Nature-nerd, poet, guitarist and trainee lutenist. https://xitter.gq/t.co/nLbOVlkqQb https://xitter.gq/t.co/iBQUVoWMPk
Glasgow, Scotland
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'Nightjars' has landed! Available now in paperback & Kindle eBook worldwide amazon.co.uk/Nightjars-Z-R-G… @zr_ghani and I will donate all royalties to the wonderful @Beatson_Charity which does great work on cancer research and patient care, & supported my mother in her last months 🙏🧡
A rare outing on X to thank @RegineEbner for sending a copy of her beautiful, inspired collection, Mountains that See in the Dark, published by @blackboughpoems ✨🏜️ In the second photo is what I think of it, from the book itself!
Still reeling after seeing Gabriela perform her own piano concerto in Edinburgh yesterday, followed by an astonishing & oddly moving improvisation on the daft Scottish song "Ye cannae shove yer granny off a bus," suggested by the audience 😂 She is literally made of music 🤯🤩
Thank you to the @BBCSSO BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Elim Chan for a wonderful week!
Now on my way to NY, then Easton and Wednesday: CIM. This autumn’s schedule is crazy.
I’m buying myself a bottle of Lagavulin at Edinburgh airport to enjoy on those few free evenings sitting by the fire with my hubby.❤️
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Thanks Damien for the opportunity to celebrate @MatthewMCSmith whose contributions to poetry and poets on X and beyond have been immense. And lovely to do so alongside, @Rhona_Greene, @jackbedell, @merril_mds, @JulianD86666247, @ness_owen, @marcellenewbold & @RichlyEvocative 🙌
One of our special guests today
on Eat the Storms #poetry #podcast celebrating The Welsh Bard @MatthewMCSmith
is writer, guitarist and ecologist @macgregor_andy ⭐️
Breaking my long X hiatus to celebrate this outstanding poetry collection from my erstwhile collaborator @zr_ghani I kind of hate it because it makes me want to write poetry again 😅 It's so rich and powerful - a masterclass in potent writing. You're a true poet & storyteller!
Publication month for IN THE NAME OF RED by @zr_ghani! Launching online Friday 26 April!
Our online launches are in webinar format: join us however you're comfortable for book chat & general inspiration: buff.ly/49UoSRm
Pre-order your copy: buff.ly/4bf1MGk
ALT IN THE NAME OF RED by Z.R. Ghani. Louise Weir's cover uses vivid yellow and mauve inks and features an indistinct figure in billowing garments with a headdress. The title is hand-written and nearly eclipsed by bright red circle - a sun, a shot?
Time flies indeed, like a nightjar! 🪽😁
It’s been a year since my collab collection with @macgregor_andy ‘Nightjars’ came out! How time flies! Thanks to everyone who supported our little project. Get your copy on Amazon if you haven’t already 😉💜 #poetrycommunity
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Book a ticket on Eventbrite for Matt Gilbert's @RichlyEvocative launch evening this Wednesday. We have some other stars reading including @SeaGoatScreams, @macgregor_andy @LouLouMach @PMOsborneWriter @ri_collins and @MarkAntonyOwen ... and more!
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Wonderful collection to be in, and a joy to dance with @RegineEbner 🌕🕺💃
For @TopTweetTuesday’s Review Week @MatthewMCSmith, here is my review of A Duet of Ghosts.
‘My poem, Attic Window, was a joy to write, dancing as it did with @macgregor_andy’s January Moon…’
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This is an important thread &, being the editor of the journal which published this piece in September 2020, I recall well what it cost Jenny Lindsay to write it. Scottish culture has rapidly become, particularly for courageous women, punitive & viciously misogynistic.
🧵Three years ago, I was forced to write an extensive essay outlining the harassment I was receiving in Scotland's literary sector. I had hoped I might write this, and then be left alone. Of course, that hasn't happened 1/
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Fabulous poetry readings tonight at the Zoom launch of 'Othernesses' by @PaulDragonwolf1 (illustrated wonderfully by @JaneCornwell10). ✨ Some of the most delightfully obscure subject matter 🍄🦗🐞😁
Taking perhaps the most obscure subject was a rather profound poem about foraminifera by @ElCurwen for whom I offer this more lightweight bit of poetic sedimentation... 😄🐚
Yes, I did just intrude my fern nerdiness into a BBC Gardeners' World segment on the fabulous restoration being undertaken by Matthew and the gang at @LinnBotanics 🌿🌿 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l0h…
@macgregor_andy great feature on ferns on @GWandShows and lo and behold there was a lively filmy fern.... shame about the ferny needs!!
What a fine and lovely gesture in what promises to be a splendid collection by @RichlyEvocative 🙌 😀
In Matt Gilbert’s 🏙@RichlyEvocative’s forthcoming #poetry book - finishing a recommended reading page - @SeaGoatScreams @theeabsentee @merril_mds @zr_ghani @macgregor_andy @sacosw @ri_collins @ehoranpoet @lm2020uk @jackbedell @jenlareine @KDonnelly79 @ness_owen @JohnMcCullough_
ALT Recommended reading
Do not let them speak
ALT Do not let them speak When the birds that gather in field and hedge find words you must not let them speak. For they will speak of fear and rage; they will demand comfort and territory. Oh let them sing and whistle along with them; clamber up into the branches, take their chirpiness and fluster as affirmation, but do not let them speak. For they might say no.
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#Poetry mail - a truly gorgeous publication - this ultra-shiny hardback book of sonnets by Paul Brooke @PaulDragonwolf1 with illustrations by @JaneCornwell10 and an intro by @macgregor_andy - can’t wait to devour! 😮
ALT Poetry book by Paul Brookes
GENESIS
(In the beginning was Monotony.)
Thank you to the little birds
in the elder outside my window
for bringing their joyous fury
to this pallid dawn
and for breaking the Tune
into a thousand pieces
that we may hear it.
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And the winner of the @macgregor_andy @zr_ghani giveaway book is @SandiferSmith 🔥
🎁 A review copy available for our #poetry #bookofthemonth by @macgregor_andy & @zr_ghani - to be in to win, you need to like, RT and give it a boost and review your side!! 🙏 here’s @RegineEbner’s review
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ALT 🎁 A review copy available for our #poetry #bookofthemonth by @macgregor_andy & @zr_ghani - to be in to win, you need to like, RT and give it a boost and review your side!! 🙏