Wonderful news! Myself & Emma Kames are hosting a poetry workshop at Paisley Book Fest, 17th May for everyone - beginners to published focussing on harnessing each individual's distinctive voice in their own intuitive tongue. Come along! Book at paisleybookfestival.com/programme/he...
Happy new year all my bluesky friends. Lang may yer lum reek
This will be a Christmas cracker, can't wait! @dreich.bsky.social @keeksmc.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social #Edinburgh #Leith #Poetry #SpokenWord 📚 💙
Can't wait!!!!!!
If you fancy buying a beautiful glossy book celebrating endangered & vulnerable languages with fabulous poems & fine art, buy it from the link below
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Career highlight yesterday representing City of Poets at @ptbopoetry.bsky.social with a multimedia performance I directed showcasing endangered languages featuring non English speaking poets, interpretive art by Anne Wilkie & original music by Spencer Mason.
Thanks to all for making it so special
Had an amazing night last night at the 3rd birthday of Curlers Cosy Corner poetry night in Glasgow hosted by my wonderful friend @rosswilcockmedia.bsky.social
I was so thrilled to be asked to perform. What a night! Amazing talent, good craic, lovely folk & a marriage proposal! (They said yes!)
Here's a wonderful opportunity for Scots Language poets. I'm guest editor for the February edition of @dreich.bsky.social and I'm looking for fresh, contemporary topics written in modern Scots to fill the pages. It fills up fast so get your submissions in.
Please check out the @ptbopoetry.bsky.social City of Poets TAKEOVER event I'm directing & performing at in Nov, designed to shine a spotlight on endangered & vulnerable languages featuring music, art & poetry in Scots, Gaelic, Igbo, Rohingya and Guernesiais
www.citizenticket.com/events/push-...
Well done!
Fair made up to receive the runner up prize for Scots poetry at the @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social poetry awards tonight.
Warmest congratulations to everyone on the Frances Browne Literary Festival Poetry shortlist announced today and fingers crossed for your success in the competition. It wasn't to be for me but I was honoured to make the long list.
Thanks to @sirangus.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing everyone at Scowth tomorrow!
I'm stunned and honoured to find out I've been placed twice on the longlist for the Frances Browne Literary Festival Poetry Competition in the Ulster Scots category for my poems "Isabella Tod" and "Will". What a special Monday this is!
You are so welcome! Enjoy!
POETS NEEDED
Urgent call to the poetry community in Scotland. I'm looking for poets who write/perform in any endangered language (not Scots or Gaelic as they're covered) and live in or near Scotland. Please can you send me a wee message if this is you or you know anyone who fits the bill??
Two Scottish suggestions - The Malt Whisky Murders by Natalie Jayne Clark and The Silent House of Sleep by Allan Gaw
How are all my poets doing?
Apparently it's meant to be 3 hrs long with a lot more plot in it but it was cut.
My goodness! I'm so made up that I'm shortlisted for the Scots Wigtown Poetry prize. Congratulations to all shortlisted poets! It's an absolute honour to be listed amongst such esteemed company!
www.wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-compe...
Thank you!!
Smashing night on Friday at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow for the St Teneu poetry awards. What an honour to be shortlisted in the Scots language category. Well done to all the winners!
#stteneu
Fowks , thoughts please!
Is it:
A. Breakfast, lunch, dinner
B. Breakfast, dinner, tea
????
What a beautiful surprise to be thumbing through a lovely anthology of poetry, so apt for these times (Poems for a world gone to shit) and to find my favourite @nikitagill.bsky.social poem, Ancestors, within. It's absolutely what I needed today
"There is nothing less apt to touch a work of art than critical words: all we end up with there is more or less felicitous misunderstandings"
I'm so excited to perform alongside this list of stunners at TenRed in Edinburgh on the evening of 23rd July. Come along to hear the words of some absolutely amazing poets!
Delighted to be included alongside such talent in the first ever issue of The Candyman's Trumpet, this beautiful pdf publication curated by @dreich.bsky.social
Should you want a free pdf via email of this lovely publication email Jack at jackcaradoctct@gmail.com
🏴 Our Scottish Languages Bill has passed, and will now become law:
✅ Gaelic & Scots gain official status.
✅ Better access to Gaelic education.
✅ Improving Gaelic and Scots in schools.
Had a lovely time on Sunday at City of Poets annual get-together. Lovely to see so many pals and meet new ones
Um, the news?
