Author 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...
Congratulations 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...
Next 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
Colin 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/
Winner - 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...
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Trying 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.
It 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
I 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... #GiesAScotsPoemDay
Gies a Scots Poem Day 2026
This 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...
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Many 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...
A 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:
2026 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...
Gies a Scots Poem Day 2026
This 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...
scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
It'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... #Giesascotspoemsday
Gies a Scots Poem Day 2026
This 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...
scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Already 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...
Fower Pessoas, Colin Bramwell - The Highland Book Prize | Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd
Shortlisted 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...
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Fower 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/
Colin Bramwell@brambrella.bsky.social · 2mo agoAn honour to be shortlisted for my local book prize alongside these wonders...
An honour to be shortlisted for my local book prize alongside these wonders...
The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 2mo agoKerri Andrews, Colin Bramwell, Mandy Haggith and Petra Johana Poncarová have been shortlisted for the 2026 Highland Book Prize. 👇
‘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...
Matthew Bevis · Wigging In: On James Schuyler
Schuyler once told an interviewer that he didn’t write the kind of poetry that attracted critics. ‘It’s too easy...
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Congratulations 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!🎉
Beyond 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...
2594 Online Highland Book Prize Event: Beyond with Colin Bramwell and Gerda Stevenson - Moniack Mhor
In 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...
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Out 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-...
Vol. 12 No. 2: Scotland – The Irish Pages Press
Ten 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...
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Celebrating 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...
Celebrating the 2024 Highland Book Prize Longlist at Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews
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Some very kind words on Fower Pessoas from Paul Malgrati.
Paul Malgrati@paulmalgrati.bsky.social · last yr.Finally 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)
Finally 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)
Blown away by this review of Fower Pessoas from Stuart Kelly.
Carcanet Press@carcanet.bsky.social · last yr.‘Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be. … What is exceptional is that Bramwell fashions distinct Scots for Pessoa’s different heteronyms. The chutzpah is amazing.’ Stuart Kelly on brambrella.bsky.social, for @scotsman.com: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
Heartening to see the general reaction to this poem from my latest: thanks to The Scotsman for selecting it as their poem of the week.
Carcanet Press@carcanet.bsky.social · last yr.‘The poem here closes Bramwell’s new collection Fower Pessoas ... which could soon be considered a modern Scots language masterpiece.’ Lovely to see this poem by @brambrella.bsky.social as the Poem of the Week in @scotsman.com! www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464...
What'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...
Had 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...
Somewhere 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...
Musician 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/...
The young musician aiming to preserve a Black Isle dialect
Musician Grace Stewart-Skinner is creating a music album to celebrate the fishing heritage of a Black Isle village
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“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...
'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...
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