Reposted by Colin BramwellJohn Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026northseapoets.substack.com/p/off-the-cu...northseapoets.substack.comOff the CuffJohn Glenday on Spontaneity and Revision 098
Reposted by Colin BramwellJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I chose seven poems from new books I’m enjoying for your Sunday and week ahead, featuring Rae Armantrout, Patricia Lockwood, Pierre Reverdy and moresomeflowerssoon.substack.comPinks #47: NewfanglenessSeven poems from books I’m enjoying 1227
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Today at 15.45 - come see me and Ryan Van Winkle at the Edinburgh Book Festival! 010
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Author copies of Fetch have arrived, and aren't they bonnie! Available to preorder now from @andotherstories.bsky.social. And some dates for launches in Edinburgh and St Andrews, and at the Book Festival also, so come see me read... 1145
Reposted by Colin BramwellCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Congratulations to Colin Bramwell who has won the 2025 Highland Book Prize!🎉 He will receive a £2000 prize and a writing retreat at Moniack Mhor, close to Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. Congratulations Colin! Purchase your copy of Fower Pessoas:⬇️ www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464... 051
Reposted by Colin BramwellCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Next month, join us for a special Scottish Carcanet event with Topping & Company.⭐ The event will feature readings by three Scottish Carcanet poets: Anthony V. Capildeo, Jay Gao and Colin Bramwell. Find out more and get tickets:⬇️ www.carcanet.co.uk/events/an-ev... #ScottishPoetry 083
Reposted by Colin BramwellAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 30/06/2026Colin Bramwell’s FOWER PESSOAS has won the 2025 Duas Leabhair na Gàidhealtacht / Highland Book Prize “Colin Bramwell puts all four of [Fernando] Pessoa’s heteronyms into a present-day Scots-language vernacular, & so creates a parochial Pessoa for our own times” www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/winner/highlandbookprize.org.ukWinner - The Highland Book Prize | Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd‘Bold and Brilliant’, Fower Pessoas wins the 2025 Highland Book Prize Fower Pessoas by Colin Bramwell is the winner of the 2025 Highland Book Prize. Published by Carcanet, Fower Pessoas is a bold reim... 1179
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Trying to restrain myself from immediately descending into ugly bawling sentimentality. Some month! But it’s an honour. I couldn’t be happier at the idea that my stuff might appeal to writers and readers from my own homeplace. I’m grateful to judges, organisers, dream publisher Carcanet, all. 071
Reposted by Colin BramwellAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/06/2026It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet, when larks rose on long thin strings of singing and the air shifted with the shimmer of actual angels… —Alastair Reid (1926–2014), “Scotland” published in WEATHERING: Poems & Translations (EP Dutton, 1978) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry 36214
Reposted by Colin BramwellBill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I think this page went live on the @byleaveswelive.bsky.social’s website on Monday? A bunch o meh fellow makars aa speakin back tae or awa fae Grecht Shug o the MacDs, as curated by the skeely @brambrella.bsky.social www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots... #GiesAScotsPoemDayscottishpoetrylibrary.org.ukGies a Scots Poem Day 2026This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe... 042
Reposted by Colin BramwellCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Many congratulations to our poet Colin Bramwell, who has WON the 2026 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for his translation of Fernando Pessoa, Fower Pessoas! 🎉 Order your copy of Fower Pessoas here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464... 0111
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 15/06/2026A pleasure to go back to Ox for the Oxford Weidenfeld prize. Unexpectedly, Fower Pessoas won the prize and all. Its last Scottish/Scots winner was Edwin Morgan, for his translation of Racine's Phèdra, back in 2001 (also published by Carcanet). Here's what the judges had to say about mine: 192
Reposted by Colin BramwellAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/06/20262026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For #GiesAScotsPoemDay @brambrella.bsky.social invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...scottishpoetrylibrary.org.ukGies a Scots Poem Day 2026This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe... 085
Reposted by Colin BramwellScottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It's 'Gies a Scots Poem Day 2026', in partnership @handsupfortrad.bsky.social. We've commissioned 10 poets to respond to MacDiarmid’s 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' for the poem's 100th birthday! Find the poems and videos here www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots... #Giesascotspoemsdayscottishpoetrylibrary.org.ukGies a Scots Poem Day 2026This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe... 143
Reposted by Colin BramwellAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/06/2026Already shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize & the Scots Book o the Year, as well as being a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, FOWER PESSOAS by @brambrella.bsky.social has also just been shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/fower-pessoa...highlandbookprize.org.ukFower Pessoas, Colin Bramwell - The Highland Book Prize | Duais Leabhair na GàidhealtachdShortlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize Fower Pessoas is the most original work of translation that you will read this year: a bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry by an exciting next-gen... 052
Reposted by Colin BramwellJo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Fower Pessoas by @brambrella.bsky.social is one of my favourite discoveries this year - nice to see it getting some prize recognition You can read an excerpt here poems.com/poem/whit/ 182
