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Author: William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.
Posted on March 6, 2023January 14, 2026

Poetry Collection: Written Somewhere Sunny In The South-West

A free, downloadable PDF of my new poetry collection!

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Posted on February 26, 2023February 26, 2023

A Brief Three-Line Poem Touching On The Possible Co-Regency Of The Potentially Now Delusional & Therefore Increasingly Unfit Akh-En-Aten & The Probably Unsettlingly Powerful Nafereti-Iti, With Her Given The Public Persona Of A Male Co-King & Future Sole King Due To Lingering Societal PTSD Over The Earlier Hat-Shep-Sut Incident

A man to take the crown.

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Posted on February 20, 2023

Time-Begotten

Hist’ry-layered.

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Posted on February 18, 2023

Firetide Beside

Flamelight infuses the electric.

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Posted on January 31, 2023

Twirling Doodles

Well-lived.

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Posted on January 22, 2023

An Old York Sunset’s Scene-Song

New wetland frozen fast.

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Posted on January 17, 2023

Sketch (Once More)

Grow, gradual scribbles.

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Posted on January 12, 2023

Undiscovered

I write for longer projects.

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Posted on December 27, 2022

A Tanka For A Wedding Card

High Green wed.

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Posted on December 18, 2022November 10, 2024

Nafereti-Iti: Book Two

The girl-child, become woman, leaves her childhood for the palace life.

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Posted on November 22, 2022November 22, 2022

[Without End]

End-less.

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Posted on November 18, 2022November 18, 2022

Hymn To The River

From beyond the Island Of The Elephant – realm of Khnum, Satet, Anqet – you flow from your
secret cavern-source to those bouldered, bord’ring shores!

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Posted on November 16, 2022

Twinkle-Burn, Far Ago Star

Delphic, dark, ‘n hid you are…

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Posted on November 11, 2022

She; Her

Women. Life. Freedom.

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Posted on November 6, 2022November 6, 2022

Glendalough Haibun

All about the tanglebranch of brokentwig it rushroars, raring for the smoothstone leap – the turning, tumbling stream.

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