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Formal poet working in the borderlands. Music. Palindromes and anagrams. Twiddly bass guitar. Punk.

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OUT TODAY! My collection of pulp-inspired constrained poetry & wordplay, THE ROBOTS OF BABYLON, is out now! Lots of new literary constraints in this one, plus many new palindromes, anagrams, and sonnets. Available in full-colour hardback & paperback:

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The Robots of Babylon - Anthony Etherin — Penteract Press

Full Colour, Hardback or Paperback, 210 x 148mm, 104pp Taking inspiration from genre and pulp fiction tropes, The Robots of Babylon explores the range and potential of constrained formal poetry —...

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FOR IDRIS ELBA Able sir, did nobody fit recognise it ties in? Go, certify—do Bond, Idris Elba! #palindrome

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Why did the palindrome cross the road? To get a map a mate got. #palindrome

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FACEMASK (Palindrome) Put it on. Knot it up. Walks a man, in a mask…. Law: Put it on. Knot it up.

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An anagram walks into a pub and orders: top row gins, dark ales, and a banana rum.

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BoJo: Not PM, to not MP, to no job. #palindrome

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"Wavescape" -- A Shakespearean sonnet in iambic dimeter, which slices down its centre, forming two monometer sonnets (one Petrarchan, one Shakespearean):

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SOLEMN (Palindrome) I sat, solemn. I saw time open one poem. It was in me, lost as I.

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My current favourite two-word anagram phrases: 1. Remote meteor. 2. Supersonic percussion. 3. Persistent prettiness. 4. Aristotelian retaliations. 5. Sectional coastline. Yours?

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How many palindromists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, no?

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How many palindromists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, no?

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SOLEMN (Palindrome) I sat, solemn. I saw time open one poem. It was in me, lost as I.

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How many palindromists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, no?

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—Knock, Knock. —Who's there? —Anagram. —Anagram who? —How?

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How many anagrammists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but the glow is a backhand amalgam; ornate, misty sight.

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A bilingual palindrome! Written in collaboration with @poitevin —

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How many palindromists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, no?

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HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome

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In this photo of me and the dog, it looks like I’m being called to adventure by a small, enchanted bear.

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HOW TO MAKE A RAGÙ (Palindrome) Ragù: Shallot. A tuna. Deft salt (light) or beer, up a root. A motto. Herb most sombre. Hot tomato, or a purée. Broth, gilt, last fed a nut. A toll. Ah, sugar!

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CITY SCAFFOLD: A sonnet of no fixed rhyme scheme, composed in iambic trimeter. Each line has exactly 14 letters. The poem's Ts are arranged such that they form a symmetrical, X-shaped scaffold.

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20 LETTERS In these twenty letters, we try ten lines. The test set, we tether sly intent. We net the stint tersely. We intently test ethers. We try the silent tenets— try the new, tense titles. Written, the steely nest settles twenty therein. We enter its tenth style. #anagrams

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SOLEMN (Palindrome) I sat, solemn. I saw time open one poem. It was in me, lost as I.

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How many anagrammists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but the glow is a backhand amalgam: ornate, misty sight.

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PENNE PASTA (Palindrome) Stressed: one pan. A considerable man eats a penne pasta, enamel bared. Is no canapé. No desserts.

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HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome

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Why did the palindrome cross the road? To get a map a mate got. #palindrome

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My sequel to a tweet by @ctrlcreep — a perfect anagram of the original.

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INFINITE PALINDROME …cosmic, I’m so cosmic, I’m so cosmic, I’m so cosmic, I’m so cosmic, I’m so cosmic, I’m so cosmic, I’m so c…

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BoJo: Not PM, to not MP, to no job. #palindrome

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Why did the anagram cross the road? To hear adages and rhythmic words. #anagram

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What do you get if you cross an anagram with a joke? A kind of joyous, eager magic that wows at any hour. #anagram

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FACEMASK (Palindrome) Put it on. Knot it up. Walks a man, in a mask…. Law: Put it on. Knot it up.

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HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome

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What do you get if you cross a palindrome with a joke? One KO joke, no?

