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Poem of the Day for 6th Jan 2026 - feat. Iris Murdoch, Brigid Brophy, macaws and a goldfinch.
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#poetry
ERT's Poem of the Day #32: Sandpiper by Elizabeth Bishop!
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#poetry #edinburgh
Poem of the Day 9th November:
Sylvia's Death by Anne Sexton
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#poetrycommunity
If anyone needs me, I'll be in the attic.
@irismurdoch.bsky.social
If it’s not called And Another Thing don’t bother
Quick botanical themed video on E. F. Benson and The Invisible Man:
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#booktube
Thank you! @earreadthis.bsky.social
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Continuing my reading series on Wind in the Willows, this time its Chapter 2: The Open Road, on which we encounter Rat poetry, unchanging metamorphs and complaining horses.
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#booktube #windinthewillows
Today I'm starting a new series sharing a handful of highlights, observations and curiosities from each chapter of The Wind in the Willows. We start in the gloom of Mole End, with a pot of whitewash...
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Went to see The Smashing Machine tonight; still can’t stop myself mentally adding “Gromit” to the end of the title
Recent Reading in the Bookshop!
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan
Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan
Haunted by E. Jay Gilbert
Paranormal America by Bader, Baker & Mencken
A Monstrous Commotion by Gareth Williams
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Today's video looks at two pieces from the collection Poems for Palestine:
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#booktube #freepalestine
Serious book critic wishes you may live long, prosper, and read his reviews. I'm making the most of this because there aren't many bits of writing I have matching sweaters for.
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#startrek #bookreview
Looking forward to seeing this in print next month: a new collection of poems in tribute to Robert Fergusson including one of my own in Scots!
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#edinburgh #literature #scotland #poet
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120 copies of Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear, in three tall columns, with one copy propped up in front of them.
You may recall that I was caught up in the collapse of publishers Unbound.
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
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Discussing some recent reading in the bookshop:
Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Original Sin by Tapper and Thompson
Manic Power by Jeffrey Meyers
Daemonologie by James VI
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I recently interviewed author and storyteller Donald Smith as we walked around Edinburgh's Old Town. Here's a video showing the many authors and snippets of literary history we discussed:
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Reading round up from the bookshop!
Books discussed:
Open a Channel by Nana Visitor
The Starling by Stephen Moss
Edinburgh: Our Storied Town by Donald Smith
Rommel? Gunner Who? by Spike Milligan
The Best of Dorothy Parker
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The latest podcast on Iris Murdoch's A Year of Birds with Miles Lesson can now be watched on YouTube!
@irismurdoch.bsky.social
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New episode of the podcast, looking at the poems of Iris Murdoch! @irismurdoch.bsky.social
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Thought this was awful, but enjoyed writing about it:
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Quick video on connections between Sylvia Plath and The Simpsons:
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New episode of the podcast out today on the poems Robert Burns wrote in tribute to his 'elder brother in the Muse', Robert Fergusson:
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ICYMI, my interview with Edinburgh novelist Alice Thompson, recorded in Portobello Library is now on YouTube!
We talked about AI, Sylvia Plath, Edinburgh and much more...
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I recently had the privilege of interviewing Edinburgh novelist Alice Thompson about her surreal, haunting fiction. We met at Portobello Library for a conversation about artificial intelligence, Edinburgh and the influence of Sylvia Plath.
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New book review on my Substack (free!): The Last Decade of Cinema by Scott Ryan.
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