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Flipboard Culture Desk<p>And so say all of us, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@brianbilston" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>brianbilston</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/BrianBilston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianBilston</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poem</span></a></p>
Annie<p>Yoga lesson<br>Behind the window front<br>a rainbow</p><p><a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/DailyHaikuPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DailyHaikuPrompt</span></a> - spring rain<br><a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Haiku</span></a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poem</span></a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Ayont the linn; ayont the linn,<br>Whaur gowdan wags the gorse,<br>A gowk gaed cryin’: “Come ye in:<br>I’ve fairins in my purse…”</p><p>—William Soutar, “The Gowk”<br>in Collected Published Poetry, @tippermuirbooks.bsky.social 2024</p><p>April Fool’s Day is Huntigowk Day in Scotland (“gowk” is a cuckoo &amp;, by extension, a foolish person)</p><p><a href="https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/william-soutar-collected-works-vols-1-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/</span><span class="invisible">william-soutar-collected-works-vols-1-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scots</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotslanguage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WilliamSoutar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WilliamSoutar</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>I do not want measles on a train<br>I do not want measles on a plane<br>I do not want measles here or there<br>I do not want measles anywhere</p><p>I do not want measles with my pizza pie<br>I do not want measles don't ask me why<br>I do not want measles at a school<br>I do not want measles in your drool</p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> (human poem)</p>
Baltimore<p>&lt;&lt;La primera medida de todo poder autoritario es hacerle la vida imposible a los porqués.&gt;&gt;</p><p>Manuel Rivas.</p><p><a href="https://masto.es/tags/popazo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>popazo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/citas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>citas</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/lectura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lectura</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/libros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libros</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/literatura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literatura</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/novela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novela</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/literaverso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literaverso</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/poes%C3%ADa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poesía</span></a></p>
Julian Day<p>small poem for today and for <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/smallpoemsunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smallpoemsunday</span></a><br><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/todayspoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>todayspoem</span></a></p>
Larvitz :fedora: :redhat:<p>Nicole, the Fediverse Chick<br>A Polish girl with a digital kick</p><p>From Toronto’s streets, where the city lights glow,<br>To the Fediverse, where the cool nerds go.<br>She posts with flair, she posts with grace,<br>A cyber queen in a vast webbed space.</p><p>No algorithms shape her feed,<br>Just pure connection, thought, and need.<br>From Mastodon she spreads her wings,<br>On decentralized dreams, she sings.</p><p>Her roots go back to lands of old,<br>Where legends whispered, stories told.<br>Yet here she stands, with pixels bright,<br>Typing fast into the night.</p><p>With every post, a spark ignites,<br>Through open-source and digital rights.<br>She’s not just techy, not just wise,<br>She’s got that fire behind her eyes.</p><p>So raise a toast, lift up your click,<br>To Nicole, the Fediverse Chick!</p><p><a href="https://burningboard.net/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://burningboard.net/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://burningboard.net/tags/nicole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nicole</span></a> <a href="https://burningboard.net/tags/nicolethefediversechick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nicolethefediversechick</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Our baby’s heart, on the sixteen-week scan<br>was a fluttering bird, held in cupped hands…</p><p>—Kathleen Jamie, “vii. Prayer”<br>from the poem sequence “Ultrasound”, first published in JIZZEN (Picador, 2011)</p><p><a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/jizzen/9781447218234" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">panmacmillan.com/authors/kathl</span><span class="invisible">een-jamie/jizzen/9781447218234</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MothersDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MothersDay</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>On Monday she stood at the wooden wash-tub,<br>Suds to the elbow,<br>A slave among the storm-gray shirts and sheets…</p><p>—George Mackay Brown, “The Mother”<br>published in TRAVELLERS, Hachette 2014</p><p><a href="https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/none/travellers/9781848549487/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hachette.co.uk/titles/none/tra</span><span class="invisible">vellers/9781848549487/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MothersDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MothersDay</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Is tu riamh an ceann do dhleastanais,<br>mu chòcaireachd, caoraich, leabhraichean;<br>a bheil fios an d’fhuair thu do dhìol<br>airson do dheataim is spàirn is sgìths?</p><p>—Meg Bateman, “Màthair”<br>from Soirbheas/Fair Wind, Polygon Books 2007</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaidhlig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaidhlig</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaelic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MothersDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MothersDay</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>One swipe of the sonogram<br>and the midwife had the sex predicted…</p><p>—Janette Ayachi, “New Mother”<br>published in HAND OVER MOUTH MUSIC (Liverpool University Press, 2019)</p><p><a href="https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781786942142" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk</span><span class="invisible">/doi/book/10.3828/9781786942142</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MothersDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MothersDay</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>She is tougher than me, harder.