Leavin Meta slowly for the Sky, as we all will in time. Meanwhile, to prove it is me here’s a new poem I recently published in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social Dedicated to friend David Kinloch and to the toun of Dunkeld.

🎤 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. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...

#ScottishPoetryEvents Paisley Book Festival kicks off on Friday. POEMS ON PARENTING is our pick of the poetry events, Sun 27th at 1pm, featuring: 💥 Nuala Watt 💥 Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social 💥 Samuel Tongue @samueltongue.bsky.social paisleybookfestival.com/programme/th...

THIS SUNDAY I share some new work and some (likely spurious) parent-writer insights with these guidfolk! 🤩✊ Come along! We can all bemoan the restless mornings… 😵‍💫🌅 paisleybookfestival.com/programme/th... @nualawatt.bsky.social @samueltongue.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk

Cover reveal for my new book! Out in November with @tapsalteerie.bsky.social ‘’Dwell Time, the full-length debut from award-winning writer Taylor Strickland, takes us from the US, to Scotland, to Portugal reflecting on environment, family, language and more.’’

The latest comfort blanket ‘imminent downfall’ article on Trump. I’ve been delving into this stacked genre over the last decade with declining degrees of enthusiasm and I’m pretty much done with it now.

So the train sped on with all its might, And Bonnie Dundee soon hove in sight… 😎🚞 #Dundee #McGonagall

Tha cuimhne agam cuideachd a charaid 🙌 @alecfinlay.bsky.social #covidmemorial #glaschu

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A lovely rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem (its name in English: "The Glory and Will of Ukraine Have Not Yet Perished"). In blue is Olav Luksengård Mjelva playing a Norwegian hardanger fiddle; in red is Erik Rydvall on a Swedish nyckelharpa. See you around.

from Field Requiem @carcanet.bsky.social

My poem ‘Climbing to Seefin Passage Tomb on Summer Solstice’, which is an homage to my late mentor John Burnside, has just been published in the Times Literary Supplement. Please have a read. www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/o...

The loss of any words is not a good thing: www.noemamag.com/the-language... #climate #linguistics

Translating Gaelic Poetry 24 Feb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free Niall O’Gallagher, Garry Mackenzie, & @taylor-strickland.bsky.social will discuss their methods & approaches to translating Gaelic poetry, & how it interacts with other languages www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...

Leavin Meta slowly for the Sky, as we all will in time. Meanwhile, to prove it is me here’s a new poem I recently published in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social Dedicated to friend David Kinloch and to the toun of Dunkeld.