Hello pals! Just to say, I'll be launching Fetch at Brick Lane Bookshop, on the 26th November, in conversation with ace poet and all-round class act Camille Ralphs. Very excited for this. If you're in London or thereabouts do come along. Tickets below...
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We now have page up over at the NSP place for Douglas. Many friends, colleagues, fellow poets and former students have contributed. Do share. northseapoets.substack.com/p/douglas-du...
DOUGLAS DUNN 1942 – 2026
Friends, colleagues, fellow poets and former students remember Douglas Dunn, who died last week in St Andrews
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I chose seven poems from new books I’m enjoying for your Sunday and week ahead, featuring Rae Armantrout, Patricia Lockwood, Pierre Reverdy and more
Pinks #47: Newfangleness
Seven poems from books I’m enjoying
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I enjoyed this conversation very much...
The Skinny@theskinnymag.bsky.social · 2mo ago"It’s very cool to be able to start writing a poem in English and say, well that’s not working, then you put it into Scots and it starts to work" We speak with Highland-born poet Colin Bramwell about his debut collection Fetch, out 8 Sep www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur... @brambrella.bsky.social
Today at 15.45 - come see me and Ryan Van Winkle at the Edinburgh Book Festival!
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...
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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 · 5mo 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 · 5mo 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 · 2y agoFinally 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 · 2y ago‘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 · 2y ago‘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...
