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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

💚 #moniackmhoronline where I'll share about #mentoring & #writing #poetry alongside brilliant @johnglenday.bsky.social my mentor / companion in readying 'The Bone Folder' for publication. Join us online 23.01.26. Pay-as-you-are-able booking bit.ly/4p2kpE9 @asls.org.uk @byleaveswelive.bsky.social

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

❤ Saltire Book Awards Immense thanks to the judges for their generous readings of 'The Bone Folder', and to everyone who has been part of shaping the poems that fill it; all of you who have read and given time to those words.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

In the midst of all the other wondrous poetry news, I was so pleased to have been shortlisted in this year's #Bridport #Poetry Prize. There were some outstanding poets on the list & an astounding winner, placed and commended poets' list too. Immense congratulations to all!

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Gorgeous to see 'The Bone Folder' shortlisted in the 'The Saltires' #Book Awards. Thanks to my publishers Drunk Muse Press & to each of you for your encouragement. All #poems would be lonely without their readers 💚 Good luck to everyone shortlisted 🙌 @asls.org.uk @byleaveswelive.bsky.social

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Amazed & delighted to be on the longlist for *The Saltire Society’s National Book Awards* in the #Poetry category, debut section. Congratulations to all of the wonderous writers who have been listed & immense thanks to the whole more-than-a-village of folk who've helped raise these poems 💖

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

North North folk & people travelling in #Sutherland & #Caithness & friends Join me & Nadine Malcom & Lee McNeish of *Common Ground* at Melness Hall, Saturday 20 September, 2pm. #Poetry #stories imagining more possible futures. Free. Hope & cake galore. See image for details 👇

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Kathleen Madigan's * #Poetry Now * podcast on #Highland Hospital Radio is a gem. Engaging; thoughtful, healing. Featured poets include @johnglenday.bsky.social Pàdraig MacAoidh / Peter Mackay, Lydia Harris, Leonie Charlton. I've managed to stow away in there too. hhr.scot/show/hhr-sho...

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Poetry Now - Highland Hospital Radio

Conversations with poets and writers in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and beyond.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

What a treat to have won the McLellan #Poetry Prize. Thanks to judge Jim Carruth, Arran Theatre & Arts Trust & the whole ecology of poets - encouragers; editors; mentors, dearest peers. My grateful poem is here www.arrantheatreandarts.co.uk/_files/ugd/a... @asls.org.uk @byleaveswelive.bsky.social

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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

“If we don’t explore the past, then how can we understand the journey that has brought us to where we are? This too – tracing the route – is a form of recovery.” ~ James Robertson (2025) irishpages.org/product/vol-... @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social @scottishpen.bsky.social

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 29/07/2025

A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles Alone in the gaunt reedbed – Tiny silversmith Working late in the evening… —Norman MacCaig, “July evening” published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009) #poetry #poem birlinn.co.uk/product/the-...

July evening
Norman MacCaig

A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles
Alone in the gaunt reedbed –
Tiny silversmith
Working late in the evening.

I sit and listen. The rooftop
With a quill of smoke stuck in it
Wavers against the sky
In the dreamy heat of summer.

Flowers’ closing time: bee lurches
Across the hayfield, singing
And feeling its drunken way
Round the air’s invisible corners.

And grass is grace. And charlock
Is gold of its own bounty.
The broken chair by the wall
Is one with immortal landscapes.

Something has been completed
That everything is part of,
Something that will go on
Being completed forever.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It's an honour & a beautiful thing to have been invited to become *Poet in Residence* for the @insuhi.bsky.social this place of learning; research & its people, so dear to me & immensely formative in my writing of poetry in & of the Highlands & Islands www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...

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Research - Poet in Residence

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Oh this is so good, and so necessary 👇

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Join us, five poets setting ashore: Saturday 5 July, 7pm, in #Strontian for new #poems, conviviality, music, book signing & for free. Come North, come West, sail the Whale Road; we'd love to see you 💚 @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @asls.org.uk

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A gem from James Wright, uncovered by @johnglenday.bsky.social who always shares such wondrous poems - Blue Sky highlights!

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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🎤 NEW PODCAST! The latest Nothing But The Poem podcast is a Norman MacCaig special. @samueltongue.bsky.social takes a deep dive into two of the most famous poems by one of Scotland's most beloved poets to see what lay beneath the bonnet. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...

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Nothing But The Poem - Norman MacCaig

In this episode of Nothing But The Poem podcast, our usual host Samuel Tongue goes in deep on two weel kent poems by Norman MacCaig, one of Scotland’s most loved and influential poets. Norman MacCaig ...

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Join me:Thursday 12 June, 2-3pm, for a free online Shared #Reading hour. We'll look at work by POC, LGBT+ writers & writers with disabilities, & work in translation, in this gentle, guided session. Click below to register. It will be lovely to see you there. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/off-the-be...

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Off the Beaten Track Shared Reading on Zoom

Get Off the Beaten Track with Shared Reading on Zoom

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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I didn’t expect to see my face and poem at the reception desk of Inverness Central Library this evening. A fine evening listening to poetry and song hosted by the ever joyous @kittyjomac.bsky.social

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Join me on 22 May, 2pm (BST) for an hour of Shared Reading, online. We'll be exploring work by POC, LGBT+ & disabled writers, as well as work in translation, in this gentle, guided session; part of the programme offered by @openbookreading.bsky.social 📖 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/off-the-be...

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Off the Beaten Track Shared Reading on Zoom

Get Off the Beaten Track with Shared Reading on Zoom

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This will be a luminous week ✨ with outstanding guides @marjorielotfi.bsky.social & @niallpoetry.bsky.social & all the goodness of Galloway leaning into us. For all who are in the practice of #writing, of #poems #Retreat, Galloway House, 14-19 September. Click below for more details & booking 👇

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It's an honour to have my wee poem 'Return' featured alongside the tender writing of Tom Murray in this month's Open Book Podcast, with the luminous @marjorielotfi.bsky.social & @claireurquhart.bsky.social ✨ soundcloud.com/openbookun..... The poem: openbookreading.com/wp-content/u...

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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

After Whistler by Lisel Mueller. Perhaps based on Symphony in White No. 1?

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Here's a look at the next #NorthSeaPoets webinars 🧑‍💻 Get all the details and book at northseapoets.com/events 🌊 #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

A description of the next North Sea Poets webinars.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

That dear 'loveless moon' of Norman McCaig's, putting the heart over in me this #EarthDay

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

#Cromarty will fill with a wheen of writers & musicians 23-24 May, celebrating #HughMiller folklorist, geologist, paleantologist, essayist, sennachie; person of many pairts. I look forward to sharing my #poems there, along with @gillshawwrites.bsky.social @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social & many more 👇

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

It would be a treat to see you at #Stirling Central Library, this Thursday 17 April, 5.30pm-6.45pm, where I'll be reading with the wonders: @charliegracie.bsky.social @moraganderson.bsky.social & Chris Powici of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social We will bring books to sign as well. Bring friends, do.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

My heart raised to the lift reading this Afterword by @kathleenjamie.bsky.social in 'The Keelie Hawk'. I cherish the peedie groatie buckies of #Scots when minding friends: their sheeksin, clypes & douce tones; in the names of places & all the life in them, welcome as the whaup that brings the voar.

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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

WED 16 APRIL @SPL Donald S Murray presents "Tales of a Cosmic Crofter," his new collection inspired by Gaelic songs and his Lewis upbringing. Mark Vernon Thomas unveils "For All the Ghosts that Live in Me," his deeply personal exploration of inner landscapes. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seahorse-p...

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Seahorse Publications Launch

Donald S. Murray and Mark Vernon Thomas launching new collections 'Tales of a Cosmic Crofter' and 'For All the Ghosts That Live In Me'

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

New post on #Substack 📰 'Out of the Marvellous' – Lesley Harrison on the last of the Celtic bards #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

A description of Lesley Harrison's latest Substack piece set against a photo of an old stone structure in a grassy field with bright blue sky in the background.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Pause, and read...

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

‪Tonight, 8 April #Kincraig #Cairngorm #ScottishHighlands I'll share #poems & speak about the making of 'The Bone Folder' at the #Storylands Sessions Show. Begins 7pm. Booking essential 👇 #music #SpokenWord #tradition badenochstorylands.com/storylands-s... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/storylands...

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Storylands Sessions Show

The Storylands Sessions are a series of music and storytelling events in Badenoch led by musician, Hamish Napier, and writer, Merryn Glover.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I'm bringing 'The Bone Folder' #poems to #Stirling Central Library, Thursday 17 April, 5.30pm. Join me & these luminous guest readers moraganderson.bsky.social charliegracie.bsky.social & Chris Powici of paperboatswriters.bsky.social FREE but do book as space is limited 👇 fb.me/e/7Oq06RNTR #poetry

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

A gorgeous gift for Huntigowk or Cuckoo's Day, #AprilFools Will Pittam's #poem in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social 🪶

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Lucent writing from #Angela_Cheveau & @clareshawpoet.bsky.social sharing on the experiences of mentoring & being mentored; the wondrous gift of companionship, guidance borne out of the generosity of one who has walked (written) a part of the way before 🙌 #poetry open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

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"Choosing someone you trust with your words is the most important thing you can do. It is also the most valuable."

