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Colin Bramwell
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Writer fae the Black Isle.
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Beyond with Colin Bramwell and Gerda Stevenson
17 June, online – pay what you can

@brambrella.bsky.social & Gerda Stevenson will read and discuss poems from BEYOND, the second & last English-language poetry collection by the late Aonghas MacNeacail
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2594 Online Highland Book Prize Event: Beyond with Colin Bramwell and Gerda Stevenson - Moniack Mhor
In this special Highland Book Prize 2024 longlist event, Colin Bramwell and Gerda Stevenson will read and discuss poems from Beyond, the last English-language collection by the late Aonghas MacNeacail...
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June 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Out now - a special Irish Pages on Scotland. Why Irish? Why have we no such journal of our own? 10 years since the referendum, we take stock. Cultural memory and (thanks be) new poets. irishpages.org/product/vol-...
Vol. 12 No. 2: Scotland – The Irish Pages Press
Ten years after the Independence Referendum, Irish Pages asks diverse Scottish writers of distinction – established, mid-career and new – to think about their country, and take stock of the current st...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Celebrating the 2024 Highland Book Prize Longlist
14 May, Toppings & Co. Booksellers, St Andrews
£10/£8, redeemable against featured books

3 poets – @brambrella.bsky.social, @niallpoetry.bsky.social, & Gerda Stevenson – celebrate 2 exceptional collections
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Celebrating the 2024 Highland Book Prize Longlist at Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews
www.toppingbooks.co.uk
May 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
brambrella.bsky.social
Some very kind words on Fower Pessoas from Paul Malgrati.
paulmalgrati.bsky.social Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social · Apr 13
Finally took the time to read Colin Bramwell´s brilliant Scots translation of the great Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. Stuart Kelly called it a ‘modern Scots language masterpiece’ in The Scotsman: this isn’t an exaggeration.

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April 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Finally took the time to read Colin Bramwell´s brilliant Scots translation of the great Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. Stuart Kelly called it a ‘modern Scots language masterpiece’ in The Scotsman: this isn’t an exaggeration.

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April 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Blown away by this review of Fower Pessoas from Stuart Kelly.
carcanet.bsky.social Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · Apr 3
‘Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be. … What is exceptional is that Bramwell fashions distinct Scots for Pessoa’s different heteronyms. The chutzpah is amazing.’

Stuart Kelly on brambrella.bsky.social, for @scotsman.com: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
Poetry round-up: Colin Bramwell | Charles Lang | Andrés Ordorica | Erica McAlpine
Stuart Kelly reviews four recent poetry releases, starting with Colin Bramwell’s “trans-culturations” of the work of Fernando Pessoa
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April 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
brambrella.bsky.social
Heartening to see the general reaction to this poem from my latest: thanks to The Scotsman for selecting it as their poem of the week.
carcanet.bsky.social Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · Apr 2
‘The poem here closes Bramwell’s new collection Fower Pessoas ... which could soon be considered a modern Scots language masterpiece.’

Lovely to see this poem by @brambrella.bsky.social as the Poem of the Week in @scotsman.com!
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See the Fields Colin Bramwell/Ricardo Reis/Fernando Pessoa See the fields, Neera— green. Wonder if the day’ll come whun I canna see thaim onymair. The mair I think aboot that, the hivvier the cluds git. Hivvier the cluds, less regal, less green, the fields. Ach! Neera, leave the future tae the future. Whit isna noo doesna exist fur the likes ae us. Oan days like this thirs nothin but green fields, blue skies abune. Neera, lat this be the hail warld.
April 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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What's all that about the cruellest month?! We don't think so! April kicks off with a brilliant poetry launch party in #Edinburgh this Friday feat. three exceptional poets: Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social, Patrick Romero McCafferty & Charles Lang! Join us!
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April 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Couldn't make it to one of our launches of The Oasis in March? We've got you covered! Charles will be on tour across Scotland and Ireland in April. Join us in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Galway, Cork or Paisley for festival events, readings, conversations and more —see you there! 📙 #books #poetry
March 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Had I been less prepared, I would have left
in springtime, when the plum tree in the yard
was still in bloom,
the windows open after months of snow,
one magpie in the road
and then another…

—John Burnside, “The Night Ferry”
published in the @lrb.co.uk, December 2020
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The Night Ferry John Burnside Had I been less prepared, I would have left in springtime, when the plum tree in the yard was still in bloom, the windows open after months of snow, one magpie in the road and then another. I could have slipped away, late afternoon, while everyone was busy somewhere else, the fish van at the corner, children dawdling home from school in twos and threes, a porch light lit against the dusk on Tollbooth Wynd. Give me these years again and I will spend them wisely. Done with the compass; done, now, with the chart. The ferry at the dock, lit stern to prow, the next life like a footfall in my heart.
March 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Somewhere along this street, unknown to me,
behind a maze of apple trees and stars,
he rises in the small hours, finds a book…

—John Burnside, “The Good Neighbour”
THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR (Cape, 2005)

