Keeks Mc
@keeksmc.bsky.social
Scots language poet 🏴
Author of "Contermacious Temerity" and "Rede Wi Yer Hert" from Dreich Publications. Next collection coming 2026 with Drunk Muse Press.
Author of "Contermacious Temerity" and "Rede Wi Yer Hert" from Dreich Publications. Next collection coming 2026 with Drunk Muse Press.
Had an amazing night last night at the 3rd birthday of Curlers Cosy Corner poetry night in Glasgow hosted by my wonderful friend @rosswilcockmedia.bsky.social
I was so thrilled to be asked to perform. What a night! Amazing talent, good craic, lovely folk & a marriage proposal! (They said yes!)
I was so thrilled to be asked to perform. What a night! Amazing talent, good craic, lovely folk & a marriage proposal! (They said yes!)
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Had an amazing night last night at the 3rd birthday of Curlers Cosy Corner poetry night in Glasgow hosted by my wonderful friend @rosswilcockmedia.bsky.social
I was so thrilled to be asked to perform. What a night! Amazing talent, good craic, lovely folk & a marriage proposal! (They said yes!)
I was so thrilled to be asked to perform. What a night! Amazing talent, good craic, lovely folk & a marriage proposal! (They said yes!)
Here's a wonderful opportunity for Scots Language poets. I'm guest editor for the February edition of @dreich.bsky.social and I'm looking for fresh, contemporary topics written in modern Scots to fill the pages. It fills up fast so get your submissions in.
October 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Here's a wonderful opportunity for Scots Language poets. I'm guest editor for the February edition of @dreich.bsky.social and I'm looking for fresh, contemporary topics written in modern Scots to fill the pages. It fills up fast so get your submissions in.
Please check out the @ptbopoetry.bsky.social City of Poets TAKEOVER event I'm directing & performing at in Nov, designed to shine a spotlight on endangered & vulnerable languages featuring music, art & poetry in Scots, Gaelic, Igbo, Rohingya and Guernesiais
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Takeover: Glasgow City of Poets - Buy tickets
Join award-winning Scots poet Keeks Mc for a multimedia performance bringing together poetry, music and visual art, illustrating the cultural richness made possible through diversity of language and t...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Please check out the @ptbopoetry.bsky.social City of Poets TAKEOVER event I'm directing & performing at in Nov, designed to shine a spotlight on endangered & vulnerable languages featuring music, art & poetry in Scots, Gaelic, Igbo, Rohingya and Guernesiais
www.citizenticket.com/events/push-...
www.citizenticket.com/events/push-...
Fair made up to receive the runner up prize for Scots poetry at the @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social poetry awards tonight.
October 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Fair made up to receive the runner up prize for Scots poetry at the @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social poetry awards tonight.
Warmest congratulations to everyone on the Frances Browne Literary Festival Poetry shortlist announced today and fingers crossed for your success in the competition. It wasn't to be for me but I was honoured to make the long list.
September 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Warmest congratulations to everyone on the Frances Browne Literary Festival Poetry shortlist announced today and fingers crossed for your success in the competition. It wasn't to be for me but I was honoured to make the long list.
Thanks to @sirangus.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing everyone at Scowth tomorrow!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at Scowth tomorrow!
To let folks in the Glasgow area know.
#scowth is on tomorrow.
At Spud Shack Matcha Man at Anniesland Cross.
All poets and just folk who love poetry welcome.
Follow @keeksmc.bsky.social and Scowth on IG for more.
Fab poetry and open mic slots.
#scowth is on tomorrow.
At Spud Shack Matcha Man at Anniesland Cross.
All poets and just folk who love poetry welcome.
Follow @keeksmc.bsky.social and Scowth on IG for more.
Fab poetry and open mic slots.
September 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Thanks to @sirangus.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing everyone at Scowth tomorrow!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at Scowth tomorrow!
I'm stunned and honoured to find out I've been placed twice on the longlist for the Frances Browne Literary Festival Poetry Competition in the Ulster Scots category for my poems "Isabella Tod" and "Will". What a special Monday this is!
September 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I'm stunned and honoured to find out I've been placed twice on the longlist for the Frances Browne Literary Festival Poetry Competition in the Ulster Scots category for my poems "Isabella Tod" and "Will". What a special Monday this is!
