Eleanor Livingstone
@eleanorl.bsky.social
Sometime poet and editor, former poetry festival director, Scottish. Likes walking, talking, beaches, gardens, travel. Two new books out in 2023 from Red Squirrel Press (she/her)
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Thanks for this to Eric Evans and his team at Ink Publications. As I've rather got out of the habit of submitting, I'm chuffed one of my poems found an online home here in the new edition of The Bond Street Review - and in such nice company!
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September 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Thanks for this to Eric Evans and his team at Ink Publications. As I've rather got out of the habit of submitting, I'm chuffed one of my poems found an online home here in the new edition of The Bond Street Review - and in such nice company!
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When they arrest poets as terrorists it’s time to start worrying. Alice Oswald arrested for
SUPPORTing
PALESTINE ACTION
SUPPORTing
PALESTINE ACTION
August 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
When they arrest poets as terrorists it’s time to start worrying. Alice Oswald arrested for
SUPPORTing
PALESTINE ACTION
SUPPORTing
PALESTINE ACTION
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Southbank Centre - Wednesday 6 August, 8pm
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...
Bank of England Museum - Thursday 7 August, 12.30pm
www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats...
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...
Bank of England Museum - Thursday 7 August, 12.30pm
www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats...
Special Edition: Femina Culpa Poetry & Justice | Southbank Centre
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Southbank Centre - Wednesday 6 August, 8pm
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...
Bank of England Museum - Thursday 7 August, 12.30pm
www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats...
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...
Bank of England Museum - Thursday 7 August, 12.30pm
www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats...
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Keats House - Thursday 7 August, 6:30pm
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/femin...
Bethlem Museum of the Mind - Saturday 9 August, 2:00pm
museumofthemind.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/femin...
Bethlem Museum of the Mind - Saturday 9 August, 2:00pm
museumofthemind.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
Femina Culpa: Poetry, Crime and Justice
Find out more about the nineteenth-century court cases involving women that inspired new poetry collections.
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
August 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Keats House - Thursday 7 August, 6:30pm
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/femin...
Bethlem Museum of the Mind - Saturday 9 August, 2:00pm
museumofthemind.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/femin...
Bethlem Museum of the Mind - Saturday 9 August, 2:00pm
museumofthemind.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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Hello folks, if you fancied some poetry this week, you could do a lot worse than attending one (or all ) of the following events from Femina Culpa. Each event features readings inspired by historic cases relating to women tried in court in the 1800s.
August 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Hello folks, if you fancied some poetry this week, you could do a lot worse than attending one (or all ) of the following events from Femina Culpa. Each event features readings inspired by historic cases relating to women tried in court in the 1800s.
Great poetry events in London this week!
Southbank, Wed 6 Aug 8pm
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...
BankofEnglandMuseum, Thur 7 12.30pm
www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats...
... (1/2)
Southbank, Wed 6 Aug 8pm
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...
BankofEnglandMuseum, Thur 7 12.30pm
www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats...
... (1/2)
Special Edition: Femina Culpa Poetry & Justice | Southbank Centre
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Great poetry events in London this week!
Southbank, Wed 6 Aug 8pm
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...
BankofEnglandMuseum, Thur 7 12.30pm
www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats...
... (1/2)
Southbank, Wed 6 Aug 8pm
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...
BankofEnglandMuseum, Thur 7 12.30pm
www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats...
... (1/2)
In aid of UNICEF:
Hello folk in the St Andrews area. I'll be reading at this very worthwhile event on 11th June in aid of UNICEF for their appeals for Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan. Do come along if you can. It's un-ticketed and donations on the door.
Hello folk in the St Andrews area. I'll be reading at this very worthwhile event on 11th June in aid of UNICEF for their appeals for Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan. Do come along if you can. It's un-ticketed and donations on the door.
May 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
In aid of UNICEF:
Hello folk in the St Andrews area. I'll be reading at this very worthwhile event on 11th June in aid of UNICEF for their appeals for Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan. Do come along if you can. It's un-ticketed and donations on the door.
Hello folk in the St Andrews area. I'll be reading at this very worthwhile event on 11th June in aid of UNICEF for their appeals for Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan. Do come along if you can. It's un-ticketed and donations on the door.
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President Donald Trump commenting on how much money his billionaire friends made when he paused tariffs,
"He made $2.5 billion today, and he made $900 million"
Is this corruption, insider trading, or just good timing and coincidence?
"He made $2.5 billion today, and he made $900 million"
Is this corruption, insider trading, or just good timing and coincidence?
April 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
President Donald Trump commenting on how much money his billionaire friends made when he paused tariffs,
"He made $2.5 billion today, and he made $900 million"
Is this corruption, insider trading, or just good timing and coincidence?
