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I remember being ashamed of my father
when he whispered the words out loud
reading the newspaper…

—Tom Leonard, “Fathers and Sons”
published in INTIMATE VOICES: Selected Work, 1965–1983 (Galloping Dog Press, 1984)

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

right inuff
ma language is disgraceful
ma maw tellt mi
ma teacher tellt mi
thi doactir tellt mi
thi priest tellt mi…

—Tom Leonard, “right inuff”
published in GHOSTIE MEN (Galloping Dog Press, 1980)

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

yi mist yirsell so yi did
we aw skiptwirr ferz njumptaffit thi lights
YIZIR AW PINE THEY FERZ THIMORRA
o it wizza scream
thaht big shite wiz dayniz nut…

—Tom Leonard, “A Scream”
from Six Glasgow Poems (1967)

https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose.html

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

Tom Leonard reads “The Six O’Clock News” ☝️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZaxEbhibdw

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn…

—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

Are the speshlz Younger’s Tartan Special? Or Carlsberg Special Brew? This key question & more explored by Prof Al Filreis & poet Christie Williamson as they discuss Tom Leonard’s “Jist ti Let Yi No” ☝️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUK0hXxfpto

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard #WilliamCarlosWilliams

Tom Leonard
“Jist ti Let Yi No”
(from the American of Carlos Williams)

ahv drank
thi speshlz
that wurrin
thi frij

n thit
yiwurr probbli
hodn back
furthi pahrti

awright
they wur great
thaht stroang
thaht cawld

Audio on Penn Sound:

https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Leonard/Tom-Leonard_Jist-ti-Let-Yi-No.mp3

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard #WilliamCarlosWilliams

A recording of Tom Leonard reading “liason coordinator” 👆 at the Scottish TUC Centre in 2011, plus audio of many of his other poems, is online on PennSound

https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Leonard.php

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

efturryd geenuz iz speel
iboot whut wuz right
nwhut wuz rang
boot this nthat
nthi nix thing
a sayzti the bloke
nwhut izzit yi caw
yir joab jimmy…

—Tom Leonard, “liason coordinator”
from GHOSTIE MEN (Galloping Dog Press, 1980)

Tom Leonard (1944–2018) was born #OTD, 22 August

https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose/liasoncoordinator.html

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

#introduction time!

Hi, I'm Bea. I seem to be leading a highly squiggly life that's led me through a wild range of experiences, has, at this point been going on for Some Time, and fortunately shows no signs of stopping yet.

Currently, amongst other things, I'm a #coder, a #boater, a #music obsessive, and a #cat mama, plus I #parent a non-zero irrational number of other humans of various ages in this, my sandwich era.

I've also been a #soundEngineer, a #teacher, a professional #psychic, a #theatre technician, and so on. I'm a #Londoner, a lapsed #Glaswegian and a recovering #NewYorker.

I'd list more specifics, but honestly they change all the time; two of the rare constants in my life are #singing and #bass, though I'm increasingly surrounded by a constellation of strange instruments; physical and digital, musical and nautical.

I'm also a #vegan (for the animals) #trans shapeshifter practising #nonMonogamy, and am gay for girls of most genders and apparently now the occasional boy. If this feels like rubbing it in your face, feel free to move your face.

I have an overdeveloped sense of justice, but only compared to your average late capitalist human, and the kind of highly spicy brain you'd expect from, uh, well, all of the above.

I'm afraid things are likely only going to get weirder from here.

No TERFs, no SWERFs, no cops, no Tories (or any other forms of fascism).

Warning! contains multitudes!

youtu.be/uRj6vbjIM2g About 13min in, #JoshTurner & the #Glaswegian singer #SamGrassie talk about #SocialMedia encouraging people to become “blandly palatable”. So true.

60s Folk Revival Island, Pt. 1...

WTF! Why are #Glaswegian drivers such absolute wankers?

