Kathleen Jamie
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Poet, and author of 'Findings' 'Sightlines' 'Surfacing', and 'Cairn'.
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Being Makar: I was asked last week if I'd take a call from the First Minister. We were on Orkney and the nearest decent signal was at the Ring of Brodgar. So that's where we were, channelling their energy, when the FM called. *THANK YOU* to everyone who has sent good wishes....
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Called GP on husband's behalf at 08.30. Seen at 10.30. He was in hospital bed by 13.00, staffed by kind, non-striking nurses. He'll be ok. I am in no wise a 'higher earner' but would cheerfully pay more tax for this.
#scotgov
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After a weepy morning missing folks and thinking This Will Never End, I made myself go out. Wrote a re-balancing poem. Feel better now. Hope we all will soon. Please click.
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Arts funding is Scotland is dire. I wrote a poem ‘Shoestring’ because that’s how it is.
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Proof copies arrived today. I'm done. Gonna watch rubbish on telly for next 2 years.
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What awful news. Surely our foremost poet. His poems could up-end you like a drug. Entirely attuned to the natural world, and the strangeness of worlds just beyond our senses. Novelist, essayist, columnist - a mighty talent.
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Today, after 20 years, I leave academia. Professor no more! *Thank you* to all the enthusiastic, talented students and colleagues of Stirling University, and before that, St Andrews. Best job I'll ever have. But now, back to my garret, and the blank page.
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This is 'Cairn', to be published at midsummer. Notes, poems, micro-essays, acts of witness. 'Wonderful writing...a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet.' Thank you
@ObserverUK
and to
@SortofBooks
, for making it a thing of beauty.
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My last day as Makar. It's been a joy. To
@scotgov
and
@ByLeavesWeLive
, to
@historic_ally
, the librarians, readers, writers of Scotland, to the gods and goddesses of poetry, eternal thanks. There will be another Makar, in due course. Me, I'm in my garret, having a wee lie doon.
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My first task as Makar: let's make a collaborative New Scottish Nature Poem/Filmpoem in time for COP26. Write a line, send it in, I'll curate a finished work. What matters? What do you notice, care about? Find out how at
#PeoplesPoem
#D
ànNanDaoine
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Twitter, can you recommend any books about LOOKING? At landscapes, art? Don't quite know what I mean. I know J Berger's work, but - anything else? Nothing to offer in return except some lichen. Thanks.
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There is something uniquely cold and shrivelling about closing down libraries.
Closing libraries is a retrograde step - in Scotland, a country so proud of its education and literature - we should be opening them!
A poem by Dylan Thomas:
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Brilliant times working with some fine brave writers. Expect whelks, mountains, eagles, nuclear waste, islands, ravens, tenements, wasps. The living Scotland.
.
@canongatebooks
will publish “the first ever modern collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape”, curated by
@KathleenJamie
:
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Brexit Day in Edinburgh - a poem-thread
#LeaveALightOnForScotland
From the top deck of the No.5 bus
a thin banner of blue
suddenly becomes visible
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Out today! *Thank you* to all the advance readers, to all who have had kind things to say. We carry on.
“You are not lost, just melodramatic. The path is at your feet, see? Now carry on.” Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie is OUT tomorrow. A call to heed and take stock. The perfect read for these parlous times.
#SurfacingKJ
@KathleenJamie
@JennyBrownBooks
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Some things endure. Poetry, love, standing stones. Home now, doffed, and ready to begin. Thank you again.
And to Phil for the photos, and for 25 years.
@ByLeavesWeLive
@NicolaSturgeon
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Excellent News!
There she goes, the blue hare
bounding up Snow Mountain
in her white coat like a doctor's
curing what exactly?
Snow-puffs at her heels
as she leaves us standing...
We've done it! The Scottish Parliament have decided that Mountain Hares are now to receive protected status - effectively ending unnecessary mass culls and the sport shooting of them
That's one part of the circle of destruction of grouse moors broken
Fantastic news!
#OurMoors
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Best project ever. All I did was ask 21 writers and 2 visual artists. It was a joy to work with them. Plus the barnacles, deer, puffins, foxgloves, pigeons, wind turbines, sea-eagles, hills and windowsills...
The brainchild of the peerless
@KathleenJamie
, Antlers of Water is the first collection of contemp Scottish writing on nature & landscape. Finished copies just in and
#Inkyfresh
. Published August
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Is extraordinary that this much-loved prize is only seven years old. And has now doubled itself, because the scene is so vibrant. 15 years ago UK nature writing was all but extinct.
