prolonged, & perhaps enforced, stillness & inactivity is because, in other areas, I am plummeting.
Thank you, Paul. I should have an audio of it out soon
Kevin Crossley-Holland did a classic retelling, good for an intro. Rudolph Simek has a comprehensive Dictionary of Norse Myth. The Prose Edda is a major source, though it's dense prose- I'm doing a version of that myself, in alliterative verse - preserving the poetry, so Snorri might approve 🙂
"Wyrd" by @mathjones.bsky.social in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained.
alliteration.net/poetry/wyrd/
Forgotten Ground Regained, A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse
the new issue features psalms & meditations.
#PoetrySky
alliteration.net/back-issues/...
"Song-form" by Math Jones in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained.
alliteration.net/poetry/song-... #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse #psalm #song #meditation #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #writingcommunity