An engaging and intriguing essay starting out with the nerántzi, the bitter oranges growing in Athens, and then taking a walk, reflecting and "unpeeling" the city. www.imaginedspaces.org/new-writing/...

Spolia becoming stories... Skendha Singh's marvellous essay on walking through Delhi. @skendhasingh.bsky.social share.google/VmgzoeNdhZQ1...

Michael Sorkin's 250 things an architect should know reimagined for creative writing students. Probably something all writers would feel some connection with...? ‘15 things a creative writing student should know’ — IMAGINED SPACES share.google/Yl9pzJpFzUju...

Fade then, light; but longing never will. Midsummer makes the west spectacular and even gives its last glow a show of reluctance, as if it had postponed midnight… —Edwin Morgan, “21 June” Published in CATHURES, @carcanet.bsky.social 2002 #BookWormSat www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754617...

Acts of Creation: On art and motherhood engages head and heart. The exhibits engender a conversation with viewers. Thoughtful and engaging. www.imaginedspaces.org/taking-a-lin...

Here's a really interesting, evocative piece of creative writing by Zoe Faloon developed from Kirsty Gunn's Masterclass using material from Pretty Ugly (Rough Trade Books 2024) in late March of this year. @asls.org.uk www.imaginedspaces.org/the-writing-...

Reflecting on the University of Dundee DJCAD 2025 degree: a conversation about art, exhibitions, artist statements, the importance of being able to experiment and play. (Last day to visit 1st June.) @asls.org.uk @vadundee.bsky.social @dundeeculture.bsky.social www.imaginedspaces.org/taking-a-lin...

Ever want to know how song writers compose? Here's a marvellously thoughtful essay by the Dundee musician & lyricist, Nicola Madill, on the making of her new album, "The Night is Long". Links to some tracks too. @asls.org.uk @vadundee.bsky.social www.imaginedspaces.org/new-writing/...

A lovely meditative essay by William Hume pondering how we imagine & connect with the past via an encounter with Andrew Baldwin's 2020 sculptures, The Sisters, at Woodbridge Boat Yard in Suffolk. @ianhume.bsky.social @asls.org.uk www.imaginedspaces.org/new-writing/...

Bernadette Ashby reflects on her experiences as a practising clinician in Neuropsychology… of the importance of putting those ‘embedded, complicated and for the large part wordless set of experiences’ she still holds within her into words. @asls.org.uk @britishneuropsych.bsky.social bit.ly/3DJMain

A lovely new essay by @chrispowici.bsky.social on 'spacetime', intense moments of apprehension when commonplace assumptions about reality fall away. @asls.org.uk www.imaginedspaces.org/new-writing/...

Andy Jackson's invitation to write in response to Trump's 'Executive Orders' made me smile: 'It's going to be a beautiful thing, folks. People say it may be the greatest poetry project of all time, maybe ever... what are you waiting for? Poem, baby, poem!' www.facebook.com/share/p/19EU...

Pls share! ⭐️ GRAY DAY 2025 ⭐️ our FIFTH annual event in what would have been AG’s 90th birthday year, Glasgow’s 850th & AGA’s own 5th anniversary through an evening of celebration, this is a crucial fundraiser to help us keep operational so pls come support & celebrate 🎟️ via link in bio 🙏

New on 'The Writing Studio' of imaginedspaces.org. 'The dress' by @Marianne L Berghuis from a BookWeekScotland , inspired by Kirsty Gunn's short story, 'Mirror, Mirror' from her @roughtrade1976.bsky.social short story collection, Pretty Ugly. @asls.org.uk www.imaginedspaces.org/the-writing-...

New on imaginedspaces.org: Charlie Ellis considers the work of Bernard Crick on the shape & mode of the political essay. @asls.org.uk @charlieellis www.imaginedspaces.org/new-writing/...

When we take prisoners from other worlds we are not cruel. We let their bodies die. They become words, filtered into air… —Edwin Morgan, “Twilight of a Tyranny” a #ScienceFiction #poem – from COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997 www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

@tseliotprize shortlisted: 'Pilgrimage strengthens faith that the words will reach us and the echo of their music remain.... Fierce Elegy, in its ferocity, is for the Ages.' @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social dura-dundee.org.uk/2025/01/12/f...

