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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks! It's pretty cool to have an expert here that knows these things

Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks @carinr.bsky.social , does that mean Trinity College Library are wrong here? And is there a distinction between insular majuscule and insular half uncial or is it just preference?

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks! 'Equinoctial' - what a great word.

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Alec MacKinnon @alecmackinnon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A beautiful, equinoctial morning in Linn Park, Glasgow this morning, Sun heading south, leaves beginning to fall. This poem, attached by @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social to a fence beside the path from the Snuff Mill Bridge, seemed to have sprung from the cusp between summer and autumn

Late summer morning light filtering through trees, still green and leafy but with lots of brown leaves now on the bank underneath them, to the right, and on the path at left

Poem by Emily Dickinson, 'As Imperceptibly as Grief', in beautiful handwriting on a laminated card, attached to a fence in a shady spot in Linn Park. At the top of the card we're told the Instagram and Blue sky accounts of @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They accept the double yellows are there for good reason, but luckily there's a way to park without obstructing motor traffic and that's all that matters

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Walked past this today.

Wendell Berry: "... stay away from screens" beautifully calligraphed in front of an ad-screen on Pollokshaws Road.

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This time by the (very much at risk) Victorian greenhouses at Queen's Park, Glasgow. A slightly longer excerpt from Wendell Berry's How to Be a Poet in September sunshine in insular majuscule script #calligraphy

Lines from How to Be a Poet by Wendell Berry, tied to a fence, in insular majuscule calligraphy

The calligraphy poetry, zoomed out with path, fence and ribbons tied to it

The view in the other direction, with the Victorian church (now pub) visible behind trees

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

From "How to Be a Poet" by Wendell Berry, who died last week at 92. On Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow, in front of billboard screens and McDonalds that I don't think he would've approved of, but in front of Scottish Ballet, Tramway arts centre, and Secret Garden which hopefully he would.

Lines from from "How to Be a Poet" by Wendell Berry, written in foundational script calligraphy, by a pavement barrier at night, with advertising lights behind.

The poem in the foreground but zoomed out and unreadable, a car in the street at night behind

A view down the street at night with arts centre on the left and church

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Emily Dickinson’s ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ on a fence near Mill #19 on White Cart Water Walkway thanks 🙏 to @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"As imperceptibly as grief / The summer lapsed away" - from the poem named after the first line by Emily Dickinson. I'm feeling it today, the weather's still nice but it doesn't feel like proper summer anymore. The walkway along the West side of the River Cart in Linn Park, #Glasgow #calligraphy

"As imperceptibly as grief" by Emily Dickinson, written in foundational hand calligraphy, tied to a fence in Linn Park in Glasgow.

Woodland path in Linn Park Glasgow, with "As imperceptibly as grief" by Emily Dickinson, written in foundational hand calligraphy, tied to a fence.

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

And he will get to drive again - only banned for 10 years. Even Paul Doyle didn't get a lifetime ban after deliberately driving in to a crowd and a history of explosive violence. I don't understand why permanently removing someone's right to drive is so unthinkable

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Have you ever made it through the gates? I'd love to do that sometime, I don't know if it's possible

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

June Wind by Wendell Berry, at one of my favourite places in #Glasgow - Queen's Park flagpole. #Calligraphy #poetry in foundational hand

June Wind by Wendell Berry, written in calligraphy, with Queens Park and Glasgow skyline in the background

Close up of the poem, June Wind by Wendell Berry, written in calligraphy

Close up of the poem, June Wind by Wendell Berry, written in calligraphy, with Queens Park and Glasgow skyline in the background

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Tied to a fence on a blocked off path in Linn Park on the Southside of Glasgow. You've got to love a city where people take it upon themselves to go around doing things like this! #glasgow #linnpark #peoplemakeglasgow #poetry #streetart #streetpoetry #robertfrost

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Sounds, by Norman Bissel, on the little island of #Grimsay between N #Uist and #Benbecula. They have turned their old telephone box in to a community library and noticeboard, which is wonderful. #Calligraphy #poetry in foundational hand Tha mi duilich, cha robh bardachd #Gàidhlig agam an diugh.

