Film poster for poetry film 'Comma of Didymus'
Poetry Film Festival Poster
Poetry Film Festival Poster
Delighted that 'Comma of Didymus' will be screened during the International Poetry Film Festival in Los Angeles later this month. Congratulations to all the selected films! 🎉👏👏👏
poetryfilmfestival.org
For this week’s #LiftToTheSky I’m highlighting the #Poetry Library, #Scotland. A fab resource with the aim of ‘bringing people and poetry together’ check their online resources, visit if in Edinburgh, or borrow books by post. A treasure.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Discover more than Burns
The Scotsman's Poem of the Week
'How to Behave With The Ill' by Julia Darling
@samillingworth.com must by now be something of a legend in the world of poetry and science - an excellent primer on how science and poetry can come together from @byleaveswelive.bsky.social below...
I heard skylarks singing over Craighill this morning. First I’ve heard this year - they seem early to me. Below is from March three years back (by when they were well into full voice). Whenever though, it is always an uplifting and reassuring sound..
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Brian Johnstone and Steve Smart / @duntruner.bsky.social share a filmpoem about intergenerational grief on Holocaust Memorial Day.
Watch it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/brian-johnst...
#FilmPoem #InkSweatAndTears #HolocaustMemorialDay
Walk, talk, trees, and art - Tansy Lee Moir chats to Scotland Outdoors
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If you’re longing for a quiet moment of sanity in the mad train-wreck of our times, this could well be it: a half hour pod-chat with artist Tansy Lee Moir.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
or search your own place of podding. :)
see also www.tansyleemoir.co.uk
'Comma of Didymus' will screen in Edinburgh at the Cameo on Dec 15th. I have *no idea* how you'd get a ticket - organisers not very forthcoming! Turn up and say hi if you're near, I guess? But nice to be part of a screening in t' old hame toon anyway! 🙂
more about the film - artsci.co.uk/comma/
@samillingworth.com
Recording a new poetry film podcast with @samueltongue.bsky.social at @byleaveswelive.bsky.social this afternoon. Great fun!
Taking a cue from @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's book 'Landmarks' which lists rare words describing landscape, light and weather, I made a small portfolio of images trying to capture aspects seen, found, or felt or experienced while traversing land and landscapes on foot. See.. artsci.co.uk/sds/
Neptune's lance
Tentsmuir
must be a mollusc thing..
archipelago
Crow Wood
After... is a website dedicated to poetry inspired by other artworks. I'm very happy to have a poem included there this month..
I'm delighted that 'Comma of Didymus' will also be screened at Festival Fotogenia 2025 in Mexico this November!
For more about 'Comma of Didymus' see: artsci.co.uk/comma/
It’s a worry when space-time needs antifungals and preservative…
一期一会
Ichi-go ichi-e
projected portrait - lady's mantle on a leaf
and (related) some interactive poetry from yonks ago ..
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🧪 Open to Science Poetry Submissions 🖋️
The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 22 explores the topic of ‘Waves’.
Submit your work for free here:
www.consilience-journal.com/submit
#SciComm #SciArt #Poetry
A quote from Kwame Anthony Appiah against a dark teal background. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– Kwame Anthony Appiah in The New York Review, 26 June 2025
#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky
A description of 'Writing With ...' set against a light teal background. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom left corner and there's a white arrow in the bottom right corner.
Details of 'Writing With ...' against a light teal background. A calendar emoji is next to the start date, a clock emoji next to the workshop time, and a ticket emoji next to the price. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
Introducing the #NorthSeaPoets Autumn course 🍂
'Writing With ...' will cover everything from landscapes to ghosts, from Heaney to Plath. Starting 17th September.
The last North Sea Poets course sold out so don't delay – tickets are on sale now at northseapoets.com 🌊
#PoetrySky #PoetryWorkshop