We're so excited to reveal the longlist for UK Nature Writing! Congratulations to our thirteen longlisted authors!
#WainwrightPrize
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The Guardian view on: poetry in a pandemic | Editorial
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Climate. Scotland. Action. Writing. Announcing Paperboats: a website, a zine, actions in the real and beautiful world. Please follow, please join. More later today. We will rise!
@paperboatswrite
Launching soon... Paperboats is a collective of writers focussed on nature and environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. We are Scotland based and global in outlook. We write to affirm the astonishing diversity of lives on this planet and tell their stories.
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Schiehallion in the best company. Wind and hail and rainbows. Paused half way down to offer a wee libation to the fairies. Tomorrow, a new decade opens.
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By John Burnside. Click for full poem.
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Here’s A today, prepping for her post-grad degree viva. (Note Nansen’s kayak on the wall!) Beloved family member with biology/vet skills much needed in UK. Can she join her partner here (our son)? No. She can’t. No £38kpa, no visa.
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I’d like you to help with my first project as Makar
We’re creating a collaborative national nature poem, in time for the COP26 Climate Change conference in Glasgow
Join in, all details here;
#PeoplesPoem
#D
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Radio gorgeousness. Lose yourself in an ancient Scottish woodland with oaks and moths, fungi, ecologists, music and a special radio-poem by myself. Now up on BBC Sounds.
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Burns is considered one of the first eco-poets.
The practise has come a long way, but poetry's ability to speak both to and as natural things remains a vital strength, especially in these times of environmental emergency.
His ‘A Mountain Daisy’:
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Listen to 'Secrets of Scottish Rainforests', for mossy old oaks, poetry, fungi, lichens!
Featuring ecologist Alastair Firth, RSPB’s Izzy Baker, music by Erland Cooper and Alice Boyd and my new radio poem ‘The Green Room’.
Radio 3, May 28, 18.45.
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A city the size of Glasgow without a book festival?
🚨 Exclusive: Glasgow’s long-running Aye Write book festival has been called off this year after the event was turned down for Creative Scotland funding. 🚨
@TheScotsman
@scotsman_arts
@AyeWrite
@CreativeScots
@glasgowlife
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Thank you
@philipwhale
Praise indeed. Looking forward to publication in June.
I love it when poets write non-fiction; it blows all those restrictions out of the water
and no one does it like Kathleen Jamie
@KathleenJamie
@SortofBooks
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#writersrebel
Serious question folks: Do we need to start re-thinking the much-loved international book festivals, with writers flying in from hither and yon?
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Really? REALLY?? We start alone, feeling our way. Writers, artists, composers. From an idea, a groping in the dark, a little funding comes huge success. This is
@CreativeScots
and
@scotgov
at their worst.
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Chuffed...
@highlandbook1
are delighted to be able to reveal the books on the shortlist for the 2019 Highland Book Prize. They are: The Frayed Atlantic Edge by
@david_gange
, Surfacing by
@KathleenJamie
, Spring by Ali Smith and Moder Dy by
@DrRosebland
. Congratulations to all!
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Wonderful when someone *gets your work. Huge thanks to Carol Rumens.
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Friends outwith Scotland, please understand. Scottish independence will be the most almighty axe-blow to the beanstalk which holds up the UK ogres of inequality, disdain, greed. Support us! x
For the first time now the Declaration is being opened up to everyone, a new Covenant for the 21st Century. [please sign and share - thanks] Go here to sign it:
@PeterArnottGlas
@cocteautriplets
@stewartbremner
@AlexBoyd
@thoughtland
@MJMcFadyen
#Declare
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Short 🧵Back in Bergen's haunting (haunted?) WhaleHall for the first time in 12 years. The huge old sombre skeletons have been cleaned and re-hung. There's a newcomer too, the first whale admitted in 100 years, a Sowerby's Beaked Whale. Hunted? No...
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GMB teaches us about place, imagination, compassion, identity, and time, all with a flawless ear for language.
George Mackay Brown, born 100 years ago today. Poet, dramatist, writer, he had a worldwide reputation though hardly left his native Orkney. 'There are stories in the air here. If I lived to be 500, there would still be more to write.'
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Dare we propose that in heedless times, simply paying heed becomes part of the alternative?