Hear John Burnside read this poem on @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social
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The Good Neighbour John Burnside Somewhere along this street, unknown to me, behind a maze of apple trees and stars, he rises in the small hours, finds a book and settles at a window or a desk to see the morning in, alone for once, unnamed, unburdened, happy in himself. I don’t know who he is; I’ve never met him walking to the fish-house, or the bank, and yet I think of him, on nights like these, waking alone in my own house, my other neighbours quiet in their beds, like drowsing flies. He watches what I watch, tastes what I taste: on winter nights, the snow; in summer, sky. He listens for the bird lines in the clouds and, like that ghost companion in the old explorers’ tales, that phantom in the sleet, fifth in a party of four, he’s not quite there, but not quite inexistent, nonetheless; and when he lays his book down, checks the hour and fills a kettle, something hooded stops as cell by cell, a heartbeat at a time, my one good neighbour sets himself aside, and alters into someone I have known: a passing stranger on the road to grief, husband and father; rich man; poor man; thief.
March 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Musician Grace Stewart-Skinner recorded interviews with residents of Avoch in the Black Isle & combined these with her own musical compositions to create Auchies Spikkin’ Auchie. The Avochie dialect combines elements of Scots & Gaelic.
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The young musician aiming to preserve a Black Isle dialect
Musician Grace Stewart-Skinner is creating a music album to celebrate the fishing heritage of a Black Isle village
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March 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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“I wanted to honour Scots in a dramatic, vocal context… I’ve tried to bring Pessoa to life in that new context – to embolden his characters, reimagining them a century later, dislocating them to a context more personal to me.”

—Colin Bramwell on FOWER PESSOAS
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'Fower Pessoas' by Colin Bramwell - a Q and A with the author
“Each of us is several, is many, a profusion of selves,” wrote Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese writer. Today Carcanet Press release 'Fower Pessoas', a new collection from Colin Bramwell, which takes t...
themadridreview.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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skeinpress.bsky.social
Stoked to see ‘New Shoes’ by Charles Lang, from his brilliant #poetry collection The Oasis, featured as Poem of the Week in today’s @scotsman.com! 👟🩶

“The Oasis is the real deal”, you heard it here first! 🤫 Pick up a copy of the paper for the full poem or treat yourself to a new book today! 📚
March 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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New post 📰

Lesley Harrison writes about the launch of 'Fower Pessoas' by Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social‬

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#NorthSeaPoets #Poetry
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March 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Many thanks to Lesley Harrison of @northseapoets.bsky.social for her generous response to my Fower Pessoas. Great to see one more stack in the north sea. Theirs is well worth subscribing to - open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
March 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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New post! @kathleenjamie.bsky.social explores the place of lyric poetry in a post-lyric world ✍️

#NorthSeaPoets #PoetryCommunity
Is there a place for lyric poetry in a post-lyric world?
Kathleen Jamie
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March 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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andrewblair.co.uk
And there’s also a big bunch of spoken word stuff that I produced with @strongmisgiving.bsky.social and featuring @brambrella.bsky.social, @ryanvance.bsky.social, @smaychel.bsky.social, @tyronelewis22.bsky.social and @seanwaikeung.bsky.social among others
Poetry As Fuck
We are Poetry As F*ck. Do with that what you will.
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March 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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carcanet.bsky.social
On Wednesday 5th March at 7pm, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Fower Pessoas by Colin Bramwell. The event will be hosted by Scottish Makar Peter Mackay and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A.

Book your ticket here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nCHoh...
March 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
brambrella.bsky.social
Tonight's the night folks! Fower Pessoas Zoom launch, 7pm. I'll be reading from the book, and in conversation with Scotland's Makar, Peter Mackay. See you there!

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March 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Live online launch of @brambrella.bsky.social new book, hosted by Peter Mackay, organised by @carcanet.bsky.social Info: www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/even... #online #launch #poetry
March 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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'Pessoa’s approach is either the last word in selfishness or the opposite - generous to a fault.'

@brambrella.bsky.social interviewed about his new book Fower Pessoas, for The Madrid Review: themadridreview.com/f/fower-pess...
'Fower Pessoas' by Colin Bramwell - a Q and A with the author
“Each of us is several, is many, a profusion of selves,” wrote Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese writer. Today Carcanet Press release 'Fower Pessoas', a new collection from Colin Bramwell, which takes t...
themadridreview.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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kathleenjamie.bsky.social
North Sea Poets is live! We offer online masterclasses, webinars, workshops for poets everywhere (novice or adept) and readers, because poems sing in the dark times. Hope you'll join us. Pls see website. Do share.
northseapoets.com 🌊

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Image announcing the launch of North Sea Poets Features a sunset photo of a beach, a logo with blue waves, and the names of poets Kathleen Jamie, Niall Campbell, Karen Solie, Don Paterson, John Glenday, Lisa Brockwell, and Lesley Harrison.
March 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Posted before but time to post it again:
February 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM