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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · Aug 18

previously, on jay's bluesky:

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dear father, safe at present by Jay Besemer - Steel Incisors

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 3d

Becoming real later this month @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 7d

...we are doing a special offer on eries 1, 2, and 3: buy one and we'll add a surprise from another author. Previous series include Sascha Akhtar, Karenjit Sandhu, Eva Aldea, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Mark Goodwin, Derek Beaulieu, and our (eds) collaborative anti-austerity diatribe '800 Libraries'.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 7d

...James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social Jean-Francçois Magre, Joe Marsh @joewmarsh.bsky.social , NaoKo TakaHashi...

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 17d

Rediscovering two old classics in new translations.

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 18d

Going to post some reviews of my books. Just the negative ones, as they tend to be more insightful and entertaining than flattery.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · Jun 26

NaoKo TakaHashi is an interdisciplinary artist based in the UK. She has undertaken commissions and residencies in Quebec, Nottingham, Jerusalem, Sharjah, and elsewhere. Her contributions to publications have been published in London, Germany, and the USA.

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Steel Incisors @steelincisors.bsky.social · 18d

Happy publication day to @reversebutcher.bsky.social , whose TORN TEXTURES & HYBRID GLYPHS is out today! Grab this sumptuous paperback mixam.co.uk/print-on-dem... or get the ebook www.steelincisors.com/product/torn...

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 20d

A couple of diptychs from the latter part of the poem.

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 24d

I didn’t think I’d ever be able to say this, but I’ve completed the draft of my reimagining of Beowulf as a long visual poem. It’s 117 pages long. Now for the checking, correcting and improving!

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ah, not genocide! Just monumental incompetence. How stupid do they think we are?

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curious until you vanish @nannomaly.bsky.social · Aug 19

You do you
You do squid-muscle gunk gun
You do heavy facelift poetry
You do the trick where all the human blemishes are disappeared from the wasteland and all that’s left is a neon reverie
You do the thunder in the me
You do unannounced shifts in policy resulting in linguistic entropy

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Aug 1

I’ve got three new poems up at @thearsonista.bsky.social , in @saint-remus.bsky.social’s Art & Annihilation issue. Here’s the first: The First Piss of the Day is the Darkest burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/j...

The First Piss of the Day is the Darkest by James Knight

“You do heavy facelift poetry You do the trick where all the human blemishes are disappeared from the wasteland and all that’s left is a neon reverie” —excerpt from James Knight’s…

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thank you!

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · Aug 19

Today's AC email edition features new work by @bradleyfest.bsky.social, something from the archive by Dana Raja Wahab, updates on Javeria Hasnain, @badbadpoet.bsky.social, @neonpajamas.bsky.social

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"Depart and return the unheard amplitudes"

featuring concrescences, sensibly refused conceptualism, language as an alien entity, hostile architectures, squid-muscle gunk, eyes eyes eyes

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Aug 18

If you think an imaginary supernatural entity has given you licence to kill and terrorise, you are a dangerous lunatic.

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Aug 16

If you’re doing the #sealeychallenge, please don’t drag my books into it. They’re not poetry and I abhor the term

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Aug 14

We’ve reached the point where to demand the cessation of murderous violence against children is to be accused of anti-Semitism.

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Aug 11

Collaborations are where it’s at

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Dungeon of Dementia @gargarious9.bsky.social · Aug 6

Bodging my way through the tedium… dungeonofdementia.blogspot.com/2025/08/disg...

Disguised as a non-demented

Living with FTD

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Aug 1

I’ve got three new poems up at @thearsonista.bsky.social , in @saint-remus.bsky.social’s Art & Annihilation issue. Here’s the first: The First Piss of the Day is the Darkest burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/j...

The First Piss of the Day is the Darkest by James Knight

“You do heavy facelift poetry You do the trick where all the human blemishes are disappeared from the wasteland and all that’s left is a neon reverie” —excerpt from James Knight’s…

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Jul 6

The BBC took the political decision not to show this, so Channel 4 did instead. This is an expose of Israel’s war crimes. youtu.be/iv3wpeJ6Oco?...

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack | Channel 4 Documentaries

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Aug 5

If Israel’s crimes against humanity don’t make you furious, you are a cold-hearted fucker. I still don’t understand why the rest of the world sits by and allows this to happen. youtu.be/uGbh-Oq1jkM?...

Aerial footage filmed by ITV News shows the scale of Gaza's destruction | ITV News

YouTube video by ITV News

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Aug 1

It’s @thearsonista.bsky.social back with a bang

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Steel Incisors @steelincisors.bsky.social · Aug 1

Dear Father, Safe at Present by @divinetailor.bsky.social is out soon. Meanwhile, you can read some of his work in the new issue of @thearsonista.bsky.social here: burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/j...

“Semaphore Trousers” by Jay Besemer

” and here, at the end of words, the wall that shatters the words that would shatter it, at the end of my tongue too dry to break” —excerpt from Jay Besemer’s “Semaphor Trou…

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · Aug 1

Hi Jay! Love your work in the new issue!

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