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'Roses' for mothers and daughters. Today and every day. Please click.
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Amazing. 15 years ago you could barely find a UK book which foregrounded the natural world, by anyone. What a turnaround.
As a consistently generous bunch of people, could we ask for your help spreading the word about the new Nan Shepherd Prize?
We’re seeking writers underrepresented in nature writing and offering a £10k book deal, mentoring and literary representation. Follow
@nanprize
for more.
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In the cold mirk, oystercatchers moving upriver - first sign of spring.
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From lines submitted, we've made a Scottish People's Address to World Leaders. Fellow poet Niall Campbell joined me for an inaugural reading at
@PTBOpoetry
. The poem will be launched on Friday, St Andrew's Day.
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The People’s Nature Poem is on its way and it’s beautiful. I’ll be making a proper announcement tomorrow.
Meanwhile, here’s my dog getting in on the act.
#PeoplesPoem
#D
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A boxful of this bonny book has just arrived. English, Scots and Gaelic, with a wee bit Latin. Mountains, mills, saints, sinners, love and loss and crows that talk. Launch next month.
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Can the Home Office justify this? Refusing Moroccan poet entry to UK for a poetry festival?
We are sorry to announce that Soukaina Habiballah will no longer join us in person at StAnza 2024, having been refused entry to the UK by the Home Office. Please read Artistic Director Ryan Van Winkle's full statement:
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with my dear-god-I-hate-being-photographed face
Surfacing by
@KathleenJamie
is the
@BBCRadio4
Book of the Week all this week. If you are enjoying it, Kathleen will be opening the festival this year on 12th March with James Robertson, supported by The Tannahill Fund
@UofGlasgow
- tickets here:
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We went down to Holyrood! A
@paperboatswrite
climate action, with choir led by
@IAMKP
and
@stephendeazley
. Poems, songs and origami for a swift and just transition. We need cross-party action, and we need it now.
Scotland's Makar
@KathleenJamie
spoke to the SPL about the
@paperboatswrite
collective and the
#ClimateAction
they held at the Scottish Parliament today.
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Will I ding a wee
provincial bell
and jump off? I will not.
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Our people’s nature poem will premiere online tomorrow in the form of a triptych of beautiful film-poems
We’re calling it ‘The Life Breath Songs’
The films are to mark COP26, but this is just a beginning
Friday 5th 12.30 here:
#PeoplesPoem
#D
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The late Barry Lopez introduced me to the Arctic via his generous, animal-aware non-fiction. This weekend I wrote about a wonderful exhibition about imagination, resilience and human making.
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Well that's cheered me, this driech day. Thank you.
Surfacing in all bookshops and Scottish BOTM
@Waterstones
this “astonishing work” which “draws past, present and future together” is OUT in pbk NOW
@KathleenJamie
#SurfacingKJ
@ProfileBooks
@nature
@historicscotland
@agentjenny
@highlandbook1
@wainwrightprize
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Oof. To exist in our own chosen words. Or why (women's) writing matters.
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Go, Antlers! Out into the wide world.
Stags, wasps, eagles & barnacles await you. Islands & rivers. We invite you to read not as a passive recipient but as an active participant in this vital work, noticing.
Antlers of Water, Writing on the Nature & Environment of Scotland, edited by
@KathleenJamie
, published today.
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Scotland’s disgrace.
NO PROSECUTION for shot raptors found on Millden Estate in the Angus Glens. Details in blog ⬇️
Where's that grouse moor licensing scheme,
@NicolaSturgeon
@MairiGougeon
@MairiMcAllan
@lornaslater
?
📸
@townsendoutdoor
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A joy to be shortlisted along with these talented, generous compañeros. Huge thanks to the judges and organisers. Oh to be in Ullapool!
And the result is in. The winner of the 2019 Highland Book Prize
@highlandbook1
is everyone!
Huge congratulations from Ullapool Book Festival to
@david_gange
@KathleenJamie
Ali Smith and Roseanne Watt
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Och, let's not bother with an interview, lets just blether about whales, gannets and the moon.
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At last, this week, after so much work and pressure,
@Scotparl
might just legislate to tackle Scotland's disgrace: raptor persecution. Let's do it.
This week,
@ScotParl
will debate the Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill. This is a chance to tackle raptor persecution - the illegal killing of birds of prey. Our Head of Land and Species Duncan Orr Ewing explains more in this video.
