An image of white crumpled sheets, above it is white text that reads “woke up i did from
shell membrane a wee shirt & wished mi that saffron shirt my people’s celebrity ”
A Sapling Grafted to Fury: Two Poems by Aonghas MacNeacail, translated from Scots Gaelic by Taylor Strickland The Beating Heart: New Celtic Writing
Joining our new Celtic issue are two poems by Aonghas MacNeacail. Translated from Scots Gaelic by @taylor-strickland.bsky.social these pensive poems evoke emotions through the beauty of the Scottish landscape. Read “A Sapling Grafted to Fury: Two Poems” here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
04.02.2026 17:41
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Thank you so much! Always good to hear when the books reach people.
01.06.2025 22:20
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Yes!! Perfectly said!
09.05.2025 12:37
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Leavin Meta slowly for the Sky, as we all will in time.
Meanwhile, to prove it is me here’s a new poem I recently published in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social
Dedicated to friend David Kinloch and to the toun of Dunkeld.
10.02.2025 14:59
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The Small Hours: Poems on Parenting - Paisley Book Festival
Sunday 27th April, 1-2pm
#ScottishPoetryEvents
Paisley Book Festival kicks off on Friday. POEMS ON PARENTING is our pick of the poetry events, Sun 27th at 1pm, featuring:
💥 Nuala Watt
💥 Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social
💥 Samuel Tongue @samueltongue.bsky.social
paisleybookfestival.com/programme/th...
23.04.2025 13:32
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THIS SUNDAY I share some new work and some (likely spurious) parent-writer insights with these guidfolk! 🤩✊
Come along! We can all bemoan the restless mornings… 😵💫🌅
paisleybookfestival.com/programme/th...
@nualawatt.bsky.social @samueltongue.bsky.social
@iassl.bsky.social
@asls.org.uk
23.04.2025 12:44
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A quick message to say I read your wolf dream moon and loved it.
18.04.2025 10:22
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Cover reveal for my new book! Out in November with @tapsalteerie.bsky.social
‘’Dwell Time, the full-length debut from award-winning writer Taylor Strickland, takes us from the US, to Scotland, to Portugal reflecting on environment, family, language and more.’’
17.04.2025 13:20
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16.04.2025 00:13
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Larissa, I would love this! Would you please direct message me for some more details first?
15.04.2025 15:55
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How exciting! Would love to be there for that. Are there still open slots?
15.04.2025 13:33
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Love that book
14.04.2025 19:07
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The latest comfort blanket ‘imminent downfall’ article on Trump. I’ve been delving into this stacked genre over the last decade with declining degrees of enthusiasm and I’m pretty much done with it now.
03.04.2025 08:43
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One of my fav novels ✊
03.04.2025 10:52
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Many many thanks. An honour coming from you!
27.03.2025 21:26
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Too kind, a chara! ❤️❤️
27.03.2025 21:26
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😲 need that Celtic myths book!
25.03.2025 20:31
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Thx for your service to Glasgow and to Scotland 🙌
12.03.2025 11:40
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So the train sped on with all its might,
And Bonnie Dundee soon hove in sight… 😎🚞
#Dundee #McGonagall
12.03.2025 11:19
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Excellent and a perfect last line
12.03.2025 08:07
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Tha cuimhne agam cuideachd a charaid 🙌
@alecfinlay.bsky.social #covidmemorial #glaschu
09.03.2025 14:07
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Ok - bc I read Tomlinson and had not remembered this passage.
Recommend Ford?
09.03.2025 11:22
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A night’s conviviality would for him require a Hardy feat indeed… 😜
Tomalin bio?
09.03.2025 10:20
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Ah! Just seeing it and would like to have applied. Hope they filled it with someone excellent 👌
04.03.2025 17:17
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National Anthem of Ukraine 🇺🇦 played on 🇸🇪 nyckelharpa and 🇳🇴 hardangerfiddle
YouTube video by Erik Rydvall - Nyckelharpa
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A lovely rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem (its name in English: "The Glory and Will of Ukraine Have Not Yet Perished").
In blue is Olav Luksengård Mjelva playing a Norwegian hardanger fiddle; in red is Erik Rydvall on a Swedish nyckelharpa. See you around.
01.03.2025 04:57
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Thanks for the read! Means so much. Yes, to leave Meta is challenging given all the networking and opportunities it facilitates across platforms, but it’s ultimately important to leave. They’re now complicit in dissemination of codswallop and have made too many overtures to scumbags in high office.
28.02.2025 21:43
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Moira, it is such a joy to know the poem has communicated so deeply. Thank you for reaching out and for sharing the poem!
28.02.2025 15:02
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