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 09/06/2026An honour to be shortlisted for my local book prize alongside these wonders... 061
Reposted by Colin BramwellLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/04/2026‘The poems are something-nothing spaces in which anything might happen, and they frequently end with a feeling of incipience, readying themselves for a change in the weather.’ Matthew Bevis on New York School poet James Schuyler. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukMatthew Bevis · Wigging In: On James SchuylerSchuyler once told an interviewer that he didn’t write the kind of poetry that attracted critics. ‘It’s too easy... 071
Reposted by Colin BramwellCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Congratulations to @brambrella.bsky.social whose collection Fower Pessoas has been longlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize!🎉 This annual award celebrates literature that comes from the rich landscape and culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Well done to Colin!🎉 0111
Reposted by Colin BramwellAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 09/06/2025Beyond with Colin Bramwell and Gerda Stevenson 17 June, online – pay what you can @brambrella.bsky.social & Gerda Stevenson will read and discuss poems from BEYOND, the second & last English-language poetry collection by the late Aonghas MacNeacail www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2594...moniackmhor.org.uk2594 Online Highland Book Prize Event: Beyond with Colin Bramwell and Gerda Stevenson - Moniack MhorIn this special Highland Book Prize 2024 longlist event, Colin Bramwell and Gerda Stevenson will read and discuss poems from Beyond, the last English-language collection by the late Aonghas MacNeacail... 143
Reposted by Colin BramwellKathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Out now - a special Irish Pages on Scotland. Why Irish? Why have we no such journal of our own? 10 years since the referendum, we take stock. Cultural memory and (thanks be) new poets. irishpages.org/product/vol-...irishpages.orgVol. 12 No. 2: Scotland – The Irish Pages PressTen years after the Independence Referendum, Irish Pages asks diverse Scottish writers of distinction – established, mid-career and new – to think about their country, and take stock of the current st... 13012
Reposted by Colin BramwellAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 04/05/2025Celebrating the 2024 Highland Book Prize Longlist 14 May, Toppings & Co. Booksellers, St Andrews £10/£8, redeemable against featured books 3 poets – @brambrella.bsky.social, @niallpoetry.bsky.social, & Gerda Stevenson – celebrate 2 exceptional collections www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...toppingbooks.co.ukCelebrating the 2024 Highland Book Prize Longlist at Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews 073
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Some very kind words on Fower Pessoas from Paul Malgrati. 082
Reposted by Colin BramwellPaul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Finally took the time to read Colin Bramwell´s brilliant Scots translation of the great Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. Stuart Kelly called it a ‘modern Scots language masterpiece’ in The Scotsman: this isn’t an exaggeration. (1/3) 33012
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Blown away by this review of Fower Pessoas from Stuart Kelly. 072
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Heartening to see the general reaction to this poem from my latest: thanks to The Scotsman for selecting it as their poem of the week. 082
Reposted by Colin BramwellSkein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social · 01/04/2025What's all that about the cruellest month?! We don't think so! April kicks off with a brilliant poetry launch party in #Edinburgh this Friday feat. three exceptional poets: Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social, Patrick Romero McCafferty & Charles Lang! Join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-braw-p... 011
Reposted by Colin BramwellSkein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Couldn't make it to one of our launches of The Oasis in March? We've got you covered! Charles will be on tour across Scotland and Ireland in April. Join us in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Galway, Cork or Paisley for festival events, readings, conversations and more —see you there! 📙 #books #poetry 154
Reposted by Colin BramwellAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 19/03/2025Had I been less prepared, I would have left in springtime, when the plum tree in the yard was still in bloom, the windows open after months of snow, one magpie in the road and then another… —John Burnside, “The Night Ferry” published in the @lrb.co.uk, December 2020 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 37718
Reposted by Colin BramwellAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 19/03/2025Somewhere along this street, unknown to me, behind a maze of apple trees and stars, he rises in the small hours, finds a book… —John Burnside, “The Good Neighbour” THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR (Cape, 2005) Hear John Burnside read this poem on @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social poetryarchive.org/poem/good-ne... 1153
Reposted by Colin BramwellAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 16/03/2025Musician Grace Stewart-Skinner recorded interviews with residents of Avoch in the Black Isle & combined these with her own musical compositions to create Auchies Spikkin’ Auchie. The Avochie dialect combines elements of Scots & Gaelic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...bbc.co.ukThe young musician aiming to preserve a Black Isle dialectMusician Grace Stewart-Skinner is creating a music album to celebrate the fishing heritage of a Black Isle village 16126
