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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Not a bad spot to be in, sequencing poems for my next collection at the shores of Loch Broom (collection will be published by Cinnamon Press in Spring 2026)

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Another top Zoom writing hour from @clareshawpoet.bsky.social & @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social and these borrowed books arrived in the snowy post - some of the poets that were discussed in writing hours. Thank you Scottish Poetry Library ❤️📚

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A beautiful walk at Achnahaird Beach - Assynt is so lovely especially with the mountains dusted with snow ❤️

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Having a wee break at the shores of Loch Broom - it’s a beautiful winter wonderland - snow still falling ❄️❤️

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Beautiful Ben Wyvis, my neighbour mountain in the Scottish Highlands - sunrise and sunset today ❄️

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

These two books on my wee current reading pile are perfectly paired - owls, blackbirds and so much more - memoir and poetry - thank you for nourishing my brain @wendypratt.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

It is Fibonacci Day - here’s a wonderful poem by Michael Donaghy

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

And what can be better than books and dogs

Flo - black Labrador and Summer - yellow/red fox Labrador in the snow in the Scottish Highlands

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Good morning from the snowy Highlands ☃️❄️

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A Sunday back ‘home, home’ - the gorgeous Lunan Bay beach in Angus, Scotland 💛

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

New writing courses are up at #MoniackMhor for next year - online and residential. I’ve attended a fair few and they are brilliant. Signed up for the Helen Mort and @johnglenday.bsky.social course - see some of you poets there?

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

After weeks of lurgy the dogs and me made it to our local beach (Chanonry Point, Highlands). It was glorious 💛🖤🌊🌞

Dogs at beach, yellow Lab in water, Black Lab on shore

Chanonry Point Beach looking towards Rosemarkie

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

What a night at St Mungos Mirrorball - zooming in - my favourite poet headlining - Niall Campbell

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Flo checking in for Friday. She is my absolute lifesaver but deteriorating in her senior years. She’s a great poetry listener too, always my go to when I’m reading a new poem out loud 🖤

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Hoping for some light at the end of the tunnel. This was ‘my’ wee Highland woods this morning 🍂

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

In one of our favourite places - a few days away in beautiful Argyll ❤️💛🖤

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Yay a poetry acceptance yesterday and sun in the north for a beach walk - Flo n Summer helping themselves to the high tide sushi bar

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Trying to get the hang of this blue sky again now that the beloved bird seems to have been burned. Here’s a Highland red sky from the other night.

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Haven’t been on here for ages - seeking sympathy for cracked ribs and a sore leg! Had a spectacular fall a few days ago so on prescription drugs but they aren’t really cutting it. Send hugs! Here’s Summer with snowdrops at Rosehaugh Estate in the Black Isle x

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

A beautiful icy walk to Loch Glass and the Pink House this morning. Slightly took the sting out of my first poetry rejection of the year.

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Happy Hogmanay from my wee Highland corner (with added dolphins today). I hope 2024 is kind to you.

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

On this shortest of days in my wee Highland corner, how lovely to see my first rainbow cloud from the living-room window. I’m too ill to venture out but this brightened the afternoon

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

I have Covid / don’t know if I’ll make home for Christmas/ then I moaned on the other place and an exiled Ukrainian poet pal wished me well - what right do I have for moaning. Then a pal is having her dog being put to sleep tomorrow. I loved him. I’ll stop moaning. Sending hugs to everyone I can x

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

At Moniack Mhor for the week. Such a treat to be in the company of poetry pals and tutors @johglenday.bsky.social and Marjorie Lotfi. Peter Sansom gave us a treat of a reading yesterday. I’m in a wee corner of poetry heaven.

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

All the blues down in the village today 💙

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Autumn now Winter in my wee Highland corner - every leaf scrap blown away in a night of high winds. There’s a poem in there somewhere.

Four dogs running in leaves with bare trees overhead

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Checking out the Arbroath Abbey scriptorium with a meet n greet from residency poets @johnglenday.bsky.social John Glenday and Sean Wai Keung

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Glorious autumn in the Highlands

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Delighted to have a Scots poem on the front cover of the new issue of Poetry Scotland. It’s about the time that C and I climbed Slioch and laid a stone on the top cairn in memory of my lovely Mum after she died.

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

A horrible day in the Black Isle with remnants of Storm Babet - but a wee bit hope in a sliver of sunset

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Good evening from here - Black Isle sunset

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Poets and authors if you’re thinking of applying for the Cinnamon Press literature award then do. I won it in 2020 & it changed my life - debut poetry collection published with Cinnamon Press in 2022 & I’ll have another collection out with them in 2026 cinnamonpress.com/literature-a...

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Snow in the Highlands, winter is coming

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Been back in the hometown with Flo dog. So lovely to be back in the Black Isle home to be greeted by C, Summer and an acceptance from Poetry Scotland - yay. They had 400 subs so taking that as a win

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Sometimes all you need is a bench, sisters and a Flo dog ❤️❤️🖤

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Gosh - 2 years since my lovely cover reveal for my current poetry collection. I don’t have a title for my new collection (out with Cinnamon Press in 2026) - if you have time can you comment below with which you like best out of Night Lines/Swimming for Light/ Gifted into Rain/If We Were Like Bears

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 08/09/2023