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NEW POEM: 13.10.25
Autumning There’s bound to be something in this, this autumning of August, this unsummering of the garden, and the sky that meant so much...
Andrew Jamison
Oct 61 min read
NEW POEM: 06.10.25
Read a poem exclusively from Andrew's third collection Swans We Cannot See .
Andrew Jamison
Sep 281 min read
NEW POEM: 29.09.25
Youth Club On a trip to Dundonald Ice Bowl once run by the Presbyterian Church I’ll never forget I found my brother with his mate Mervyn...
Andrew Jamison
Sep 221 min read
NEW POEM: 22.09.25
Heaven as a Newsagents In heaven there is Mary Miscampbell selling Turkish Delight and Gold and Silver Benson and Hedges, looking down,...
Andrew Jamison
Sep 161 min read
NEW POEM: 15.09.25
The Party after Chekhov I can see you in the sunlight, Olga, Olga Mikhaylovna, Olga Mikhaylovna, a name that glimmers with its own sense...
Andrew Jamison
Sep 102 min read
New Poem: 08.09.25
September Night ushers in September and streetlights flicker-flicker, the last long evening leaves but nobody grieves when the last leaf...
Andrew Jamison
Sep 31 min read
NEW POEM: 01.09.25
Words for Summer I’ve wondered if there are words for it, the end of August, all this loving you. Blackberries at Burrington, the sea at...
Andrew Jamison
Aug 261 min read
NEW POEM - 25.08.25
All the Pretty Horses Tonight I’m saddling up with John Grady on a grey white horse he’s broken in but doesn’t want to lose. For dinner...
Andrew Jamison
Aug 191 min read
NEW POEM - 18 August
"as natural as wildflowers/ that punctuate late summer's uncut lawn." In Praise of Blank Verse The thing I love about blank verse is...
Andrew Jamison
Aug 132 min read
NEW POEM - 11 August
A new poem from Andrew Jamison exclusively for paid subscribers to his blog.
Andrew Jamison
Aug 71 min read
NEW POEM - 4 August
Current How long is the life of a human within the universe’s span? How long is the moment a river otter breaks then unbreaks the...
Andrew Jamison
Aug 21 min read
NEW POEM - 28 July
On Looking Through the Backdoor On Looking Through the Backdoor The wind buffeted solitary red kite, sunlight’s single momentary...
Andrew Jamison
Jul 251 min read
New Poem - 21 July
Afterlife Is it true that poets become little birds, palm-sized, black and white, twittering away all day in the beech, peeping out...
Andrew Jamison
Jul 171 min read
New Poem 15th July
Where? Through the gorse bushes, over the hedges and barred gates there is a path, past the rabbits, a clearing beyond demands,...
Andrew Jamison
Jul 101 min read
NEW POEM
New Poem by Andrew Jamison Why? by Andrew Jamison For quiet in the kitchen before the school pickup. For the bluetit busy in the copper...
Andrew Jamison
Jul 41 min read
NEW POEM: I Was Reading To My Child From A History Of The World
Pictured: Mount Vesuvius
Andrew Jamison
Jun 292 min read
New Poem - (for paid subscribers)
Against The freezer’s intermittent buzzing back to life, against the pen’s inklessness, against tomorrow, the moulding fruit bowl, the...
Andrew Jamison
Jun 161 min read
NEW POEM: The Days
(This poem is exclusive to paid subscribers - thank you for subscribing to The Poetry Jotter!) The Days Four fat birds fill their wings...
Andrew Jamison
May 271 min read
NEW POEM
Ephemera Muntjac in the morning, muntjac in the evening; silhouette in mist, fleeting being fleeing. Andrew Jamison is a writer and...
Andrew Jamison
Feb 91 min read
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