"He made $2.5 billion today, and he made $900 million"
Is this corruption, insider trading, or just good timing and coincidence?
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despite hate (a riff on Ashberry)
there’s only this
one moon – look up,
we share it
there isn’t anything
you can do
to prevent that
dailies, 10.IV.25
there’s only this
one moon – look up,
we share it
there isn’t anything
you can do
to prevent that
dailies, 10.IV.25
April 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
despite hate (a riff on Ashberry)
there’s only this
one moon – look up,
we share it
there isn’t anything
you can do
to prevent that
dailies, 10.IV.25
there’s only this
one moon – look up,
we share it
there isn’t anything
you can do
to prevent that
dailies, 10.IV.25
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No, it is not in heaven that we find the dry
fine winds of fact,
but in the stones of March, Holy One,
in the knots of their essence…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “Not in Heaven”
published in NEW COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754960...
fine winds of fact,
but in the stones of March, Holy One,
in the knots of their essence…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “Not in Heaven”
published in NEW COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754960...
April 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
No, it is not in heaven that we find the dry
fine winds of fact,
but in the stones of March, Holy One,
in the knots of their essence…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “Not in Heaven”
published in NEW COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754960...
fine winds of fact,
but in the stones of March, Holy One,
in the knots of their essence…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “Not in Heaven”
published in NEW COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754960...
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Isn't it odd how the State Department can get people out of jail in Russia but not in El Salvador.
BREAKING: Ksenia Karelina, a Russian-American woman jailed in Russia for treason, has been freed and is on her way to the US, Secretary of State Rubio says
Russian-American woman sentenced to 12 years in Russia for treason on her way to the US, Rubio says | CNN
Russian-American woman Ksenia Karelina, who was serving a 12-year prison sentence for treason in Russia, has been released and is on her way to the United States, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sai...
www.cnn.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Isn't it odd how the State Department can get people out of jail in Russia but not in El Salvador.
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I hear your bold blackbird, that slow singer,
alone at my desk yet walking with you
through your valleys and hills, that shining
stream bubbling notes of your music
your pure Welsh music…
—Sheila Templeton, “For R.S. Thomas”
in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30
#poetry
alone at my desk yet walking with you
through your valleys and hills, that shining
stream bubbling notes of your music
your pure Welsh music…
—Sheila Templeton, “For R.S. Thomas”
in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30
#poetry
March 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I hear your bold blackbird, that slow singer,
alone at my desk yet walking with you
through your valleys and hills, that shining
stream bubbling notes of your music
your pure Welsh music…
—Sheila Templeton, “For R.S. Thomas”
in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30
#poetry
alone at my desk yet walking with you
through your valleys and hills, that shining
stream bubbling notes of your music
your pure Welsh music…
—Sheila Templeton, “For R.S. Thomas”
in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30
#poetry
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It’s for weddings
and funerals
and reading on the train
and for taking a person out of herself
and bringing her back more sane…
—Helena Nelson, “Poetry Forum”
Published in DOWN WITH POETRY! (Happenstance, 2016)
#WorldPoetryDay
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/poetry-...
and funerals
and reading on the train
and for taking a person out of herself
and bringing her back more sane…
—Helena Nelson, “Poetry Forum”
Published in DOWN WITH POETRY! (Happenstance, 2016)
#WorldPoetryDay
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/poetry-...
March 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It’s for weddings
and funerals
and reading on the train
and for taking a person out of herself
and bringing her back more sane…
—Helena Nelson, “Poetry Forum”
Published in DOWN WITH POETRY! (Happenstance, 2016)
#WorldPoetryDay
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/poetry-...
and funerals
and reading on the train
and for taking a person out of herself
and bringing her back more sane…
—Helena Nelson, “Poetry Forum”
Published in DOWN WITH POETRY! (Happenstance, 2016)
#WorldPoetryDay
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/poetry-...
I listened this morning to an interview with her on The News Agents, catch it while you can in case they are made to remove it. Meta, champions of free speech???
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#thenewsagents
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#thenewsagents
Meta stops former Facebook director from promoting critical memoir
Social media company wins US emergency ruling preventing ex-director from publicising her book.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I listened this morning to an interview with her on The News Agents, catch it while you can in case they are made to remove it. Meta, champions of free speech???
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#thenewsagents
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#thenewsagents
Gorse thrusts yellow into spring
March 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Gorse thrusts yellow into spring
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Have a wee vote, folks! Be assured it's not me, Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay in competition with each other - god forbid! It's you choosing a line by each of us to be carved on the Parliament Wall. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/02/publ...
