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tarnnation.bsky.social
Poet and academic with words in The TLS, New Statesman, New Republic, Poetry Review, Poetry London, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Asst Editor: Green Letters📚 https://linktr.ee/tarnmacarthur
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My poem ‘Climbing to Seefin Passage Tomb on Summer Solstice’, which is an homage to my late mentor John Burnside, has just been published in the Times Literary Supplement. Please have a read. www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/o...

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Calling all UK creatives! 🚨 There's still a few hours to submit your response to the Government’s AI and copyright consultation. Let’s make sure our voices are heard. Click the link below for support. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

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PSI: these people were not allowed in by a “loophole”, they were allowed in by an entirely correct and justifiable application of human rights laws which were strongly supported by the PM himself at a time when he believed in something

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Leavin Meta slowly for the Sky, as we all will in time. Meanwhile, to prove it is me here’s a new poem I recently published in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social Dedicated to friend David Kinloch and to the toun of Dunkeld.

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Billy Letford from, From Our Own Fire @carcanet.bsky.social

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Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point

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I dread the days these final poems from John no longer arrive, they’re like little moments of return, as if he’s still working away somewhere unknown. In this week’s @thetls.bsky.social

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They said Rafah was a safe zone. They said attacking Rafah was a "red line". This is Rafah now. My family and I had to rush out of it a while ago due to the indiscriminate bombing. No place is safe in Gaza because they want to erase every trace of us. Speak up. Don't let them exterminate us.

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A poem of mine from a few years back, first appearing in the New Statesman.

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The book from Garrett Hongo that this poem comes from, Ocean of Clouds, is going to be special: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Huge and brilliant news! A wonderful poet, insightful critic, and most devoted advocate of Scottish literature. Congratulations and well deserved! news.stv.tv/scotland/poe...

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Found this Les Murray gem this afternoon.

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So happy to see this, although I’m still filled with sadness at losing John. 'A tremendously good, mature, sustained volume, exploring ageing, mortality, environmental crisis and wellbeing, mourning that which is lost while recognising hope' #SaltireBookAwards

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A poem published this past year in The New Republic. About a steam engine, and a horse.

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From John Burnside’s The Asylum Dance, on the family croft in beautiful Tiree.

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Feel good poem I published in @poetrylondon.bsky.social this past Spring for my first post here!

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