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This Friday 6 March, 7pm, Typewronger Books, Haddington Place (top of Leith Walk), Edinburgh - launch of Andrew Neilson's debut poetry book, 'Little Griefs' (Blue Diode Press). Annie Brechin has unfortunately had to travel south, but Medha Singh will read instead. Free entry!
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Edinburgh book launch! Details of a London one to follow. eventbrite.com/e/little-grie…
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Jan 24
Call for submissions of debut poetry collections, UK only.
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20 Oct 2025
Excellent news. Alice Willitt's Kiss My Earth (Blue Diode Press, 2025) is one of three books shortlisted in the poetry category of the East Anglian Book Awards!
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5 Sep 2025
Siuthad, cuir dhan bhasgaid e… Geàrr-liosta Duais Ruaraidh MhicThòmais airson an Leabhar Bàrdachd as Fheàrr 2025
Go on, add it to the basket... The Shortlist for The Derick Thomson Prize for Best Poetry Book 2025
bit.ly/gearr-liostaichean25
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26 Aug 2025
Shortlist: The Derick Thomson Prize for Best Poetry Book
Athair/Father – Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin (Francis Boutle Publishers)
Bàrdachd a’ Bhaile Mhòir – ed. Niall O’Gallagher (Blue Diode Publishing)
Govanhill Mythology/Beul-aithris Chnoc a’ Ghobhainn – Shane Johnstone (Arkbound)
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18 Aug 2025
“in the wide swathes of time,
everything will wash over us”
—Afterbody, Medha Singh @medhawrites @DiodeBlue
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25 Jun 2025
Come along! Entry is free, and books will be on sale. Medha's book is £10 and the chapbooks are £7. Doors open 6.30pm, readings start sharp at 7pm.
24 Jun 2025
This Thursday the always interesting @DiodeBlue have a superb quadruple chapbook/book launch event at the SPL featuring:
💥 DAVID KINLOCH
💥 JAMES APPLEBY
💥 MEDHA SINGH
💥 SOPHIE COOKE
eventbrite.co.uk/e/blue-diod…
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13 Apr 2025
I met a lot of Trumps in my industry, and I met a lot of people who called themselves “artists” then chose vanity over humanity because it bought them fame. We can live in a world without this manipulation, but we’ll have to choose to do so. Believe me, they don’t make it easy.
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11 Apr 2025
Three recent books available now from bluediode.co.uk . Good Sons by Tim Craven, Recital by @MarianneMacRae , and Kiss My Earth by Alice Willitts. Info, sample poems, etc at the link. Have a look!
ALT Three books. Tim Craven's features multicoloured gravestones facing a similarly multicoloured landscape. Marianne MacRae's is a purple background with a three legged green creature inside a turquoise circle. And Alice Willitts's is an orange yellow background with a dark blue portrait of a woman with big hair and eyes and the words Kiss My Earth replacing her nose and mouth.
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24 Mar 2025
Meg's Monday Muse is all about Mothers' Day this week, with books perfect for gifting from @FaberBooks, @TheEmmaPress, @DiodeBlue and @panmacmillan. Follow the link to find out more! mailchi.mp/poetrybooksociety…
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16 Dec 2024
Head over to BfS where @scotsmandavid takes a look at the First Book shortlist in this year's @Saltire_Society lit awards!
booksfromscotland.com/2024/1…
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14 Dec 2024
"Wonderful lines about the sea and its landscapes." Thanks to @TheFridayPoem and Jane Routh for Okapi's first review. If you want to have, or give, a Hebridean experience for Xmas, it's here @DiodeBlue:
bluediode.co.uk/product-page…
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26 Nov 2024
Do people look at Twitter these days? London tonight, Tues 26 Nov, 6pm - showcase from the Saltire First Book of the Year Award shortlist, including Nuala Watt, whose 'The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish' (Blue Diode Press, 2024) ticketsource.co.uk/standrews…
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5 Nov 2024
This Saturday, Manchester, there's a poetry bonanza! From 4-6pm, @PeterBarlowsCig features Maria Sledmere, Harriet Tarlo and Lucy Wilkinson. And then from 7pm, Olga Stehlikova, Christopher Crawford, David Gaffney and @lydiowanie, courtesy of Blue Diode Press. Links below.
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5 Nov 2024
Register for the PBC event at the Carlton Club at eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-bar…
Register for the Blue Diode Press event at the Saul Hay Gallery at eventbrite.co.uk/e/blue-diod…
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4 Nov 2024
Books Tour: terrific Czech poet (Olga) and Scottish poet based in Prague (Chris) reading in Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh from 9-11th November, with fabulous special guests. Come along. Free entry, books on sale. Dates and times below.
ALT Blue Diode poets launch their new books - Olga Stehlikova and Chris Crawford - readings in Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, Sat 9th Nov, 7pm; Bigglestones Books, Glassford St, Glasgow, Sun 10th Nov, 4pm; Typewronger Books, Edinburgh, Mon 11th Nov, 7pm.
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24 Oct 2024
Newly published today, Czech poet Olga Stehlikova's 'Though the Sky is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat' (Blue Diode Press), selected poems in English translation by David Vichnar. Info, sample poems and shop at this link: bluediode.co.uk/product-page…
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15 Oct 2024
Review of "Bàrdachd a’ Bhaile Mhòir: 15 Glasgow Poems', a dual language anthology of Gaelic poems aabout Glasgow, edited by Niall O'Gallagher (Blue Diode Press, 2024), at the Glasgow Review of Books.
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