June Wind by Wendell Berry, at one of my favourite places in #Glasgow - Queen's Park flagpole. #Calligraphy #poetry in foundational hand
Calligraphy Outside
@calligraphyoutside.bsky.social
A project to put calligraphy in public places in Scotland. Always happy to hear if you come across any posts in the real world
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
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.
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 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
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
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
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.
Larkin meets Thomson at the Caledonia Road Church, Glasgow, 20th October 2025. #alexandergreekthomson #agt #glasgow #churches (@calligraphyoutside.bsky.social) more on ALT
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Trees by Philip Larkin, at the walkway by the White Cart Water in Battlefield, #Glasgow #poetry #calligraphy
Days, by Phillip Larkin, at the ruined Caledonia Road Church by Alexander "Greek" Thomson #poetry #Glasgow #architecture #calligraphy
Winter Trees, by William Carlos Williams, Queen's Park Recreation Ground, Glasgow
Summit of Corrie Etchachan, by Nan Shepherd, at the flagpole of Queen's Park, Glasgow
