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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

*26th and 27th September* Come and share photographs and memories of Ardeer, drop-in and brew & blether, joined by historian @linda83ross.bsky.social! Or go on our guided walk and eco-poetry session on nature at Ardeer with photographer @alexanderboyd.bsky.social and poet Gerry Cambridge!

Poster showing photographs of women hand mixing dynamite and the workers' canteen in the sunshine before the building was pulled down.

Poster showing ruined factory brick building in the snow amongst important dune scrub habitats.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For those in Scotland, this excellent exhibition will be opening at Dalkeith Palace. It's a celebration of 200 years of the Royal Scottish Academy and photography - and I'll be showing one of my collodion works from the Isle of Skye. @royalscottishacad.bsky.social

An image of the Old Man of Storr on a poster advertising Photo Dalkeith - an exhibition in Scotland to be held at Dalkeith Palace.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 11/08/2026

I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt That damns the vast majority o’ men. —from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” 🎂🧵 for Hugh MacDiarmid—born #OTD, 11 Aug 1892 1/10 www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hugh-m...

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Genuinely crushed this morning to read about the death of John Douglas of the Trashcan Sinatras. His songs soundtracked my and countless others lives for decades, and he managed to do the impossible - make me proud to come from Irvine. Thoughts with his family and friends.

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Scottish musician and Trashcan Sinatras guitarist John Douglas has died aged 62

John Douglas, a songwriter and guitarist in the Scottish indie rock band Trashcan Sinatras, has died at the age of 62.

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Harris moonrise #Scotland #IsleofHarris #OuterHebrides www.damianshields.com

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Shooting interests & the rightwing press want to exploit the wildfires to reinstate moorland burning. But you don't fight fire with fire. You fight it with water. This wildfire in Wales' Elan Valley in May stopped abruptly when it reached re-wetted peat bogs: www.walesfarmer.co.uk/news/2614875...

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

An Tir Briste (The Broken Land). Images shot on a beaten up medium format camera on the island of Hirta (part of the St Kilda Archipelago) and on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Score by the composer Giles Lamb.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

UK writers - have any of you signed up for the ACLS - AI Training License? My publisher has, and I'm unsure what to do. I loathe AI in general and what it's doing to the arts, but wondered what others think about such licenses.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@outdoorscots.bsky.social I've just read your review of Upland - and agree about the final third of the book. I felt it ended pretty abruptly, and would have happily read a few more chapters. He did a great job of distilling quite complex topics from geology to land management though.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I enjoyed Upland by Ed Douglas. While it doesn't really offer anything new to mountain histories, it's a pleasant way to spend a few hours. He does however get bonus points for attacking colonialism and hubris in our high places where he finds it. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

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Upland by Ed Douglas review – a glorious survey of Britain’s high places

The writer and climber brings colour and carnival to his account of a country and people shaped by its mountains

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

After a year of negotiation I've finally managed to find a couple of days a week to get back to a project close to my heart. Here are a few books on my shelf to give you a clue as to what I'm writing about 😆 #amwriting #naturewriting

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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Writing query - can you help? With an overarching theme of chronic illness/disability in nature/place writing I'm looking at national prizes e.g. Wainwright as examples of bias/representation in the pub industry for my PhD. What has been said/written on diversity? #NatureWriting

A selfie of a white woman with short blonde hair and fields behind her.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Leonora Carrington in her Greenwich Village apartment, New York.

Tall dark-haired woman standing against a threshold, wearing a dark blouse and long striped skirt. Next to her is a dark table and chair full of clutter from a meal.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Today was spent taking some final shots of old negatives for a new photography book due out later this year...

A camera points to some negatives lit up on a lightbox.

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Mick Houghton @mickh5.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

from the mills to the stars .....a walk up Ingleborough yesterday

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 22/07/2026

And we left our beds in the dark And we drove a cart to the hill And we buried the jar of ale in the bog And our small blades glittered in the dayspring And we tore dark squares, thick pages From the Book of Fire… —George Mackay Brown, “Peat Cutting” from Selected Poems: 1954–1992 #poem #poetry

George Mackay Brown
Peat Cutting

And we left our beds in the dark
And we drove a cart to the hill
And we buried the jar of ale in the bog
And our small blades glittered in the dayspring
And we tore dark squares, thick pages
From the Book of Fire
And we spread them wet on the heather
And horseflies, poisonous hooks,
Stuck in our arms
And we laid off our coats
And our blades sank deep into water
And the lord of the bog, the kestrel
Paced round the sun
And at noon we leaned on our tuskars
– The cold unburied jar
Touched, like a girl, a circle of burning mouths
And the boy found a wild bees’ comb
And his mouth was a sudden brightness
And the kestrel fell
And a lark flashed a needle across the west
And we spread a thousand peats
Between one summer star
And the black chaos of fire at the earth’s centre.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one." Ed Luce in fine form in the FT quoting Bill Gates on the evil & threat of Elon Musk to democracy. www.ft.com/content/77af...