Public vote for new poetry quotes on the Scottish Parliament wall
Poetry quotes on Canongate Wall
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
February 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Have a wee vote, folks! Be assured it's not me, Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay in competition with each other - god forbid! It's you choosing a line by each of us to be carved on the Parliament Wall. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/02/publ...
Ah, memories. When everything else was locked down in March 2021, the Botanic Gardens in St Andrews was a great place for an exhibition (thanks, Jane Yolen!), and a welcome 'necessary' reason for me to travel there to set it up.
February 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ah, memories. When everything else was locked down in March 2021, the Botanic Gardens in St Andrews was a great place for an exhibition (thanks, Jane Yolen!), and a welcome 'necessary' reason for me to travel there to set it up.
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Every mid-February
those first days arrive
when the sun rises
higher than the Black
Hill at last…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Dash”
published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
those first days arrive
when the sun rises
higher than the Black
Hill at last…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Dash”
published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
February 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Every mid-February
those first days arrive
when the sun rises
higher than the Black
Hill at last…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Dash”
published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
those first days arrive
when the sun rises
higher than the Black
Hill at last…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Dash”
published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
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This is *exactly* what the UK government is failing to do.
Please read this thread to understand the critical risks at the heart of our democracy.
Please read this thread to understand the critical risks at the heart of our democracy.
February 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is *exactly* what the UK government is failing to do.
Please read this thread to understand the critical risks at the heart of our democracy.
Please read this thread to understand the critical risks at the heart of our democracy.
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✊ Solidarity with Palestinian storyteller, publisher & bookshop owner Mahmoud Muna, who visited Edinburgh & our library last August with the Momentum literature delegation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/10/israeli-police-raid-jerusalem-bookshops-and-arrest-palestinian-owners
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/10/israeli-police-raid-jerusalem-bookshops-and-arrest-palestinian-owners
Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners
Raid on Educational Bookshop branches described by rights groups as attempt to create ‘culture of fear’ among Palestinian intellectuals
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
✊ Solidarity with Palestinian storyteller, publisher & bookshop owner Mahmoud Muna, who visited Edinburgh & our library last August with the Momentum literature delegation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/10/israeli-police-raid-jerusalem-bookshops-and-arrest-palestinian-owners
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/10/israeli-police-raid-jerusalem-bookshops-and-arrest-palestinian-owners
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This'll be ace...!
Out Feb 14th. Cover by Elena Gual @juangomezjurado.com @kenlburns.bsky.social @dranitaheiss.bsky.social New Prose and Poetry. Free to subscribers, FREE to subscribe.
#new #litmag #valentinesday
#new #litmag #valentinesday
February 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This'll be ace...!
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My latest book is soon in Italian, Hungary and Macedonia, a Danish, and Swedish translation is also out. Poems from the Edge of Extinction is a powerful anthology of poetry combining the dying of languages with environmental humanities and poetry.
February 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My latest book is soon in Italian, Hungary and Macedonia, a Danish, and Swedish translation is also out. Poems from the Edge of Extinction is a powerful anthology of poetry combining the dying of languages with environmental humanities and poetry.
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Gaelic & Scots in the 20th & 21st Centuries
19 Feb, Scottish Parliament
Free (booking essential)
Dr @poncarova.bsky.social discusses literary & historical connections, inspirations, & the role of new users, in the preservation & revitalisation of Gaelic & Scots
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaelic-and...
19 Feb, Scottish Parliament
Free (booking essential)
Dr @poncarova.bsky.social discusses literary & historical connections, inspirations, & the role of new users, in the preservation & revitalisation of Gaelic & Scots
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaelic-and...
Gaelic and Scots in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Connections, Inspirations, and the Role of New Users
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Gaelic & Scots in the 20th & 21st Centuries
19 Feb, Scottish Parliament
Free (booking essential)
Dr @poncarova.bsky.social discusses literary & historical connections, inspirations, & the role of new users, in the preservation & revitalisation of Gaelic & Scots
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaelic-and...
19 Feb, Scottish Parliament
Free (booking essential)
Dr @poncarova.bsky.social discusses literary & historical connections, inspirations, & the role of new users, in the preservation & revitalisation of Gaelic & Scots
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaelic-and...
Of course; and thank goodness Starmer isn't equivocating.
NEW: Keir Starmer distances himself at PMQs from the Trump Gaza plan
“Palestinians must be allowed home, they must be allowed to rebuild and we should be with them in that rebuild - on the way to a two state solution."
“Palestinians must be allowed home, they must be allowed to rebuild and we should be with them in that rebuild - on the way to a two state solution."
February 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Of course; and thank goodness Starmer isn't equivocating.