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From Richard Meier’s third collection ‘After the Miracle’ - Happenstance Press 2025.

#Poetry
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
‘How does a painting haunt a poem?’ In the Scottish Society for Art History journal, Dr Catriona McAra discusses the ‘literary paintings’ of Alison Watt RSA.
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The carefully trodden language of grief - Goose to Donkey from Les Murray ‘Translations from the Natural World’.
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Lovely! Here’s Benbecula from the air last week…
October 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
A frog poem from Reflector - my limited edition art book collaboration with #Dundee artist Stephen French: stephenfrench.art
October 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Any blue sky in Bluesky tonight?
Aurora likely.
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Looking forward to celebrating the launch of Sue Burge’s latest collection:
September 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Fanny Howe - 1940 - 2025
from Selected Poems , University of California Press 2000
August 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
When the Grass Dances -
A perfect blend of words and photographs from Valerie Gillies & Rebecca Marr. Available now from Luath Press:
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#Poetry
#Photography
August 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
When they arrest poets as terrorists it’s time to start worrying. Alice Oswald arrested for
SUPPORTing
PALESTINE ACTION
August 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#Scotland always knows how to welcome distinguished visitors.
The Tay Estuary this afternoon.
July 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
From London Review of Books for 24/7/24 - just what I needed in these times:
July 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is Vicky Leandros…
July 16, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Anna Saunders- from Eurydice in the Ruined House, Indigo Dreams Publishing 2025.
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July 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Louise Bourgeois
July 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Heidi Steidlmayer - from ‘Fowling Piece’
June 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Is it just me or do Edwardian cats look Edwardian?
June 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
June 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
‘with the gentle dog-roses/flourishing beside me.’
From ‘Jizzen’ (Picador 1999) by Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Poetry isn’t measured in column-inches or kilograms or hectares but in something like the Beaufort Scale - to what extent have the smallest leaves on the hidden branches inside us been stirred?
This just four lines long from ‘Blood Feather’ (Cape 2023) by Patrick McGuinness - @padrig.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The final poem from Tim Craven’s debut collection ‘Good Sons’ - just out from Blue Diode -
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May 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Glyn Maxwell ‘The Sea Comes in Like Nothing But the Sea’.
May 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
‘I put my hands among the flames.’
May 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Life in a South African township - from ‘All the Places’ by Musawenkosi Khanyile, Uhlanga Press 2019.
April 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
To celebrate World Heritage Day, and dedicated to Toby Carvery, Enfield, a twig from Katharine Towers collection ‘Oak’.
April 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM