New online poetry workshop with @susanrichardson.bsky.social has just been announced
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New online poetry workshop with @susanrichardson.bsky.social has just been announced
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Many thanks to Khadija Rouf for this thoughtful review
06.02.2026 09:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Around #BurnsNight our website is the most popular poetry website in the world. 100,000+ hits on Address To A Haggis page alone. (Extra bandwidth required).
Our website has resources for anyone planning a haggis, whisky & poetry happening + much more.
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Processional at the Winter Solstice by Gerry Cambridge He has gone down into darkness at the wrecked end of the year And is lying, gaberlunzie, in the needled nest of frost. The arctic thrushes call for him although he cannot hear, And the worm too understands him in the chilled grip of its dark, And the ptarmigan in blizzards where no thought is worth a crumb, And treecreepers in shivering puffs in Wellingtonias’ bark. Shop windows glint in city lights like ice and sky, but still No tinsel gifts can touch him, freed to silence like a stone’s; His face is white as paper’s white in miles-high midnight chill. He lies as plain as frost-dust where those starving thrushes call, And his lime and ray-struck armoury could hardly be less small On the anvil of beginnings in the sun’s gate on the wall.
He has gone down into darkness at the wrecked end of the year
And is lying, gaberlunzie, in the needled nest of frost…
—Gerry Cambridge, “Processional at the Winter Solstice”
from Notes for Lighting a Fire (HappenStance Press 2012)
#poem #poetry #midwinter
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We are deeply concerned for the health of Qesser Zuhrah, who has been on hunger strike for 46 days, and we join those calling on the government to act now, and address the serious concerns raised by lawyers acting for the prisoners.
We are deeply concerned for the health of Qesser Zuhrah, who has been on hunger strike for 46 days.
We join those calling on the government to act now, and address the serious concerns raised by lawyers acting for the prisoners.
Book cover of Glasgoscopy with a medical X-ray style image in Blues that could be read as city roads and a river
Edinburgh launch of Glasgoscopy @lighthousebks.bsky.social 28/01/26 7pm, with brilliant poets: Julie Laing and Eloise Birtwhistle, tickets from Lighthouse bookshop events page
15.12.2025 21:06 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A day and a bit left, would be lovely to raise as much as possible for this wonderful cause, one very close to my heart
06.12.2025 15:21 — 👍 42 🔁 34 💬 0 📌 1Tomorrow night, come along!
02.12.2025 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here's a great offer - a poem a day delivered to your inbox for a donation (£1 or more) to Médecins Sans Frontières - link in the comment below:
30.11.2025 11:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Image of stylised river and roads illuminated in pink against a dark blue background with map like /medical overtones
New launch date for Glasgoscopy: Wednesday 3rd December 7pm at the Alchemy Experiment, Byres Road Glasgow, in conversation with add Gillean McDougall, come along!
15.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Glasgoscopy launch event tonight is postponed, apologies for any inconvenience
12.11.2025 15:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Tonight at 7.15 on Radio 3. Writer’s block, dry spell, fallow period, worrisome silence, that terrifying, lonely time when you *cannot* write a poem. I speak to Liz Berry, Oliver Carmichael, Hannah Copley, Marie Howe, Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Underwood! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
09.11.2025 08:56 — 👍 37 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 3
AYE WRITE FESTIVAL
starts today in Glasgow with lots of fine poetry events to check out. eg tonight at 6pm: Mirrorball Gaelic Showcase
with Peter Mackay (Makar), Shane Johnstone, Petra Poncarova, Babs Nicgriogair, Robbie Anndra Macleòid & Martin MacIntyre.
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/mirr...
Newspaper Page of poetry review with photo of Karen Solie and Vicki Husband
Thanks to Stuart Kelly for the review in #ScotlandonSunday today
02.11.2025 13:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
stmungosmirrorball.wordpress.com Gaelic poetry showcase 6th November at Aye Write -not to be missed
26.10.2025 10:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A tile effect of book covers including Looking Down at the Stars by Christina Riley, Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet, The Story of the Christmas No. 1 by Marc Burrows, Poor Creatures by Mairi Kidd, The Little Book of Christmas and Hogmanay by Anna Marshall, The North Sea by Alistair Moffat, Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Lari Don, Our Secrets are the Same by Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and Graeme Thomson, Barrowland by Alison Irvine, Wild Edinburgh by Keith Broomfield, The Salvage by Anbara Salam, On Friendship by Andrew O' Hagan, La Lucha edited by Carolina orloff and White Raven by Maggie Ritchie.
