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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
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Herne Wood, Kenneth White
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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
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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
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In celebration of the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s birth.
#IanHamiltonFinlay #Poetry #Poem #ScottishPoetry #ScottishPoets #VisualPoetry
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Supper and a new #book to read, a new collection of Scottish #poetry 1730-1830. Really looking forward to this. My own #PhD looked at Scottish reading habits in the same period, but I need to read more of the texts being read! #Books #Supper #Literature #ScottishLiterature #ScottishPoetry #Gaelic #GaelicPoetry #EighteenthCentury #18thCentury #ScottishHistory #Reading #ReadingHabits
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I love this moving #poem by #LynnValentine, a #Scottish #poet (here writing in English but do check out her #ScotsPoetry) about the damaging legacy of #war.
https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/lynn-valentine/
#ScottishPoetry #WarPoetry #grandfather #poetry #InkSweatAndTears
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I finally found an inexpensive copy of George Mackay Brown’s early (1965) volume of poems, The Year of the Whale. The cover design conjures another era altogether, one when—it seems—the publishing of “living” poets was something to be remarked upon.
The Year of the Whale contains one of my favourite of Brown’s poems, The Poet, the text of which is in the 2nd image. I've always thought those last four lines truly haunting.
#GeorgeMackayBrown #Poetry #ScottishPoetry #ScottishPoets #Bookstodon