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We are honoured to be publishing the new collection from Mohammed Moussa founder of Gaza Poets
A collection of poetry written in and of grief and suffering, these are some of Moe's poems written since the current genocidal action began from Israel and its enablers, funders and supporters.
A collection of poetry written in and of grief and suffering, these are some of Moe's poems written since the current genocidal action began from Israel and its enablers, funders and supporters.
October 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We are honoured to be publishing the new collection from Mohammed Moussa founder of Gaza Poets
A collection of poetry written in and of grief and suffering, these are some of Moe's poems written since the current genocidal action began from Israel and its enablers, funders and supporters.
A collection of poetry written in and of grief and suffering, these are some of Moe's poems written since the current genocidal action began from Israel and its enablers, funders and supporters.
The inaugural edition of Gaza Verse, a powerful new periodical publication that stands for literary and artistic resistance.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The inaugural edition of Gaza Verse, a powerful new periodical publication that stands for literary and artistic resistance.
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We’ve returned to our good old trusty TikTok account where you can find our uploads —- well researched and fact checked publishing documentaries ✨
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We’ve returned to our good old trusty TikTok account where you can find our uploads —- well researched and fact checked publishing documentaries ✨
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🎙️NEW SPL PODCAST: Isabelle Baafi
Our resident Nothing But The Poem host, @samueltongue.bsky.social leads an immersive analysis of 2 poems from Forward Prize winning poet Isabelle Baafi's debut collection Chaotic Good.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...
Our resident Nothing But The Poem host, @samueltongue.bsky.social leads an immersive analysis of 2 poems from Forward Prize winning poet Isabelle Baafi's debut collection Chaotic Good.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...
Nothing But The Poem - Isabelle Baafi
Immersive analysis of 2 poems from Forward Prize winning poet Isabelle Baafi's debut collection Chaotic Good
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🎙️NEW SPL PODCAST: Isabelle Baafi
Our resident Nothing But The Poem host, @samueltongue.bsky.social leads an immersive analysis of 2 poems from Forward Prize winning poet Isabelle Baafi's debut collection Chaotic Good.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...
Our resident Nothing But The Poem host, @samueltongue.bsky.social leads an immersive analysis of 2 poems from Forward Prize winning poet Isabelle Baafi's debut collection Chaotic Good.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...
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Glad to share here the livestream of the event I recently took part in at Lighthouse Books.
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#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Cymraeg #Welsh #Poetry #ScotLit #ScottishPoetry #WelshPoetry #LighthouseBooks
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#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Cymraeg #Welsh #Poetry #ScotLit #ScottishPoetry #WelshPoetry #LighthouseBooks
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Lighthouse | Poetry / Translation: Menna Elfyn’s Parch & more
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October 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Glad to share here the livestream of the event I recently took part in at Lighthouse Books.
lighthousebookshop.com/events/poetr...
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Cymraeg #Welsh #Poetry #ScotLit #ScottishPoetry #WelshPoetry #LighthouseBooks
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#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Cymraeg #Welsh #Poetry #ScotLit #ScottishPoetry #WelshPoetry #LighthouseBooks
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Pentlands Book Festival
6 Nov–3 Dec
The programme for the 2025 Pentlands Book Festival is now online!
pentlandsbookfestival.org
6 Nov–3 Dec
The programme for the 2025 Pentlands Book Festival is now online!
pentlandsbookfestival.org
Pentlands Book Festival: 6 Nov - 3 Dec 2025
Running annually since 2015
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October 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Pentlands Book Festival
6 Nov–3 Dec
The programme for the 2025 Pentlands Book Festival is now online!
pentlandsbookfestival.org
6 Nov–3 Dec
The programme for the 2025 Pentlands Book Festival is now online!
pentlandsbookfestival.org
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🎙️ SHORE POETS
Date: Thur 23 Oct
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Waverley Bar, Edinburgh
🔥 Alan Gillis
🔥 Medha Singh
🔥 Dekoy
+ Open Mic (email in advance for places)
shorepoets.org.uk/2025/10/08/s...
Date: Thur 23 Oct
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Waverley Bar, Edinburgh
🔥 Alan Gillis
🔥 Medha Singh
🔥 Dekoy
+ Open Mic (email in advance for places)
shorepoets.org.uk/2025/10/08/s...
Shore Poets October 2025: Alan Gillis, Medha Singh, Open Mic + Dekoy
For our October event, we’re delighted to present readings from new collections by Edinburgh-based poets Alan Gillis and Medha Singh. And since, like our season opener, this event is taking p…
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October 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🎙️ SHORE POETS
Date: Thur 23 Oct
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Waverley Bar, Edinburgh
🔥 Alan Gillis
🔥 Medha Singh
🔥 Dekoy
+ Open Mic (email in advance for places)
shorepoets.org.uk/2025/10/08/s...
Date: Thur 23 Oct
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Waverley Bar, Edinburgh
🔥 Alan Gillis
🔥 Medha Singh
🔥 Dekoy
+ Open Mic (email in advance for places)
shorepoets.org.uk/2025/10/08/s...
