@samueltongue.bsky.social
Poet, Editor (samueltongue.com) and Co-Director of Kalewater Cottage Creative Retreat kalewatercottage.co.uk
“Juana Adcock is a poet who works between languages and registers and themes, ever inventive and risk-taking”
– @samueltongue.bsky.social examines two poems by Juana Adcock for the @byleaveswelive.bsky.social podcast
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de... << how fantastic to see. Big up Peepal!
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Image of an advent calendar, with the words "Poetry Advent Calendar"
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
26.11.2025 15:48 — 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 10This is a lovely thing.
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Recording a new poetry film podcast with @samueltongue.bsky.social at @byleaveswelive.bsky.social this afternoon. Great fun!
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Nature: Winter is a time of slowing down, resting, conserving energy and recovering for the year ahead
Capitalism: NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL SELL SELL, EXTENDED OPENING HOURS, CHECK OUT OUR SALES, BUY EVERYTHING WE SAY YOU NEED FOR AN ELABORATE LABOUR-INTENSIVE FESTIVAL, WORK YOURSELF TO THE BONE
Today's themes: HP Lovecraft, quail hunting, National Front environmental policy, Umwelt, litter-picking, Depression-era union bashing, hydroelecttic dams. This is going to be a fucking amazing book, guys.
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Online poetry reading tomorrow evening UK time from the Wordsworth Trust - @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social hosting Josie Giles. Next month is Sarah Howe! I keep missing these but they're such great events. Do share and come along! www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
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A yellow book cover with red letterbox, against blue bookshelf. Smaller photos of a Postbox Press banner and the Mitchell Library and others.
I was delighted to be part of the launch event for Postbox magazine. A celebration of the short story!
@colettecoen.bsky.social @samueltongue.bsky.social #postboxpress #ayewrite
It is Halloween. Turnip Head
Will soon be given his face,
A slit, two triangles, a hole.
His brains litter the table top.
A candle stub will be his soul.
Michael Longley, 'Halloween'
Two poems by Juana Adcock were the focus of the SPL's regular Nothing But The Poem podcast, hosted by @samueltongue.bsky.social
A 16 minute treat of poetry gorgeousness for your ears. Listen to it here:
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...
Still time to get your tickets for this event at Glasgow's
@AyeWrite festival on Friday 7th November - Bill Herbert and myself with some fantastic poetry! Just £6.72 for an evening's entertainment...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/word...
HEADS UP!
Last night Isabelle Baafi won the @forwardprizes.bsky.social for Best First Poetry Collection. Congrats, Isabelle.
Today we're putting a brand new Nothing But The Poem podcast online featuring @samueltongue.bsky.social taking an immersive dive into 2 poems by Isabelle Baafi.
Stay tuned!
🎙️NEW SPL PODCAST: Isabelle Baafi
Our resident Nothing But The Poem host, @samueltongue.bsky.social leads an immersive analysis of 2 poems from Forward Prize winning poet Isabelle Baafi's debut collection Chaotic Good.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...
stmungosmirrorball.wordpress.com Gaelic poetry showcase 6th November at Aye Write -not to be missed
26.10.2025 10:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is beautiful and true and painful and hopeful and real Alycia, thank you
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A navy blue graphic with the title "the waves, the waves: conversations about grief". At the bottom is a photo of Alycia wearing a white shirt and a skirt, walking into the ocean waves.
Contains the following text: I hosted. I felt pleasure. I desired. I lied. I stood in a crowd. I was in relation. / still. grief/grieving to grieve is so fucking lonely. / The imaginary conversations I have in the car, the bath, the sea, etc.,
I've written a little bit about grief [spoiler, it's lonely and unbearable] in this kind of fragmentary short piece about waves.
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🎙️ NEW SPL PODCAST!
The latest edition of our Nothing But The Poem podcast, hosted as usual by @samueltongue.bsky.social, features an engaging critical dive into two poems by Juana Adcock.
🔥 The Task of the Translator
🔥 The Guitar's Lament
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...
So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language
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A frog poem from Reflector - my limited edition art book collaboration with #Dundee artist Stephen French: stephenfrench.art
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Climate change though. Absolutely insane lack of panic about this www.theguardian.com/environment/...
13.10.2025 07:52 — 👍 141 🔁 64 💬 11 📌 6According to Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza's Dead by Dr Richard Hil and Dr Gideon Polya, they say that as of April 2025 there are 680,000 dead in Gaza, this includes an estimated 380,000 children under the age of 5. This is based on all the data collected.
08.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3He is out of his fucking mind & I have to assume all those others know it. He’s in some movie he thinks he’s starring in. It’s truly insane. We need to speak up on this. He has some Dr Strangelove shit going on & it’s beyond freaky.
02.10.2025 01:32 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0Just a reminder that the Cafe Writers International poetry competition is open. Our wonderful (sole) judge this year is Jessica Mookherjee. Top prize is £1000 www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...
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Promo poster for auditions for online poetry website iamb. It shows the faces of ten well-respected poets who've appeared in the journal or are scheduled to.
POETS. DO. NOT. MISS. THIS!!
Audition SOON for a chance to appear in @iambapoet.com in either 2026 or 2027.
Everything you need to know to join some of poetry's most celebrated names is on the Audition page.
Fewer than 40 spaces available now. You'll need to be quick!
iambapoet.com/audition
Terminal clash
25.09.2025 09:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But what about elevenses?!
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It’s official (again): Climate change is real, it’s caused by us, and it’s dangerous
The science isn’t new
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
