I was so happy my copies arrived from @Downingfield, I... Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, my second collection just landed in my house. Critically praised, a Scotsman book of the year, pick up a copy and bring me back to life! amazon.co.uk/dp/0645231819/ #poetry #writing #ireland

“Scale is important, but doesn’t crack the top five in terms of priority," says Peter Mallouk of HighTower's reported sale. Latest for @RIABiz riabiz.com/a/2026/6/11/thoma… #business #RIA #fintwit

This one is going to be fun! Get your asses down next Thursday. #writingcommunity #poetry #art #literature #edinburgh #scotland

A taste of heaven. Fresh truffle butter spaghetti with pecorino shavings served with quail eggs. baby courgette, in lemon and mint sauce served with feta. Baby broccoli cooked in the bain marie with butter and rosemary.

"The real danger of trash-talk [is] not that it fails to land, but that it wakes someone up who was happily ignoring you," says Tim Welsh, of Schwab's plan to push harder onto Fidelity's workplace turf. Latest for @RIABiz riabiz.com/a/2026/6/8/rick-w…

If you're writing in easily digestible accessible personalized narratives that rely on enjambment and a confessional voice, well... you're not groundbreaking, you're not revolutionary, you're not fighting the gatekeepers, you are the gatekeepers, and you're 40 years out of date.

I will never understand people who do not stop and smell the roses.

Whoever decided everything art related needed forms needs punishing. It's not important 'what the public takes away' from live performance. Nor 'who' the artist is. All that matters is quality & craft. If you think other things ought to be foregrounded, you're a charlatan.

Chinese 20th century scholar Guo Moruo had a very strong appreciation for the Irish. He made a poem called “Victorious Death” praising Irish hunger striker Terence MacSwiney. “Honoured MacSwiney! / Dear sons of Ireland, / the spirit of freedom will ever stand by you, / for you stand by one another, you are the incarnation of freedom!” (99). It closes with a passionate elegy: The mighty ocean is sobbing its sad lament, the boundless abyss of the sky is red with weeping, far, far away the sun has sunk in the west. Brave, tragic death! Death in a blaze of glory! Triumphant death!* Victorious death! Impartial God of Death! I am grateful to you! You have saved MacSwiney, for whom my love and reverence know no bounds! MacSwiney, fighter for freedom, you have shown how great can be the power of the human will! I am grateful to you! I extol you! Freedom can henceforth never die! The night has closed down on us, but how bright is the moon.”

"I have sewed a new garden fertilized by ash, The remains of a scorched hive of bees, And I offer their bodies as a sacrifice." New work just published: 'Hunger in the Yarrow Stalk.' In Twenty-Two-Twenty-Eight. #writing #publishing #poetry #art #writingcommunity

Honestly, the world (and art) would be much improved if the big presses committed to only publishing writers with a minimum of two books and 50 journal credits under their belts.

Basil fried bread stuffed with an egg, topped with red pepper cottage cheese sauce, topped with paprika tofu, topped with sauerkraut, topped with soy honey fried mushrooms.

Ah joy, my council tax just came through. I just love paying council tax. I always know that my overpriced annual contribution to the city is well spent, largely avoids bureaucratic bloat, and provides the vital services we all need. Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!

Open twitter nowadays. Oh look, someone has a totalising view that explains the universe. Oh look ok, someone is outraged. How many of you people just do silly shit and laugh?

"I am become the tender fuchsia tree, As it sings its grapples upwards, In delicate stretches, Each soon to turn thick bark." New poetry just published in TwentyTwoTwentyEight. One of two pieces. twentytwotwentyeight.com/sin… #poetry #writingcommunity #art #literature #writing

Schwab is opening up advisory offices in 30 upscale markets w/ 300 advisors by end of year after seeing wild success with a pilot program. This is big news given so many RIAs are clients of Schwab and now it will be competing w them (and Schwab charges relatively low fees, 30-80bps for full service). One guy calling it a "Wake up call" for advisors. Great story from @RIABiz ht @EconomPic

"Going from four RIA locations to 30 by the end of 2026 ... is more than incremental," says Tim Welsh, CFP of Schwab's new build out of its retail RIA. Latest for RIABiz.com #fintwit #fintech #RIA riabiz.com/a/2026/5/27/schwa…