Like many others, I'm off to a site where the skies are clearer and the weather brighter. We can only do what we can.

Thank you Paul. How we need readers like yourself, in the din of the world.

@UniLeedsPoetry @poetryschool @YSPsculpture Ach! Wish I could attend!

Thank you, Caught by the River. Such a good crew.

@tseliotprize

@KateMolleson @BBCFrontRow Thank you for your kind attention!

My Keelie Hawk is published today! Poems in Scots with English translations. Cover by the divinely talented Olivia Lomenech Gill. I hope you enjoy 'yon liltin melody fi the verra marches o yer sense...'

Lovely Paperboats/invite us to write haiku/rewild our tired minds

@WigtownBookFest @CreativeScots largely funded by Open Fund. Really Interesting, contemporary, fun, growing an audience. Has dispersed money to c20 guest poets already. We were planning more but...

@hinesjumpedup @joycemcm @kieran_hurley @ruth_wishart Yes and yes - bar a few quibbles. Not sure culture folk *have enjoyed that much leverage and clout - that's why we look to Ireland and gasp. And it's Scot Labour, surely who have to get thinking. What to do with a vocal & autonomous Scottish cultural sector?

@annaframe @scotgov We look to Ireland and weep.

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.

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.

@forthygreatpain Congratulations!

RT @paperboatswrite: The title poem for Issue Three of the Paperboats Zine, Ian McDonough’s stunning poem, ‘A Turn of the Sun’. Read onli…

@coal_legacies @VillagesLost @NatMiningMuseum I wish I'd known! Does Darnconner feature?

Gorgeous - thank you.

RT @paperboatswrite: One week to go! Details at: As an unfunded grassroots organisation we rely on the generosit…