Thursday 5 March, 7pm, Politics and Prose, Union Market, DC.
I’ll be part of this evening’s gathering of voices. Do join us.
#ATwistOfRottenSilk #Poetry #Theatre #PoliticsAndProse
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I’m really excited to be speaking with Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social about #Cymbeline and its ‘infinit questions of the circumstance of strange chances’ (as one c17th reader put it) on Monday 2 March!
Saturday 28 February 2026 at 7pm. Blacksburg Books, Virginia, USA.
#ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Poetry #Theatre #Shakespeare
Jackie Oates, When I Was a Fair Maid, 2022.
with my big hat and feather
if you’d’ve only seen
you’d sworn from your very heart
a young man I’d’ve been
my waist being small and slender
my fingers thin and small
I could rattle up the drum a dee
the best among them all
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Publication-day book launch event. Poem and response. Come and join me to celebrate the release of A Twist of Rotten Silk #ATwistOfRottenSilk at Blacksburg Books, Virginia, USA, on Saturday 28 February 2026. Details here –
www.blacksburgbooks.com/events/autho...
The audiobook of A Twist of Rotten Silk #ATwistOfRottenSilk, read by Jackie Oates @jackieoates.bsky.social, with the afterword read by Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, is available on all major audiobook platforms. Here it is on Libro.fm –
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Jackie Oates @jackieoates.bsky.social is the voice of the audiobook of A Twist of Rotten Silk #ATwistOfRottenSilk, with Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social reading her own afterword. In Oxford on 21 November 2025, Jackie recorded Emma reading the afterword.
Book giveaway day 7/7.
One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today.
DM me the word Silk.
#ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare
Book giveaway day 6/7.
One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today.
DM me the word Kickshaws.
#ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare
Book giveaway day 5/7.
One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today.
DM me the word Kerelybonto.
#ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare
Book giveaway day 4/7.
One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today.
DM me the longest poem title in the book.
#ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare
Book giveaway day 3/7.
One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today.
DM me the shortest poem title in the book.
#ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare
Book giveaway day 2/7.
One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today.
DM me one poem title that stays with you.
#ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Shakespeare
Book giveaway day 1/7.
One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today.
DM me two poem titles you’d place side by side.
#ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Shakespeare
14 February to 20 February 2026.
Seven day giveaway open internationally.
One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk each day.
Answer by DM a poem-title related question.
Questions will be posted at varying times.
Please DM only if happy to share postal address.
#ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky
Velcome (page 39) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
Undone (page 38) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
This Is and Is Not (page 37) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
This Abruption (page 36) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
These Words (page 35) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
Teach Me (page 34) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
Swerve (page 33) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
Sun Wheel Flower (page 32) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
Storical Pastoral (page 31) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
Spices, Ink, and Paper (page 30) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
Snip (page 29) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
Recreation (page 28) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
Proclamation (page 27) #ATwistOfRottenSilk
