Friends, I am reading at the Shore Poets, Edinburgh on the 23rd at Waverley Bar. 6.00 PM door open. On the 27th for Still Point, KIng's College litmag - this is at The Ship, 134 New Cavendish Street (near Euston), 7:30pm.

For Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social a review of Medha Singh's @medhawrites.bsky.social's new poetry collection, Afterbody, published by Blue Diode Press. socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...

Always awed by @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social's prose, and looking forward to this book by @medhawrites.bsky.social. Thoroughly enjoyed her previous work, Ecdysis. socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...

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” Published in Notes for Lighting a Fire (HappenStance Press 2012) www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/process...

A solitude of sea.

“in the wide swathes of time, everything will wash over us” Afterbody, Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Blue Diode Press

I'm reading at Typewronger Books, Edinburgh for the Edinburgh Fringe/Book Fringe. An evening of wine, poetry, friendships. This is going to be great. See you!

I'm thrilled to say that Afterbody was launched to a full house at the Scottish Poetry Library! Afterbody saw all come together: you could throw a stone into this audience and it would land on a poet. Thanks to Rob Mackenzie, an important literary citizen in our little world of Scottish poetry.

Blue Diode Poetry Launches 26 June @byleaveswelive.bsky.social, Edinburgh – free & all welcome Blue Diode Publications presents poets James Appleby, Sophie Cooke, David Kinloch & @medhawrites.bsky.social launching their new collections www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blue-diode...

"The sequence is gorgeous, poignant, beautifully evocative and strange, masterfully subtle, yet poetically exhilarating… Afterbody will properly announce Singh as one of the most notable emerging #poets in #Scotland.” —Alan Gillis Do come for the launch of Afterbody (Blue Diode Press). 26th, SPL.

A Letter From The Mountain comes out one month from today!! I’m so excited to share this one with you all—preorders are open at 🔗 in 🧵:) ⛰️ to count down to the release, I’ll share a “mountain poem” each day—something in the book’s cosmos it couldn’t have been written without.

A brilliant issue of Almost Island, one of my favourite publications of poetry and prose: www.almostisland.com

Friends! I am thrilled: the book jacket is here, complete with blurbs. We'd be having a launch at the SPL end of June with David Kinloch, Sophie Cooke, James Appleby + myself who have wonderful pamphlets out with Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh. 26th, 7PM. See you! #Poetry #Scotland #ScottishPoetry

Mood / RIP, Monica.

“…like coming across fragments of a Psalter or song-book of North-eastern folk ditties… all clasped within the ragged covers of a rumbustious, medieval recipe book for everything” —David Kinloch on the poetry of Alexander Hutchison www.davidkinloch.co.uk/journal/the-...

Zoila Conan, photographed by William Mortensen, 1928

Marie Howe

'Crowds Over London Bridge' (2024) by Clive McCartney cattogallery.co.uk/artists/clive-mccartney/

McLELLAN POETRY COMPETITION Poems in English or Scots £1000 prizes for English poem and Scots poem Closing Date: 15 June 2025 Judge: Jim Carruth Prize-winners will be invited to read at the award ceremony on Isle of Arran on Fri 29 Aug 2025 Details: www.arrantheatreandarts.co.uk/poetry-compe...

This week our Meet the Author video is by David Morley, writer of Passion, which is published this month! 🐦‍⬛ Click below to hear David talk about mist nets, capturing life in poetry and some of the poems' origins. youtu.be/5Y2BRnwNiXA

i thought maybe i could share some of my favourite poetry here. this is consolation for tamar, by alicia e stallings

'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955) Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.

We’re not all doomed to repeat our parents’ mistakes, or destined to inherit their successes. In the Wonder Reader, @isabelfattal.bsky.social offers a guide to taking useful lessons without losing your own way: https://theatln.tc/MghNhGtj

⚡Live on our blog, our latest interview with Claudia Piñeiro, among the most decorated writers in Latin America today speaking with our editor, James Appleby ⚡️

I got fifty two, heh. What is your score? www.theguardian.com/books/2015/a...

Percival Everett

Richard Brautigan

Russell Atkins, poem

My poem in the latest Irish Pages. So pleased to be alongside so many wonderful people and to be chosen by the best in Scotland. All my gratitude for your time with this. @irishpages.bsky.social

Burroughs, Birds and Poets (1877)

"...the art of painting sound." - August Kleinzahler

Horace.

Basil Bunting reads "Chomei at Toyama" a poetic adaptation of the Japanese essay by Chimei from the thirteenth century. Bunting is one of those modernist poets I wish I knew better. This is only a quarter of the poem. Gorgeous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzdK...

Eavan Boland

Listening to Indian classical music today, a divine rendition of the Bhairavi Thumri: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6i2...

Anyone know why I am seeing posts from people I don't follow? Any way to stop this?

New from Blue Diode Press www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-of-the-...

Thank you Poetry Review @poetrysociety.bsky.social and Erica Hesketh for reviewing The Tattoo Collector by @timtimtmi.bsky.social in the latest Issue, for finding these poems "exhilarating reading". poetrysociety.org.uk/publications... ninearchespress.com/publications...

Throwback to the New Writers Award (Scottish Book Trust) showcase 2023. You can see me reads my poems here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEQe...

I am deeply elated to announce that my book of poems, Afterbody is out through Blue Diode Press in June. It has been touched and seen by all my living heroes and I bring this to you with all that is good inside me. Available for pre-order here: www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/aft...

Thrilled to say I am reading at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh with Cheng Tim Tim, Daryl Lim Wei Jie and Theresa Munoz in July! Save the date. :) Afterbody (Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh) is available for pre-order at the Poetry Book Society page. www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/aft...