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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 1d

An #Otwituary for evergreen actor #JohnWoodvine

Whenever I change channels
there is the residue of a face
in the blink before and after
static, a man of a thousand
faces, all of them the same,
all carved from cold stone.

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 2d

An #Otwituary for novelist #JillyCooper

I write this from my lover’s unmade bed,
far from her paddocks and gymkhanas.
She dresses me in hunting pinks, asks
me to spank her with her daddy’s crop
before handing me a novel, sighing,
saying Why can’t you be more like him?

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 4d

A slightly belated Otwituary for poet Brian Patten.

(I should say I’m wary of Otwituarising fellow poets - I feel that should fall to writers with a better insight into the late poet’s work. Thanks to Kevin McCann for the encouragement to do this one.)

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 5d

An #Otwituary for actor #PatriciaRoutledge

Here is the mirror of a furtive England;
telephone voices and antimacassars,
foundation garments and Rotary Clubs,
the arch drama of sweet domesticity,
artificial and yet authentic all at once.

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 6d

An #Otwituary for anthropologist and conservationist #JaneGoodall

I ask, one primate to another,
where I came from, imagining
my simian family on their lonely
hillside, of their devoted steward
offering gifts of love and curiosity,
holding out a hand like a mother.

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 8d

#OneDrop is a celebration of reggae through poetry accompanied by image and sound. #5 in the sequence is a celebration of Trojan Records, led by Mark Fiddes and his brilliant poem 'This Extraordinary General Meeting is brought to you by Trojan Records'.
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One Drop Five

Tighten Up!

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 12d

An #Otwituary for politician #MenziesCampbell

Don't you long for the old politics;?
Where the middle way is still a way,
where to have convictions does not
mean that you have been convicted,
where the race is only with oneself
and the mediocre need not apply.

Transmission #34 - Lilac Sky

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 12d

The thirty-fourth Transmission from the future via #ProjectAbeona has been plucked from the spirit world by Suzannah Evans.

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Transmission from: Lilac Sky, state-licensed mystic, Europa Colony, Jupiter orbit

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So You Think You Can Write?

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 12d

Hello Dundee/Angus/Fife people - you may like to know that the effervescent Christy Aliu is running a new creative writing workshop later in year:

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A five-week course with Christiana Aliu. Wednesday evenings 6.30 - 8.30 p.m. 1st October - 26th November 2025.

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 13d

An #Otwituary for bass player #DannyThompson

At the root of everything is bass; a fluid
heartbeat picked out on four fat strings.
Let them talk about technique; style is
the only style, trusting your ears to tell
your fingers where to go, what to say.

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 14d

#OneDrop Four features the #reggae dancefloor experience with a sweat-streaked poem from Stephen Watt and a few bits and pieces related to Wayne Smith's revolutionary 1985 dancefloor smash 'Under Mi Sleng Teng'...
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One Drop Four

Under Mi Sleng Teng

A five-week course with Andy Jackson. 12th November - 10th December 2025. Wednesday mornings. 10 a. m. -12 p.m.

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 14d

A Book Club with no homework? In Dundee? In November-December? Why yes! Here are the details of Bitesize Book Club.

We read something new each week for pleasure - no prior experience required, just a love of the written word...

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Bitesize Book Club

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 15d

An #Otwituary for cricket umpire Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird #dickiebird

The light meters are coming out, but
something more than light is fading.
The bails come off, the nightwatchman
shakes your hand, certain in the
knowledge that there is a corner of
a foreign field that is forever Barnsley.

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 16d

An #Otwituary for journalist and presenter (and Man City fan) #JohnStapleton

We cannot live our lives on the small screen;
we must find our time, our place, unknown
to all except the journalist who realises that
there are no bigger stories than our own.

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 17d

An #Otwituary for #Crickets musician #SonnyCurtis

What did they play on the radio,
on the day after the music died?
They played songs you don’t hear
anymore; stories of strange lives
made straight, written for no-one.
You wrote the songs; the songs won.

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 19d

#DoubleDactyl of the Week sees Jim Lindop conducting himself in an appropriate manner…

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 20d

In 24 hours we'll be on our way on the Madoch Centre's Race Around Scotland...stay tuned!

Project Abeona Newsletter #00007

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 20d

Project Abeona has been on a deceleration path over the summer but has now engaged the boosters for the next leg of the journey. Mission Specialist Simon Barraclough has sent this update:

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What news on the Rialto? What news indeed?

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Are You Planning a Bootleg LP?

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 20d

One Drop Poetry celebrates reggae - songs, styles, artists, culture. Week 3 features the UK's Two-Tone label of the late 70s-early 80s.

Poem from Jeff Dawson, a BBC documentary, a guide to essential Two-Tone cuts, and an elegy for the late Terry Hall.
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One Drop Three

Help raise £3000 to Support the Madoch Community Transport initiative in the Carse of Gowrie, Scotland – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 22d

An #Otwituary for actor #RobertRedford

All outlaws are handsome in Hollywood,
charm school graduates summa cum laude,
making dangerous look fun, standing for something, not standing for other things,
fashioning stories from the best of dreams.

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 22d

After your generous giving yesterday we’re just £88 short of our goal now.

If you have a few quid and a kind heart, here’s the link one final time :

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Iʼm raising money to Support the Madoch Community Transport initiative in the Carse of Gowrie, Scotland. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 23d

Just 4 days to go to hit our £3000 target for the Race Around Scotland - 90% there! If you’ve donated - thank you! We just need another £278. Can you help?

The race start Friday afternoon and ends on Sunday, unless we’re in jail, A&E or marooned at sea.

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Help raise £3000 to Support the Madoch Community Transport initiative in the Carse of Gowrie, Scotland – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to Support the Madoch Community Transport initiative in the Carse of Gowrie, Scotland. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 23d

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is a labour of lust from the steaming pen of the great Tom Deveson

Transmission #33 - Incarcernaut’s Progress 4

Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 23d

Transmission #33 in #ProjectAbeona, and things are getting weirder for Simon Barraclough’s political prisoner in the fourth instalment of his Incarcernaut poem-saga.

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Transmission from: Incarcernaut 395 (30 + 100), political prisoner, Thalassa Gate Rehabilitation Unit

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