Filigree and Fire - Poetry, Art, Journeys

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ReviewStack: McAllister's Mates Fifteen
A very important and courageous piece I’d like to share with you, speaking as someone who isn’t directly affected by infertility - I was still deeply…
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Graeme McAllister
Chaos Charms Part 7 - First sprint on new feet
Soil meeting fresh skin. We push, grab, take, eat. Cast strangers from our kin.
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Chaos Charms Part 6 - Our Lights Became Liquid
And so our lights became liquid, Caged within bone vehicles. Eternal indolence to ego, to id.
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June 2025

ReviewStack: McAllister's Mates Fourteen
Two interesting pieces that both take on poetry’s most ubiquitous but inexhaustible subject - the Night’s Sky. What really piqued my interest is that…
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Your Map of Chaos Charms
A slightly different post this week. I'm posting the introduction to "Chaos Charms" as I think its a substantially important part of understanding the…
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Graeme McAllister
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Why the Obsession with Poetry?
Something of my manifesto (oh how VERY teenage) and perhaps mission statement (oh how VERY corporate) as a writer.
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Chaos Charms Part 5 - Iron Transmutation
Crumbling iron’s transmutation Rose coloured and molten. Blood bears air to imagination, Feeding souls with oxygen.
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Graeme McAllister
ReviewStack: McAllister's Mates Thirteen
An ongoing series of reviews of some of the wonderful articles, poems, and stories I’ve discovered on Substack (and other places) and more importantly…
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Graeme McAllister
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Chaos Charms Part 4 - Shock of Breath
Wet Sparks, cells smoulder. Alarming shock of breath.
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Graeme McAllister
Chaos Charms Part 3 - Micron's Choices
Specks bounce beneath surfaces. Dots reordered, dancing rhythms. Ever moving, paused in place,
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ReviewStack: McAllister's Mates Twelve
An ongoing series of reviews of some of the wonderful articles, poems, and stories I’ve discovered on Substack (and other places) and more importantly…
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Graeme McAllister

May 2025

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