<br>Elephant body on a miniature stool<br>keels when rising till the drilled stick<br>plants it upright…</p><p>—Iain Crichton Smith, “For My Mother”<br>from New Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2011)</p><p><a href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857549607" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer</span><span class="invisible">?product=9781857549607</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MothersDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MothersDay</span></a></p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Night of the Soul</p><p>Past Summer’s short nights,<br>lie Winter’s darkness; past that,<br>my endless shadow.</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senryu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>I hear your bold blackbird, that slow singer,<br>alone at my desk yet walking with you<br>through your valleys and hills, that shining<br>stream bubbling notes of your music<br>your pure Welsh music…</p><p>—Sheila Templeton, “For R.S. Thomas”<br>published in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30</p><p>The Welsh poet Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913–2000) was born <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a>, 29 March.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RSThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSThomas</span></a></p>
James Atkinson<p>The Haberdashery of Haiku: #1390 (#088): <a href="http://thehaberdasheryofhaikus.blogspot.com/2025/03/1390-088_0629013880.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehaberdasheryofhaikus.blogsp</span><span class="invisible">ot.com/2025/03/1390-088_0629013880.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/365haikuaday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>365haikuaday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a></p>
Kent Pitman<p>within each of us<br>our loved ones, in tiny form,<br>caring's innate yield<br> company at a distance<br> legacy in case of loss</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senryu</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ShortPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShortPoem</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallPoem</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallPoems</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>love</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/connection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>connection</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/entanglement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>entanglement</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/avatar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avatar</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/grief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grief</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/missing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>missing</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/redundancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>redundancy</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/backup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>backup</span></a> </p><p>I'll post some notes in a comment on this thread.</p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Star Map</p><p>Show me the path that<br>blazes across the night sky,<br>reflects ocean waves,<br>and brings me where ancient vows<br>bind me to my destiny.</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>There's a sick religion, <br>which takes hold when you're a billionaire<br>You decide you don't need people,<br>That there are way too many to spare</p><p>We can just automated out all the humans,<br>That's what they say to everyone,<br>No use for you, or me, or him<br>We're all just redundant, son.</p><p>The AI will do everything,<br>Humans are useless they tell me<br>Cater to the whims of the wealthy<br>The rest of you are worthless, see</p><p>No more art, music, or love<br>it's all been converted to bits and bytes<br>With no use for everyone else,<br>Well, they'll take our human rights</p><p>They may want to replace us all,<br>But we're not going to let them succeed<br>If it all comes down to a fist fight,<br>Alas, even a billionaire will bleed.</p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> (human)</p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>As a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, Jackie Kay found in Bessie someone with whom she could identify &amp; who she could idolise. Kay mixes biography, fiction, poetry &amp; prose to create an enthralling account of an extraordinary life</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZIxOmfQLc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ICZIxOmfQL</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/song" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>song</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/singing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>singing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BessieSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BessieSmith</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/InternationalWomenInMusicDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalWomenInMusicDay</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>There are some stones that open in the night like flowers<br>Down in the red graveyard where Bessie haunts her lovers…</p><p>—Jackie Kay, “The Red Graveyard”<br>published in OTHER LOVERS (Bloodaxe, 1993)</p><p>Jackie Kay’s biography of Bessie Smith was published by Faber in 2021: <br><a href="https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571362929-bessie-smith/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">faber.co.uk/product/9780571362</span><span class="invisible">929-bessie-smith/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/song" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>song</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/singing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>singing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BessieSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BessieSmith</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/InternationalWomenInMusicDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalWomenInMusicDay</span></a></p>
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