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Calum Colvin on Burnsiana
5 Nov, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway
Free (booking essential)
Calum Colvin discusses BURNSIANA, a project involving a series of works, exhibitions & books born from an appreciation of the poetry, life & times of Robert Burns
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...
5 Nov, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway
Free (booking essential)
Calum Colvin discusses BURNSIANA, a project involving a series of works, exhibitions & books born from an appreciation of the poetry, life & times of Robert Burns
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...
Highlight Talk - Calum Colvin OBE on Burnsiana
Free Highlight Talk in the Robertson Room at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Calum Colvin on Burnsiana
5 Nov, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway
Free (booking essential)
Calum Colvin discusses BURNSIANA, a project involving a series of works, exhibitions & books born from an appreciation of the poetry, life & times of Robert Burns
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...
5 Nov, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway
Free (booking essential)
Calum Colvin discusses BURNSIANA, a project involving a series of works, exhibitions & books born from an appreciation of the poetry, life & times of Robert Burns
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...
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An annual event celebrating George Michael's (sexual liberation) legacy on Hampstead Heath may no longer go ahead as the City of London Corporation seeks an injunction against the organisers. www.mylondon.news/whats-on/wha...
Annual George Michael event on Hampstead Heath could be banned
This Is My Culture has been held on the Heath annually since 2017, with the event organised as a celebration of George Michael's legacy following his death
www.mylondon.news
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
An annual event celebrating George Michael's (sexual liberation) legacy on Hampstead Heath may no longer go ahead as the City of London Corporation seeks an injunction against the organisers. www.mylondon.news/whats-on/wha...
Cluinn seo! thigibh agus èistibh! Cluinn seo! thigibh agus èistibh!
TIS COVER REVEAL FRIDAY TIS COVER REVEAL FRIDAY
TIS COVER REVEAL FRIDAY TIS COVER REVEAL FRIDAY
October 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Cluinn seo! thigibh agus èistibh! Cluinn seo! thigibh agus èistibh!
TIS COVER REVEAL FRIDAY TIS COVER REVEAL FRIDAY
TIS COVER REVEAL FRIDAY TIS COVER REVEAL FRIDAY
Tis Cover Reveal Friday! Tis Cover Reveal Friday!
One of our first releases of 2026 is Dàn nam Ban by Ceitidh Chaimbeul and the cover is the work of Somhairle Gobhanach and Cavan Convery.
Our preferred retailer for pre-orders is
@waterstones.bsky.social
>> www.waterstones.com/book/d-n-nam...
One of our first releases of 2026 is Dàn nam Ban by Ceitidh Chaimbeul and the cover is the work of Somhairle Gobhanach and Cavan Convery.
Our preferred retailer for pre-orders is
@waterstones.bsky.social
>> www.waterstones.com/book/d-n-nam...
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tis Cover Reveal Friday! Tis Cover Reveal Friday!
One of our first releases of 2026 is Dàn nam Ban by Ceitidh Chaimbeul and the cover is the work of Somhairle Gobhanach and Cavan Convery.
Our preferred retailer for pre-orders is
@waterstones.bsky.social
>> www.waterstones.com/book/d-n-nam...
One of our first releases of 2026 is Dàn nam Ban by Ceitidh Chaimbeul and the cover is the work of Somhairle Gobhanach and Cavan Convery.
Our preferred retailer for pre-orders is
@waterstones.bsky.social
>> www.waterstones.com/book/d-n-nam...
Tis Cover Reveal Friday! Tis Cover Reveal Friday!
This super vibrant new book cover for one of our first releases of 2026 is the work of Somhairle Gobhanach and Cavan Convery.
Our preferred retailer for pre-orders is @waterstones.bsky.social
>> www.waterstones.com/book/d-n-nam...
This super vibrant new book cover for one of our first releases of 2026 is the work of Somhairle Gobhanach and Cavan Convery.
Our preferred retailer for pre-orders is @waterstones.bsky.social
>> www.waterstones.com/book/d-n-nam...
October 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Tis Cover Reveal Friday! Tis Cover Reveal Friday!
This super vibrant new book cover for one of our first releases of 2026 is the work of Somhairle Gobhanach and Cavan Convery.
Our preferred retailer for pre-orders is @waterstones.bsky.social
>> www.waterstones.com/book/d-n-nam...
This super vibrant new book cover for one of our first releases of 2026 is the work of Somhairle Gobhanach and Cavan Convery.
Our preferred retailer for pre-orders is @waterstones.bsky.social
>> www.waterstones.com/book/d-n-nam...
ARCs of Luca Serra’s debut novel This Is Home are appearing
October 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
ARCs of Luca Serra’s debut novel This Is Home are appearing
This will be great, really looking forward to this ✨
Glasgoscopy is published by Vagabond Voices on 14th October
www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/glasg... review copies and pre-orders now available.
Details of Glasgow launch on 12th November to follow. #booksky #booksfromscotland #poetry
www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/glasg... review copies and pre-orders now available.
