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SPUG(GY) Northumbrian word of the day from the English Dialect Dictionary Vol. 5 (1904)

"The spuggies are fledged"
Basil Bunting's 'Briggflatts' (1966)
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November 3, 2026 at 10:36 AM
catsbearsandme.bsky.social
#Poetry
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Coda by Basil Bunting
A strong song tows us, long earsick. Blind, we follow rain slant, spray flick to fields we do not know. Night, float us. Offshore wind, shout, ask the sea what’s lost, what’s left, what horn sunk, what crown adrift. Where we are who knows of kings who sup while day fails? Who, swinging his axe to fell kings, guesses where we go?
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
robgalpin.bsky.social
Final version of ‘What the Tech Bro Told his Minion’ here:

write.as/robgalpin/wh...

Please disregard the previous! 😂

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What the Tech Bro Told his Minion
after Basil Bunting Poetry? You work for me. You don’t have hobbies. Your time is mine. This guy — what’s your name? — he works all nig...
write.as
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
robgalpin.bsky.social
The future of poetry for #PoemsAbout #NoFuture
(warning: swearing and offensive language)
With apologies to #BasilBunting
#poem #poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
Full text here if image is a bit small: write.as/robgalpin/wh...
What the Tech Bro Told his Minion (after Basil Bunting) Poetry? You work for me. You don’t have hobbies. Your time is mine. This guy — what’s your name? — he works all night. He sleeps here. What do you do? Poetry in your lunchbreak? We don't do lunchbreaks. Poetry's finished. We can do it in a microsecond — that clever shit maybe three. They're making Inception 2, I told them to. Now that's art. I've been to space, Mars next — I’m building the future. What's a poet ever done? Lefties, gays. The trans agenda. I'm telling governments to lock 'em up. El Salvador — let ‘em rot. Or shoot them – quicker. Listen up, all leave's cancelled. We've got new crap to do. Blame this prick. What you write is shit. Man, your fucking face. Man, man, epic roast man. You think you're smart? I didn't even write this. Now get back to work.
November 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
peterwelsh68.bsky.social
I too shop at Sports Direct.

In my case at a discount outlet near Glastonbury and I bring my own pike to reach top shelf replicas and whatnot.

I also have a Sports Direct mug where I cold water swim wary of yesterdays dunked biscuit bergs

Great PNG today!

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September 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
gerrygadgee.bsky.social
Morden Tower
Newcastle upon Tyne
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#BasilBunting the greatest Geordie poet since Caedmon
#Briggflatts
November 24, 2024 at 11:31 PM
gerrygadgee.bsky.social
Morden Tower
Newcastle
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November 22, 2024 at 10:32 PM