Reposted by Colin BramwellAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 15/03/2025“I wanted to honour Scots in a dramatic, vocal context… I’ve tried to bring Pessoa to life in that new context – to embolden his characters, reimagining them a century later, dislocating them to a context more personal to me.” —Colin Bramwell on FOWER PESSOAS themadridreview.com/f/fower-pess...themadridreview.com'Fower Pessoas' by Colin Bramwell - a Q and A with the author“Each of us is several, is many, a profusion of selves,” wrote Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese writer. Today Carcanet Press release 'Fower Pessoas', a new collection from Colin Bramwell, which takes t... 0144
Reposted by Colin BramwellSkein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Stoked to see ‘New Shoes’ by Charles Lang, from his brilliant #poetry collection The Oasis, featured as Poem of the Week in today’s @scotsman.com! 👟🩶 “The Oasis is the real deal”, you heard it here first! 🤫 Pick up a copy of the paper for the full poem or treat yourself to a new book today! 📚 053
Reposted by Colin BramwellNorth Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 11/03/2025New post 📰 Lesley Harrison writes about the launch of 'Fower Pessoas' by Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social northseapoets.substack.com/p/at-the-lau... #NorthSeaPoets #Poetry 052
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Many thanks to Lesley Harrison of @northseapoets.bsky.social for her generous response to my Fower Pessoas. Great to see one more stack in the north sea. Theirs is well worth subscribing to - open.substack.com/pub/northsea...open.substack.comNorth Sea Poets | SubstackWe are a group of experienced poets based near the Scottish east coast. We run online masterclasses, and post here on poetry, poetics and the writing life. Click to read North Sea Poets, a Substack pu... 072
Reposted by Colin BramwellNorth Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 09/03/2025New post! @kathleenjamie.bsky.social explores the place of lyric poetry in a post-lyric world ✍️ #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryCommunitynorthseapoets.substack.comIs there a place for lyric poetry in a post-lyric world?Kathleen Jamie 052
Reposted by Colin BramwellSexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 07/03/2025And there’s also a big bunch of spoken word stuff that I produced with @strongmisgiving.bsky.social and featuring @brambrella.bsky.social, @ryanvance.bsky.social, @smaychel.bsky.social, @tyronelewis22.bsky.social and @seanwaikeung.bsky.social among otherspoetryasfuck.bandcamp.comPoetry As FuckWe are Poetry As F*ck. Do with that what you will. 022
Reposted by Colin BramwellCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025On Wednesday 5th March at 7pm, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Fower Pessoas by Colin Bramwell. The event will be hosted by Scottish Makar Peter Mackay and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A. Book your ticket here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nCHoh... 044
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Tonight's the night folks! Fower Pessoas Zoom launch, 7pm. I'll be reading from the book, and in conversation with Scotland's Makar, Peter Mackay. See you there! www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/even... 020
Reposted by Colin BramwellThe Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Live online launch of @brambrella.bsky.social new book, hosted by Peter Mackay, organised by @carcanet.bsky.social Info: www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/even... #online #launch #poetry 0113
Reposted by Colin BramwellCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 03/03/2025'Pessoa’s approach is either the last word in selfishness or the opposite - generous to a fault.' @brambrella.bsky.social interviewed about his new book Fower Pessoas, for The Madrid Review: themadridreview.com/f/fower-pess...themadridreview.com'Fower Pessoas' by Colin Bramwell - a Q and A with the author“Each of us is several, is many, a profusion of selves,” wrote Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese writer. Today Carcanet Press release 'Fower Pessoas', a new collection from Colin Bramwell, which takes t... 093
Reposted by Colin BramwellKathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025North Sea Poets is live! We offer online masterclasses, webinars, workshops for poets everywhere (novice or adept) and readers, because poems sing in the dark times. Hope you'll join us. Pls see website. Do share. northseapoets.com 🌊 @northseapoets.bsky.social 07232
Reposted by Colin BramwellJohn Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Posted before but time to post it again: 34616
Reposted by Colin BramwellDustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 28/02/2025Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 392347194523
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Happy publication day to my latest volume, Fower Pessoas. To say I'm a little emotional would be an understatement. Finally, this wee thing I've worked on for ages gets released. Here's another poem from the book, then. 121
Reposted by Colin BramwellCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Happy publication to our February books! 🎉 🌰 Fourth and Walnut by Jeremy Over 👓 Fower Pessoas by Colin Bramwell 📃 Cancer by Tom Raworth For just a few more days, you can still use the code JNFB2025 for 20% off and free UK P&P - order now at carcanet.co.uk! 🌰👓📃 0101
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Delightful to be interviewed about Fower Pessoas by the wonderful Madrid Review. The magazine is well worth your time - a high quality of work contained within. 052
Reposted by Colin BramwellTarn MacArthur @tarnnation.bsky.social · 25/02/2025My poem ‘Climbing to Seefin Passage Tomb on Summer Solstice’, which is an homage to my late mentor John Burnside, has just been published in the Times Literary Supplement. Please have a read. www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/o...the-tls.co.uk'Climbing to Seefin Passage Tomb on Summer Solstice' by Tarn MacArthuri.m. John Burnside No one knows what calls us, days like this that seem to stretch all sense of reason: the hillside scrub abuzz with silver-washed and dark green fritillary, the red grouse and hare, ... 4318
