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Mair MacLeod

@mairmacleod.bsky.social
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🌲TRANSPIRATION (ignitionpress, 2025) ✨poet, writer, 1/2 of crisp packet poetry 🥔 📍glasgow 🖋️recent writing at the link below ➡️ linktr.ee/mairmacleod

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/08/2026
‘The heritage of a civic arts centre belongs to the community it serves. Before it went into voluntary liquidation on 30 January, the CCA was a publicly funded, multidisciplinary arts institution.’ Helen Charman on Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/au...
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Helen Charman | Save the CCA
The entire contents of the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow were auctioned off by a commercial asset sales...
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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What is poetry to an American right now beyond identity politics
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
MER IN THE POETRY REVIEW! MER IN THE POETRY REVIEW! summer issue! cold climate poem! ft. curiosity around interpersonal intimacy, climate anxiety, and orcas! poem displayed lovingly in 27° scotland summer sun! thank u Wayne & Poetry Review Team for publishing with care 🤍🙏 @poetrysociety.org.uk
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 02/07/2026
The Summer 2026 issue of The Poetry Review (116:2) is out now, featuring new poetry from Rachael Boast, Jemma Borg, Sean Borodale, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, Ishion Hutchinson, Tim Liardet, Claudia Roquette-Pinto (translated by Stefan Tobler), Chloe Stopa-Hunt and Evan Wang among many others.
The cover image of the Summer 2026 issue of The Poetry Review. The image is a detail from Ally Fallon, In My Beginning is My End (2025). It features a green titled wall and a black white tiled floor.
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
pleased (& honoured!) to have a poem in the new issue of @ballastjournal.bsky.social along with so many other brilliant poets I admire! thanks to editors sara and jacob for taking my poem, & for the effort of curating & amplifying literary work!
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
bc World Ocean Day 💙🫍
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“you joined the gang of neighborhood kids roving down to the softball field confession stand” My piece, “Summer of the Malaprops” is live today at @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social along with a really killer lineup www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026
Full
House
Literary
2026
ISSUE 1
POETRY- PROSE - HYBRID - ART
FEATURING:
JOHN ADLAM • NOBLE ALOBU • KHAYELIHLE BENGHU • ALEX CARRIGAN •
JORDYN DAMATO • MEREDITH MACLEOD DAVIDSON • PETER DEVONALD •
MALINA DOUGLAS • JEREMY GILES • RACE HARISH • ANDREW HILMES • GP HYDE •
EMILY JASTER • FRANCES KLEIN • NEETHU KRISHNAN • HELEN LAYCOCK •
CHRISTIAN HANZ LOZADA • ASH MAIELLE • LOUISE MATHER • PATRICK MCEVOY •
CHINYERE OBASI • OUMAYMA OUEGHLANI • TAMMY PIETERSON • REN PIKE •
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Foglifter Press & Journal @foglifterpress.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Now available on our site: the ebook for Issue 10.2! We sold out of this issue so quickly that we're upping our print run for Issue 11.1, so thank you for subscribing to Foglifter and supporting queer and trans literature! 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/shop-102
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It's issue day! This issue is full of incredibly creative, raw, and vivid pieces. A huge thanks to everyone who sent in work this window, and a super huge thank you to all the contributors! Cover image: Edward Michael Supranowicz You can check it out here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026
Issue 1 2026, Full House Literary. John Adlam, Noble Alobu, Khayelihle Benghu, Alex Carrigan, Jordyn Damato, Meredith MacLeod Davidson, Peter Devonald, Malina Douglas, Jeremy Giles, Race Harish, Andrew Hilmes, GP Hyde, Emily Jaster, Frances Klein, Neethu Krishnan, Helen Laycock, Christian Hanz Lozada, Ash Maielle, Louise Mather, Patrick McEvoy, Chinyere Obasi, Oumayma Oueghlani, Tammy Pieterson, Ren Pike, Kait Quinn, Tiziana Rasile, Christine C. Rivero-Guisinga, Edward Michael Supranowicz, River Vetter, Anna Wayne.
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Belated on this issue drop / major thanks to @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for publishing my first poem of 2026 🫶🫶🫶
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Cataloguing 2025 (media recs)
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
remarkable
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Thank you @petrichorlit.bsky.social for the nomination 😍 You can read the nominated poem here: petrichormag.com/26-meredith-... (best read on desktop)
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#26 – Meredith MacLeod Davidson – petrichor
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Annulet @annulet.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Hello! Here’s the first of some forthcoming updates—the Critical Circle is on! Send your application between today and June 15th. Time for discourse in July!
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“being a human is so baseline sometimes. It’s just fuckin toast stuck in the toaster.” - gentian rhosa
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I've a new piece up in Jet Fuel Review, a work of short fiction exploring medical misogyny, embodied anxiety, and the struggles of interpersonal intimacy throughout climate collapse. I'd love you for life if you gave it a read. Many thanks to the JFR team!!! www.jetfuelreview.com/meredith-mac...
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Meredith MacLeod Davidson Spring 2025
Hysteric       TUESDAY                 They arrived at the shore in the night, mist marring the coastal highway, puddles lying in wait, cellphone flashlights hurriedly flicked on to...
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
the Vinted icon changed to a shade just ever so slightly darker and it’s driving me mad
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Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
growing up is realising that the better your activism & organising & advocacy work is for your CV, the less effective it is at changing the status quo of systemic oppression
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Redivider @redividermag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Here is our nonfiction excerpt “On Engagement.” By Meredith Macleod Davidson.