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Wood engraving, Cir Mhòr, Arran. Printed in three graded ink layers to enhance the aerial perspective I failed to capture in the engraving! Time-consuming but I learned a few things. 150x100 mm. #art #prints #printmaking #mountains #Scotland #landscape

Print in grey and black inks of a wood engraving. A view across a vertical rock buttress to rocky mountains and ridges, with lowlands and sea beyond.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I just want to state that although I am writing about swimming in a Scottish Loch it's not a nature cure narrative (the horror) because I didn't go to Oxbridge. It was just 'pure chanking' as we say in Ayrshire.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Writing about the Cuillin Mountains in Skye today. 8 years ago I swam beneath them in Loch Coruisk. I've finally warmed up. #amwriting

Very pale white man, who may actually be a ghost, swimming in a Scottish Loch.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 12/06/2026

Another great artist gone — David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/a...

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David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88

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Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Winter on the Pennine Moor. open.substack.com/pub/deborahp...

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Winter on the Pennine Moor.

A selection of Polaroids.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 18/09/2025

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

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New Writing Scotland Submission Manager

New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I'm honestly terrible at social media. The self-promotion thing seems like an absolute grind these days. Instead I've been writing and spending time with the kid, slowly working on photography projects. The usual. Disgustingly wholesome stuff. You?

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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 08/08/2025

Masha Маша From ‘The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue’.

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Mark Guiles @culturedmeat.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." - G. K. Chesterton

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Brian David Stevens @briandavidstevens.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

New work: A picture of my friend and fellow photographer Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social taken in London May 2025 “The symbol is my clan gesture 'confido' i trust - and the tattoo is from the Hugh MacDiarmid book ' Scottish Eccentrics' “

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Hello all! Myself and two friends are cycling 250 miles along the Caledonian Way this Saturday. We are hoping to fund efforts to replace some of the 15,000 trees lost after a devastating wildfire on Arran in April. If you are able to donate or to share this post it would be hugely appreciated ❤️

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Ride for Glen Rosa

Help Alex Boyd raise money to support National Trust for Scotland

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I am so excited that @alexanderboyd.bsky.social is coming to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social on the 12th May! He will give the talk 'A Hidden History of Violence', Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square - 1pm to 2:30pm.

Drone shot of the affects of bomb practice at Cape Wrath in the North West of Scotland, photograph by Alex Boyd

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I'm currently working through 20 years of photographic work, scanning images that feel like they are from several lifetimes ago. From Scottish mountain tops to burning forests in Australia, I'll slowly start sharing this archive over the coming year. Oh and some new work!

A polaroid of a small child playing in a woodland while light streams through smoke from a burning fire.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Today is another reminder of why Universities just aren't suited for people with ADHD. The unrelenting bureaucracy is absolutely crippling when you just want to put pen to paper. It would also help if online forms weren't designed by the most misanthropic members of society.

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Dr Andrew Demetrius @demetrius-art.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Academics take note.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

@mikewozniak.bsky.social hello Mike - are you still planning to release a recording of Zusa?

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Today someone was telling me about the domestic squalor Maggie Smith lived in, all smashed windows and broken doors, and wondering how his various wives put with it, and only afterwards did I realise they had been talking about Mark E Smith.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I often ironically think of this Wilde quote which possibly anticipates the genre of Nature writing, and the somewhat endless quotations some authors are prone to using: "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Also: North Sea Poets' first Substack - what is poetry *for?

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Inspired by @marcwilson.co.uk Today: Sign off paperbacks of Isle of Rust / Hirta books. Prepare prints for group show in Scotland Meet collaborators for new exhibition in Australia. Prepare notes for interviewing Ukrainian photographers Fight university bureaucracy #whatdophotographersdoallday

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Current state of mind. [Still from Down By Law , dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1986]

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I've been keeping a diary here in Western Australia, and it's increasingly a catalogue of very strange happenings. Saturday's entry included spending several hours guiding the police through the bush in the dark to the edge of a quarry. Thankfully a happy ending. Life is stranger than fiction.

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Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert @jshphotog.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Clydebuilt - Great to have had the new zines featured recently in #Glasgow media. This coming Saturday they get featured in arts section of national bradsheet. Had great interview this morning about them. Exciting to get the work out there. www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2488632... #shipbuilding

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'Forgotten' shipyard photos give rare glimpse into Glasgow's River Clyde history

NEVER-before-seen photos that give a rare glimpse behind the scenes of Glasgow’s shipyards have been published this week.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I don't always agree with art awards, but Charlotte Prodger winning the Turner Prize for her work BRIDGIT was so well deserved. I've been thinking about it again recently.

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Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I've been quiet on here for the last month, but I have been out and about working - experimenting with new film, field development and starting a longer term project. I'm hopeful that 2025 will be a creative year.

Image of a seastack and 4x5 camera off the coast of Western Australia.

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Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Watching this rn and it's pure joy

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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

More courage and power here than in the entire Democratic Party.

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