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This is a tweet, a line that performs a slight chirp. I shall post it here with this, its perfect anagram.

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WINTER SOLSTICE (Anagrammed Lines) Winter Solstice: Written close is woe. Strict lines wrestle in stoic selections, writ low in its secret.

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PIRATES (Palindrome) Murmur…. Erupt, savage page! Loot! Sail a rose. Rise, deviant age, by sword…. Set a ripple — hot, sleek keels to help. Pirates, drowsy, begat naïve desires — or alias too, leg a peg. Avast! Pure rum, rum….

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MY PETS (Palindrome) Pets: A sad dog or fat cat. Nine dragons (no garden intact). A frog, odd as a step....

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How many anagrammists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but the glow is misty and black. Hot ash. A granite magma.

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CITY SCAFFOLD: A sonnet of no fixed rhyme scheme, composed in iambic trimeter. Each line has exactly 14 letters. The poem's Ts are arranged such that they form a symmetrical, X-shaped scaffold.

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Who, in their right mind, would write palindromes? Oh, we're who.

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An anagram walks into a pub and orders top row gins, dark ales, and a banana rum.

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SOLEMN (Palindrome) I sat, solemn. I saw time open one poem. It was in me, lost as I.

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THE YETI SPEAKS (whose two halves use the same letters, in the same order):

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ANAGRAMMED “FIRE AND ICE” Some say the earth is made of word, some say of code. Since everything is so absurd, I go with those who favour word: It fits life in a finite ode, the chorus thick with epic wit and ink, a foil for art we load, the future lit in lines that flowed....

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When you’re a palindromist, every night ends with gin.

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A RECIPE FOR EVIL (Palindrome) Evil: Oats. Apple. Kiwi. Kelp. Pasta. Olive.

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For those who like their fiction pulp. A Shakespearean sonnet in iambic trimeter and an ottava rima in iambic pentameter. Despite appearances, the two poems are perfect anagrams.

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How many palindromists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, no?

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How many anagrammists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but the glow is a backhand amalgam: ornate, misty sight.

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CROW (Palindrome) Deft, I saw a crow, over us, a sure vow or caw as it fed.

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How many anagrammists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but the heat is misty and black. Grit aglow. Ash on magma.

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ＰＡＲＴＳＡＰＡＲＴＲＡＤＡＲＴＲＡＰＡＳＴＲＡＰ

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When you’re a palindromist, every night ends with gin.

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FREE WILL (Palindrome) I'm all I was. It is as it is. A will am I.

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"Doctor, doctor! I feel like a palindrome." Draw DNA codes. Run a test. Set a nurse, doc, and ward.

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HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! ----------------------------------- HOW TO BUILD A LABYRINTH Nail a dead, still awe. Now one wall. It's daedalian. #palindromes

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My best friend died today. Nearly every poem I’ve posted here was written with her by my side. We were inseparable. I’ll miss her and love her always. Goodbye, Kafka, happiest dog in the world. Sleep well. Good girl.

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FREE WILL (Palindrome) I'm all I was. It is as it is. A will am I.

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PERSIST: A Shakespearean sonnet in anapaestic trimeter. Reading only the red gives a Shakespearean sonnet in anapaestic monometer. Reading only the blue gives a Shakespearean sonnet of monosyllabic lines.

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THE REIN THEREIN �� Two Shakespearean sonnets, in iambic pentameter. The two sonnets use the same letters, in the same order, but have different spacing and punctuation:

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“Halt Me”— A line-for-line perfect anagram of Hamlet’s soliloquy, preserving the original’s metre.

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WINE AND WORDS — A Shakespearean sonnet in iambic trimeter. If only the first two feet of each line are read, it becomes a Spenserian Sonnet in iambic dimeter. If only the first foot of each line is read, it is a Petrarchan sonnet in iambic monometer.

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THE DEPARTURE (A Shakespearean monometer sonnet intersected by a triolet in iambic pentameter)

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DNA has a helix. Exile has a hand. #palindrome

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LUNAR PHASES SESTINA

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HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome

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CITY SCAFFOLD: A sonnet of no fixed rhyme scheme, composed in iambic trimeter. Each line has exactly 14 letters. The poem's Ts are arranged such that they form a symmetrical, X-shaped scaffold.

