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Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 13d

Labelled for nudity because you will see Adam and Eve by Peter Paul Rubens in this video and a nude by Thomas Eakins

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Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 13d

Penguin Classics
Yeah
So big
There’s room for a picture on the side
Classics!

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Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 14d

“A Falling Down for the tech bro age, buy one of our finest and most challenging novelists”

IAN RANKIN

Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 14d

I did not know you were at art college! Great move. Very best with it ✨✨

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Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 16d

I applaud! Have you more overall energy? And more critically has there been any effect on your writing output and habits?

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Emma Grae @emmagraeauthor.bsky.social · 19d

Help a lassie and the Scots leid oot and preorder ma buik fur bairns aboot a black moggie!

#OorMoggies @luathpress.bsky.social

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Aron Smith @bruthavoodoo.bsky.social · 19d

On Geek Grotto this week, I discuss the reveals coming out of Transformers Day, Fortnite Vs Roblox and spotlight Flim-Flam in Obscure Character Corner! Tune in at 2pm every Saturday on SHMUFM: DAB & 99.8FM in Aberdeen, online at www.shmu.org.uk or via your smart speaker.  #Radio #Geeky #Aberdeen

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Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 18d

Many an evening out in Edinburgh contemplating Vogon Poetry! Have you tried the BBC Radio series of the HHGTTG? Think it’s on YouTube.

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Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 20d

An annual highlight is upon us once again!

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20d

#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit

New Writing Scotland Submission Manager

New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 21d

A #poem for #NationalFoxDay! 🦊
#fox #poetry

Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX

see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen

A page from a book, printed in a red-brown ink. The top left contains a stylised papercut picture of a slightly scrawny, scraggly-looking fox. Beneath it is the text of the poem, “Fox’, by Ian Hamilton Finlay, published in GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961):

see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen

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Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 20d

Hmm interesting thanks Stewart

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 21d

On Saturday 27th September, please join @sashadugdale.bsky.social will be at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, where she will be reading from some of her work.

The event is free to attend, but for more information see here:⬇️
poetsandplayers.co/2025/09/04/s...

Sasha Dugdale, Louise Machen with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang: 27 September 2025

Please join us on Saturday 27 September 2025, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. You will find all the information you need re…

poetsandplayers.co

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Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social · 21d

Fascist Yoga feature from Spanish newspaper El Pais is now also available in English translation on their website. english.elpais.com/eps/2025-09-...

The Nazi pose: How modern yoga is linked to the far right

Writer, filmmaker, and activist Stewart Home, one of the most prominent figures of the British counterculture, explains this relationship in his latest book, ‘Fascist Yoga’

english.elpais.com

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 20d

Caithness is where devolution does not work. What we see here in operation, in relation to renewable energy, is the least expensive option and the shortcuts taken in order to achieve it. It is short-sightedness almost to the point of blindness. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/17/t...

Things are done to us, not by us

THINGS ARE DONE TO US, NOT BY US: From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn Things are done to us, not by us. In the former Town Hall building in Thurso is housed the uninspiringly named North Co…

bellacaledonia.org.uk

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 21d

Things are done to us, not by us bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/17/t...

Things are done to us, not by us

THINGS ARE DONE TO US, NOT BY US: From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn Things are done to us, not by us. In the former Town Hall building in Thurso is housed the uninspiringly named North Co…

bellacaledonia.org.uk

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Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 22d

Times like these we could use Sandy Christie

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Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 22d

Could do with seeing Sandy Christie again.

Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 26d

💕 Martin Bennett

Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 28d

Scottish Cultural Pioneers: The Importance of Martyn Bennett by Alan McClure bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/10/s...

Scottish Cultural Pioneers: The Importance of Martyn Bennett

Review of Brave New Music: The Martyn Bennett Story, Gary West, Luath Press £20. Alan McClure Gary West’s portrait of one of Scotland’s most enigmatic and influential artists comes at a welcome tim…

bellacaledonia.org.uk

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Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social · 28d

The number of lobbyists who are related to British MPs has risen 18 per cent since last year, with agencies such as Cavendish, SEC Newgate, Hanover and Flint Global having close connections to Westminster, PRWeek can reveal. web.archive.org/web/20250910...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27d

The longlists for the Saltires – Scotland’s national book awards for non-fiction, fiction, poetry, & research – have been announced.
www.thesaltires.org.uk

Scotland's National Book Awards - The Saltires

www.thesaltires.org.uk

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Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social · 27d

TANKtv interview with me about my book Fascist Yoga - edited down by the magazine to a short form piece from much longer answers. archive.ph/Pnqsz

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Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 28d

Our friends at Literature Alliance Scotland have opened applications to the pilot programme, To Be Continued.
Have a look and see if this could help you or send to someone who might also benefit.
Applications close Friday 3 October 2025. literaturealliancescotland.co.uk/to-be-contin...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Sep 8

“SANGSCHAW… gave other writers permission to push the boundaries of Scots as a language of literature, capable of expressing deep thought and not just for light comedy or mawkish whimsy”

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first book
www.thenational.scot/culture/2543...

Why Hugh MacDiarmid's first book of poem in Scots is so important

A DRAMATIC reading of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first book will take place exactly 100 years on from the very day of its publication, in the town where it…

www.thenational.scot

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Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · Sep 8

Pre-orders are now open for Memory and Magic, the debut novel of American author D. M. Beucler - stunning cover created by the amazing Tara Bush! Out Oct 7, 2025. www.lunapresspublishing.com/novels @dmbeucler.bsky.social @tarabush.bsky.social #romantasy #debut2025 #booksfromscotland #bloodmagic

Things About Writing as a Parent #6
By D. M. Beucler
My kids inspire me.
They've both been part of my drive to publish and constantly showing me situations that I would never have thought of, not always with the calmest outcomes.

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Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social · 29d

Nobody does it better than @stewarthome.bsky.social

Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social · 29d

Demonstrating my headstand reading stunt during a Q&A with @akhtarsascha.bsky.social about my book Fascist Yoga at the Colony Rooms in central London last night.

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