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Another huge milestone for the plans for a centre for writing in Newcastle. 🎉 North East Mayor, Kim McGuinness, has announced that her cabinet are preparing to agree £2 million in funding towards the new centre for writing!

The current warm spell brought back this #tanka about our attempts to cope with the Cretan heat: White net curtains hung outside windows ward off heat and bugs, like thin ghosts. How spirits long to enter through the window being closed. #TheEphemeral #SummerRenga

Just found a sachet of #EmergencyMustard in the pocket of this auld summery jaiket dated best before May 2020. Those were not the days, my friend.

The train I am travelling on (in the splendour of pensioners’ #FirstoClasso) apparently has a #PoetOnBoard, but I can hear neither their muffled verses nor the hurried intro as to who they are, nor can I find any info online about them. Perhaps London North Eastern Railway knows? #TextInPublicArt

The rain-god of Inverkeithing jist smiled on us as we rolled past his eternally-damp multi-story carpark, then, as is traditional, we were on the bridge: Forth haar taks the taps aff the suspension bridges but they dinna faa. #TheEphemeral #Haiku #SummerRenga #FirstoClasso

#MidnightVendingMachineUpdates: Why No Lottery Winner Can Sleep Safe in their Bed for Fear of Hunter-killer Vending Machines.

Today, in #VirtuallyNews, I daydreamed an arrangement by Paul McCartney in which the intro of ‘Mother Nature’s Son’ morphs with a single alteration (‘When we find the Earth in times of trouble/Mother Nature comes to me…’) into the anti-neonicotinoid protest song, ‘#LetItBee’.

In this poem a mother’s faithful furniture flies home to serenade her departed spirit - including the record player:   a Pioneer, which grabs its table on the way before it hops on top, with Louis Armstrong   on the deck, giving breath to ‘New Orleans’. #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

If you’d like to try your hand, we’ve room for just two more… (DM if you’d like to discuss.) #Trumpo #ExecutiveDisobediences #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (2/2)

An #ecosentence from Yoko Ono written at (I may be approximating here) the exact moment of my birth, and, appropriately enough, that of a large number of random individuals. Possibly even a very large number. (One for NEU! Boots fur immer and the #EcoSonnetChain.)

Yesterday’s verses today - that’s my byline and I’m sticking with it (for now): Retirement as a second studentship: how long is grace? ‘Piece of cake, my friend!’ a waiter shouts on the quay - fish-, presumably. #TheEphemeral #SummerRenga (Not quite endless…)

Yesterday’s view from the river walk to Tynemouth echoed an image from another poem-in-progress, set near Bodrum: Riverine stroll: under waves, pebbles look like tesserae. Memory ripples the Roman mosaics, sunk by earthquake, seen through tide. #TheEphemeral #SummerRenga