Poetry in Ink

Traveler, your footprints- Antonia Machado
Translated by Mary Berg and Dennis Maloney
Iroshizuku - Chiku-Rin
passport 52gsm
Kilk x Galen Leather Celestial SE <dentist> Tropical Canopy

Bonus extra photo of my pup giving the book a sniff

#poetry #antoniamachado #spanishliterature #fountainpensandink

Freeze Tag, Rae Armantrout
@pennonia.ink Dungo/wasp orange
Yamamoto paper Jumpack Roll (rough side)
Pelikan M200 <EF>

Another poem from the ModPo course I'm doing via Coursea. We had to close read and decide if we thought it was an imagist poem.

#poetry #raearmantrout #modpo #fountainpensandink

"Girl, Boy, Flower, Bicycle", M. K. Joseph
LeeMing Butteryfly
Crena Spark
Pilot 742 <SF>

I found a great set of poems and readings by Michael Kennedy Joseph (1914-1981) at @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social

poetryarchive.org/poet/m-k-jos...

#poetry #mljoseph #newzealandliterature #fountainpensandink

The announcement today from the Albanese Labor Government to send an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft to the Gulf and provide medium-range air-to-air missiles to the UAE shows Australia has been fully dragged into another US forever war.

The Tigress, Anna Wickham
Diamine x Türkiye Zeugma
b6 52gsm TR
Kaweco Elegance <M>

I'd not heard of Anna (1883-1947) and I was shocked to learn how "old" her work was! It feels quite modern. She interacted with many Modernist poets.

#poetry #annawickham #australianliterature #fountainpensandink

Oh no, thats not great! It would be better if they only did the burnables, but guessing there is no alternative for the plastics etc?

Tasmania, Vivian Smith
Iroshizuku - Fuyu-Gaki
Leuchtturm 80gsm
Tom's Studio "studio" <M>

I've never been to Tasmania, have you? This poem seems down on it.

Vivian Smith (1933- ) was born in Tasmania, but left to Sydney in 1950s.

#poetry #viviansmith #australianliterature #fountainpensandink

That said, I think the poet is scared, and I would be too!

Interesting! Here it's very much do it or nature will do it... small regular burn offs are "shallow" and fast moving only impacting dead leaf litter etc. If not done, burnable material builds up and fires are hot and intense, slow to leave, so the trees and large habitats are completely destroyed.

Burning Off, William Hart-Smith
Diamine x Pen Gallery Kopi O Kaw
B6 TR52gsm
Edison Pen Co. Collier <F> Antique Marble

I read this poem as reassuring someone. They say the fires are tame, but the grass is so, so dry.

#poetry #williamhartsmith #newzealandliterature #fountainpensandink

Also known as the "Northern Ireland Conflict" this was from the late 1960's to around 1998

I believe Michael is disagreeing with "the opposite of war is civilisation". He shows how the differing parts of his community are working together. If these people are civilised, why are they being killed?

All of these people, Michael Longley
Midori Black
Leuchtturm a5 standard
Travelers Company <F> brass

Michael Longley (1939-2025) was a Northern Irish poet. Given that, this poem likely refers to "The Troubles"

#poetry #michaellongley #irishliterature #northernirishliterature #fountainpensandinks

John Glenday Imagine You are Driving Imagine you are driving nowhere, with no one beside you; with the empty road unravelling and ravelling in sympathy as the wheel turns in your hands. On either side the wheatfields go shimmering past in an absence of birdsong, and the sky decants the shadows of the weather from itself. So you drive on, hopeful of a time when the ocean will rise up before you like dusk and you will make landfall at last – some ancient, long-forgotten mooring, which both of you, of course, will recognise; though as I said before, there is no one beside you and neither of you has anywhere to go.

Imagine you are driving
nowhere, with no one beside you;
with the empty road unravelling and ravelling
in sympathy as the wheel turns in your hands…

—John Glenday, “Imagine You are Driving”
published in GRAIN (Picador, 2009)
#poem #poetry

This poem was from "From the Republic of Conscience" by @amnesty.org Screenshot is a bery brief summary about Ostip, who died in a labour camp at behest of Stalin.

Maybe this is the beginning of madness, Osip Mandestam
Translation: Clarence Brown and W.S. Merwin
Troublemaker Polar Lights
Leuchtturm A5
Twsbi Diamond 580 <B>

This shimmer that appears to change colour depending on the viewing angle.

#poetry #osipmandelstam #sovietliterature #fountainpensandink

Everything will be all right, Derek Mahon
KIP - Cloud Echo
Canopus Note
Visconti Van Gogh Maxi <23k PD B> turtle

Derek "combined an apocalyptic vision with a utopian sense of survival"

Everything will be all right, and if not we won't be here

#poem #derekmahon #irishliterature #fountainpensandink

A write up done on Poetry Foundation a few days ago. I hadn't realised how well known and influential he was until I researched this post. This poem came from my first leuchtturm book of poetry- I had a lot of his work because he sounded just like me.

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/177...

Poem, Everette Maddox
Iroshizuku - Fuyu-Gaki
B7 natural from Paper Penguin Co
Tom's Studio Studio Pocket Pen v2.0 <Italic B>

Everette Maddox (1944-1989) is yet another American poet. 🔗 in comments.

#poem #everettemaddox #americanliterature #fountainpensandink #fountainpensaustralia

Isn't it just so well behaved! I used it coincidentally when I was testing some low quality paper yesterday and it was one of the few that didn't bleed or feather.

The poem is a little long to share a screenshot of, but I found it here, as part of a tribute to him after his passing: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/02/26/p...

The river in you, Brian Turner (NZ)
Color Bar Ink -Violet Fizz
Leuchtturm
Ohto Tasche FF-10T <F> pink

Brian Turner (1944-2025) was a New Zealand poet laureate. I'm sorry I hadn't heard of him until I researched American Brian Turner.

#poem #brianturner #newzealandliterature #fountainpensandink

Neither Rhyme Nor Reason, Brian Bilston
@brianbilston.bsky.social
Diamine - Fir and Fog
Leuchtturm standard
Kakimori Frost <F> Purple

A chameleon shimmer ink with some chameleon english words (BYO glitter)

#poem #brianbilston #britishliterature #fountainpensandink #fountainpensaustralia

Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward, Gwendolyn Brooks
Kobe Ink - No. 54 Goshikiyama Ocher
Crena B7 slim Snowfall lights
Kilk x Galen Leather Celestial SE <dentist> Tropical Canopy

Disregard those who'd steal your shine- "live in the along"

#poem #gwendolynbrooks #fountainpensandink

I love David Ignatow's work, I'm suprised there isn't more online, and he is barely talked about! He has a really surreal bent in some of this work that I live, while others like Bagel are very lighthearted and observational.

Hate linking insta, still working on getting a website for this:
Link is yesterday's post about the books.
www.instagram.com/p/DVGY0nzFBPO/

Snowfall Lights paper

Spark R2 paper

"The Bagel" and "Go Lightly", David Ignatow
Tono and Lims Gemini's Duality
Crena b7 slim, snowfall lights and spark R2
Kaweco sport <artist> mint

A follow on from yesterday (insta only), my two B7 slim 400ish page books from Soe and Soe .

#poem #davignatow #fountainpensandink