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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Jan 15

A gift to have this peedie #poem honoured in The Scotsman. These lines are themselves an honouring of tenderness, shown to me at a time of personal devastation. The poem & some notes about what inspired its becoming feature on the lucent 'Raising the Fifth' too raisingthefifth.co.uk/little-stabs...

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 28d

Amazed & delighted to be on the longlist for *The Saltire Society’s National Book Awards* in the #Poetry category, debut section. Congratulations to all of the wonderous writers who have been listed & immense thanks to the whole more-than-a-village of folk who've helped raise these poems 💖

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Sep 8

North North folk & people travelling in #Sutherland & #Caithness & friends Join me & Nadine Malcom & Lee McNeish of *Common Ground* at Melness Hall, Saturday 20 September, 2pm. #Poetry #stories imagining more possible futures. Free. Hope & cake galore. See image for details 👇

Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you, dearest encouragers 💚

Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Sep 1

Kathleen Madigan's * #Poetry Now * podcast on #Highland Hospital Radio is a gem. Engaging; thoughtful, healing. Featured poets include @johnglenday.bsky.social Pàdraig MacAoidh / Peter Mackay, Lydia Harris, Leonie Charlton. I've managed to stow away in there too. hhr.scot/show/hhr-sho...

Poetry Now - Highland Hospital Radio

Conversations with poets and writers in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and beyond.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Sep 1

peerie wife 🥹

Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Sep 1

😅 I can't begin to tell you how seen I feel 💖

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Sep 1

What a treat to have won the McLellan #Poetry Prize. Thanks to judge Jim Carruth, Arran Theatre & Arts Trust & the whole ecology of poets - encouragers; editors; mentors, dearest peers. My grateful poem is here www.arrantheatreandarts.co.uk/_files/ugd/a...

@asls.org.uk @byleaveswelive.bsky.social

www.arrantheatreandarts.co.uk

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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · Jul 18

“If we don’t explore the past, then how can we understand the journey that has brought us to where we are? This too – tracing the route – is a form of recovery.”

~ James Robertson (2025)
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@asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social @scottishpen.bsky.social

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jul 29

A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles
Alone in the gaunt reedbed –
Tiny silversmith
Working late in the evening…

—Norman MacCaig, “July evening”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)
#poetry #poem
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July evening
Norman MacCaig

A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles
Alone in the gaunt reedbed –
Tiny silversmith
Working late in the evening.

I sit and listen. The rooftop
With a quill of smoke stuck in it
Wavers against the sky
In the dreamy heat of summer.

Flowers’ closing time: bee lurches
Across the hayfield, singing
And feeling its drunken way
Round the air’s invisible corners.

And grass is grace. And charlock
Is gold of its own bounty.
The broken chair by the wall
Is one with immortal landscapes.

Something has been completed
That everything is part of,
Something that will go on
Being completed forever.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Jul 29

It's an honour & a beautiful thing to have been invited to become *Poet in Residence* for the @insuhi.bsky.social this place of learning; research & its people, so dear to me & immensely formative in my writing of poetry in & of the Highlands & Islands www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...

Research - Poet in Residence

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Jul 2

Join us, five Highlands & Islands originated/oriented poets for an evening of live #poetry readings & music at @atandmt.bsky.social #Tobermory #Mull Thursday 10 July, 7pm. We'd love to see you there. Click 👇 for details.

@asls.org.uk

www.antobarandmulltheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ec2...

SHIPS: Live Poetry & Music — An Tobar and Mull Theatre

Join five acclaimed poets—Sharon Black, Leonie Charlton, Juliet Antill, Jon Miller, and Cait O'Neill McCullagh—for a special evening of live poetry.

www.antobarandmulltheatre.co.uk

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Jul 2

Oh this is so good, and so necessary 👇

The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social · May 5

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Jun 30

Join us, five poets setting ashore: Saturday 5 July, 7pm, in #Strontian for new #poems, conviviality, music, book signing & for free.