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
That’s me! So honoured to have this piece up in the incredible @anthro-poetry.bsky.social !!! Thank you team 💜💜💜
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Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Having led a team of admissions counsellors for 5 years in another life, & been an academic for longer, I’m here w. the annual pro bono offer of aid — essays, LORs, application fee funds — for folks from marginalised backgrounds applying to Master’s/PhDs abroad. Share, DM 🌸.
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
WHY DID I TWEET THIS IN MY SLEEP
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
what if speakeasy menus were just taco bars
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
genuinely nothing so special as Finnish sauna culture
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
love Finland and devastated to leave it - where else will a group of naked sweating people hear me out while I ramble incoherently for 20 minutes about the foreign critique of America through films such as The Apprentice and Civil War and meet me with something vaguely akin to sincerity?
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
"But when, after decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?"
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
magic dusk moments
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
hello from the forest today 🤍
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🌀 you want to order a copy of @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social ( & read two poems by me! paired with unreal photography!) so badly 🌀
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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Don't forget, the new Abridged issue is now online! If you want a copy of the print edition, drop us a line. It's free plus postage and packaging.
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Thank you @dustpoetry.bsky.social for sharing my odd love poem on Valentine’s Day - read at the link below 💜
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A lovely Finnish aurora to add to the very gorgeous full moon clear night we’ve got goin’ here tonight 🤍
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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
they found Refaat Alareer's body www.palestinechronicle.com/refaat-alare... rest in power, poet 🌹🙏🏾💜
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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
poetry is life
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
this tree and i wrote a poem together today
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
desk on day one of residency month
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
In the middle of the upheaval, we have to do what we can with the conditions available. One does not engage in political struggle because one knows the outcome in advance, but because one refuses to accept the conditions of the present. - Arthur Asseraf, “The Algeria Analogy”
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
when u make eye contact with the dog waiting for its owner to finish breakfast in the Estonian cafe >>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Such a joy to launch TANGERINE DREAM - the first crisp packet poetry publication - Wednesday night at The Glad Cafe in Glasgow. Thanks to @alasdairwatson.bsky.social for coming along & taking these wonderful photos which so perfectly captured the vibe 🧡🧡🧡
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
We call on academics to NOT renew their memberships to AHA, MLA, AWP or any other professional org that hasn’t taken a clear stance against Israel’s war crimes; to boycott their conferences; and donate your dues and fees to Palestinians here: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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[W4G] Life Funds for Gaza
Scholars, writers, educators & artists -- stop sending funds to the orgs & institutions that continue to double down on their allegiance to the death machines of Zionism and empire. Send funds...
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Delighted to have a “joy” poem in this lovely issue of @dustpoetry.bsky.social - give this curation of ebullient, radical poems a read at the link below 💜 (love & thx to the wonderful editors!)
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Just when I begin to feel acclimated to this country someone tells me some shit like “the tiffin is the thinking man’s rocky road” and I don’t even know what a tiffin is
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
This is doing wonders for me at the moment (MOTHERHOOD - Sheila Heti)
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I reviewed Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s stunning new collection ‘Winter of Worship’ (out now with @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social ) for The Adroit Journal! Make sure to get yourself (& a friend) a copy of this excellent book of poems. You can read the review here: theadroitjournal.org/2025/01/07/a...
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A Review of Kayleb Rae Candrilli's Winter of Worship - The Adroit Journal
Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s latest collection, Winter of Worship, is a collection steeped in grief, compulsively obsessed with time and slowing it, or reorganizing it—making it mappable in such a way that ...
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dialogist @dialogist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
(this is a calculation) Swing Justice by Meredith MacLeod Davidson, a poet and writer from Virginia. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-...
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Poetry, Week 52: Meredith MacLeod Davidson — DIALOGIST
Swing Justice   (this is a calculation)   I am this: your Hot Ticket Babe: something tangible pressed against the pixels ...
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Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I just donated a little bit to this campaign bringing e-sims to Gaza; they are critically low on funds atm. Please match my donation of $10 (or more if you can!) 💙
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Palmetto State Abortion Fund @psabortionfund.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🚨 We are the only abortion fund open right now in the Southeast outside of Florida & we need help! We are being slammed w/requests &our budget just isn’t big enough to handle it. Anything you can contribute will help these callers get the abortion care they need. www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund
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Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)
*While we assist abortion seekers in Georgia and Alabama as well, we are located in South Carolina so we may reference South Carolina laws when discussing access to abortion.*  Right now, abortion is...
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Dr. Raye @rayehendrix.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
If you have a review copy of What Good Is Heaven & you're looking for a place to submit a review, here are some ideas! (* = they've published my work!) Southern Literary Review Southern Humanities Review* 32 Poems* Poetry Northwest* Heavy Feather Review* Barrelhouse* swamp pink
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Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I LOVED @rayehendrix.bsky.social 's debut full-length collection WHAT GOOD IS HEAVEN, and I aaaalsssoo LOVED writing into that feeling!!! Check out my review of WHAT GOOD IS HEAVEN, out now in North American Review: northamericanreview.org/open-space/r...
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Review | Meredith MacLeod Davidson
So much of Raye Hendrix’s debut collection, What Good Is Heaven, is about community–or its traces: what we leave behind, what remains in us. Etymologically, the word "community" draws from multiple
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