Orange Cassidy: The wrestler that rescues Romanticism from Irony
bn Orange Cassidy (Author's Note: Just in case you were curious about the change in platform, my newsletter is now hosted by Buttondown rather than Substack....
Rusty Niall is Migrating from Substack to Buttondown
Why I have to leave this platform
Football at Shatner's or Diner from Heat?
The ideology of non-ideological spaces
Notes on the niche pastime of thinking about death
A lyric essay about a lifetime spent pondering the imponderable
Don't Get Clever With Me, Son...
The only thing that will displace an audience’s prejudiced image of you is your humanity.
Why you're probably wrong about Instapoetry
What defenders and detractors don't understand about Kaur-core
How playing Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (sorta) helped me to procrastinate less
...and why all tools must eventually break
Where are all the happy poems, when is Poetry Unplugged returning (?) and my future plans for this long neglected substack.
Well, hello there...
Beyond the Page and Person paywalls
Some thoughts about the past, present and future of poetry on the internet
A bad workman always fetishises his tools
Do good writers need to hate the act of writing?
Who do I think I'm fooling?
Misadventures in digital voice cloning.
Mastodon is my mood board rather than my echo chamber
A note of hope, a note of caution and the return of my clock card poems
It Follows and the Negative Space of Horror Films
Oh look, the post I would have shared on Halloween if I had finished it on time.
The Last Time Social Media Sparked Pure, Unbridled Joy
Twitter again. Yeah, I know…
A Window Cleaner Discovers a Korok Seed at the Tip of an Unnamed Skyscraper
A yarn inspired by my last blog
Oversized Desk Toys and Korok Seeds
On accessible open worlds and inaccessible cities
autumn=happens | poet=gets feels
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedit proper chucked it down last night & i appear to be less preoccupied with the...
The Two Faces of the Dying Monarch
On how stories of monarchy are often more effective than stories of healthy democracy
Two Killer Zens on the Subject of Notability
The second poem’s better but you should read the first one anyway
Violence in Poetry
Can poetry use violence in similar ways to other media?