POETS NEEDED
Urgent call to the poetry community in Scotland. I'm looking for poets who write/perform in any endangered language (not Scots or Gaelic as they're covered) and live in or near Scotland. Please can you send me a wee message if this is you or you know anyone who fits the bill??
Urgent call to the poetry community in Scotland. I'm looking for poets who write/perform in any endangered language (not Scots or Gaelic as they're covered) and live in or near Scotland. Please can you send me a wee message if this is you or you know anyone who fits the bill??
August 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
POETS NEEDED
Urgent call to the poetry community in Scotland. I'm looking for poets who write/perform in any endangered language (not Scots or Gaelic as they're covered) and live in or near Scotland. Please can you send me a wee message if this is you or you know anyone who fits the bill??
Urgent call to the poetry community in Scotland. I'm looking for poets who write/perform in any endangered language (not Scots or Gaelic as they're covered) and live in or near Scotland. Please can you send me a wee message if this is you or you know anyone who fits the bill??
How are all my poets doing?
August 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
How are all my poets doing?
My goodness! I'm so made up that I'm shortlisted for the Scots Wigtown Poetry prize. Congratulations to all shortlisted poets! It's an absolute honour to be listed amongst such esteemed company!
www.wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-compe...
www.wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-compe...
Wigtown Poetry Prize
Wigtown Poetry Prize
www.wigtownpoetryprize.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My goodness! I'm so made up that I'm shortlisted for the Scots Wigtown Poetry prize. Congratulations to all shortlisted poets! It's an absolute honour to be listed amongst such esteemed company!
www.wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-compe...
www.wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-compe...
Smashing night on Friday at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow for the St Teneu poetry awards. What an honour to be shortlisted in the Scots language category. Well done to all the winners!
#stteneu
#stteneu
July 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Smashing night on Friday at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow for the St Teneu poetry awards. What an honour to be shortlisted in the Scots language category. Well done to all the winners!
#stteneu
#stteneu
Fowks , thoughts please!
Is it:
A. Breakfast, lunch, dinner
B. Breakfast, dinner, tea
????
Is it:
A. Breakfast, lunch, dinner
B. Breakfast, dinner, tea
????
July 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Fowks , thoughts please!
Is it:
A. Breakfast, lunch, dinner
B. Breakfast, dinner, tea
????
Is it:
A. Breakfast, lunch, dinner
B. Breakfast, dinner, tea
????
What a beautiful surprise to be thumbing through a lovely anthology of poetry, so apt for these times (Poems for a world gone to shit) and to find my favourite @nikitagill.bsky.social poem, Ancestors, within. It's absolutely what I needed today
July 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What a beautiful surprise to be thumbing through a lovely anthology of poetry, so apt for these times (Poems for a world gone to shit) and to find my favourite @nikitagill.bsky.social poem, Ancestors, within. It's absolutely what I needed today
"There is nothing less apt to touch a work of art than critical words: all we end up with there is more or less felicitous misunderstandings"
July 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"There is nothing less apt to touch a work of art than critical words: all we end up with there is more or less felicitous misunderstandings"
I'm so excited to perform alongside this list of stunners at TenRed in Edinburgh on the evening of 23rd July. Come along to hear the words of some absolutely amazing poets!
July 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I'm so excited to perform alongside this list of stunners at TenRed in Edinburgh on the evening of 23rd July. Come along to hear the words of some absolutely amazing poets!
Delighted to be included alongside such talent in the first ever issue of The Candyman's Trumpet, this beautiful pdf publication curated by @dreich.bsky.social
Should you want a free pdf via email of this lovely publication email Jack at jackcaradoctct@gmail.com
Should you want a free pdf via email of this lovely publication email Jack at jackcaradoctct@gmail.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Delighted to be included alongside such talent in the first ever issue of The Candyman's Trumpet, this beautiful pdf publication curated by @dreich.bsky.social
Should you want a free pdf via email of this lovely publication email Jack at jackcaradoctct@gmail.com
Should you want a free pdf via email of this lovely publication email Jack at jackcaradoctct@gmail.com
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🏴 Our Scottish Languages Bill has passed, and will now become law:
✅ Gaelic & Scots gain official status.
