David Bleiman (grandfather poet)
@BleimanDavid
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Edinburgh poet writing across the languages. Scots, mixed identity, multilingual mish-mosh! "This Kilt of Many Colours" "Gathering Light: A Cramond Causeway"
Scotland
Joined January 2020
This is still the book of which I am most proud. You can find out about me on the Scottish Poetry Library online guide to poets and on my page on the Poetry Society website.
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On Facebook, just search for me by my name.
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Poetry for the children in your life. A delightful book of poetry with full colour illustrations. Poems by authors well known and unknown (declaring an interest!) Selected from more than a thousand poems on the Dirigible Balloon website. Supporting Juvenile Arthritis Research.
Sky Surfing is here. Poetry for children at the Dirigible Balloon. Raising awareness of and funds for Juvenile Arthritis Research. The shop is now open >>>
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"I want some!" said a small child I know. "I want some what?" I asked, fishing for the word "please". "I want some NOW!" The resulting poem for children is here read by @AttieLime and "Little Lime". @MichaelRosenYes
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@lozzakidwriting @TheDirigible It would be amazing to hear this in a child's voice. As you may know, the (very) young poet "Little Lime" reads a couple of my poems on @TheDirigible which adds immensely to the written word. @AttieLime
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Diary date: free poetry event at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on SUNDAY 30 MARCH. This is always a relaxed and fun event. The poets of Edinburgh's "School of Poets" at play!
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RT @TheDirigible: Sky Surfing: Excellent Adventures in a Poetry Balloon #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon
#JuvenileArthritisResearch ht…
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RT @FurniturePoetry: It's #CutleryThursday, which we may have just invented - you know, that day when you lay the table _properly_. Or per…
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A wonderful review of "Sky Surfing", the new anthology of poems for children from The Dirigible Balloon @TheDirigible
Hello @CLPE1 Here's a review of Sky Surfing: Excellent Adventures in a Poetry Balloon which came out at Christmas, promotes poets who write for children and raises awareness of #JuvenileArthritisResearch
#PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon
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RT @JonathanHumble: Such a lovely evening of poetry with the Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists yesterday (thank you @pandemonialists). R…
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RT @Emma_Lee1: My review of “Sky Surfing: Adventures in a Poetry Balloon” edited by Jonathan Humble (Yorkshire Times Publishing) @TheDirigi…
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@OlgaWojtas Thanks, Olga! Happy New Year to you too. "Watter-mouth" is, in a way, a poem of place...the brackish waters of the Almond where it joins the Forth.
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@billherbert Ah'm fair chuffed tae fin masel added tae the #InformationistScotland compendium. Whaur nae tourists trauchle!
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Hogmanay! In Stirling, the statue of John Cowane will, by long tradition, come down off its perch at John Cowane's Hospital and dance. If you can't be there, here's my poem in praise of "Auld Staneybreeks":
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RT @FurniturePoetry: Only @Azjackson would have noticed the parallel between that spinning item of kitchenware, the Lazy Susan, and that re…
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