After a rejection, even a considered kind one, comes the will to improve & try again, the inevitable depression during which you must keep balance and faith – being a poet is a constant negotiation with equilibrium, keeping a core of self belief so one day the next good poem will come out of nowhere

Inite! Stirling bound for iss gig 😁😎

Hid a rare time in Glesga! Reading wae the Seahorse crew on Wednesday an a wirkshop at GoMA yestreen 😁

Wee Glesga gig next wikk 😎 Mon in if yer cuttin aboot 😁

New video! Watch here: youtu.be/TDDe2XyC6sI At our May 2026 Showcase in Aberdeen, Jo Gilbert performed this piece about human-centred perspectives of the universe in Doric, a Scots dialect spoken across the North East of Scotland. Learn more about Jo's work: www.instagram.com/mucklewriting/

A re-elected SNP government will protect free prescriptions, free eye tests, free tuition, free bus travel, lower Council Tax, free school meals, the Baby Box and funded childcare, while going further to help families with the cost of living. Make it #BothVotesSNP tomorrow.

Massive apologies tae anyone expecting me in Stirling inite. Train was cancelled, bus I booked jist nivver turned up and the second train I booked was also cancelled! Am awa hame for a greet 🤣

Saturday! Lemon Tree! Mon doon 😎

Had an amazing time at Poetry at Books and Beans inite. Sharon Black was INCREDIBLE 😍 there wis some Doric eejit there readin ana 😜

Waymarkers: Poetry Inspired by the GHAT Art Collection Tickets, Saturday, May 23  •  10:30 AM - 12 PM | Eventbrite share.google/S0DtUD9rcfbm...

Avoiding being in the unveiling of the ART MACHINE. Chuffed AF tae be the first featured artist. Hopefully o mony. Pye 3 quid, get some art. The mare ye support it, the mare artists get commissioned 😎 brilliant project fae artist & filmmaker Sara Stroud

#comedy #dramaticreading #funny #funnysigns #engrish

We'll be in Aberdeen with Aberdeen Performing Arts on Saturday, May 2! Join us at the Lemon Tree, where Jasmine will share the mic with current Scottish and World Slam Champion Biff Smith, and Loud Poets 2023 Aberdeen Champ Jo Gilbert. Get tickets: www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/lou...

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15 years ago, we made prescriptions free in Scotland - while people south of the border pay £9.90 an item. For as long as the SNP is in government, we will always protect free prescriptions. On May 7th, vote SNP.

Here's what Brian Cox had to say at today's Scottish independence rally in Edinburgh 👇 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Absolutely LOVE my cross stitch fae Rachel Beedie 😍🤩😎🖤

BREAKING: Two police dogs at two separate airports have reportedly bitten ICE agents today.

'The Stacks' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #womensart

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

#OtD 15 Mar 1908 "Women anarchists have become the terror of world's police," ran a headline of the Rochester, NY Sunday paper denouncing anarchist women stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8699...

Fuck Keir Starmer - A man who couldn't get us cancelled from Glasto - A man who couldn't beat us in court - A man who has destroyed the Labour Party - A man whose government supports war criminals in Israel with weapons and intelligence www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Two more weeks before submissions close. Share with us that ongoing story the words give shape to, a life, yours, ours. Words as medicine, weapon, or small patch of silence. As forgiveness, as mercy, as almost. heroinchic.weebly.com

Glesga launch o The Department of Stuff and Things 😍 cheers tae aabody fae bought books! Get yours noo fae Seahorse Publications — The Department of Stuff & Things share.google/xreohLoiSKPR...

In a warld o keich...this 💐 #monspring #monthelicht

This. The warld needs mare o this. Ta muckly

DEFTONES 😎 skirlin ma lungs oot an a gweed mosh wis exactly fit I wis needin 😍😎💜🖤🎶🎵

Get yer lugs roon iss. Ye kin thank ma later 😁😎🎵

Glesga launch o The Department of Stuff and Things. Look at that line up 😍🔥 Book is also available tae pre-order online seahorsepublications.com/product/the-...

shared a pull quote but do read the whole thing, these people have done more for the American project than I (if not Adam) can really put into words www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #FalseCrowns. Not royalty — rot. Don’t post before Friday. That shine? That reverence? That’s the problem. Tag it. Use Alt Text.

Absolutely DELIGHTED wae ma new book cover! Glesga launch at Avant Garde Tues 3 March 7pm. See yeez there!

Don't forget that if you need books, audiobooks or magazines to read while the library is closed, (or if you're stuck home in the snow) you can access FREE eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines using your Orkney Library card and the FREE BorrowBox App. orkney.borrowbox.com

RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid http://theonion.com/rfk-jr-mandates-all-americans-drink-mysterious-glowing-liquid/

Hope aabody has had a good day 🎄

@dovesofficial.bsky.social at the Livehouse in Dundee inite wis summin else likes. Awa hame tae Aiberdeen feeling spiritually cleansed 😍💟😎🎶🎵🎼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

On way tae Dundee tae see Doves 😍 😎💟🎼🎵🎶

Please pre-order (fae Bandcamp) tae get iss tae Number one for the shiny season and raise monies for Palestine! togetherforpalestine.org

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

A rare time wis hid at Idlewild at the Beach Ballroom inite 😁

We’ve raised £2748 so far in our Big Give campaign! From 2–9 Dec, donations to CFINE are doubled. There’s still time to support the campaign. One donation. Double the impact. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... #BigGive #Aberdeen

A chapter in the new womensart book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' explores creative #printmaking in protest, including in women's Civil Rights activism & zine making in the Riot Grrrl era....Art below left by LaToya Hobbs of Black Women of Print bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Been sae busy, I forgot tae share ma Doric column wae yeez. Checks ma 'I hate gettin ma photie teen' face 🤣🤣🤣

Translated: Racist cunt spouts pish

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen. Toots and the Maytals PJ Harvey Patti Smith Mark Lanegan The Brian Jonestown Massacre #MusicSky

teaching philosophy, artist's statement, and guiding line all in one

The work of contemporary ceramics artist Pollyanna Johnson #WomensArt