Home of the Otwituaries - tweet-length poetic elegies for the departed, plus assorted poetry-related malarkey from Andy Jackson.
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined March 2009
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We find ourselves with two tickets we can't use for #TheSteamie in Glasgow TONIGHT - King's Theatre 19.30. Can anyone use them? Please DM me as soon as you can!
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An #Otwituary for ubiquitous session drummer #ClemCattini
No more humping your kit across London,
down to basement studios, setting up,
laying down the track, packing up. Onto
another session; who’s next? Everyone,
anyone, an impossible almanac of the 60s.
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#Otwituary for director #TintoBrass
The moviegoer waits for a film to start.
One reel in, and they do not recognise
what it is they came to see. Is this art
or the end of a brilliant career? Eyes
turn away to let the worst of it pass,
saying where there's muck, there's Brass.
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An #Otwituary for #JohnLeeson, voice of #DoctorWho’s #K9
When old friends turn to rust
and love falls into corrosion,
when batteries run down and
the answer to our questions
is always Insufficient Data,
listen for the affirmative voice
telling the tale that wags the dog.
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An #Otwituary for #JuanAtkins, the godfather of Detroit #techno
God said Here’s to the shock of the new
and cued up Kraftwerk on the turntable.
Some kids tuned in; one was you,
with a future dream of a music scene,
a 909 and a drum machine.
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An #Otwituary for #SandraKerr, folk musician and co-writer of songs from #Bagpuss
@OfficialBagpuss #smallfilms
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An #Otwituary for actor #PatrickStewart
Space is the greatest theatre, where
gravity and gravitas are in balance,
and all action is relative to the stars.
A good line is the surest compass;
set course. Let’s see what’s out there.
An #Otwituary for actor #ElkeSommer
Even in the dark I knew it was you;
that eau-de-cologne - what was it? -
ah yes - Naïveté, a scent fit only for
those who wish to be misunderstood,
who like to keep their men waiting,
kittenish in kohl, dripping with ditz.
An #Otwituary for movie director #PeterMedak
I am scouting locations for your life,
from classroom to gallows to gutter.
I light each shot in sixteen shades
of dark, natural light turning into
supernatural light, and each frame
edged with unaccountable dread.
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An #Otwituary for #StarTrek actor #WalterKoenig
Your character was a 'wessel' for its time,
a voyage from the future, but also from
the past, laden with dangerous cargoes.
In a Universe warped by optimism, old
worlds show how new worlds could be.
The latest future-poetry Transmission from #ProjectAbeona has been picked up by our high-gain antenna matrix. It's another instalment of Simon @EssBarraclough's dark and dangerous 'Incarcernaut' sequence.
projectabeonapoetry.substack…
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An #Otwituary for actor #TomSkerritt
The camera tracks in close-up
to a cast of faces; all the same
bones, hewn from granite yet
softening at a woman’s smile,
skin like prairie scrub, eyes blue
as the bayou or the empty sky.
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A few places are still available for the new term of Dundee’s Bitesize Book Club - 5 sessions of reading for pleasure…with guaranteed no homework. Come and enjoy the pleasure of reading with no pressure in a supportive and enthusiastic environment.
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An #Otwituary for poet #DouglasDunn
I must revisit the library of times,
to browse, to study, to be renewed.
The books within call me, brimming
with ideas, yet easy as an old suit.
Its doors are heavy, but always open;
my friend, say you’ll come with me.
Otwituarist retweeted
Huge game at Anfield this weekend
The team who are disliked, have been cheating for years and who have had the refs in their back pocket forever will take on Man City
An #Otwituary for actor #EveMarieSaint
The house lights go up; just me
at movie’s end…and a woman
on her own, three rows back,
svelte and luminous, hair like
threads of platinum. She lights
a cigarette, says Great movie,
and time stands still, and so do I.
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Otwituarist retweeted
🎙 "The rules were concocted by Arsenal, Liverpool & Man Utd that decided nobody else was joining their club" 😡
"The cartel came and said, we dont like this! We can't have #ManCity coming in and doing the same"👏
"We need to get rid of these obscene, anti-competitive rules" 👀
An #Otwituary for film & tv composer #GeorgeFenton
Wait, I know this one; composed,
scored, played, absorbed, proof
that we hear with square-eyes, that
we remember the lives I have seen
when we can whistle their theme.
Shoestring. Sorry We Missed You.