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I've been haunted by that old word 'shrieve' ever since recording this. 'To hear a confession from and give absolution to'. Fitting for the day, the times. We appall ourselves. Our leaders rampage on.
today's international sermon
comes from the sublime Scottish poet
@KathleenJamie
'O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!'
art from Rhode Island's Martin Smick
+ commentary by our sea-faring Californian, Colin Dewey
@SortofBooks
@risd
@MelvilleSociety
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So, another outraged email to Roseanne Cunningham, environment minister. Twitter handle
@strathearnrose
'Strathearn' means 'vale of the eagles'. Is she having a laugh? Just ban driven grouse shooting, that's all.
POISONED SEA EAGLE found on grouse moor in Cairngorms National Park.
There can be no coming back from this.
The driven grouse shooting industry is finished.
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We’re making a poem letter to Ukraine, from Scotland
Please, send me a single line of poetry. I’ll assemble submissions into a finished work
It will be a message of fellowship and affinity with the people of Ukraine
Please share
Details
@ByLeavesWeLive
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Retweeting again with comment. We need good news, and here is some. Many congratulations to those who fought so hard and so well.
BREAKING NEWS: Coul Links planning permission REFUSED by
@ScotGovPlanning
. THANK YOU to everyone who raised their voice to
#SaveCoulLinks
. Read our response here
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First drawing lesson ever. Loved it. Tulips ‘living into their own death’.
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Such a brilliant longlist! I'm well chuffed. And those beautiful bookcovers.
@highlandbook1
are delighted to be able to reveal the books selected for the Highland Book Prize Long List, 2019. Congratulations to all of our featured authors. See the full list on the website:
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Thank you, NYTimes
.
@NYTimesbooks
recommends SURFACING by
@KathleenJamie
: "Make[s] you feel so lost that you gaze up in surprise that you’re still in your living room... splendid."
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Imagine a country which is open and democratic, which hosts no nuclear weapons, which cares for its natural environment, scrutinises land ownership, espouses kindness and neighbourliness....
🖼50 cultural figures have united to publish a "manifesto for independence" – a prospectus of “guiding principles” on independence for Scotland.
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Hallelujah -
@Thisis_Rigged
understands that climate action/ environmentalism is not a middle class hobby but right in the tradition of Scottish radicalism. Now we're getting somewhere.
NAE LAIRDS NAE MASTERS: THIS IS RIGGED SPRAY PAINT PORTRAIT OF KING CHARLES III
Two people with This Is Rigged have sprayed the words "the people are mightier than a lord", the slogan of the Highland Land League, on a painting of King Charles III 🎨
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Liz Lochead made it possible to imagine being a poet.
Liz Lochhead's debut collection Memo for Spring offered 'a voice so fresh and relevant that it broke new ground, paving the way for the likes of Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Kathleen Jamie and Carol Ann Duffy.' Read a fascinating interview in the
@Sunday_Post
:
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Oh my!
G U A R D I A N
A pair of ‘Guardian Heads’ which will watch over and hold the words of
@KathleenJamie
forthcoming book with
@FinePress
I have carved 12 woodcuts,each work alongside one poem and then culminate and converse inside the heads.
Fluent speakers of ‘nature dialect’.
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From the Hebrides to Tokyo. My essay 'On Rona' becomes a piece of Noh Theatre, with musicians Aidan O'Rourke and Brighde Chaimbeul. I can't quite believe it myself!
In Tokyo working on this project with
@brichaimbeul
+ Noh theatre wonders +
@KathleenJamie
’s peerless words.
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Change, change. Here's to a better 'normal'.
Change, change — that’s what the terns scream
down at their seaward rocks;
fleet clouds and salt kiss —
everything else is provisional,
us and all our works.
from “Fianuis” by
@KathleenJamie
#EarthDay2020
#poetry
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Thank you! Now staring out the window at the mirk and wondering what to do next...
Dear
@KathleenJamie
- thank you. Absolutely wonderful Christmas present to me from me! And to everyone else - read it. You will not be disappointed. Magical writing.
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Meet The Life Breath Songs
The first iteration of our People's Poem for nature
Here's an extract, please view all three films here:
#PeoplesPoem
#D
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SUPER CONGRATULATIONS to Jen Hadfield!! For her personally, and to have a Scottish poet recognised in this way. Just brilliant.
