Mike Ferguson
teacher/writer/poet ~ for more info, go to 'About' at gravyfromthegazebo.blog
- Worth watching the whole interiew, but to just hear the poignant speech, go to 20 minutes... www.polygon.com/ian-mckellen...
- Prompted by the ambient album Yawning Portal - Anywhere 'originally conceived in and around Des Moines, Iowa: a land where AOR rock and country blast out of car speakers on drives across desolate Rust Belt towns and vast Corn Belt farmlands', reminding me of long childhood drives in Iowa & Nebraska
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- My brisk review of one of this morning's enjoyable listens: somediurnalauralawe.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
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- After all this time, something that still works on the same principles: this day in 1958, The Lego Group patented their design of interlocking Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today...
- Always reminded what a fine writer he is: The one-armed man at the concert open.substack.com/pub/garrison...
- Read it here: heyzine.com/flip-book/41...
- Malice Aforethought
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I've just restocked by poetry booklets, plus a new cover for 'sky remains'. If anyone wants any, there's a 25% discount until Feb 10th if you use the code jan26 at checkout. charlieulyatt.bandcamp.com - Reposted by Mike Ferguson[Not loaded yet]
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- definitely uncertain times...
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- I would rate Graham Lock's contribution to Stride's '5' as a 5 out of 5. You? stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
- Beautiful, from the album Vidhya Gopal - Vidhya Gopal's Mehfil ~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eSr...
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- Reposted by Mike FergusonSuch kind words! 🙏🔆🙏🔆 A real pleasure to have a visual poem sequence with @icefloepress.bsky.social Many thanks to @rfredekenter.bsky.social and @vikkicwrites.bsky.social for having me 🖤
- Steven Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social is a favorite of mine! Inspiring, complex, erudite work, always! Welcoming him back to @icefloepress.bsky.social PROCESS project is a delight. Also look forward to more info on a future Ice Floe Press book by Stephen. icefloepress.net/2026/01/19/p...
- A Forthcoming Release in Tandem with Trickhouse Press! open.substack.com/pub/hempress...
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- Today, the patently self-serving Tory Jenrick gets an immediate BBC interview with The Kuennesberg to self-servingly declare he isn't self-serving in defecting to Reform yesterday...
- Reposted by Mike FergusonRobert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...
- Reposted by Mike FergusonGuess what? We are open for business! Short story submissions now welcome at brownhoundpress.com.
- My thanks to Nick and Rupert for posting
- from 'The Alien Buddha’s Best of 2025'
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- On the tenth anniversary of his death and genuinely sad loss, a cut-up poem I wrote in memoriam then ~ internationaltimes.it/bowie/
- poets.org/2020-on-lear... ~ Renée Nicole Good (RIP)
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- Available here: paperviewbooks.pt/books/connec...
- On this day in 1964, American comedian and TV host Jack Paar showed a clip of the Beatles singing 'She Loves You' and said he understood that science was working on a cure for the Beatlemania phenomenon...
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- Compressing the Cornered: a TextArt riff on Irving Penn's 'Portraits in a Corner' and one of mine (with thanks to @imogenreid.bsky.social )
- Fun to play a part in Rupert Loydell's 'Five' series here: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/12/five...
- Two treated views of rooks early in this morning's distance...
- Morning XXVII by Pablo Neruda open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...
- Took with me this morning to read while waiting in an area. Wonderfully inventive work from @trickhouse.bsky.social
- On this day in 1960, Ornette Coleman recorded his influential album 'Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation', introducing a name for the Free Jazz sound. On the album's recording, the two quartets are heard in separate channels.
- On this day in 1843, 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens was published, with 6,000 copies sold
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- As 'history' is now, and universal: on this day in 1776, Thomas Paine published his first "American Crisis" essay beginning "These are the times that try men's souls" (date disputed, apparently, but as this is timeless...)
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- My Stride review stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-st... @ianseedauthor.bsky.social @sacredparasite.bsky.social
- @ianseedauthor.bsky.social thank you for the significant catch-up, Ian! I am reading your latest and loving that opening sequence: it is as tender as it is oblique, and the uncertain and the certain glow together. I hope that makes some sense...