Details of Glasgow launch on 12th November to follow. #booksky #booksfromscotland #poetry
October 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This will be great, really looking forward to this ✨
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Glasgoscopy is published by Vagabond Voices on 14th October
www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/glasg... review copies and pre-orders now available.
Details of Glasgow launch on 12th November to follow. #booksky #booksfromscotland #poetry
www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/glasg... review copies and pre-orders now available.
Details of Glasgow launch on 12th November to follow. #booksky #booksfromscotland #poetry
October 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Glasgoscopy is published by Vagabond Voices on 14th October
www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/glasg... review copies and pre-orders now available.
Details of Glasgow launch on 12th November to follow. #booksky #booksfromscotland #poetry
www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/glasg... review copies and pre-orders now available.
Details of Glasgow launch on 12th November to follow. #booksky #booksfromscotland #poetry
Penguin Classics
Yeah
So big
There’s room for a picture on the side
Classics!
Yeah
So big
There’s room for a picture on the side
Classics!
September 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Penguin Classics
Yeah
So big
There’s room for a picture on the side
Classics!
Yeah
So big
There’s room for a picture on the side
Classics!
“A Falling Down for the tech bro age, buy one of our finest and most challenging novelists”
IAN RANKIN
IAN RANKIN
September 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
“A Falling Down for the tech bro age, buy one of our finest and most challenging novelists”
IAN RANKIN
IAN RANKIN
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Help a lassie and the Scots leid oot and preorder ma buik fur bairns aboot a black moggie!
#OorMoggies @luathpress.bsky.social
#OorMoggies @luathpress.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Help a lassie and the Scots leid oot and preorder ma buik fur bairns aboot a black moggie!
#OorMoggies @luathpress.bsky.social
#OorMoggies @luathpress.bsky.social
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On Geek Grotto this week, I discuss the reveals coming out of Transformers Day, Fortnite Vs Roblox and spotlight Flim-Flam in Obscure Character Corner!
Tune in at 2pm every Saturday on SHMUFM: DAB & 99.8FM in Aberdeen, online at www.shmu.org.uk or via your smart speaker.
#Radio #Geeky #Aberdeen
September 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
On Geek Grotto this week, I discuss the reveals coming out of Transformers Day, Fortnite Vs Roblox and spotlight Flim-Flam in Obscure Character Corner!
Tune in at 2pm every Saturday on SHMUFM: DAB & 99.8FM in Aberdeen, online at www.shmu.org.uk or via your smart speaker.
#Radio #Geeky #Aberdeen
An annual highlight is upon us once again!
#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
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Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
New Writing Scotland Submission Manager
New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...
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September 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
An annual highlight is upon us once again!
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A #poem for #NationalFoxDay! 🦊
#fox #poetry
Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX
see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen
#fox #poetry
Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX
see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen
September 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A #poem for #NationalFoxDay! 🦊
#fox #poetry
Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX
see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen
#fox #poetry
Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX
see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen
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On Saturday 27th September, please join @sashadugdale.bsky.social will be at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, where she will be reading from some of her work.
The event is free to attend, but for more information see here:⬇️
poetsandplayers.co/2025/09/04/s...
The event is free to attend, but for more information see here:⬇️
poetsandplayers.co/2025/09/04/s...
Sasha Dugdale, Louise Machen with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang: 27 September 2025
Please join us on Saturday 27 September 2025, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. You will find all the information you need re…
poetsandplayers.co
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
On Saturday 27th September, please join @sashadugdale.bsky.social will be at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, where she will be reading from some of her work.
The event is free to attend, but for more information see here:⬇️
poetsandplayers.co/2025/09/04/s...
The event is free to attend, but for more information see here:⬇️
poetsandplayers.co/2025/09/04/s...
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Fascist Yoga feature from Spanish newspaper El Pais is now also available in English translation on their website. english.elpais.com/eps/2025-09-...
The Nazi pose: How modern yoga is linked to the far right
Writer, filmmaker, and activist Stewart Home, one of the most prominent figures of the British counterculture, explains this relationship in his latest book, ‘Fascist Yoga’
english.elpais.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Fascist Yoga feature from Spanish newspaper El Pais is now also available in English translation on their website. english.elpais.com/eps/2025-09-...
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Caithness is where devolution does not work. What we see here in operation, in relation to renewable energy, is the least expensive option and the shortcuts taken in order to achieve it. It is short-sightedness almost to the point of blindness. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/17/t...
Things are done to us, not by us
THINGS ARE DONE TO US, NOT BY US: From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn Things are done to us, not by us. In the former Town Hall building in Thurso is housed the uninspiringly named North Co…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
September 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Caithness is where devolution does not work. What we see here in operation, in relation to renewable energy, is the least expensive option and the shortcuts taken in order to achieve it. It is short-sightedness almost to the point of blindness. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/17/t...
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Things are done to us, not by us bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/17/t...
Things are done to us, not by us
THINGS ARE DONE TO US, NOT BY US: From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn Things are done to us, not by us. In the former Town Hall building in Thurso is housed the uninspiringly named North Co…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
September 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Things are done to us, not by us bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/17/t...