What a line up!
13.06.2025 11:33
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
What a line up!
Just had the most inspirational visit this morning to the Citadel Youth Centre in Leith. They are doing the most fantastic work with people of all ages - from pre-birth to those in their 80s. I came away feeling full of admiration for everything they are doing - and like I want to do more too.
Thank you so much, Vicky! I hope you are well x
Unbelievably excited to share that I have been appointed the new Director of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature. I love this city, her books and her writers - what an honour to share those stories.
A statue of Desperate Dan in Dundee. Photo taken by Neil Howard.
📢 Applications open: Scots Scriever for Dundee and Angus
We're seeking applications for a year long residency as Scots Scriever.
Beautifullllllll news, Rose!
We – Mahmoud and Ahmad's friends and colleagues in the UK – are in touch with the family. We have no further news. This is an entirely inexcusable and illegitimate act
We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop.
Please share our statement below widely.
We’re alarmed and outraged that two of our key partners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna, have been arrested in Jerusalem for the crime of selling books.
Horrified by news of our friend & fellow bookseller Mahmoud being arrested by Israeli forces alongside his nephew.
A tireless campaigner for the power of literature, Mahmoud was in Edinburgh with us just months ago - please join call for their release!
#Booksky
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
The Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem was raided today, and its owners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Mona, were arrested.
The bookstore is one of the premier Palestinian cultural institutions of East Jerusalem; Mahmoud Mona is among the most inspiring figures in the city.
via @nirhasson.bsky.social
Deeply upset at the arrest of Mahmoud Muna. We hosted him as part of the Momentum Literature delegation and he is the most brilliant, compassionate person. He is an ambassador for literature and humanity. This is horrific.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Ludo has ended up with lipstick on her head more than once. I am unashamed.
(She doesn't sleep in our bed though)
100 Differences Between Poetry and Prose
Glaswegian poet Tom Leonard curated a wonderfully eclectic website where he kept a journal for 5 years, published his letters, poems, prose pieces, and other miscellany. It rewards a visit. Here's one of the poems:
www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetr...
SOON!
BYE WOMB!!! GET OUT OF HERE
oh, youre here from tik tok? (chuckle's lightly ) Is that like reddit for babies
ME TOO!!!! I could definitely smell what he was cooking!
Oh my God, I had forgotten this one
An infrared light echo traveling from the lower left through the upper right of the image. The image is speckled with dozens of white stars, some showing Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, against the black background of space. The image also shows tightly packed, glowing red filaments that resemble muscle fibers or wood grain. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Jencson (Caltech/IPAC)
genuinely this just became one of my favorite jwst images ever. it looks like a cosmic painting!!!
what a GREAT way to start 2025.
But a weighted blanket wouldn't drink all your tea, eat all your food and leave the taps on, which I understand tigers do do.
❤️ let's catch up soon, ideally not the night after MK has already led you astray! x
The first funding application I made during my first week in a new job was successful! I am currently at a 100% success rate, it's all downhill from here.
Poster with an image of Katie Ailes and a graphic of a pen writing. text reads: Edinburgh 900 Library Bookmark Competition Workshop with Dr Katie Ailes at Edinburgh Libraries! What’s your Edinburgh? To celebrate Edinburgh 900, join Dr. Katie Ailes for a free poetry workshop inspired by your impressions of the city. We’ll write short poems about places and experiences in Edinburgh that are meaningful to you. No previous experience writing poetry required; all are welcome! 13th January: Stockbridge Library at 6pm 14th January: Oxgangs Library at 6pm 20th of January: Currie Library at 6pm 21st of January: Leith Library at 6pm Logos for the City of Edinburgh Council and I Am Loud Productions
Starting this evening, join me for four free poetry workshops for Edinburgh residents at libraries across the city! To celebrate Edinburgh 900, we'll write about places and experiences in Edinburgh that are meaningful to you. No previous experience with poetry required; all are welcome!
3 Men and a Little Lady?
Check out the bathtub indeed. What's especially odd is that it starts out all "let's furnish this house with the most uncomfortable Ye Olde Furniture imaginable", and then ... THE BATHTUB.
It just feels like a step too far right now
I will dig out my blue eyeshadow!
One of my all time favourites!
WHAT