Merry Christmas! In keeping with the season, I present to you my latest chapbook, All the Words of the Reindeer. It is all the words I found (2078, it turns out) I could create with one letter from each of the reindeer names in Twas The Night Before Christmas. My longest chapbook yet, it's a sort-of followup to my 2024 chapbook, All the Words of the Rainbow (which used the common names of the colors of the visible spectrum (ROYGBIV)). Printed and staple bound at home, zine-style. Share your postal address with me and I'll drop one in the mail to you. Merry Christmas!

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goodk kkkkk unjam ingwe nches lass? start again goodk
lassw enche sking start again kings tart! again sorry…

—Edwin Morgan, “The Computer’s Second Christmas Card”
published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/

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jollymerry
hollyberry
jollyberry
merryholly
happyjolly
jollyjelly
jellybelly
bellymerry
hollyheppy
jollyMolly
marryJerry
merryHarry
hoppyBarry
heppyJarry
bobbyheppy
berryjorry…

—Edwin Morgan, “The Computer’s First Christmas Card”
first published in THE SECOND LIFE (Edinburgh University Press, 1968)

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Concrete Scottish Connections: Finlay, Jandl, Gomringer, & Satie
22 Oct, Edinburgh – free

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ernst Jandl, & Eugen Gomringer – all born in 1925 – helped shape concrete poetry, breaking linguistic barriers & reimagining the power of words

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/concrete-scottish-connections-finlay-jandl-gomringer-and-satie-tickets-1743611311369

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Today, 30 September, is International Translation Day – read THE BOTTLE IMP: Scottish literature & translation issue free online:

🇩🇪 SUNSET SONG in the GDR
🇮🇹 THE BLACK ARROW on Italian TV
🏆 Scotland’s Nobel-nominated Esperanto poet
🇫🇷 Franco-Scots poetry & postcolonialism
🏗️ Transcreating concrete poetry

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/bad-harsk-speech-and-lewit-barbar-tung/

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