✅ Better access to Gaelic education.
✅ Improving Gaelic and Scots in schools.
✅ Gaelic & Scots gain official status.
✅ Better access to Gaelic education.
✅ Improving Gaelic and Scots in schools.
June 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🏴 Our Scottish Languages Bill has passed, and will now become law:
✅ Gaelic & Scots gain official status.
✅ Better access to Gaelic education.
✅ Improving Gaelic and Scots in schools.
✅ Gaelic & Scots gain official status.
✅ Better access to Gaelic education.
✅ Improving Gaelic and Scots in schools.
Had a lovely time on Sunday at City of Poets annual get-together. Lovely to see so many pals and meet new ones
June 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Had a lovely time on Sunday at City of Poets annual get-together. Lovely to see so many pals and meet new ones
What's wrong with poor guinea pigs? I found out my local shelter is full of them and they don't get re-homed easily. Why? That's so sad.
May 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
What's wrong with poor guinea pigs? I found out my local shelter is full of them and they don't get re-homed easily. Why? That's so sad.
Wee jaunt through to Leith today for Sermon on the Mound hosted by the wonderful @hadleyjamespoet.bsky.social
It was so nice to get out reading and meeting with pals old and new, listening to their brilliant words. Wee even had a poetry seagull in the audience
It was so nice to get out reading and meeting with pals old and new, listening to their brilliant words. Wee even had a poetry seagull in the audience
May 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Wee jaunt through to Leith today for Sermon on the Mound hosted by the wonderful @hadleyjamespoet.bsky.social
It was so nice to get out reading and meeting with pals old and new, listening to their brilliant words. Wee even had a poetry seagull in the audience
It was so nice to get out reading and meeting with pals old and new, listening to their brilliant words. Wee even had a poetry seagull in the audience
Been rubbish at updating. Fabulous Scowth last weekend. Thanks to everyone who came for our first birthday bash
May 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Been rubbish at updating. Fabulous Scowth last weekend. Thanks to everyone who came for our first birthday bash
Three days to wait! Join us at 2pm THIS SUNDAY for Scowth at Anniesland Mansions, Glasgow to hear the cracking words of Nazaret Ranea and Hadley-James Hoyles as well as a fabulous line up of open mic'ers!
It's our 1st birthday too!
Can't wait to see you all!
It's our 1st birthday too!
Can't wait to see you all!
May 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Three days to wait! Join us at 2pm THIS SUNDAY for Scowth at Anniesland Mansions, Glasgow to hear the cracking words of Nazaret Ranea and Hadley-James Hoyles as well as a fabulous line up of open mic'ers!
It's our 1st birthday too!
Can't wait to see you all!
It's our 1st birthday too!
Can't wait to see you all!
Poets! Can you help me out...
I really wish we had polls on this but we don't. In lieu of this, can you let me know if you write your poetry drafts by hand or electronically?
I really wish we had polls on this but we don't. In lieu of this, can you let me know if you write your poetry drafts by hand or electronically?
May 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Poets! Can you help me out...
I really wish we had polls on this but we don't. In lieu of this, can you let me know if you write your poetry drafts by hand or electronically?
I really wish we had polls on this but we don't. In lieu of this, can you let me know if you write your poetry drafts by hand or electronically?
Really sad to hear of the passing of @lesleystorm.bsky.social
I didn't know her well but I met her once in Edinburgh and she was a lovely, open, kind lady with a great talent. Love to all her friends and family at this sad time xxx
I didn't know her well but I met her once in Edinburgh and she was a lovely, open, kind lady with a great talent. Love to all her friends and family at this sad time xxx
May 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Really sad to hear of the passing of @lesleystorm.bsky.social
I didn't know her well but I met her once in Edinburgh and she was a lovely, open, kind lady with a great talent. Love to all her friends and family at this sad time xxx
I didn't know her well but I met her once in Edinburgh and she was a lovely, open, kind lady with a great talent. Love to all her friends and family at this sad time xxx
A massive thanks to @sirangus.bsky.social for his wonderful prompts during April. I wrote every single day and it was entirely down to Adam. ♥️
May 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A massive thanks to @sirangus.bsky.social for his wonderful prompts during April. I wrote every single day and it was entirely down to Adam. ♥️