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Poetry in Ink
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 11h
"Yellow Gramophone" Shelia Cussons
Robert Oster- Honey Bee
TR 52gsm, B6
Parker Urban

Shelia Cussons (1922-2004) was a South African Afrikaans poet, writer, artist and translator.

This #poem reminds me of "You're" by Sylvia Plath.

#sheliacussons #southafricanliterature #fountainpensandink
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 23h
(Victorian here refers to being from the Australian state Victoria, not the reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901)
I don't know why I am expositioning for my non-existent audience 😅
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 23h
Full text in the alt-text of this photo
A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love Dear one, forgive my appearing before you like this, in a two-piece track-suit, welder's goggles and a green cloth cap like some gross bee - this is the State's idea ... I would have come arrayed like a bridegroom for the nuptials knowing how often you have dreamed about this moment of consummation in your cell. If I must bind your arms now to your sides with a leather strap and ask you if you have anything to say -these too are formalities I would dispense with: I know your heart is too full at this moment to say much and that the tranquilliser which I trust you did not reject out of a stubborn pride should by this have eased your ache for speech, breath and the other incidentals which distract us from our end. Let us now walk a step. This noose with which we're wed is something of an heirloom, the last three members of our holy family were wed with it, the softwood beam it hangs from like a lovers' tree notched with their weight. See now I slip it over your neck, the knot under the left jaw, with a slip ring to hold the knot in place... There. Perfect. Allow me to adjust the canvas hood which will enable you to anticipate the officially prescribed darkness by some seconds. The journalists are ready with the flash-bulbs of their eyes raised to the simple altar, the doctor twitches like a stethoscope -you have been given a clean bill of health, like any modern bride. With this spring of mine from the trap, hitting the door lever, you will go forth into a new life which I, alas, am not yet fit to share. Be assured, you will sink into the generous pool of public feeling as gently as a leaf - accept your role, feel chosen. You are this evening's headlines. Come, my love. Bruce Dawe
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 23h
"A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love", Bruce Dawe

This is really long and makes for bad photos BUT its impossible to find online, and I want to preserve it for future readers.

This is about the hanging of Ronald Ryan in 1967, the last execution in Australia.

#poem #brucedawe #australianliterature
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 2d
Photograph of a published book page showing the poem featured in the main post Small Boy Norman MacCaig He picked up a pebble and threw it into the sea. And another, and another. He couldn’t stop. He wasn’t trying to fill the sea. He wasn’t trying to empty the beach. He was just throwing away, nothing else but. Like a kitten playing he was practicing for the future when there’ll be so many things he’ll want to throw away if only his fingers will unclench and let them go.
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 2d
"Small Boy" Norman MacCaig
Herbin Ambre de Birmanie
Crown Mill
Wingsung 699

I can feel myself now, trying to throw stones, but they cling to my hands and find their way into my pockets until all I want to do is walk into the surf.

#poem #normanmaccaig #scottishliterature #fountainpensandink
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 3d
Wearing Thin "You'll soon grow into it,' she would say When buying a school blazer three sizes too big. And she was right as mothers usually are. Syrup of figs. Virol. Cod liver oil. Within a year I did grow into it By then, of course, it was threadbare. Pulling in different directions My clothes and I never matched. And in changing-rooms nothing has changed. I can buy what I like and when New clothes that are a perfect fit. Full-length mirror, nervous grin, It's me now that's threadbare, wearing thin. Roger McGough
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 3d
"Wearing Thin", Roger McGough
Wearingeul - The Secret Garden
Leuchtturm a5 standard
Platinum Little Meteor

I only had 1 ml of this ink, and initially chose a bad pen, so when I moved it most of the shimmer was lost.

#poem #englishliterature #fountainpensandink #fountainpensaustralia
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 4d
I'm obsessed with this show! I watched it all in a (very unproductive) day. Where were you when you wrote this?
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 4d
"Poem for Stillness", Garous Abdolmalekian
Translated: Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey
Van Diemans - December 2023
Leuchtturm a5 standard
TWSBI eco glow purple

I finally bought this dual language book of poems.

#poem #garousabdolmalekian #iranianliterature #fountainpensandink
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 5d
Came to say the same! Even the anti-ICE coverage downplays their actions.
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you so much! Its a combination of I love trying out papers, and having the nice swatches means I don't stress as much about finishing my inks which are 90% samples.
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 5d
"Ode", Noor Hindi
Colorverse - Butterfly Nebula
Crown Mill Vellum A5
Kaweco Sport Ocean

I've seen it called "Ode" and "Ode to Friendship". Noor Hindi is a Palestinian-American poet - I wonder which country she refers to?

