A nice charity bookshop find today. I stumbled on this first edition hardback of Norrie Bissell’s great wee collection of poems, Slate, Sea and Sky: A Journey from Glasgow to the Isle of Luing (Luath Press, 2007). As well as Norrie’s wonderful poetry, the book also has a vivid array of photographs by the late Oscar Marzaroli.
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Herne Wood, Kenneth White
—from The Cold Wind of Dawn (Jonathan Cape, 1966)
I’m here to recommend the new (February 2026) collection of poems by Nicky Melville, ‘Get Tae’. Writing also as nick-e melville, he’s one of my favourite poets, Scottish or otherwise. His work is lucid, biting, often darkly funny, satirical and archly acquisitive (in the sense that he borrows brilliantly from the mundane, the political, film, and the realms of ad copy, among other things).
The book is available from Blue Diode Press, who also published his excellent selected poems, ‘Decade of Cu ts’.
https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/get-tae-by-nicky-melville
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Looking forward to seeing Glenda Rome's documentary Expressing The Earth about Kenneth White and geopoetics. If you're in or near Edinburgh it's on at the Filmhouse on 22 April and there are a few tickets left. The trailer is really beautiful.
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A poetic and reflective documentary that invites a quiet reimagining of our place in the living world. Through rugged coastlines, ancient forests, and into the geological bedrock of Scotland’s wild places, Expressing the Earth embarks on a cinematic journey into Geopoetics — the philosophy developed by the late Scottish poet-thinker Kenneth White, which seeks a...
Thanks to @BellaCaledonia for the news about this petition to try and save the Kenneth White House of Artists and Writers in Trébeurden in the Côtes-d’Armor department in Brittany.
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In celebration of the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s birth.
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While he has largely fallen out of favour in the years since his death in 1844, he was well enough regarded in his day to be buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey alongside the likes of Chaucer, Dickens, Browning, Kipling and Tennyson.
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A plaque marking the birthplace of the Romantic poet Thomas Campbell at 215 High Street in Glasgow, and his statue in nearby George Square. Born in 1777, Campbell was not only a highly respected poet by the likes of Byron, he also served as the Rector of Glasgow University and helped found University College London.
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by Tim Gilmore His face is crumbling. Beneath the magnolias, the poet’s visage looks mottled, venous and slightly blue. Standing beneath his 15-foot-tall column, one can barely discern his lips, his nostrils, the sockets for his eyes. He looked proud once, proclaiming his love “like a red, red rose,” this author of “Auld Lang Syne” […]
One of the sculptures in the Scottish Poetry Rose Garden in Queen's Park on the Southside of Glasgow. Opened in 2003, it celebrates the poets and poetry of Scotland written in English, Scots and Gaelic.
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Brian Lavelle
This Is My Glasgow
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