#tomleonard — Public Fediverse posts

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” ☝️

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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)

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Fishing for Poetry: A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

Aly Bain, Andrew Greig & Billy Connolly seek the Loch of the Green Corrie – with MacCaig’s poetry read by Douglas Dunn, Alasdair Gray, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead & Aonghas MacNeacail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0

#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #fishing #AlyBain #AndrewGreig #BillyConnolly #DouglasDunn #AlasdairGray #SeamusHeaney #JackieKay #TomLeonard #LizLochhead #AonghasMacNeacail

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

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’s “The Six O’Clock News”

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

4/13

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wrmgh

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 “Jist ti Let Yi No” ☝️
3/13

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

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

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

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

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

• in the beginning was the word •

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

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

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

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