Mair MacLeod

remarkable

Thank you @petrichorlit.bsky.social for the nomination 😍

You can read the nominated poem here: petrichormag.com/26-meredith-...

(best read on desktop)

Hello! Here’s the first of some forthcoming updates—the Critical Circle is on! Send your application between today and June 15th. Time for discourse in July!

“being a human is so baseline sometimes. It’s just fuckin toast stuck in the toaster.” - gentian rhosa

Meredith MacLeod Davidson Spring 2025 Hysteric       TUESDAY                 They arrived at the shore in the night, mist marring the coastal highway, puddles lying in wait, cellphone flashlights hurriedly flicked on to...

I've a new piece up in Jet Fuel Review, a work of short fiction exploring medical misogyny, embodied anxiety, and the struggles of interpersonal intimacy throughout climate collapse. I'd love you for life if you gave it a read. Many thanks to the JFR team!!!

www.jetfuelreview.com/meredith-mac...

the Vinted icon changed to a shade just ever so slightly darker and it’s driving me mad

growing up is realising that the better your activism & organising & advocacy work is for your CV, the less effective it is at changing the status quo of systemic oppression

Here is our nonfiction excerpt “On Engagement.” By Meredith Macleod Davidson.

That’s me! So honoured to have this piece up in the incredible @anthro-poetry.bsky.social !!! Thank you team 💜💜💜

Having led a team of admissions counsellors for 5 years in another life, & been an academic for longer, I’m here w. the annual pro bono offer of aid — essays, LORs, application fee funds — for folks from marginalised backgrounds applying to Master’s/PhDs abroad.

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WHY DID I TWEET THIS IN MY SLEEP

what if speakeasy menus were just taco bars

ah! I now also love this tree

genuinely nothing so special as Finnish sauna culture

love Finland and devastated to leave it - where else will a group of naked sweating people hear me out while I ramble incoherently for 20 minutes about the foreign critique of America through films such as The Apprentice and Civil War and meet me with something vaguely akin to sincerity?

"But when, after decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?"

magic dusk moments

hello from the forest today 🤍

🌀 you want to order a copy of @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social ( & read two poems by me! paired with unreal photography!) so badly 🌀

Don't forget, the new Abridged issue is now online! If you want a copy of the print edition, drop us a line. It's free plus postage and packaging.

Thank you @dustpoetry.bsky.social for sharing my odd love poem on Valentine’s Day - read at the link below 💜

A lovely Finnish aurora to add to the very gorgeous full moon clear night we’ve got goin’ here tonight 🤍

they found Refaat Alareer's body

www.palestinechronicle.com/refaat-alare...

rest in power, poet 🌹🙏🏾💜

poetry is life

this tree and i wrote a poem together today

sooooooooooo sketch!!! infuriating really 🫠

desk on day one of residency month

In the middle of the upheaval, we have to do what we can with the conditions available. One does not engage in political struggle because one knows the outcome in advance, but because one refuses to accept the conditions of the present.

- Arthur Asseraf, “The Algeria Analogy”

when u make eye contact with the dog waiting for its owner to finish breakfast in the Estonian cafe >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Such a joy to launch TANGERINE DREAM - the first crisp packet poetry publication - Wednesday night at The Glad Cafe in Glasgow.

Thanks to @alasdairwatson.bsky.social for coming along & taking these wonderful photos which so perfectly captured the vibe 🧡🧡🧡