My name is Niall and I when I’m not writing poems, I write essays about films, art, gaming and poetry.

Rusty Niall was launched in October 2021 when I decided that I needed a clean break from Twitter and that getting back into blogging might be the best way about it.

In early 2023 I decided to migrate from Substack to Buttondown because of several concerns that I had about the former.

Rusty Niall has chopped and changed a few times in the past few years but it’s settled into a regular essay format recently. I’ll continue to post poems and other creative writings on my upcoming digital garden project. I’ve recently crossed the boundary of 100 posts so there’s plenty to get your teeth into if this is your first visit to the site.

Free subscribers get to read all the essays and poems, while paid subscribers get to read my extra commentaries on the poems as well as receiving an occasional “digest” email featuring new and old works that I have published elsewhere. The paid sub is simply a way to give back if you would like to, as is my ko-fi page.

If you'd like to get in touch you can find me on Threads, Mastodon or by emailing me at (get rid of the spaces and replace the “at” and “dot” with their equivalent characters) rusty niall at i cloud dot com.