My thanks to Rupert and Nick – you can read the poem here: https://internationaltimes.it/fix-or-repair-daily/

If reading this today in the UK, Bert is likely with you. It is here in East Devon: the twisted willow dancing; the huge Robinia looming and brooding.

The Met Office now names storms for a year – ready and waiting to star – and those for the ‘season’ 24/25 are above.

My thanks to editor Alan Baker for posting in Litter Magazine, and to Steve Spence for his thoughtful review. You can read here: https://www.littermagazine.com/2024/11/review-aran-aphorisms-by-mike-ferguson.html

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My thanks to Rupert and Nick for posting at IT today. To read, go here: https://internationaltimes.it/at-breakfast/

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When I wrote my found poems (cut-ups) based on the notional English literary canon in 2016, the process was not to necessarily link with their original texts but find new meranings/ideas/expressions, and this was similar to my most recent erasures based on The Aran Islands.

I mention because with my Red Ceilings Press publication of the aran aphorisms this month, I make the observation that those poems ‘were creative tangents from their textual prompts, but some reflected intrusions by external events’ and the same often occured with the novel canon ‘finds’ as in these Gulliver’s Travels poems which were obviously infiltrated by current political events – shenanigans – of the day:

Most pleased to have my TextArt as the cover of Magma Poetry 90. With thanks to editors Lisa Kelly and Patrizia Longhitano.

Celebrating 30 years of Magma Poetry, the magazine’s launch is on the 6th November at Farsight Collective just off Denmark Street in London. I am unable to attend but wish everyone going a great time.

Wonderful to have a new collection of my concrete and TextArt poems with paper view books. As an eclectic writer I am fortunate to have a range of my work reflected by others’ interest and support: my thanks to sal

For further details go here: https://paperviewbooks.pt/books/connectstangents/

On this day in 1879, Thomas Edison perfected the carbonized cotton filament light bulb