Guilbneach an t-ainm atá an éan sin i nGàidhlig. (Éan eile a bhfuil cosa fada agus gob fada air atá sa ghuilbneach Gaeilge.)
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It looks like I should - any you'd recommend? I hadn't expected any to still be up a year later, most don't make it anywhere close, but a few do survive long enough for lightfastness to be worth worrying about

Cùm a' dol (keep going), written in calligraphy, attached to a lamppost next to a cycle lane

Cùm a' dol (keep going), written in calligraphy, attached to a lamppost next to a cycle lane, from further away

Cùm a' dol (keep going), on the long uphill slog of the South City #cycle way where such motivation is needed. On Pollokshaws Road, #Glasgow #Gàidhlig #calligraphy

And miraculously still up over a year later, faded but still legible. This feels like an experiment in ink lightfastness

Sadly this disappeared within a few days, the quickest of all I've posted. Which is a shame because it would be such a good location

Unlike most poems posted here, this somehow lasted over a year without being taken down - instead fading away underneath its laminated cover until I took it down. Poem, like collapsed tree and, now removed

Yeah he's a man and turned his university lectures in to a podcast. Interesting to know he's not the only Tolkien lecturer, I love the idea of proving yourself with a Middle Earth map first

That sounds pretty cool. Was the Tolkien class with Corey Olsen? Just because I don't think classes on Tolkien are a common thing

Epiphany by Margaret Tait, in foundational hand calligraphy

Photo of the poem at Queen's Park flagpole, with Glasgow buildings visible in the distance

Epiphany by Margaret Tait, posted at the Queen's Park flagpole in Glasgow to give hope for sunlight to come on a wet and miserable winter morning. I meant to post it last week on the actual day of Epiphany but ice got in the way.

Thanks for posting! I'm surprised it's lasted there that long

(From HES Portal) Alexander Thomson 1856. Church and hall on gusset site, burnt out 1965. Banded ashlar on polygonal masonry base. South elevation: temple front raised over ground floor banded masonry podium with 2 boldly detailed corniced doorpieces with Greek motifs and antifixae. Original wooden doors. Ionic pedimented hexastyle portico above. East elevation: banded masonry and 3 blank corniced windows with discs. Low door at north end. Only 1-bay of gallery level remains. West elevation: 1-storey hall with 9 pilastered windows, now blank and 2 doors in architraves and frieze under small paired windows. The doors are concrete replicas of wooden doors. Tall square tower of banded masonry with 3 narrow openings near the top, a lantern and cross. Small section of cast iron railings at base. Rear wall modern. Interior gutted.

Larkin meets Thomson at the Caledonia Road Church, Glasgow, 20th October 2025.
#alexandergreekthomson #agt #glasgow #churches (@calligraphyoutside.bsky.social) more on ALT

Grove by Margaret Tait

Poem tied to a fallen tree

Trees in Queen's Park, Glasgow

Grove, by Margaret Tait (1918-1999), a Scottish poet and filmmaker. On a tree felled by storm Eowyn earlier this year at the iron age earthworks in Queens Park #Glasgow on this sunny day before the solstice.

#calligraphy #poetry

Callanish stones, Isle of Lewis

Dun Carloway Broch, Isle of Lewis

Inside Dun Carloway Broch, Isle of Lewis

Sheep on a hill

Pictures from the Isle of #Lewis

Morrisons could be better - only 2 bike racks, well used and often full so the trolley bay railings get used instead; within a big car park that I've never seen full and was resurfaced 2(?) years ago which must've been expensive. Still, better than Asda who clearly hate cyclists

Callanish I stone circle on the Isle of Lewis

Callanish VIII stone circle on the Isle of Bernera, with the bridge to Lewis in the background

Callanish I (in the village of the same name) is the biggest and most famous of the Callanish sites but there are almost 20 others nearby including several smaller stone circles

guthan chalanais, by Aonghas MacNeacail, written in foundational calligraphy

The poem in an old red telephone box

Old red telephone box by a road on the Isle of Lewis

Callanish IV stone circle

Earann à 'guthan chalanais' le Aonghas MacNeacail #Gàidhlig

From 'callanish voices' by Aonghas MacNeacail. #Gaelic #poetry + English translation.

Air an rathad eadar Calanais IV agus Calanais VIII, Eilean Leòdhais.

On the road between Callanish IV and Callanish VIII, Isle of Lewis.

#calligraphy

Guilbneach le Murchadh Dòmhnallach, ann an seann bhothan-fòn, ann an Taobh Tuath, anns na Hearadh. #Gàidhlig

Curlew by Murdo Macdonald, in an old phone box in the village of Northton, Isle of #Harris. #Gaelic #poetry with English translation. #calligraphy

Thanks! You're the first person to post here having definitely found it in the real world rather than online so this has made me very happy

A’ Chiad Òran le Pòl MacAonghais / The first song by Paul MacInnes, #Gaelic #poetry with English translation, under an appropriately cavern like railway arch between #Gorbals Street and Laurieston Road near the revamped Citizens Theatre in #Glasgow

#calligraphy #gàidhlig

I have to tell you, by Dorothea Grossman in an old red K6 phone box with a beautiful view of Arthur's Seat, on Regent Road #Edinburgh. #poetry #calligraphy

Now reposted at #QueensPark #Glasgow, Langside Road entrance - it got damaged where it was. #poetry #calligraphy

An extract from Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley, at a bridge over the burn at Pollok Park playing fields in #Glasgow with a modified foundational script #calligraphy #poetry #pollokpark

It's hard not to say something about how appropriate the name "Mossman" turned out to be

Is it derelict? Anything happening to it?

This, like the other work posted so far, is in the foundational script - developed by Edward Johnston at the start of the 20th century but based on the Carolingian minuscule script from the 9th and 10th century

March weather by Tessa Ransford, 1938-2015, Scottish Poetry Library (byleaveswelive.bsky.social) founder, in Auldhouse Park #Glasgow on a beautiful spring morning #calligraphy #poetry #Scottishpoetry

They are fantastic, a real Glasgow hidden gem

On a Tree Fallen Across the Road by Robert Frost, where a tree was recently felled by Storm Éowyn in Cathkin Park #Glasgow #poetry #calligraphy

Thanks! One other Philip Larkin post so far: bsky.app/profile/call...

The Trees by Philip Larkin, at the walkway by the White Cart Water in Battlefield, #Glasgow #poetry #calligraphy