Congratulations to @brambrella.bsky.social whose collection Fower Pessoas has been longlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize!🎉
This annual award celebrates literature that comes from the rich landscape and culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands.
Well done to Colin!🎉
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
www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2594...
www.moniackmhor.org.uk
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...
‘The poems are something-nothing spaces in which anything might happen, and they frequently end with a feeling of incipience, readying themselves for a change in the weather.’
Matthew Bevis on New York School poet James Schuyler.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It's 'Gies a Scots Poem Day 2026', in partnership @handsupfortrad.bsky.social. We've commissioned 10 poets to respond to MacDiarmid’s 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' for the poem's 100th birthday! Find the poems and videos here
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...
#Giesascotspoemsday
2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For #GiesAScotsPoemDay @brambrella.bsky.social invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...
Schuyler once told an interviewer that he didn’t write the kind of poetry that attracted critics. ‘It’s too easy...
Fower Pessoas by @brambrella.bsky.social is one of my favourite discoveries this year - nice to see it getting some prize recognition
You can read an excerpt here poems.com/poem/whit/
An honour to be shortlisted for my local book prize alongside these wonders...
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-...
This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe...
This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe...
Already shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize & the Scots Book o the Year, as well as being a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, FOWER PESSOAS by @brambrella.bsky.social has also just been shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize
www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/fower-pessoa...
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
www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...
Association for Scottish Literature
Scottish Poetry Library
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...
Shortlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize Fower Pessoas is the most original work of translation that you will read this year: a bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry by an exciting next-gen...
