Frank Podmore

@frankpodmore

Award-winning poet published in @pwritersu.com, @stanzacannon.bsky.social, @apparitionlit.com and others; occasional opinions for @roadcc.bsky.social, @labourlist.bsky.social‬ and Sublation Magazine

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Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· 8d

Obviously:

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· 21d

I really don't get how people can read stuff like this and fail to realise that it cannot be by William Blake (who did write a famous line about doors, but not this one). This has the cadence of someone parodying Tolkien, not of a romantic poet

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between are the doors.

[Falsely attributed to] William Blake

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Jul 2

A footnote from an old book which reads:

'This was once revealed to me in a dream.'

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Jun 30

Nothing new under the sun: a writer complaining that you can't say anything these days without someone taking issue with it... in 1591:

A page of text which reads:

'But sith we live in such a time in which nothing can escape the envious tooth and backbiting tongue of an impure mouth, and wherein every blind corner have a squint-eyed Zoilus that can look aright on no man's doings'.

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Jun 25

Just read in this that Henry VIII once invaded France, blew up a castle, declared victory, then went back to England leaving someone else to clear up the mess, all at a cost of something like £1 billion in modern money. Who says studying history has no relevance today?

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Jun 21

What I admire about this poem is the audacity not only to claim it's a poem, but to then actually send it to an editor

Text of a poem (allegedly) as follows:

EXTRACT

At a time when gentrification was intensifying in London, and elsewhere around the world-

At a time when state violence against Black, Brown and working-class people continues to intensify, I started to think tattoos were a new territorial act-

I started to think a tattoo was a way to reclaim agency as our access to and freedoms within public space diminished.

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Jun 16

A man and a woman are sitting on a bed, with dialogue printed over the image. The dialogue reads:

MAN: As a political adviser, I have advised a number of politicians to explore doing a Blue Labour.

WOMAN: Well, did it work for those people?

MAN: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might but... but it might work for Andy Burnham.

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· May 23

A title card from DS9. Instead of the real title it says "THE NERDS ARE GONNA LOVE THIS"

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· May 23

A title card from Star Trek: The Next Generation which reads 'Maybe skip season one'

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Mar 27

Image of a type-written page which reads:

poetry
is the song of the heart
everything you wanted to say
but never could

An extremely good-looking man in fantasy armour looking very sceptical

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Feb 10

(I appreciate this is not a caption)

A giant man with a red banner marches through a snowy city. Beneath his feet, the roads are thronged with protesting workers

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Feb 9

For my fellow writers, a true classic of the genre of confusing agency websites (the bit that says 'CLOSED' is a button that does nothing):

A screenshot of text which reads: 'Submissions. Submissions are now open. Please see the guidelines below for how to submit.' Below the text is a red button with text reading 'CLOSED'.

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Feb 3

www.financialexpress.com/world-news/u...

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Jan 28

Huge if true:

A screenshot showing that William Shakespeare and 2 others like my post

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Jan 27

He doesn't, but he defo leans Republican

An image showing a cartoon character with a black eye and plaster on his forehead. He is wearing a t-shirt with the legend 'HAIG IN '88'

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Dec 3

Lol, I'm such a fucking nerd

A word cloud showing my most used words on BlueSky:

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Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Nov 27

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Nov 16

William Empson had magnificently odd facial hair

A photo of a man with white hair and glasses. He has a neat moustache and also an untidy mass of wispy white hair growing from his neck

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Nov 10

Some Elizabethan terms for carving:

A page from a book that reads:

trush that chicken
disfigure that peacock
splat that pike
culpon that trout
alay that pheasant
wing that partridge or quail
thigh all manner of small birds
undertrench that porpoise
tame that crab, and
barb that lobster

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Oct 30

Came across this old interview with Shigeru Miyamoto in which he (inadvertently?) implies that 'Dr' Mario is guilty of some sort of medical malpractice:

Text readng: SM: There's really only one rule in terms of the things that Mario does. Generally, it's that he's more on the blue-collar side. He's hard-working, and certainly much more physical in nature. So, I think that a doctor is sort of an unexpected and perhaps unbelievable role for Mario. Perhaps the Dr. Mario you're thinking of was maybe, in some way, not necessarily legitimate.

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Oct 17

Watching this old film of Anthony and Cleopatra and she's just walked in wearing a fucking Naruto wig

Lynn Redgrave as Cleopatra, wearing a bizarre head dress, wig or hat that looks like the hair of the anime character Naruto. She looks pissed off, possibly about her hat.

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Jul 8

I've been singing it like that since I was ~2 years old, and only when I read this did I find out other people hear it this way too!

Text that reads: 'Williams wrote seven different themes for “Superman: The Movie,” including a beautiful love theme and a nostalgic Aaron Copland-esque theme for the sequences in Smallville. But it’s the Superman theme that’s appropriately dominant. It’s made up of two sections: a powerful fanfare acting as a precursor to action and a call to arms, and a big and bright main theme that uses a three-note phrasing that sounds like it says “Sup-er-man.”'

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· May 16

A middle aged man with a bad haircut standing next to a flipchart that has been edited (badly) to read 'JUST SACK MORGAN'.

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· May 15

Text reading 'YOU WOULDN'T INVENT A BUS'

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· May 13

Two soaking wet men stand in the pouring rain with text that reads 'We've quoted Enoch Powell by mistake'

Frank Podmore@frankpodmore· Apr 30

Got this anti-LTN leaflet through the door and it very much needs debunking.