TSEliot Prize shortlisted: 'An altogether emotionally enriching and open-fisted collection for a world transformed by newness, and suffused with love and renewal.' @picadorbooks.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social www.imaginedspaces.org/taking-a-lin...

Winter Words Festival 2025 Pitlochry Festival Theatre, 21–23 Feb The programme includes the Festival’s new Artistic Director, Alan Cumming; Liz Lochhead; Val McDermid; Andrew O’Hagan; Michael Pedersen; Arun Sood; Douglas Stuart; Kirsty Wark; & many more pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com/winter-words...

TS Eliot Prize shortlisted and just published on DURA: 'Razor sharp and attentive to its aim of depicting the high jump as the Icarus story, Hibbett’s first poetry collection hits the ground running.' @bansheepress.bsky.social dura-dundee.org.uk/2025/01/08/h...

TSEliot Prize shortlisted no.3 : '"‘exhilarating verbal energy and emotional subtlety"... reading or hearing Mann’s poems... a sense of words transforming bodies, of bodies transforming words.' dura-dundee.org.uk/2024/02/27/e...

Our Christmas Day poem is an extract from White Egrets by Derek Walcott.

The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand; The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand; The wind was a nor’wester, blowing squally off the sea; And cliffs and spouting breakers were the only things a-lee… —RLS, “Christmas at Sea” www.theguardian.com/books/2012/d...

'Poetry here becomes a temporal puzzling, a thinking out, letting ‘a sentence find its own wilderness’... 'much to learn, to attend to, to linger over... from these ‘songs… built from things too difficult to speak of’. @carcanet.bsky.social www.imaginedspaces.org/taking-a-lin...

Palestinian stories and voices tracing a long, painful year in Gaza.

Karla Kelsey considers gender, agency and freedom on both sides of the photographer’s lens.

WE ARE STILL IN THIS. Wipe your tears. This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation. We do not give up. We run through the tape. Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉 Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.

My Christmas Newsletter is up! buttondown.com/Burnedthumb/...

Currently on BBC Sounds: TAKE FOUR BOOKS A.L. Kennedy talks about her new novel, ALIVE IN THE MERCIFUL COUNTRY, & its connections to 3 other literary works: MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville (1851); PETERSBURG by Andrei Bely (1913); & THE LORD OF THE RINGS by JRR Tolkien www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"Threads", new work by William Hume from the @BookWeekScot "Mirror, Mirror" workshop. @scotlit.bsky.social @ianhume.bsky.social www.imaginedspaces.org/the-writing-...

The first entry through the door after the "Mirror, Mirror" Imagined Spaces workshop for Book Week Scotland up on our website now. A poem by Beth McDonough @scotlit.bsky.social www.imaginedspaces.org/the-writing-...

If you missed our @BookWeekScotland workshop at The Larick Centre, you can catch up on what we did at www.imaginedspaces.org/the-writing-... @scotlit.bsky.social @scottishbooktrust

Had a simply marvellous morning hearing Kirsty Gunn read from her @RoughTrade Books short story collection, Pretty Ugly, followed by Jean Duncan's concertinaed book workshop taking inspiration from the short story. Love it, love it, love it!!

A couple of tickets left for Thursday's reading by Kirsty Gunn and creative workshop at The Larick Centre, Tayport. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...

#Poetry Advent Calendar 2024. In aid of Medicins sans Frontiéres #MSF: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...

As publication day for my new book, 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' approaches and I have a number of readings coming up, I imagine my bit of a tour as like this one by John Wesley, except for the afternoon of June 2nd.

Hi! Are you here for the #poetry? I'm asking people to share 5 accounts. Five #poets you 💙. Include #PoetsOnBluesky. Repost & follow others' 5 poets. My 5 for today: @janeburn.bsky.social @ninaparmenter.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @vicpickup.bsky.social

Eleanor Livingstone (former dir Stanza Poetry Festival) in conversation with Sarah Holland-Batt, on her new collection, The Jaguar, on festivals, on language and metaphor, on the necessity of looking both outwards as well as inwards. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.imaginedspaces.org/conversation...