Cáit O'Neill McCullagh

💚 #moniackmhoronline where I'll share about #mentoring & #writing #poetry alongside brilliant @johnglenday.bsky.social my mentor / companion in readying 'The Bone Folder' for publication. Join us online 23.01.26. Pay-as-you-are-able booking bit.ly/4p2kpE9

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❤ Saltire Book Awards
Immense thanks to the judges for their generous readings of 'The Bone Folder', and to everyone who has been part of shaping the poems that fill it; all of you who have read and given time to those words.

In the midst of all the other wondrous poetry news, I was so pleased to have been shortlisted in this year's #Bridport #Poetry Prize. There were some outstanding poets on the list & an astounding winner, placed and commended poets' list too. Immense congratulations to all!

Gorgeous to see 'The Bone Folder' shortlisted in the 'The Saltires' #Book Awards. Thanks to my publishers Drunk Muse Press & to each of you for your encouragement. All #poems would be lonely without their readers 💚
Good luck to everyone shortlisted 🙌
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Amazed & delighted to be on the longlist for *The Saltire Society’s National Book Awards* in the #Poetry category, debut section. Congratulations to all of the wonderous writers who have been listed & immense thanks to the whole more-than-a-village of folk who've helped raise these poems 💖

North North folk & people travelling in #Sutherland & #Caithness & friends Join me & Nadine Malcom & Lee McNeish of *Common Ground* at Melness Hall, Saturday 20 September, 2pm. #Poetry #stories imagining more possible futures. Free. Hope & cake galore. See image for details 👇

Thank you, dearest encouragers 💚

Poetry Now - Highland Hospital Radio Conversations with poets and writers in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and beyond.

Kathleen Madigan's * #Poetry Now * podcast on #Highland Hospital Radio is a gem. Engaging; thoughtful, healing. Featured poets include @johnglenday.bsky.social Pàdraig MacAoidh / Peter Mackay, Lydia Harris, Leonie Charlton. I've managed to stow away in there too. hhr.scot/show/hhr-sho...

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😅 I can't begin to tell you how seen I feel 💖

What a treat to have won the McLellan #Poetry Prize. Thanks to judge Jim Carruth, Arran Theatre & Arts Trust & the whole ecology of poets - encouragers; editors; mentors, dearest peers. My grateful poem is here www.arrantheatreandarts.co.uk/_files/ugd/a...

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“If we don’t explore the past, then how can we understand the journey that has brought us to where we are? This too – tracing the route – is a form of recovery.”

~ James Robertson (2025)
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July evening Norman MacCaig A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles Alone in the gaunt reedbed – Tiny silversmith Working late in the evening. I sit and listen. The rooftop With a quill of smoke stuck in it Wavers against the sky In the dreamy heat of summer. Flowers’ closing time: bee lurches Across the hayfield, singing And feeling its drunken way Round the air’s invisible corners. And grass is grace. And charlock Is gold of its own bounty. The broken chair by the wall Is one with immortal landscapes. Something has been completed That everything is part of, Something that will go on Being completed forever.

A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles
Alone in the gaunt reedbed –
Tiny silversmith
Working late in the evening…

—Norman MacCaig, “July evening”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)
#poetry #poem
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It's an honour & a beautiful thing to have been invited to become *Poet in Residence* for the @insuhi.bsky.social this place of learning; research & its people, so dear to me & immensely formative in my writing of poetry in & of the Highlands & Islands www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...

SHIPS: Live Poetry & Music — An Tobar and Mull Theatre Join five acclaimed poets—Sharon Black, Leonie Charlton, Juliet Antill, Jon Miller, and Cait O'Neill McCullagh—for a special evening of live poetry.

Join us, five Highlands & Islands originated/oriented poets for an evening of live #poetry readings & music at @atandmt.bsky.social #Tobermory #Mull Thursday 10 July, 7pm. We'd love to see you there. Click 👇 for details.

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Oh this is so good, and so necessary 👇

Join us, five poets setting ashore: Saturday 5 July, 7pm, in #Strontian for new #poems, conviviality, music, book signing & for free.

Come North, come West, sail the Whale Road; we'd love to see you 💚

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A gem from James Wright, uncovered by @johnglenday.bsky.social who always shares such wondrous poems - Blue Sky highlights!

‘The Bone Folder’, by Cáit O’Neill McCullagh - The Bottle Imp In the seventeenth century, Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty wielded an explosive polyglottal prose that, at times, lapsed into manly pretensions. In the twentieth century, MacDiarmid’s synthetic Scots...

Thanks to dear poet @taylor-strickland.bsky.social for this deeply engaged & engaging 'Bottle Imp' review of my debut #poetry collection 'The Bone Folder'. It's a privilege to get a glimpse of how some of those set-adrift lines are landing. www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/the-... #newbooks #poems

Nothing But The Poem - Norman MacCaig In this episode of Nothing But The Poem podcast, our usual host Samuel Tongue goes in deep on two weel kent poems by Norman MacCaig, one of Scotland’s most loved and influential poets. Norman MacCaig ...

🎤 NEW PODCAST!

The latest Nothing But The Poem podcast is a Norman MacCaig special. @samueltongue.bsky.social takes a deep dive into two of the most famous poems by one of Scotland's most beloved poets to see what lay beneath the bonnet.

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Off the Beaten Track Shared Reading on Zoom Get Off the Beaten Track with Shared Reading on Zoom

Join me:Thursday 12 June, 2-3pm, for a free online Shared #Reading hour. We'll look at work by POC, LGBT+ writers & writers with disabilities, & work in translation, in this gentle, guided session. Click below to register. It will be lovely to see you there. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/off-the-be...

I didn’t expect to see my face and poem at the reception desk of Inverness Central Library this evening.

A fine evening listening to poetry and song hosted by the ever joyous @kittyjomac.bsky.social

Off the Beaten Track Shared Reading on Zoom Get Off the Beaten Track with Shared Reading on Zoom

Join me on 22 May, 2pm (BST) for an hour of Shared Reading, online. We'll be exploring work by POC, LGBT+ & disabled writers, as well as work in translation, in this gentle, guided session; part of the programme offered by @openbookreading.bsky.social 📖

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This will be a luminous week ✨ with outstanding guides @marjorielotfi.bsky.social & @niallpoetry.bsky.social & all the goodness of Galloway leaning into us. For all who are in the practice of #writing, of #poems #Retreat, Galloway House, 14-19 September. Click below for more details & booking 👇

Oh this is devastating beautiful. It reached into me Laura.

I love John Burnside's often & often use of this word; 'creaturely', it's earliest finding being in the mid-seventeeth century ... and now so right for this moment of necessary reckoning with ourselves; with what has been, but must now be over.

It's an honour to have my wee poem 'Return' featured alongside the tender writing of Tom Murray in this month's Open Book Podcast, with the luminous @marjorielotfi.bsky.social & @claireurquhart.bsky.social ✨ soundcloud.com/openbookun..... The poem: openbookreading.com/wp-content/u...

After Whistler by Lisel Mueller.
Perhaps based on Symphony in White No. 1?

A description of the next North Sea Poets webinars.

Here's a look at the next #NorthSeaPoets webinars 🧑‍💻

Get all the details and book at northseapoets.com/events 🌊

#PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

That dear 'loveless moon' of Norman McCaig's, putting the heart over in me this #EarthDay