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A limerick leaps from its poet, and before we are able to know it, catchy rhythms enshrine a penultimate line, with another one resting below it.

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“Colourscape”: An ottava rima in iambic pentameter, intersected by a sonnet in iambic monometer — such that the third foot of each line of the ottava rima belongs also to the central eight lines of the sonnet.

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COLOURSCAPE: An ottava rima in iambic pentameter, intersected by a sonnet in iambic monometer — such that the third foot of each line of the ottava rima belongs also to the central eight lines of the sonnet.

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There's a girl who hails from Malta. Her haiku hold a volta. Mixed with limerick form, they're just not the norm — but they're bold, so let's not fault her.

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FALL OF MAN (Anagram-Snowball) A., as sad, said ideas raised despair. Paradise, appraised, disappears.

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FALL OF MAN (Anagram-Snowball) A., as sad, said ideas raised despair. Paradise, appraised, disappears.

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Why did the anagram cross the road? To hear adages and rhythmic words. #anagram

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When you’re a palindromist, every night ends with gin.

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MARIONETTE (A sonnet in amphibrachic tetrameter, which simultaneously employs the rules of alliterative verse)

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COLOURSCAPE: An ottava rima in iambic pentameter, intersected by a sonnet in iambic monometer — such that the third foot of each line of the ottava rima belongs also to the sonnet.

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FACEMASK (Palindrome) Put it on. Knot it up. Walks a man, in a mask…. Law: Put it on. Knot it up.

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DNA has a helix. Exile has a hand. #palindrome

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—Knock, Knock. —Who's there? —Anagram. —Anagram who? —How?

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HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome

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EDITING (Palindrome) Reknit it. I tide it. I pilfer it. I refer it. I reflip it. I edit it. I tinker….

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A REGAL BAR (Palindrome) Regal. A bar. Gin is evil. “O, to help martini gin, I trample hot olives in.” I grab a lager.

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"The Departure" -- A Shakespearean monometer sonnet intersected by a triolet in pentameter:

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WINE AND WORDS — A Shakespearean sonnet in iambic trimeter. If only the first two feet of each line are read, it is a Spenserian Sonnet in iambic dimeter. If only the first foot of each line is read, it is a Petrarchan sonnet in iambic monometer.

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COLOURSCAPE: An ottava rima in iambic pentameter, intersected by a sonnet in iambic monometer — such that the third foot of each line of the ottava rima belongs also to the sonnet.

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My sequel to a tweet by @ctrlcreep – an anagram of the original:

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skeletons buried in radioactive soil begin to mutate. a network of tangled bone grows beneath the city. we descend to explore the tunnels

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Today, I turn 40.

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DEATH OF THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS: An ottava rima in iambic pentameter (Moon), sharing the first foot of each line with a monometer Spenserian sonnet (Sun) and the last foot of each line with a hybrid Shakespearean-Petrarchan sonnet (Stars).

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Together at last.

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Happy Valentine's Day, cynics!

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This is a tweet, a line that performs a slight chirp. I shall post it here with this, its perfect anagram.

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ALPHA AND OMEGA (Palindrome, 10x10) A gem, on word, lived apart. Pagan omega has me hewn. I, alpha dog, deed God. Ah, plain, we hems! Ah, a gem! On a gap, trap a devil — drown omega.

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No lynxes in unisex nylon. #palindrome

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THE REIN THEREIN — Two Shakespearean sonnets, each in iambic pentameter. The two sonnets use the same letters, in the same order, but have different spacing and punctuation: #sonnet

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—Knock, knock. —Who's there? —Anagram. —Anagram who? —How?

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Nightlife's a boozy zoo: Base filth. Gin. #palindrome

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Dairy, mayonnaise sub. Now, on buses, I annoy a myriad. #palindrome

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WHAT IS POETRY? (Anagrammed Lines) What is poetry? A wept history. Pity, whose art is atop the wry, yet at worship.

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FREE WILL (Palindrome) I'm all I was. It is as it is. A will am I.

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