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@FurniturePoetry
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poems to furnish the parlours of the mind @billherbert & @SophieherX project in progress please add #furniturepoems or email [email protected]
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RT @billherbert: A unsettling act of slippage from the things of this world to the inhabitants of another: …Your late Aunt’s clock counts…
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RT @billherbert: Ah, those miniature stages of our windowsills, upon which home theatre producers present show after show to the passersby.…
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A poem from the Borders’ Thin Places, where, Vicki Husband tells us, one may lie abed and consider whose cars are passing outben and what owls, and, indoors, which spirits are walking in the lobby: #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
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Just to say, if you’re Substackable, #RuthLexton is here: where you can also gaze upon this magnificent Maytag. #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
Is Thursday your laundry day? Whenever it is, just for this week, may it symbolically commemorate this evocation of Ruth Lexton's grandparents as generated by that great workhorse of domestic furniture, the washing machine: #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
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Who will sing of windowsills? Who? *stares about searchingly* Ah, thankfully, Julia Deakin has this matter covered: #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
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While the first of this week’s posts is being ‘prepared’ (ie we’re very late starting), here’s a pic of a rather old chair. *intermission music plays* #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
One of the few preserved early medieval furniture. A chair made of maple and ash was found in the grave of a man from Trossingen dating back to 580 CE. It survived because it was located in a wetland. Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden - Württemberg. #archaeohistories
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Is Thursday your laundry day? Whenever it is, just for this week, may it symbolically commemorate this evocation of Ruth Lexton's grandparents as generated by that great workhorse of domestic furniture, the washing machine: #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
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#FurniturePoet meets hedgehog. (Kind of.) . Congrats - but not Kong rats (for those would be v large rats indeed) - to @KerryDarbishire!
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RT @billherbert: #SeanOBrien’s ‘Widdershins’ conveys unquiet presence through a mastery of tone and seeming paradox: …all that remains is…
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Monday’s poem is by the utterly distinctive #SeanOBrien, who suggests we might take a turn round the garden - not that way! Ah, well. Such is the atmosphere he conjures from the memory of a shed - half-sinister, half-sacred: #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
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RT @AkhtarSascha: EXILED WRITERS INK TOMMORROW NITE: JANUARY 23rd, 2025 Camden People's Theatre, London @ExiledWri…
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Today's post by @SEMnatzaganian is a haibun about the trauma of being displaced, pinpointing each detail of the human misery incurred and concluding with a masterful shift in perspective: #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
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Re #TheGoreyFormula: if this definition is derived from ‘Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?’ does that mean furniture is a mineral? Surely then there would be table & chair mines, etc? Whereas we all know lampshades grow in forests and sofas are found on the seabed, then squeezed dry.
One for @FurniturePoetry, where we follow, often gleefully, #TheGoreyFormula: ‘The+[adjective describing a state of mind]+[plant/animal/item of furniture, as long as noun and adjective do not appear to fit together]=the truth.’ #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
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RT @parisreview: We’ve unlocked a story by Edward Gorey that follows the adventures of a girl, Angelica, and her acquaintance with one part…
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While reading @GreeningPoet's translation of #Rilke's 'The Bed' we wondered if other poets starting with an R had written #FurniturePoems. Guess who: A funny thing about a Chair: You hardly ever think it’s _there_. To know a Chair is really it, You sometimes have to go and sit.
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It's #BlueMonday, but, before you pour the Blue Nun or Curaçao and put The Cure/New Order on the turntable, try reclining with some #Rilke. @GreeningPoet has translated 'Das Bett' from Neue Gedichte: #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
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Rachel Alban makes strange and affecting imagery out of the dust sheet and what it covers while carefully never quite telling us why it's all covered. #GhostFurnitureCatalogue
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