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Edinburgh launch of four @DiodeBlue books on Thursday 12 November: Amy Jo Philip @ambulancebox will launch her brand-new IN(DI)VISIBLE, Flora Leask Arizpe & Eimear Bush will read from their super pamphlets, & I'm honoured that lovely @annie_brechin will read from Palomines...💖👙
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FLAME is in my new pamphlet #Palomines, alongside poems published recently in @TheLondonMag and @anthro_poetry; available now from Mr Rob at @DiodeBlue here: bluediode.co.uk/product-page… 🎪🐇🐯🎪🙏
Small piece up at the Los Angeles Review 🎪🎪🎪
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Tonight, Thurs, 7 for 7.30pm, Waverley Bar, Edinburgh. Launching a new debut poetry collection, 'Knottis' by Lindsey Shields Waters, with Alan Buckley up from Oxford for a one-off reading in Scotland from 'Still', and the excellent Colin Bramwell and Sophie Cooke. Free entry!
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This Friday 6 March, 7pm, Typewronger Books, Haddington Place (top of Leith Walk), Edinburgh - launch of Andrew Neilson's debut poetry book, 'Little Griefs' (Blue Diode Press). Annie Brechin has unfortunately had to travel south, but Medha Singh will read instead. Free entry!
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Edinburgh book launch! Details of a London one to follow. eventbrite.com/e/little-grie…
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Excellent news. Alice Willitt's Kiss My Earth (Blue Diode Press, 2025) is one of three books shortlisted in the poetry category of the East Anglian Book Awards!
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Siuthad, cuir dhan bhasgaid e… Geàrr-liosta Duais Ruaraidh MhicThòmais airson an Leabhar Bàrdachd as Fheàrr 2025
Go on, add it to the basket... The Shortlist for The Derick Thomson Prize for Best Poetry Book 2025
bit.ly/gearr-liostaichean25
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Shortlist: The Derick Thomson Prize for Best Poetry Book
Athair/Father – Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin (Francis Boutle Publishers)
Bàrdachd a’ Bhaile Mhòir – ed. Niall O’Gallagher (Blue Diode Publishing)
Govanhill Mythology/Beul-aithris Chnoc a’ Ghobhainn – Shane Johnstone (Arkbound)
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Blue Diode Press retweeted
“in the wide swathes of time,
everything will wash over us”
—Afterbody, Medha Singh @medhawrites @DiodeBlue
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Come along! Entry is free, and books will be on sale. Medha's book is £10 and the chapbooks are £7. Doors open 6.30pm, readings start sharp at 7pm.
This Thursday the always interesting @DiodeBlue have a superb quadruple chapbook/book launch event at the SPL featuring:
💥 DAVID KINLOCH
💥 JAMES APPLEBY
💥 MEDHA SINGH
💥 SOPHIE COOKE
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Blue Diode Press retweeted
I met a lot of Trumps in my industry, and I met a lot of people who called themselves “artists” then chose vanity over humanity because it bought them fame. We can live in a world without this manipulation, but we’ll have to choose to do so. Believe me, they don’t make it easy.
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Three recent books available now from bluediode.co.uk . Good Sons by Tim Craven, Recital by @MarianneMacRae , and Kiss My Earth by Alice Willitts. Info, sample poems, etc at the link. Have a look!
ALT Three books. Tim Craven's features multicoloured gravestones facing a similarly multicoloured landscape. Marianne MacRae's is a purple background with a three legged green creature inside a turquoise circle. And Alice Willitts's is an orange yellow background with a dark blue portrait of a woman with big hair and eyes and the words Kiss My Earth replacing her nose and mouth.
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Blue Diode Press retweeted
Meg's Monday Muse is all about Mothers' Day this week, with books perfect for gifting from @FaberBooks, @TheEmmaPress, @DiodeBlue and @panmacmillan. Follow the link to find out more! mailchi.mp/poetrybooksociety…
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Head over to BfS where @scotsmandavid takes a look at the First Book shortlist in this year's @Saltire_Society lit awards!
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"Wonderful lines about the sea and its landscapes." Thanks to @TheFridayPoem and Jane Routh for Okapi's first review. If you want to have, or give, a Hebridean experience for Xmas, it's here @DiodeBlue:
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Do people look at Twitter these days? London tonight, Tues 26 Nov, 6pm - showcase from the Saltire First Book of the Year Award shortlist, including Nuala Watt, whose 'The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish' (Blue Diode Press, 2024) ticketsource.co.uk/standrews…
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This Saturday, Manchester, there's a poetry bonanza! From 4-6pm, @PeterBarlowsCig features Maria Sledmere, Harriet Tarlo and Lucy Wilkinson. And then from 7pm, Olga Stehlikova, Christopher Crawford, David Gaffney and @lydiowanie, courtesy of Blue Diode Press. Links below.
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Register for the PBC event at the Carlton Club at eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-bar…
Register for the Blue Diode Press event at the Saul Hay Gallery at eventbrite.co.uk/e/blue-diod…
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Books Tour: terrific Czech poet (Olga) and Scottish poet based in Prague (Chris) reading in Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh from 9-11th November, with fabulous special guests. Come along. Free entry, books on sale. Dates and times below.
ALT Blue Diode poets launch their new books - Olga Stehlikova and Chris Crawford - readings in Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, Sat 9th Nov, 7pm; Bigglestones Books, Glassford St, Glasgow, Sun 10th Nov, 4pm; Typewronger Books, Edinburgh, Mon 11th Nov, 7pm.
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