The phone box with door open, showing bookshelves and notice board

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The door barely opens and is kept shut by a rock, the phone box is due to be removed but I suspect BT aren't in a hurry to send the engineers round. So who knows how long it could be up for

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Guilbneach le Murchadh Dòmhnallach / Curlew by Murdo Macdonald Seann bhothan-fòn, Baile Mòr, Uibhist a Tuath In an old phone box in Balemore, North #Uist #Gaelic #poetry with English translation, #calligraphy in foundational hand

The poem next to payphone and a sign saying the payphone will be removed

The old phone box by a single track road

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Good idea. I had to Google 'Ungulates' though, not a word I've ever heard before

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

That's good to know, thanks. I've heard people say things are happening but couldn't find any news from Google. I guess after nearly 5 years we can't be optimistic of quick progress

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The fence on the Snuff Mill side doesn't look like it's doing much, but sadly they do make the only accessible entrance here inaccessible to those who need it most👩‍🦽🤱🚴(lacking a pushchair emoji)

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The opening lines to “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, at either end of the path in to #LinnPark in #Glasgow from Cathcart that’s been closed since 2021 due to a landslide, with foundational hand #calligraphy, #poetry

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, tied to the fence at the Linn park side of the closed Cathcart route in to the Park, close enough to read the text: "
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth"

Poem tied to the fence at the Linn park side of the closed Cathcart route in to the Park, from further away with curved path visible

At the Snuff Mill Bridge entrance, picture taken from further back so fences was and danger signs are visible

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Donncha ar Imeall an Domhain @kingdonncha1.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Guilbneach an t-ainm atá an éan sin i nGàidhlig. (Éan eile a bhfuil cosa fada agus gob fada air atá sa ghuilbneach Gaeilge.) @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It looks like I should - any you'd recommend? I hadn't expected any to still be up a year later, most don't make it anywhere close, but a few do survive long enough for lightfastness to be worth worrying about

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Cùm a' dol (keep going), on the long uphill slog of the South City #cycle way where such motivation is needed. On Pollokshaws Road, #Glasgow #Gàidhlig #calligraphy

Cùm a' dol (keep going), written in calligraphy, attached to a lamppost next to a cycle lane

Cùm a' dol (keep going), written in calligraphy, attached to a lamppost next to a cycle lane, from further away

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

And miraculously still up over a year later, faded but still legible. This feels like an experiment in ink lightfastness

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Sadly this disappeared within a few days, the quickest of all I've posted. Which is a shame because it would be such a good location

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Unlike most poems posted here, this somehow lasted over a year without being taken down - instead fading away underneath its laminated cover until I took it down. Poem, like collapsed tree and, now removed

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Yeah he's a man and turned his university lectures in to a podcast. Interesting to know he's not the only Tolkien lecturer, I love the idea of proving yourself with a Middle Earth map first

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

That sounds pretty cool. Was the Tolkien class with Corey Olsen? Just because I don't think classes on Tolkien are a common thing

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Epiphany by Margaret Tait, posted at the Queen's Park flagpole in Glasgow to give hope for sunlight to come on a wet and miserable winter morning. I meant to post it last week on the actual day of Epiphany but ice got in the way.

Epiphany by Margaret Tait, in foundational hand calligraphy

Photo of the poem at Queen's Park flagpole, with Glasgow buildings visible in the distance

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Thanks for posting! I'm surprised it's lasted there that long

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Larkin meets Thomson at the Caledonia Road Church, Glasgow, 20th October 2025. #alexandergreekthomson #agt #glasgow #churches (@calligraphyoutside.bsky.social) more on ALT

(From HES Portal) Alexander Thomson 1856. Church and hall on gusset site, burnt out 1965. Banded ashlar on polygonal masonry base.

