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In the US alone, golf courses occupy 2 million acres of sterile, moribund lawns. But now, from California to Scotland, they're being rewilded and are teeming with life – fantastic news for both nature and people! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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Thank you to @flakphoto.news for alerting me to to this film via your Substack. I found it really beautiful but a VERY hard watch. The loss of natural sounds is something I find difficult to comprehend and process. #soundecology #mashakarpoukhina #berniekrause www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-0I...

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Trumpian mismanagement at Cardiff University. This is the final stage of neoliberalism: throwing around jargon on efficiency, competitiveness and investment while burning the earth. Frankly, Nero was better than these lot. At least he made music, not neoliberal arglebargle.

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Rishi Sunak is still an MP and every time I remember that my body JOLTS like I just woke from a nightmare because I can't even comprehend that he EVER existed, let alone is still a member of parliament.

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Thanks to @jntod.bsky.social for the shout out for Flower Pessoaa on his excellent blog, Some Flowers Soon. I fully agree with his observation on Scots/English here.

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"In Norway, Tesla saw a 38% sales slump, in France sales dropped by 63%, and in Spain by 75%. Tesla sales dropped 13% across the whole European Union last year and are expected to fall further... Tesla registered only 1,277 new cars in Germany in January, a year-on-year drop of 59.5%."

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Imagine how much effort you have to put into looking at the terrible state of the arts in Britain and then deciding that it must be protests and boycotts that are responsible rather than wilful neglect and underfunding.

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#FactoryFarming #FastFashion & #PlasticWaste - what a world our current system has made www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Bella Caledonia is a vital space for independent writing in Scotland. They’re raising funds to support freelancers and ensure secure hosting for ad-free, accessible press. Please consider donating to defend indy media for the future🙏 @bellacaledonia.bsky.social www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/backing-be...

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Given what has happened so far with Doge, this should be read as Labour and the Tories wanting to: - Completely erase LGBTQ people - Stop funding research into women's health or climate change - Dismantle any safety monitoring of water, food, etc - Illegally fire public workers en masse

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Is the phrase “I’m starting a substack“, the new “here’s my new podcast”?

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Coming soon! Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets. Three months until official publication in the UK and Europe (22 July elsewhere), this anthology is up on the Bloodaxe Books website, with pre-orders via Amazon now available. www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

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shout out to all the parent writers. to all the projects started and then withered because a kid had a cold, or fell when you were jotting an idea down, or started a bath and jumped in still dressed. for the conferences and fellowships and sub windows missed. shout out to y’all who keep coming back.

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While Trump is expressing his admiration for Putin—Putin’s army just bombed a children’s hospital in Odesa, Ukraine.

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At this point, far more than in the great Thatcher sell-off rip-off, you can literally see money pouring out of ordinary people's homes into the vaults of oligarchs, like a fantastic rushing spate of virtual gold. The Great Looting is underway. The Visigoths were mild mannered by comparison. Stupid.

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Ever wondered what Pessoas Scottish heteronyms might sound like after a few pints of heavy? Me neither.

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Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

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One of my weekly things is choosing Poem of The Week for The Scotsman. Been doing it for the last 2+ years. A labour of love which motivates me to read loads of new poetry collections that come in to the Scottish Poetry Library. This week was a poem by Christopher Crawford. Love his new collection.

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I love and believe this. And it also can make me doubt where I end a poem. Have I said enough? What is enough? How much can be learned from what’s left unsaid?

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🎆 Just over a week to submit your poems to our poetry collection 'Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson'! We've had some AMAZING submissions so far - we'd love to receive yours too! 🎆

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Homan is counting on us not knowing our rights. @aoc.bsky.social is putting an insanely scary target on her back to pass on knowledge of basic rights.DOJ will go after her. Stand with her. Share the target. Pass on info on rights to all citizens u can reach. Knowledge IS power. It’s scary.Yes it is.

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A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.

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Not long left to respond to New Boots and Pantisocracies’ call for poems engaging with Executive Orders emerging from the new US government. Details in the link. Write, baby, write! newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/e...

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Very exciting gig coming up next month! Reading at the legendary King Tut's Wah Wah Hut with Clementine E Burnley and Raveloe, with musical accompaniment from the fantastic Anoraq band!! If you're in Glasgow come along! If you're not in Glasgow then get to Glasgow!!

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Sheryl Crow: “My parents always said you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla. Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes the truth will…find its way to those willing to know [it].”

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My poem ‘Shell Suited Substitute’ has been turned into electro filth by the Glasgow music producer EKIM. Absolutely STOKED which what he’s done with it. Football + Poetry + Electro. Sometimes it can work! EKIM feat Stephen Watt - Shell Suited Substitute youtu.be/DQBDmGJxxqY

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‘Tonight I lingered over your name’ -Naomi Shihab Nye

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Good for the Co-op -- it's been truly pathetic to see the speed with which other companies have scrambled into reverse on DEI www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Thank you, and welcome to my strange little world…

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Cemetery snowdrops

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Horrified by news of our friend & fellow bookseller Mahmoud being arrested by Israeli forces alongside his nephew. A tireless campaigner for the power of literature, Mahmoud was in Edinburgh with us just months ago - please join call for their release! #Booksky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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My favorite genre of snowdrop: churchyard snowdrops

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Next stop on the Fierce Salvage Launch Tour: Lighthouse Books! Join us on the 21st Feb for readings from three of our brilliant Queer Words mentees, a Q&A, some celebratory drinks, and a chance to bask in the radiant blue-pink glow of the collection itself! lighthousebookshop.com/events/fierc...

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There’s a reason we revisit this beauty by Tess Gallagher:

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The Bad Betty team are absolutely brilliant: not only are they award-winning independent poetry publishers, but they curate fantastic live events. They're passionate, hard-working, & just the loveliest humans. If you can, pls consider supporting or sharing. Thanks! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bad-betty/

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0.43% increase in UK GDP by 2050 if a third runway is opened at Heathrow. 12% fall in world GDP for every 1C rise in global temperature.

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Yes, this.

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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

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Delighted to say, I have a new thing arriving at the end of April.

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It is suprising, unexpected & exciting to find that a university is interested in me and my words and has invited me to talk about poetry. If anyone would like to come, here is the link :-) ies.sas.ac.uk/events/a-con...

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There’s currently 10% off website prices if you’d like to book a writing retreat in Feb or March. Contact us for details and get your 2025 projects going! Www.kalewatercottage.co.uk

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Looking forward to Stanza! Really interesting programme, including a live recording of The Lantern poetry podcast. byretheatre.com/shows/stanza...

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It's our Birthday! Which means it's time for the Loud Poets team to take to the stage! Always a fun show so come and celebrate with us! scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:58...

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IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY!!! Can't wait to take to the stage alongside this beautiful crew to celebrate 11 years of Loud Poets. This is always a special show, and tickets go quickly, so book ASAP: scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:58...

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⭐️DEADLINE EXTENSION⭐️ We've extended the deadline for submissions to our upcoming 'Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson' project. Follow the link below to find out more about how to submit 👇 robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/legacy/submi...

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I loved writing and performing this wee story for BBC Scotland Learning 👇🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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I am way behind with this, but I've just read the latest issue of Paperboats (4) from @paperboatswriters.bsky.social and I will be looking out for at least three writers previously unknown to me, not to mention several I already love. Give it a look, why don't you?