Come North, come West, sail the Whale Road; we'd love to see you 💚

@byleaveswelive.bsky.social @asls.org.uk

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Jun 24

A gem from James Wright, uncovered by @johnglenday.bsky.social who always shares such wondrous poems - Blue Sky highlights!

John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thanks to dear poet @taylor-strickland.bsky.social for this deeply engaged & engaging 'Bottle Imp' review of my debut #poetry collection 'The Bone Folder'. It's a privilege to get a glimpse of how some of those set-adrift lines are landing. www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/the-... #newbooks #poems

‘The Bone Folder’, by Cáit O’Neill McCullagh - The Bottle Imp

In the seventeenth century, Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty wielded an explosive polyglottal prose that, at times, lapsed into manly pretensions. In the twentieth century, MacDiarmid’s synthetic Scots...

www.thebottleimp.org.uk

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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · May 7

🎤 NEW PODCAST!

The latest Nothing But The Poem podcast is a Norman MacCaig special. @samueltongue.bsky.social takes a deep dive into two of the most famous poems by one of Scotland's most beloved poets to see what lay beneath the bonnet.

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...

Nothing But The Poem - Norman MacCaig

In this episode of Nothing But The Poem podcast, our usual host Samuel Tongue goes in deep on two weel kent poems by Norman MacCaig, one of Scotland’s most loved and influential poets. Norman MacCaig ...

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Jun 11

Join me:Thursday 12 June, 2-3pm, for a free online Shared #Reading hour. We'll look at work by POC, LGBT+ writers & writers with disabilities, & work in translation, in this gentle, guided session. Click below to register. It will be lovely to see you there. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/off-the-be...

Off the Beaten Track Shared Reading on Zoom

Get Off the Beaten Track with Shared Reading on Zoom

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · May 29

I didn’t expect to see my face and poem at the reception desk of Inverness Central Library this evening.

A fine evening listening to poetry and song hosted by the ever joyous @kittyjomac.bsky.social

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · May 18

Join me on 22 May, 2pm (BST) for an hour of Shared Reading, online. We'll be exploring work by POC, LGBT+ & disabled writers, as well as work in translation, in this gentle, guided session; part of the programme offered by @openbookreading.bsky.social 📖

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/off-the-be...

Off the Beaten Track Shared Reading on Zoom

Get Off the Beaten Track with Shared Reading on Zoom

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · May 7

This will be a luminous week ✨ with outstanding guides @marjorielotfi.bsky.social & @niallpoetry.bsky.social & all the goodness of Galloway leaning into us. For all who are in the practice of #writing, of #poems #Retreat, Galloway House, 14-19 September. Click below for more details & booking 👇

Marjorie Lotfi @marjorielotfi.bsky.social · Apr 8

We're thrilled that poet Niall Campbell is joining us at Galloway House Estate for our 14-19th September 2025 retreat. The retreat is fully-catered, with massage and yoga also available.

More info: marjorielotfi.com/writing-retr...). DM or email via my website w/ questions or to reserve a place.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · May 7

Oh this is devastating beautiful. It reached into me Laura.

Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · May 7

I love John Burnside's often & often use of this word; 'creaturely', it's earliest finding being in the mid-seventeeth century ... and now so right for this moment of necessary reckoning with ourselves; with what has been, but must now be over.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · May 7

It's an honour to have my wee poem 'Return' featured alongside the tender writing of Tom Murray in this month's Open Book Podcast, with the luminous @marjorielotfi.bsky.social & @claireurquhart.bsky.social ✨ soundcloud.com/openbookun..... The poem: openbookreading.com/wp-content/u...

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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · Apr 17

After Whistler by Lisel Mueller.
Perhaps based on Symphony in White No. 1?

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · Apr 13

Here's a look at the next #NorthSeaPoets webinars 🧑‍💻

Get all the details and book at northseapoets.com/events 🌊

#PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

A description of the next North Sea Poets webinars.

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