South elevation: temple front raised over ground floor banded masonry podium with 2 boldly detailed corniced doorpieces with Greek motifs and antifixae. Original wooden doors. Ionic pedimented hexastyle portico above.

East elevation: banded masonry and 3 blank corniced windows with discs. Low door at north end. Only 1-bay of gallery level remains.

West elevation: 1-storey hall with 9 pilastered windows, now blank and 2 doors in architraves and frieze under small paired windows. The doors are concrete replicas of wooden doors. Tall square tower of banded masonry with 3 narrow openings near the top, a lantern and cross. Small section of cast iron railings at base. Rear wall modern. Interior gutted.

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Grove, by Margaret Tait (1918-1999), a Scottish poet and filmmaker. On a tree felled by storm Eowyn earlier this year at the iron age earthworks in Queens Park #Glasgow on this sunny day before the solstice. #calligraphy #poetry

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Morrisons could be better - only 2 bike racks, well used and often full so the trolley bay railings get used instead; within a big car park that I've never seen full and was resurfaced 2(?) years ago which must've been expensive. Still, better than Asda who clearly hate cyclists

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Callanish I (in the village of the same name) is the biggest and most famous of the Callanish sites but there are almost 20 others nearby including several smaller stone circles

Callanish I stone circle on the Isle of Lewis

Callanish VIII stone circle on the Isle of Bernera, with the bridge to Lewis in the background

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Earann à 'guthan chalanais' le Aonghas MacNeacail #Gàidhlig From 'callanish voices' by Aonghas MacNeacail. #Gaelic #poetry + English translation. Air an rathad eadar Calanais IV agus Calanais VIII, Eilean Leòdhais. On the road between Callanish IV and Callanish VIII, Isle of Lewis. #calligraphy

guthan chalanais, by Aonghas MacNeacail, written in foundational calligraphy

Old red telephone box by a road on the Isle of Lewis

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Guilbneach le Murchadh Dòmhnallach, ann an seann bhothan-fòn, ann an Taobh Tuath, anns na Hearadh. #Gàidhlig Curlew by Murdo Macdonald, in an old phone box in the village of Northton, Isle of #Harris. #Gaelic #poetry with English translation. #calligraphy

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Thanks! You're the first person to post here having definitely found it in the real world rather than online so this has made me very happy

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A’ Chiad Òran le Pòl MacAonghais / The first song by Paul MacInnes, #Gaelic #poetry with English translation, under an appropriately cavern like railway arch between #Gorbals Street and Laurieston Road near the revamped Citizens Theatre in #Glasgow #calligraphy #gàidhlig

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I have to tell you, by Dorothea Grossman in an old red K6 phone box with a beautiful view of Arthur's Seat, on Regent Road #Edinburgh. #poetry #calligraphy

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Now reposted at #QueensPark #Glasgow, Langside Road entrance - it got damaged where it was. #poetry #calligraphy

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

An extract from Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley, at a bridge over the burn at Pollok Park playing fields in #Glasgow with a modified foundational script #calligraphy #poetry #pollokpark

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It's hard not to say something about how appropriate the name "Mossman" turned out to be

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Is it derelict? Anything happening to it?

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This, like the other work posted so far, is in the foundational script - developed by Edward Johnston at the start of the 20th century but based on the Carolingian minuscule script from the 9th and 10th century

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

March weather by Tessa Ransford, 1938-2015, Scottish Poetry Library (byleaveswelive.bsky.social) founder, in Auldhouse Park #Glasgow on a beautiful spring morning #calligraphy #poetry #Scottishpoetry

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

They are fantastic, a real Glasgow hidden gem

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

On a Tree Fallen Across the Road by Robert Frost, where a tree was recently felled by Storm Éowyn in Cathkin Park #Glasgow #poetry #calligraphy

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