Shakespeare Okuni
@ishakespeare
Author of A Twist of Rotten Silk or Words to That Effect (2026). Actor. Director. Linguist. Shakespeare 1593–1623. Stories of the Bundle and the Box. Cymbelinism and Other Things of the Imogenation
Here Is My Space - A Twist of Rotten Silk page 14 #ATwistOfRottenSilk #booksky #poem #poetry #Shakespeare
Poem sighting from a reader in France. The poem is “Kickshaws”, the book “A Twist of Rotten Silk” (“Une torsade de soie pourrie”?), the reader-writer the boulanger and novelist Fabien Granier –
A Twist of Rotten Silk or Words to That Effect (2026) "Generous and generative" – Emma Smith “Mesmerising” – Luke Kennard “Surprising and haunting” – Stephen Greenblatt #ATwistOfRottenSilk #Booksky #Shakespeare
Join me on Saturday 18 April 2026 at 2pm at Cover to Cover, Swansea, for a poems-and-responses session. With readings and musings, recitations and speculations, we'll release a new book into the world. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #booksky #event #poetry #theatre #Shakespeare
Me doing Kerelybonto at the Damn Fine Bookstore in Lyon, France, 2026. Oh no that's Hugo Ball doing Karawane at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #Booksky #Dada #LivePerformance #Lyon #Poetry
Come and join me this Wednesday 25 March 2026 at 5.30pm for a poem-and-response session at the Damn Fine Bookstore in Lyon, France. We’ll celebrate the release of my new book with readings and recitations, followed by a celebratory libation. Kerelybonto! #ATwistOfRottenSilk #booksky #Shakespeare
A Friday night in Baltimore. Thank you Cristina Deptula for bringing us all together. And thank you Tia Hamilton for hosting this spirited reading event at Urban Reads Bookstore. May your Black Star Line Literacy Bus hit the road in 2026! #booksky #bookstore #literacy #poetry
Saturday 28 February 2026 at 7pm. Blacksburg Books, Virginia, USA. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Poetry #Theatre #Shakespeare
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.
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
11 January to 13 February 2026 one poem title a day #ATwistOfRottenSilk
In the spirit of Twelfth Night. François Desprez, Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, 1565. Illyrian – Are you a comedian? Messalinian – I am not what I am. #TwelfthNight #woodcut #Shakespeare
In the spirit of Twelfth Night. François Desprez, Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, 1565. Illyrian – Are you a comedian? Messalinian – I am not what I am. #TwelfthNight #woodcut #Shakespeare
In the spirit of Twelfth Night. François Desprez, Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, 1565. Illyrian – Are you a comedian? Messalinian – I am not what I am. #TwelfthNight #woodcut #Shakespeare