It's time to Celebrate the latest BooksfromScotland issue!
Read it here: booksfromscotland.com/issue/celebr...
Thanks for your contributions @birlinn.bsky.social @mcnidderandgrace.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @bwpublishing.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @florisbooks.bsky.social & more!
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CALLING ALL YOUNG POETS
The deadline for entries to the Eric Gregory Awards is 31 October.
It is awarded for a collection by poets under the age of 30.
Winners of the Eric Gregory Awards are invited to a free solo week residency at Thomas Cottage.
Poster for book launch of, text as in caption, book cover of Glasgoscopy with blue map-like/xray-like design
Exterior photo of The Alchemy Experiment shop from with green woodwork big, big windows and illuminated neon sign
Book launch! The Glasgow launch of Glasgoscopy will on Wed 12th November 7pm @ The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byres Road, G12 8TS. I’ll be reading from the book and talking with Dr Gillean McDougall about the process of writing it. Books available to buy with *free zine poster* Come along!
20.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
front cover of a book, entitled Glasgoscopy by Vicki Husband. Cover has a white background with X-ray style image in dark blue with illuminated lines like a map of roads and a river in brighter blues
Inside cover of book opened out to reveal dark blue black background with map-like lines of river-like in pinks and blues, more abstract than the front cover
Back cover of book in white with book blurb and commendations
Glasgoscopy is published by Vagabond Voices on 14th October
www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/glasg... review copies and pre-orders now available.
Details of Glasgow launch on 12th November to follow. #booksky #booksfromscotland #poetry
Submissions will open for the 2025 annual poetry prize on National Poetry Day, Thursday 2 October for Scottish-based poets in memory of William Bonar. See posts below for details 👇
20.09.2025 14:44 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Background image shows an open notebook and pen on a wooden table. The text reads: Publishing Your Work - October 2025, Poetry & Writing Submissions - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com
Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
US prosecutors keep charging women with ‘pregnancy-related crimes’ | Arwa Mahdawi
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📢 POETS WANTED!
Nominations now open for the Scottish Poetry Library's ONLINE GUIDE TO SCOTTISH POETS.
Any poet can be nominated born in Scotland, lives/works in Scotland, or is Scottish by inclination. Closing date is 2/11/25.
#NationalPoetryDay
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/09/nomi...
🖋️ Langside Library Poetry Project
The exterior of Langside Library is to be transformed into a spectacular display of poetry. Submission prompts:
The Battle of Langside
Knowledge and Learning
Community Access
Mary, Queen of Scots
Refuge / Haven
opportunities.creativescotland.com/opportunity/...
I think we should share this a lot today.
09.09.2025 06:25 — 👍 84 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 2
Join poet Julie McNeill & historians Fiona Skillen & Karen Fraser as they uncover the powerful, little-known history of women’s football in Scotland — a story of passion, resistance & perseverance, spanning hundreds of years.
➡️ Book your free spot:
womenslibrary.org.uk/event/story-...
Book cover of Glasgoscopy by Vicki Husband showing an x-ray style image against a white background. The x-ray appears like a map of a city with brightly illuminated roads and a river and lung-like organic shapes against a darker blockish shapes.
Coming soon to a bookshelf near you, Glasgoscopy will be published by Vagabond Voices in October 2025. Thanks to Mark Mechan for the cover design (Red Axe design). vickihusband.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/g...
22.07.2025 17:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It Was the End of the World and All That Was Left Were Three Million Bowls of Porridge and a Lonely Dolphin
90 x 75 cm
Acrylic on canvas
@outerspaces.scotland
#abstractart #abstractartist #abstractexpressionism #artistofbluesky #contemporaryabstractpainting #scottishabstract #scottishabstractart