Last month, I was given a chance by Raw Acts to perform live part of my epic poem, Venus and the Moon at Eden Court. It was great to try it out, with me wearing a blue wig channeling Planet Earth as the narrator, and a lovely review from The Highland Times.
#poetry #rawacts #artsdevelopment
04.11.2025 14:24 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
I've been writing an epic poem based on astronomy/astrology/star mythologies. I'm performing the first 15 mins as part of the Raw Acts event at Eden Court. There'll be other performers doing their 15 mins as well
The event is free and is from 5pm-7pm.
www.eventbrite.com/e/raw-acts-n...
#poetry
14.10.2025 14:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A new poem of mine 'A Hazel Tree for Hugh Miller' has been included in a booklet for Hugh Miller's Birthplace Museum. 'New Legends from Old Scenes' for part of Hugh's birthday celebrations.
#hughmiller #scottishpoetry #cromarty #versecycle #carolineburrows #poet #SpenserianSonnet
13.10.2025 14:54 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
I've got a sonnet 'A Hazel Tree for Hugh Miller' featured in 'New Legends from Old Scenes' to celebrate Hugh Miller's birthday at Hugh Miller's Birthplace NTS
#nationaltrustforscotland #hughmiller #cromarty #carolineburrows #versecycle #poetry #sonnet #spenseriansonnet #newlegendsfromoldscenes
04.10.2025 12:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Tomorrow's Poetry Slam in Inverness for Ness Book Fest has unfortunately had to be cancelled because Storm Amy is about to go mad mental. Rhyming will recommence when there's less actual jeopardy in everyone getting there
03.10.2025 19:01 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
My photo, a 'Robin Between the Sutors' has been chosen for Jan in the 2026 calender 'Images of the Black Isle', a comp run by Culbokie Commnity Trust. Available from Cromarty Post Office and other Black Isle outlets
#cromarty #culbokie #theblackisle #scottishhighlands #calendar2026 #robinredbreast
03.10.2025 13:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Harvest Ocean
by Caroline Burrows
VerseCycle
Harvest winds blow wheat,
The student of honami,
Watches golden waves.
#NationalPoetryDay #CarolineBurrows #versecycle
02.10.2025 21:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Watch me (sans Bikey for a change) with 10 brilliant poets at Ness Book Fest Poetry Slam, The Bike Shed, Merkinch, Inverness. Free tickets booking essential.
#nessbookfest #slampoetry #poetryslam #cyclepoet #versecycle #carolineburrows #thebikeshed #inverness #poetry #spokenword
26.09.2025 13:32 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
I have a Rhod Gilbert & The Giant Grapefruit ticket for sale for his show in Limerick, Ireland 15th Oct. Logistically I can't get there by bike, train & ferry in a way that's not exhausting. Open to offers.
twckts.com/sTTG
#rhodgilbert #ticket #limerick #Ireland
20.09.2025 11:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I had such a great time at Nairn Book and Arts Festival a whole weekend ago teaching a poetry session Saturday, and the 3 hours Poetry Bombing on the Sunday.
Crikey!
#poetry #spokenword #carolineburrows #cyclepoet #versecycle #nairnartsfestival #nairnbookfestival #nairnarts #nairn #scottishhighlands
14.09.2025 15:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#thisweekend
I'll be at Nairn Book and Arts Festival this weekend.
Workshop Sat 6th Sept 2-4pm: www.ticketsource.co.uk/nairn-book-a...
Sunday, I'll be poetry bombing, prepare your ears!
#nairn #nairnarts #poetry #cyclepoet #carolineburrows #ecopoetry #creativewriting #scottishhighlands #versecycle
04.09.2025 20:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by VerseCycle
Poetry and Tuba | Live Performance | VerseCycle & InnerTuba | Cromarty Arts Trust | April 2025
When Poetry met Classical Tuba.
VerseCycle & InnerTuba live performance excerpt from April 2025 at Cromarty Arts Trust.
youtu.be/i70gdCLcZfQ
#poetry #tuba #spokenword #versecycle #carolineburrows #innertuba #johnhodkin #liveperformance #cromarty #cromartyartstrust #scottishhighlands
08.08.2025 16:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This middle-aged #CyclePoet has recovered from an absolute blast at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival.
Thank you everyone at the Verb Garden X.
I did my set Fri. Sat I did my first live #PoetrySlam and came joint 2nd! I'm very happy with that.
#belladrum #Belladrum2025 #CarolineBurrows #versecycle
06.08.2025 13:39 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Not long now until Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival where I'll be performing:
Full Set: Friday 12.30pm-1.15pm.
And competing in Saturday's Poetry Slam from 8.30pm.
#poetry #spokenword #carolineburrows #cyclepoet #belladrum #thisweekend #tartanheartfestival
30.07.2025 09:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Kate Bush fans gather in Cromarty for βWuthering Heights Dayβ
Dozens of Kate Bush fans gathered at Cromarty links last weekend, to dance to her song Wuthering Heights.
The Ross-shire Journal have done an article about Sunday's The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever Dance.
www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/news/kate-bu...
#shambush #tmwhde2025 #cromarty #katebush #scottishhighlands #tmwhde
29.07.2025 18:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DAh...
The video of Sunday's, Cromarty's, The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever.
jamessupportgroup.com
#tmwhde2025 #tmwhdecromarty #tmwhdecromarty #themostwutheringheightsdayever #cromarty #scottishhighlands #HighlandFling #wutheringheights #katebush #shambush
29.07.2025 17:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Hello, I'm also performing at Belladrum.I'm a cycling poet. I saw Paul perform at a Chain Reaction Cycling Festival years back, and thought my poetry set, with bikey on statge, in the Verb Garden Fri 12.30pm-13.15pm might be of interest, if he's on still on site.