The poetry mentoring relationship, by Angela Cheveau

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This beautiful poem by Katharine Towers in the latest @poetrylondon.bsky.social is just stunning.

Katharine Towers The Lark Ascending
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The lark ascended when my father died We sat quictly in our pews as the notes took hold of the soul, at frst tugging firmly (the soul not wanting to leave), then lifting up with X sound like a soft click. Then the lark could see cverything: the lowlands where we were crying and above the pointed bluc sky. The lark's notes were like threads or like stitches. They gathered together, then drifted apart and trickled down to start again the upward toil, carrying the soul in its extremc heaviness. The lark could sce that we werc only very small that the lowlands were flat and dull. The lark could scarcely bear the wcight of the soul but still he sang as he falteringly lifted and lapsed., falteringly lapsed and lifted Then we could not see the lark at all although we could hcar the high clcan notes which dropped down upon us like rain falling from a cloud that is not there.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

' after the feeding was done and the gas glow extinguished, we would discover that second surprise of parenthood. Almost as strange to me as the heater was the sound of my own voice, singing ... I sang and – I feel now – I explained myself to my own child. Explained my love as much as my doubts.' 🙌

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If you are in #Glasgow on Saturday 29 March, come for #poems, for #peace: Quaker Meeting House, Glasgow, G2 4PS, 3-5pm 💚👇 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/gla...

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

#Kincraig Storylands Sessions are luminous ceilidhs of the moment & I'm delighted to be featured guest on Tuesday 8 April, 7-9.30pm. The theme is Gleusadh #Gàidhlig for mending & tuning. Bring a song; story; #poem your open hearts. Details & booking 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/storylands....

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Storylands Sessions Show

The Storylands Sessions are a series of music and storytelling events in Badenoch led by musician, Hamish Napier, and writer, Merryn Glover.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I'm bringing 'The Bone Folder' #poems to #Stirling 'gateway to the Highlands' 💚 Join me & these luminous guest readers @moraganderson.bsky.social @charliegracie.bsky.social & Chris Powici of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social at Central Library Thursday 17 April, 5.30pm. FREE but do book your seat 👇

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This poem by @taylor-strickland.bsky.social published in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social in which Dunkeld is both the particular at that specific moment, and the everywhere and in all times that we can feel places to be; welcoming us back from our uneasiness in this shoogled world to belong, again

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 24/03/2025

Fiona Larkin is the winner of the National Poetry Competition 2024 for ‘Absence has a grammar’. Fiona Larkin’s debut collection, Rope of Sand, was published by Pindrop Press in 2023. The title poem was highly commended in the Forward Prizes. Her pamphlets are Vital Capacity (...)

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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

To celebrate #WorldPoetryDay here's Scotland's Makar, Peter Mackay, reading 'Apple' (English language version)

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If you are in or near #Edinburgh on Saturday 22 March, it would be lovely to welcome you to this evening of #poetry #music & #conversation. Starting 7pm, FREE, more information & link to booking below 👇 @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I'm on a break from the chemo- & radio-therapies that have been keeping me going during the last 3 years & feeling more myself, I've 💖ed bringing 'The Bone Folder', my wee #poetry book, to new ears. Here's a recording of the CVLP New Books Showcase, which was a delight ✨ youtu.be/AQELu4Vx81I?...

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Cultivating Voices New Books Showcase - 9Mar2025

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

#Edinburgh & Edinburgh-close folk, please do join us for an evening of #poetry #music & conversation: 22 March, 7pm - 9pm at The Fruitmarket Gallery. Free, but booking will ensure your seat ✨

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

www.northseapoets.com/events/poetr... At North Sea Poets we offer one-off events but also a 7-week long course: Poetry Fundamentals. Taught by all 7 of us in turn. Places limited to 25.

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Poetry Fundamentals - A Seven-Week Course Taught by the North Sea Poets | North Sea Poets

A series of seven classes, each one delivered weekly by a different member of North Sea Poets, with a Q&A at the end of each session.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

There is so much delight about this new venture already (only a day after launching); such a resource for all who are getting themselves involved in #poetry & so, also, for the world. Head over to @northseapoets.bsky.social northseapoets.com to find a whole nurture of resources 💚

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North Sea Poets | Poetry Masterclasses

Discover poetry masterclasses, seminars and explorations of the writing life with the North Sea Poets.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

'A Dove Has Spread Her Wings And Asks for #Peace', Maria Prymachenko, 1982, #Ukrainian Artist (1909-1997)

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Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Delightful 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.

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