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Literature without rankings. No follower counts, no likes - a piece arrives, you read it, you leave one honest sentence back. A typographic studio for writers. foloton.com
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The white dapperling wears a destroying angel's white: crowded gills, a ring. The poem turns golden hair into the day, coming out in handfuls. Then: Gong.

https://foloton.com/@m-benders/the-white-dapperling

Would you still taste the white one?

Photo: C. G. Mayers, CC BY 4.0.
Two halves of a white dapperling, Leucoagaricus leucothites, rest in an open hand over grass. The cut faces show white flesh, crowded pale gills, and a torn ring on one stem. Three closed white caps sit in the grass behind.
September 23, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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They took deadly webcaps for ceps. Gills, not pores. The poem Erbbeschleuniger names what the toxin does: it speeds inheritance the wrong way.

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A rust-brown deadly webcap, Cortinarius rubellus, held gills-up between thumb and fingers over moss and fallen leaves. The underside shows crowded rusty gills and a fibrous stem.
September 21, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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Grok assembled a Selected Poems from my English work, 2008–2025. Astra High reviewed it. I do not think a Dutch critic would have read the long poems this carefully.

https://foloton.com/@m-benders/review-of-selected-poems
The Foloton page for Review of Selected Poems: cream paper, the title in a large serif, the line a selection from my English-language work, compiled by Grok, Martijn Benders dated 21 September 2026, three small book spines, and the opening of Astra High’s review, ending on the italic lines Who can list our house / without losing their way in it?
September 21, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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Early October the Fabylon Suite beta lands: Windows 10 and 11, Linux, and a copy that runs from a USB stick. The work stays yours.

https://foloton.com/@m-benders/fabylon-beta-komt-naderbij
First login screen of the Fabylon Suite: a large rust-red letter F with a gold key and thread, the word FABYLON, the line Fables, built from scratch, and Six tools for writing, making books, reading and discovery. Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit, Beta. Continue and Cancel at the foot.
September 20, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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Dutch fruit will never surrender.

A poem about a glowing cucumber, the Westland greenhouses, and what the German ambassador in Helsinki wrote to Berlin in 1941.

https://foloton.com/@m-benders/what-is-it-fighting-for
The poem 'What is it fighting for' by Martijn Benders, set in type on Foloton: a memory of 1995, a glowing greenhouse cucumber, and a German ambassador's line from Helsinki, 1941, that the Finns will never surrender; Dutch fruit, the poem says, will not either.
September 17, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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Mischwald! Mixed forest everywhere.

A poem on the mycologist who corrected two Führers, then died of a mushroom he had named correctly. The stands were never pure.

https://foloton.com/@m-benders/mischwald-uberall-mischwald
Cream Foloton page of the poem “Mischwald! Überall Mischwald!” by Martijn Benders, dated 14 September 2026. Subtitle: Paxillus involutus, the brown roll-rim. The typeset opening verse runs from the cry “Mischwald! Überall Mischwald!” through Schäffer keeping the categories and dissolving the borders, with the credit FOLOTON.COM at the foot.
September 14, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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You thought you’re picking. Think again.

A poem that finds oracle, church and delay already sitting in one mushroom’s names.

https://foloton.com/@m-benders/cortinarius
Cream Foloton page of the poem “Cortinarius” by Martijn Benders, dated 12 September 2026. The typeset verse begins “It’s courting your life” and ends “leaving your ghost belted behind,” framed by aldus leaves, with the credit FOLOTON.COM at the foot.
September 12, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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Foloton is now also present on Bluesky!
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September 10, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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Iemand heeft uitgerekend waarom Houellebecq precies drie jaar achterloopt op Connie Palmen. Het antwoord is een zoon, geboren in 1981.

Reinier Vlaskamp past stemmatiek toe op twee levende schrijvers.

foloton.com/@reinier-vlaskamp/de-franse-palmen
September 10, 2026 at 6:46 AM