Isn't life wild? Thank you
@WindhamCampbell
... with all my heart ... and congratulations to the other recipients 💚
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It was found up the coast, dying of plastic. The bags are also displayed, next to the creature's bones. We quit using whalebone corsets, no-one misses them. Maybe we can quit with the plastic bags?
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Blimey.
Every once in a while a book appears that we know is special, transformative in subtle ways, that will endure. This is Surfacing by
@KathleenJamie
, a book of quiet penetration, spanning millennia, out on 19th Sept. Here’s five reasons we think so...
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A cold sleet outside, a day to stay in and read the poems of the wonderful WS Merwin, who has died. I keep 'Visitation' pinned to my board:
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Winter Solstice at Newgrange 2020;original_referer= Midwinter dawn livestreamed from Newgrange! Today, tomorrow, Tuesday 8.45am. Happy Solstice. How we need it.
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Douglas is so right. When it comes to literature, comparing the Irish attitude to the Scottish is heartbreaking.
In the past year, I’ve sat through many interviews asking about the surge of great Irish writing. And while Irish writers are GREAT, it's also clear to me that Ireland understands that culture, people, & literature are her strength and they fund it like they mean it...
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Add to this the abject lack of poetry and literature. Phone-ins, chat and fitba is what passes for a national culture.
The BBC are axing Classics Unwrapped, Jazz Nights (hosted by the amazing Seonaid Aitken) and Pipeline from BBC Radio Scotland’s programming. BBC have made no official press release. This is a HUGE loss for Scotland, the public, and our musical communities.
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Precious cargo, set to sail on the morning tide. Poetry and bookart double bill with
@PaperHazell
@PTBOpoetry
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A note about the late John Burnside, for the New Statesman.
John Burnside’s poems acted on one like a drug, a substance in the bloodstream. One would struggle to say what they were “about”. Rather, one might emerge blinking and wondering, “Where have I just been?”
By
@KathleenJamie
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For our strange days, I offer 'Tree on the Hill'. Thank you.
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I am longing to see the sea again.
Whales, octopuses, salt, sea and barnacles. Here are (quite) a few of our favourite ocean pages for
#WorldOceansDay
.
The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson
Sightlines,
@KathleenJamie
Whale Fall,
@rebeccagiggs
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Yes! Here it comes, early this year: the 'warm thick slobber', the 'jellied specks'.
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@j_amesmarriott
Can I mention my own? 'Surfacing' Sept 2019 from Sort Of Books. Third in the loose trilogy after 'Findings' and 'Sighlines'. Essays, prose poems - nature, culture, time and memory.
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Here's a wee film, with love from Scotland to the world.
We’ve made a film to celebrate the strength and breadth of nature writing in Scotland today, features
@KathleenJamie
, Jim Crumley,
@Chitgrrl
,
@shaetlan_rose
,
@gavinfranc
& presented by
@Jdcrawf
.
Second Nature: new nature writing from Scotland via
@YouTube
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Old women alert! First snowdrop spotted yesterday -
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To think there are flounders out there even now, in the dark, living their lives, and they care nothing for us.
@NewStatesman
@Aiannucci
@BernardineEvari
@tracey_thorn
@HelenJMacdonald
@amateuradam
@LennyHenry
@suzanne_moore
@mmegannnolan
@johnypitts
@KitdeWaal
@jonathancoe
@FictionAtelier
@gerrylb
@philipcball
@HendinArts
...and here's the NS Poem by
@KathleenJamie
- a secret message to flounders everywhere
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Love to anyone in Glasgow intending to protest Rosebank oil field today. Extreme weather means no travel for the rest of us. Oh the irony.
@paperboatswrite
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Looking forward to this -
‘This marvel of a book’
@GuardianBooks
‘Jamie reduces the essay form to its essence’
@NewStatesman
. Praise is being heaped on Cairn. Come to
@LRBbookshop
next Thursday evening to hear
@KathleenJamie
discuss
#Cairn
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First garden hedgehog of the year! Under the gnarly plum trees. No photo, you'll just have to imagine. (Seriously, if you photograph night creatures with flash, does it hurt their eyes?)
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Aw, thank you Amy! Whales, gannets and the moon for Prime Minister!
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Had enough now.
‘Demand your politicians tell you where they stand on climate change.’
We know where you stand - at your peril
@RishiSunak
Ignore us and
#WeWillRise
Use your vote wisely & Demand Change. Demand action on
#Climate
#Paperboat
from ‘How to Save Our Planet’ by
@ProfMarkMaslin
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