Medha Singh

Blue Diode Poetry Launches Blue Diode Publications presents poets James Appleby, Sophie Cooke, David Kinloch and Medha Singh launching their new collections.

Blue Diode Poetry Launches
26 June @byleaveswelive.bsky.social, Edinburgh – free & all welcome

Blue Diode Publications presents poets James Appleby, Sophie Cooke, David Kinloch & @medhawrites.bsky.social launching their new collections
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Afterbody by Medha Singh PRE-ORDER - The Poetry Book Society Published 14th June 2025 with Blue Diode Press. Available for pre-order.

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"The sequence is gorgeous, poignant, beautifully evocative and strange, masterfully subtle, yet poetically exhilarating… Afterbody will properly announce Singh as one of the most notable emerging #poets in #Scotland.” —Alan Gillis

Do come for the launch of Afterbody (Blue Diode Press). 26th, SPL.

A picture of A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems on top of a mountain dulcimer in an open case. Around it are a small flower painting, a copy of Rimbaud’s Poésies, some dried roses, and a little wooden owl, who knows more than he lets on.

A Letter From The Mountain comes out one month from today!! I’m so excited to share this one with you all—preorders are open at 🔗 in 🧵:) ⛰️

to count down to the release, I’ll share a “mountain poem” each day—something in the book’s cosmos it couldn’t have been written without.

almostisland

A brilliant issue of Almost Island, one of my favourite publications of poetry and prose: www.almostisland.com

Friends! I am thrilled: the book jacket is here, complete with blurbs. We'd be having a launch at the SPL end of June with David Kinloch, Sophie Cooke, James Appleby + myself who have wonderful pamphlets out with Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh. 26th, 7PM. See you!

#Poetry #Scotland #ScottishPoetry

Mood / RIP, Monica.

The Poetry of Alexander Hutchison — David Kinloch, Writer When Alexander (Sandy) Hutchison died in 2015 there was an understandable outpouring of grief and affection for a Scottish poet who — despite his long career — was only just beginning to become more w...

“…like coming across fragments of a Psalter or song-book of North-eastern folk ditties… all clasped within the ragged covers of a rumbustious, medieval recipe book for everything”

—David Kinloch on the poetry of Alexander Hutchison
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Zoila Conan, photographed by William Mortensen, 1928

Marie Howe

'Crowds Over London Bridge' (2024) by Clive McCartney
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Arran Theatre and Arts Trust | Poetry Competition The Isle of Arrans Annual Art Competition

McLELLAN POETRY COMPETITION

Poems in English or Scots
£1000 prizes for English poem and Scots poem

Closing Date: 15 June 2025
Judge: Jim Carruth

Prize-winners will be invited to read at the award ceremony on Isle of Arran on Fri 29 Aug 2025

Details:
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Listen to David Morley introduce his new poetry collection, Passion. David talks about mist nets, capturing life in poetry and describes some of the poems' origins. On Wednesday 25th June at 7pm, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Passion! The event will be hosted by Sinéad Morrissey and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A. Book your ticket here: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/events/passion-by-david-morley-carcanet-online-book-launch/ For more info, and to buy the book: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800174818/passion/ Carcanet Press is supported by Arts Council England. Please consider donating to support our future work: https://www.paypal.me/carcanet Edited and produced by Pixel Assist www.pixelassist.co.uk Meet the Author: David Morley Discusses Passion

This week our Meet the Author video is by David Morley, writer of Passion, which is published this month! 🐦‍⬛

Click below to hear David talk about mist nets, capturing life in poetry and some of the poems' origins.
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Consolation for Tamar by Alicia E. Stallings on the occasion of her breaking an ancient pot You know I am no archeologist, Tamar, And that to me it is all one dust or another. Still, it must mean something to survive the weather Of the Ages—earthquake, flood, and war— Only to shatter in your very hands. Perhaps it was gravity, or maybe fated— Although I wonder if it had not waited Those years in drawers, aeons in distant lands, And in your fingers’ music, just a little Was emboldened by your blood, and so forgot That it was not a rosebud, but a pot, And, trying to unfold for you, was brittle

i thought maybe i could share some of my favourite poetry here. this is consolation for tamar, by alicia e stallings

'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955) Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.

'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.

We’re not all doomed to repeat our parents’ mistakes, or destined to inherit their successes. In the Wonder Reader, @isabelfattal.bsky.social offers a guide to taking useful lessons without losing your own way: https://theatln.tc/MghNhGtj

I'll repost to save for myself as I do not know anyone save two.

Thirty one!

I'll tell you what -- that is wildly impressive, many who are your age and older and could not boast the same.

You're ruthless with yourself. I'd imagined it was a lot more (please count ones you did not finish and then tell me).

That's an impressive score considering. You're allowed to count the books you've read almost halfway through as well. I'm guessing that will jack it up.

Crime Appears As If By Accident: An Interview With Claudia Piñeiro An interview with Claudia Piñeiro, one of Latin America's most decorated modern writers.

⚡Live on our blog, our latest interview with Claudia Piñeiro, among the most decorated writers in Latin America today speaking with our editor, James Appleby ⚡️

That's an amazing score. I was generous with myself and counted books that I'd read more than halfway but did not finish. We ourselves some grace. :)

The 100 best novels written in English: the full list Robert McCrum has reached a verdict on his selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English. Take a look at his list

I got fifty two, heh. What is your score?

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One language may substitute for another but nothing may pass for, displace, supplant, or answer for a language. Other languages are all we have.

Percival Everett

Richard Brautigan

V in nu nnn nnn nnn nnnnnnn nnnumerable V w wwv V vv V VV V Vv vv birds

Russell Atkins, poem

My poem in the latest Irish Pages. So pleased to be alongside so many wonderful people and to be chosen by the best in Scotland. All my gratitude for your time with this. @irishpages.bsky.social

Burroughs, Birds and Poets (1877)