A recording of Tom Leonard reading “liason coordinator” 👆 at the Scottish TUC Centre in 2011, plus audio of many of his other poems, are online on PennSound

https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Leonard.php

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard

efturryd geenuz iz speel
iboot whut wuz right
nwhut wuz rang
boot this nthat
nthi nix thing
a sayzti the bloke
nwhut izzit yi caw
yir joab jimmy…

—Tom Leonard, “liason coordinator”
from GHOSTIE MEN (Galloping Dog Press, 1980)

https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose/liasoncoordinator.html

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard

yi mist yirsell so yi did
we aw skiptwirr ferz njumptaffit thi lights
YIZIR AW PINE THEY FERZ THIMORRA
o it wizza scream
thaht big shite wiz dayniz nut…

—Tom Leonard, “A Scream”
from Six Glasgow Poems (1967)

(rrose sounds like a proper caution, by the way)

https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose.html

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard

And their judges spoke with one dialect,
but the condemned spoke with many voices.

And the prisons were full of many voices,
but never the dialect of the judges.

And the judges said:
“No-one is above the Law.”

—Tom Leonard, “And the judges said”
published in Situations Theoretical and Contemporary (Galloping Dog Press, 1986)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard

Tom Leonard reads “The Six O’Clock News”

🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZaxEbhibdw

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard

this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.

—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard

Are the speshlz Younger’s Tartan Special? Or Carlsberg Special Brew? This question & more explored by Prof Al Filreis & poet Christie Williamson as they discuss Tom Leonard’s “Jist ti Let Yi No” ☝️

3/3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUK0hXxfpto

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard #CarlosWilliams

Tom Leonard “Jist ti Let Yi No”
(from the American of Carlos Williams)

ahv drank
thi speshlz
that wurrin
thi frij

n thit
yiwurr probbli
hodn back
furthi pahrti

awright
they wur great
thaht stroang
thaht cawld

2/13

Audio on Penn Sound:

https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Leonard/Tom-Leonard_Jist-ti-Let-Yi-No.mp3

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard #CarlosWilliams

• in the beginning was the sound •

A 🎂 🧵 for Tom Leonard (1944–2018) – born #OTD, 22 August

📷: Front cover of Tom Leonard’s Intimate Voices 1965–1983 (Newcastle: Galloping Dog Press, 1984)

1/3

https://www.tomleonard.co.uk

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard

Tom Leonard reads “The Good Thief” at the SoundEye poetry festival in Cork, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-qpWM__4WA

#Scottish #literature #poem #Easter #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian

heh jimmy
yawright ih
stull wayiz urryi
ih

heh jimmy
ma right insane yirra pape
ma right insane yirwanny us jimmy
see it nyir eyes
wanny uz

—Tom Leonard, “The Good Thief”
published in THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF SCOTTISH VERSE, @canongatebooks 2021

https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/

#Scottish #literature #poem #Easter #Poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian

My response to anything remotely connected to #AI is (in broad #Glaswegian), 'get tae feck out of here'. It's crap science based on even worse motivation, yep that #mercantile #capitalist #hex. https://front-end.social/@a11ycollective/113475810788081403

one of those with quiet, naturally restrained, insistently monotoned voices

with that little selfcontained smile, always going on about Respect for History and the Abiding Sense of the Traditional…

—Tom Leonard, “The Elect”
From Markings 27, 2008

9/13

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose/the-elect.html

“You may laugh with him in a more-power-to-your-elbow mood; you may swear back at him when he touches some raw spot; but I guarantee you can open him anywhere and want to read on.”

—Edwin Morgan on Tom Leonard
From Edwin Morgan: In Touch With Language

8/13

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard #EdwinMorgan

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/

A recording of Tom Leonard reading “liason coordinator” 👆 at the Scottish TUC Centre in 2011, plus audio of many of his other poems, are online on PennSound

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

7/13

https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Leonard.php

efturryd geenuz iz speel
iboot whut wuz right
nwhut wuz rang
boot this nthat
nthi nix thing

a sayzti the bloke
nwhut izzit yi caw
yir joab jimmy…

—Tom Leonard, “liason coordinator”
(from Ghostie Men, Galloping Dog Press, 1980)

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

6/13
https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose/liasoncoordinator.html

yi mist yirsell so yi did
we aw skiptwirr ferz njumptaffit thi lights
YIZIR AW PINE THEY FERZ THIMORRA
o it wizza scream
thaht big shite wiz dayniz nut…

—Tom Leonard, “A Scream”
from Six Glasgow Poems (1967)

#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

5/13

https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose.html