Blue Porcupine Poems & Things | Substack

Irregular update from James M'Kay, poet, of Gravesend, Kent, a small and ancient ferryport in a small and ancient county of a collapsing kingdom.

Blue Porcupine Poems & Things

May 5, 2021

Well, as Oscar didn’t say, sitting up once all night in a café in a deserted suburb to host a Fringe show on the other side of the Atlantic might be…

Blue Porcupine Poems & Things

Jan 26, 2021

Hello hello, and new people too! The observant among you may have noticed that it is not Sunday morning as advertised, but Monday lunchtime. What a…

Blue Porcupine Poems & Things

Jan 18, 2021

hello! this is the first of many (the gods grant) Sunday screeds from James McKay, a poet on a hill by a river in an archipelago that has frankly seen…

Blue Porcupine Poems & Things

Jan 10, 2021

Welcome to Blue Porcupine Poems & Things by me, Blue Porcupine Poems & Things. Poems, new and secondhand, printed and performed, and related…

Blue Porcupine Poems & Things

Dec 9, 2020

Blue Porcupine Poems & Things

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