Have a great festival.
#CyclePoet
28.07.2025 13:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#ThisSunday The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, Cromarty Sunday 27th July 2025 12-1pm.
We'll practice then dance the whole Wuthering way through!
Raising money for #JamesSupportGroup
#themostwutheringheightsdayever #tmwhde2025
#wutheringheights #katebush #cromarty #scottishhighlands
25.07.2025 11:19 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Not long now! The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, Cromarty Sunday 27th July 2025 12-1pm.
We'll practice then dance the whole Wuthering way through!
Raising money for #JamesSupportGroup
#themostwutheringheightsdayever #tmwhde2025
#wutheringheights #katebush #cromarty #scottishhighlands
17.07.2025 14:11 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Nairn Book & Arts Festival have just revealed their 2025 programme, and I'm part of it! Go to nairnfestival.co.uk to book your tickets! @nairnfest #cyclepoet #carolineburrows #naturepoetry #spokenword #scottishhighlands #nairn #nairnfestival #bookfestival #artsfestival #versecycle #NairnFest
20.06.2025 12:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Buy Conversations between Nature and Humanity: Creative Writing Poetry Workshop Tickets online - Trees For Life
View Conversations between Nature and Humanity: Creative Writing Poetry Workshop from Trees For Life.
Poetry, Nature & Climate: A Creative Writing Workshop βοΈ
treesforlife.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...
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Sat 10 May 1-3 PM
π₯ Ages 14+ (U18s with an adult)
π No poetry experience needed!
@visitdundreggan.bsky.social
#naturepoetry #poetry #workshop #creativewriting #treesforlife
17.04.2025 09:55 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Save the Date! The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever!!! will be happening in Cromarty on Sunday 27th July 2025, 12-1pm.
More details to follow.
Please share.
#themostwutheringheightsdayever #tmwhde2025
#wutheringheights #katebush #cromarty #scottishhighlands #tmwhdecromarty
30.04.2025 08:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'm pleased to have my piece of Flash Fiction 'The Barrier' published in @PenToPrint. The guest editor this month is my publisher Peter Roe from the small indie-press The Jawbone Collective. Read in full:
pentoprint.org/showcase-fir...
#flashfiction #poetry @jawbonecollective.bsky.social
26.04.2025 17:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Buy Conversations between Nature and Humanity: Creative Writing Poetry Workshop Tickets online - Trees For Life
View Conversations between Nature and Humanity: Creative Writing Poetry Workshop from Trees For Life.
Poetry, Nature & Climate: A Creative Writing Workshop βοΈ
treesforlife.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...
π
Sat 10 May 1-3 PM
π₯ Ages 14+ (U18s with an adult)
π No poetry experience needed!
@visitdundreggan.bsky.social
#naturepoetry #poetry #workshop #creativewriting #treesforlife
17.04.2025 09:55 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Save the Date! The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever!!! will be happening in Cromarty on Sunday 27th July 2025, 12-1pm.
More details to follow.
Please share.
#themostwutheringheightsdayever #tmwhde2025
#wutheringheights #katebush #cromarty #scottishhighlands #tmwhdecromarty
13.04.2025 09:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thank you everyone who came to the gig, and made it happen last week. Our combined Innertuba tuba and VerseCycle poetry event was wonderful!
#tuba #poetry #spokenword #innertuba #versecycle #live #creativearts #livepoetry #livemusic #cromartyarts
08.04.2025 11:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Poetry and art in the garden www.artsequitynashville.org
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Works at a fossil museum in Scotland - forever looking for prehistoric fish π£
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Freelance Editor | Post-grad Researcher in University of Glasgow, focusing on representations of AI | Sci-Fi & Fantasy author | Cornish living in Highlands
Writer, publisher, book and story lover. Love how I'm allowed to spend my working day. Surprise fact: I sing tenor in a choir.
aka: mediachap. Anxious Artistic Alliterating AuDHD Liberal Humanist, Poet and Writer, Publisher, Event Organiser, Lead Editor and Director of The Jawbone Collective CIC @jawbonecollective.bskysocial
Celebrating flash fiction worldwide. Co-directed by Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social
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The Jawbone Collective is in the SouthWest of the UK, a not for profit organisation, independent small press publisher & events organiser. Embracing & uplifting voices from LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, disabled, marginalised & under-represented communities.
Ex-bookseller, writer, Epicurean. Lefty, Scottish not British. Curiosity, perspective and humour are what keep us from despair or ennui.
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Literary agent | Sheffield / London | Opinions my own | CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS for 2025 (& on parental leave from April)
I sprouted from a seed pod rumoured to have been scattered in the Scottish Highlands by the sons of the notorious Ragnar Lothbrok around a thousand years ago.
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Rewilding the Scottish Highlands. Hopeful and bold, we are committed to creating nature-rich landscapes that include and support people.
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Brotherton Prize 2024 - Live Canon Prize 2025
Science fan. Writes verse and worse. Debate yes, shouting match no. Extreme views on extremists. Laments tribalism of every sort.
Writer-Performer.
Stories. Love. Props.
Badgers. Lucy. Daylight and fresh air.
Logician, poet, occasional photographer. Words in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Senior researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences.
Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
Poet, writer, essayist. Links: http://linktr.ee/julianmatthews
Peer support facilitator Brain Health Breakthrough CIC | Nonfiction Writer | Performance Poet | Embroidery Hobbyist | Gender Nonconforming | AuDHD | she/her
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