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FLAME is in my new pamphlet #Palomines, alongside poems published recently in @TheLondonMag and @anthro_poetry; available now from Mr Rob at @DiodeBlue here: bluediode.co.uk/product-page… 🎪🐇🐯🎪🙏
Small piece up at the Los Angeles Review 🎪🎪🎪
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Tonight, Thurs, 7 for 7.30pm, Waverley Bar, Edinburgh. Launching a new debut poetry collection, 'Knottis' by Lindsey Shields Waters, with Alan Buckley up from Oxford for a one-off reading in Scotland from 'Still', and the excellent Colin Bramwell and Sophie Cooke. Free entry!
This Friday 6 March, 7pm, Typewronger Books, Haddington Place (top of Leith Walk), Edinburgh - launch of Andrew Neilson's debut poetry book, 'Little Griefs' (Blue Diode Press). Annie Brechin has unfortunately had to travel south, but Medha Singh will read instead. Free entry!
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Edinburgh book launch! Details of a London one to follow. eventbrite.com/e/little-grie…
Excellent news. Alice Willitt's Kiss My Earth (Blue Diode Press, 2025) is one of three books shortlisted in the poetry category of the East Anglian Book Awards!
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Siuthad, cuir dhan bhasgaid e… Geàrr-liosta Duais Ruaraidh MhicThòmais airson an Leabhar Bàrdachd as Fheàrr 2025
Go on, add it to the basket... The Shortlist for The Derick Thomson Prize for Best Poetry Book 2025
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Shortlist: The Derick Thomson Prize for Best Poetry Book
Athair/Father – Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin (Francis Boutle Publishers)
Bàrdachd a’ Bhaile Mhòir – ed. Niall O’Gallagher (Blue Diode Publishing)
Govanhill Mythology/Beul-aithris Chnoc a’ Ghobhainn – Shane Johnstone (Arkbound)
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“in the wide swathes of time,
everything will wash over us”
—Afterbody, Medha Singh @medhawrites @DiodeBlue
Come along! Entry is free, and books will be on sale. Medha's book is £10 and the chapbooks are £7. Doors open 6.30pm, readings start sharp at 7pm.
This Thursday the always interesting @DiodeBlue have a superb quadruple chapbook/book launch event at the SPL featuring:
💥 DAVID KINLOCH
💥 JAMES APPLEBY
💥 MEDHA SINGH
💥 SOPHIE COOKE
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I met a lot of Trumps in my industry, and I met a lot of people who called themselves “artists” then chose vanity over humanity because it bought them fame. We can live in a world without this manipulation, but we’ll have to choose to do so. Believe me, they don’t make it easy.
Three recent books available now from bluediode.co.uk . Good Sons by Tim Craven, Recital by @MarianneMacRae , and Kiss My Earth by Alice Willitts. Info, sample poems, etc at the link. Have a look!
ALT Three books. Tim Craven's features multicoloured gravestones facing a similarly multicoloured landscape. Marianne MacRae's is a purple background with a three legged green creature inside a turquoise circle. And Alice Willitts's is an orange yellow background with a dark blue portrait of a woman with big hair and eyes and the words Kiss My Earth replacing her nose and mouth.
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Meg's Monday Muse is all about Mothers' Day this week, with books perfect for gifting from @FaberBooks, @TheEmmaPress, @DiodeBlue and @panmacmillan. Follow the link to find out more! mailchi.mp/poetrybooksociety…
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Head over to BfS where @scotsmandavid takes a look at the First Book shortlist in this year's @Saltire_Society lit awards!
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"Wonderful lines about the sea and its landscapes." Thanks to @TheFridayPoem and Jane Routh for Okapi's first review. If you want to have, or give, a Hebridean experience for Xmas, it's here @DiodeBlue:
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Do people look at Twitter these days? London tonight, Tues 26 Nov, 6pm - showcase from the Saltire First Book of the Year Award shortlist, including Nuala Watt, whose 'The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish' (Blue Diode Press, 2024) ticketsource.co.uk/standrews…
This Saturday, Manchester, there's a poetry bonanza! From 4-6pm, @PeterBarlowsCig features Maria Sledmere, Harriet Tarlo and Lucy Wilkinson. And then from 7pm, Olga Stehlikova, Christopher Crawford, David Gaffney and @lydiowanie, courtesy of Blue Diode Press. Links below.
Register for the PBC event at the Carlton Club at eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-bar…
Register for the Blue Diode Press event at the Saul Hay Gallery at eventbrite.co.uk/e/blue-diod…
Books Tour: terrific Czech poet (Olga) and Scottish poet based in Prague (Chris) reading in Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh from 9-11th November, with fabulous special guests. Come along. Free entry, books on sale. Dates and times below.
ALT Blue Diode poets launch their new books - Olga Stehlikova and Chris Crawford - readings in Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, Sat 9th Nov, 7pm; Bigglestones Books, Glassford St, Glasgow, Sun 10th Nov, 4pm; Typewronger Books, Edinburgh, Mon 11th Nov, 7pm.
Newly published today, Czech poet Olga Stehlikova's 'Though the Sky is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat' (Blue Diode Press), selected poems in English translation by David Vichnar. Info, sample poems and shop at this link: bluediode.co.uk/product-page…
