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Speaking of language, and how it can be a lodestone for true creativity, I’m so looking forward to this book launch tonight:
A Home in Space - Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry of Edwin Morgan
https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-launch-of-a-home-in-space/
#EdwinMorgan #ConcretePoetry #VisualPoetry #SoundPoetry #ScottishPoetry #GregThomas #JulieJohnstone #HamishWhyte #IonaLee #DanPower
I happened to browse one of the books in the place we’re staying on Skye for a few days, the Robin Bell edited The Best of Scottish Poetry (Chambers, 1989).
Subtitled “An Anthology of Contemporary Scottish Verse”, it does indeed contain some of my favourite Scottish poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Names like Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Jamie, George Mackay Brown, Liz Lochhead, Kenneth White, Alan Spence and Somhairle MacGill-Eain.
Oh, and (checks notes) Midge Ure. Yes, that Midge Ure.
A nice charity bookshop find today. I stumbled on this first edition hardback of Norrie Bissell’s great wee collection of poems, Slate, Sea and Sky: A Journey from Glasgow to the Isle of Luing (Luath Press, 2007). As well as Norrie’s wonderful poetry, the book also has a vivid array of photographs by the late Oscar Marzaroli.
#NormanBissell #NorrieBissell #ScottishPoetry #ScottishPoets #OscarMarzaroli #Glasgow #IsleOfLuing #Geopoetics #OpenWorld #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Herne Wood, Kenneth White
—from The Cold Wind of Dawn (Jonathan Cape, 1966)
I’m here to recommend the new (February 2026) collection of poems by Nicky Melville, ‘Get Tae’. Writing also as nick-e melville, he’s one of my favourite poets, Scottish or otherwise. His work is lucid, biting, often darkly funny, satirical and archly acquisitive (in the sense that he borrows brilliantly from the mundane, the political, film, and the realms of ad copy, among other things).
The book is available from Blue Diode Press, who also published his excellent selected poems, ‘Decade of Cu ts’.
https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/get-tae-by-nicky-melville
#NickyMelville #Poetry #ScottishPoetry #ScottishPoets #Edinburgh #BlueDiodePress #Bookstodon @bookstodon
I was thrilled to get a physical copy of Shine Quarterly Issue 6 yesterday and to see my two poems 'Ajar' and 'A Burning' in print. 📖🧡 They were published online last October, but it's extra special to be in the quarterly. Thanks Samantha! Both Shine Poetry and Samantha Terrell are now only on Bluesky, if you're there you could give them a follow - and me too. 🫶
#poetrycollection #poetryinprint #poetrycommunity #scottishpoetry
In celebration of the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s birth.
#IanHamiltonFinlay #Poetry #Poem #ScottishPoetry #ScottishPoets #VisualPoetry
New—old—book & new—old—bookstand, both picked up in Glasgow today.
The former is an apparently rare Edwin Morgan title from Mariscat Press, first published in 1984. This is the 1986 2nd impression. Wonderful, unmistakeable Alasdair Gray cover.
The stand is more likely a display stand, made for the Dahlberg Offisupply Company of Des Moines, Iowa. No idea where I’m going to put it!
#EdwinMorgan #ScottishPoetry #ScottishPoet #MariscatPress #AlasdairGray #BookStand #DahlbergOffisupplyCompany
Pleased to see the March 2024 issue of Burns Chronicle is newly out from EUP. This issue includes my book review of "Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830" edited by Daniel Cook - a review free for all to read online. In a nutshell I really liked it, though since I was asked to write about 1000 words in my review I said much more than that! https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/burns/133/1 #ScottishLiterature #ScottishPoetry #RobertBurns #Poetry #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #Scots #ScotsLeid #Gaelic #Poems #BookReview #Scotland
Very pleased to have a new single-line poem ('tree bough') in the latest issue of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem.
You can read the full issue as a pdf here: https://www.whiptailjournal.com/_files/ugd/61a9c9_d890a8a149ec485c8836893e8dce0c8a.pdf
My poem is the first on page 8, but there is a lot of really wonderful work there and it's worth spending some time with these poems.
My thanks to the editors Kat Lehmann, Robin Smith, and Marcie Wessels for including my poem in the journal.
#poetry #ScottishPoetry #poem #SingleLinePoem #whiptailJournal
On what would have been his 102nd birthday today, a poem by George Mackay Brown - A New Child: ECL.
#GeorgeMackayBrown #poetry #poem #poets #ScottishPoetry #Orkney
Current #reading (for #review). At over 700 pages it's a very hefty book. Luckily I don't need to read everything! Some fascinating content though. #Poetry #ScottishPoetry #Scotland #Poems #Gaelic #English #Scots #Books #Bookstodon #EighteenthCentury #18thCentury #Literature
A new month, time for another infographic showing the books I am mainly reading. A mix of fiction and non fiction, biography, science and poetry. #books #reading #fiction #nonFiction #yellowface #RFKuang #CharlesDickens #Tolkien #Biography #Autobiography #SteveWozniak #Apple #Mac #Computing #ComputingHistory #Poetry #Scotland #ScottishPoetry #Manga #Comics #AlexandreDumas #Novels #Bookstodon
Ended up at the page of a #Gaelic lady poet whose poem I already know well from a sung #Capercaillie version. So then have to dig that out in iTunes! This in the new collection of Scottish #Poetry 1730-1830. It includes a lot of Gaelic poems (Gaelic first then translated version after) and poems by women. #ScottishPoetry #ScottishLiterature #Gaelic #GaelicPoetry #GaelicSongs #Scotland #EighteenthCentury #18thCentury