#poem #americanliterature #palestinianliterature #fountainpensandink
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 7d
Thank you!
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 7d
Not sure how you plan to collect the successful quiz-takers details for entry as I completed it in a clean browser and there was no option to enter the draw after completing the quiz 100%
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 7d
Had to delete and repost this one because half the images were just black, sorry. Here's the original
(Photograph of printed page in book with the following poem) The Night-Ride Gas flaring on the yellow platform; voices running up and down; Milk-tins in cold dented silver; half-awake I stare, Pull up the blind, blink out - all sounds are drugged; the slow blowing of passengers asleep; engines yawning; water in heavy drips; Black, sinister travellers, lumbering up the station, one moment in the window, hooked over bags; hurrying, unknown faces - boxes with strange labels -  all groping clumsily to mysterious ends, out of the gaslight, dragged by private Fates, their echoes die. The dark train shakes and plunges; bells cry out, the night-ride starts again. Soon I shall look out into nothing but blackness, pale, windy fields, the old roar and knock of the rails melts in dull fury. Pull down the blind. Sleep. Sleep Nothing but grey, rushing rivers of bush outside. Gaslight and milk-cans. Of Rapptown I recall nothing else. Kenneth Slessor
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 7d
"The Night-Ride" Kenneth Slessor
J. Herbin - Kyanite du Nepal
Graphillo
Twsbi Eco Heat

This is the first poem by #KennethSlessor that really caught my interest. It captures that sense of travel - liminal space and a slightly alien world.

#poem #australianliterature #fountainpensandink
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 7d
(A photograph of the poem featured in the main post, printed in an older looking book.) The Night-Ride Gas flaring on the yellow platform; voices running up and down; Milk-tins in cold dented silver; half-awake I stare, Pull up the blind, blink out - all sounds are drugged; the slow blowing of passengers asleep; engines yawning; water in heavy drips; Black, sinister travellers, lumbering up the station, one moment in the window, hooked over bags; hurrying, unknown faces - boxes with strange labels - all groping clumsily to mysterious ends, out of the gaslight, dragged by private Fates, their echoes die. The dark train shakes and plunges; bells cry out, the night-ride starts again. Soon I shall look out into nothing but blackness, pale, windy fields, the old roar and knock of the rails melts in dull fury. Pull down the blind. Sleep. Sleep Nothing but grey, rushing rivers of bush outside. Gaslight and milk-cans. Of Rapptown I recall nothing else. Kenneth Slessor
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 8d
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 8d
"North Light", John Tranter
IWI - White Dew
Leuchtturm a5 standard
Penbbs 489 smoky

This is from my secondhand "Late Night Radio: Selected Poems"

John Tranter (1943-2023) was a prolific Australian poet.

#poem #johntranter #australianliterature #fountainpensandart #fountainpensaustralia
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 9d
"In a Fairy Boat", Bernard Weller
Kitty Inkpot x Soe & Soe - Moonlit rose garden
(evaporated)
Leuchtturm a5
Pelikan M400 white tortiseshell

Taken from "Poems and Songs of Fairyland - An Anthology of English Fairy Poetry" first published in 1888(!)

#poem #englishliterature #fountainpensandink
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 10d
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 10d
"Yes", Kevin Hart
Wearingeul - Path
Leuchtturm a5 standard
@just-turnings.bsky.social "Heart Nebula", M journaller

I'm going to try #poem, instead of #poetry.

From "Living Systems" sold by recently discovered vagabondpress.net

#kevinhart #australianliterature #fountainpensandink #30inks30days
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 11d
Now and then I am convinced that I died at eighteen in a house near the sea from too much bourbon. Everything since has been one of those dreams collapsing time and detail into the few seconds before I'm gone. It began with waking, dragging my nauseous body to the thin, buffalo-grass lawn and seeing the remorseless blue sky pulse with the rhythm of blood-vessels behind the eyes. Events followed better than you'd predict, shaped by wish-fulfilment, twisted a little by normal anxieties. There's a tell-tale lightness to it all, the body is only fully there when it figures in the dream's plot, is otherwise implicitly living its own chemical life. The dream fades a bit when I suspect what it is and there's a furtive, lying feeling when I write the date, knowing it's really '94. Graeme Miles
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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 11d
"Now and then I'm convinced" Graeme Miles
Sailor Shikori Yuki Akari
Leuchtturm
Just Turnings Neon Dragonfly

Graeme has three poetry collections in print: Infernal Topographies (2020), Recurrence (2012) and Phosphorescence (2006).

#poetry #graememiles #australianliterature #fountainpensandink
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