Alec Finlay
@alecfinlay.bsky.social
artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
Beloved local bookshop Category Is had their window smashed at the weekend; we are running a fundraiser with all ££ going to help them get shutters. One off mashup of two popular tours, Queer Glasgow and Radical Print Cultures. Tickets £20-£25-£30 if you fancy it! www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-glas...
Queer Glasgow x Radical Print
Fundraiser for our pals at Category Is Books
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today I rested for yesterday today I rested for yesterday today 8.IX.26
the beach moves beneath our feet sometimes only swimming keeps you standing 7.IX.26
I didn’t hear, I wasn’t there, I couldn’t have known, says the future prime minister 6.IX.26
Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good
(I) the year is on the slide (II) the blackout curtain I never got can wait another year again (III) so, is avoiding the law not breaking the law? (IV) the fascist arrested by fascists has issued a statement saying he’s realised fascism is a bad thing 5.IX.26
Greens won in Portobello and Craigmillar - the party’s first ever council by-election victory in Edinburgh - with a huge ground campaign, turning out their voters where both Labour and the SNP failed to.
something to snack on (I) they think the planet is a decoy plane (II) The Caringorms the loving mountains (III) edible insect damsonfly (IV) the tree never falls far from its apples (V) the sea passes on its energy to the storm 4.IX.26
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Chris Stroffolino : A Guide for Making Fragments from Diaries, by Joshua Beckman periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/09/chri...
Chris Stroffolino : A Guide for Making Fragments from Diaries, by Joshua Beckman
A Guide for Making Fragments from Diaries , Joshua Beckman Wave Books, 2026 At the end of A Guide for Making Fragments from Diaries ...
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To reach an age when so many are gone. Gael Turnbull, poet; Tessa Ransford, poet & founder of the Scottish Poetry Library, young Eck; Alan Riach, the other bard still with us; Angus Dunn, who built my old bed, lost far too young to illness; and Angus Calder, one of our finest critics, likewise lost.
IHF’s fruit on LR’s table the lemons are not yet in her bowl the lemons are still afloat in their net 2.IX.26
In today’s Programme for Government, the First Minister announced an artists minimum income pilot We will continue to work with the Culture Secretary to ensure Government keep this promise, and deliver a truly inclusive artists basic income.
love poem she needs a pee before we go, a pee when we arrive, in between she breathes in 1.IX.26
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
the problem is how do you paint moving clouds 31.VIII.26
Wardie people in the sea trying to hold their bodies out of the sea 30.VIII.26
some more pebbles (I) ‘That’s not Achilles’– well, duh, bro. (II) The midge is the nettle of the insect world. (III) The Prime Minister has come north to sink a pint for Britain. (IV) Elon, why fly to Mars when we can bake our own?
after Garry Garry says he’s sat still as a millpond while the universe turns at 1040 miles per hour 28.VIII.26
the modern house this house is so perfect even the gabions are neat what a relief to find a little clutter in the last room for a human being to be in 27.VIII.26
The Poetics Program at University at Buffalo is officially graveyard dead. Another case of administrations turning what had been a strength in the humanities into a smoking crater. To do it, UB liquidated several chairs in ways I suspect violated donor agreements. RIP big weird angsty thing.
BLOG - Vital Highland community broadband winds up after 12 years due to inability to secure a revised lease with new landowner on whose land sits vital infrastructure that accounts for more then half of the organisation's internet traffic. andywightman.scot/2026/08/vita...
Vital Highland Broadband Service Closes - Land Matters
There are many examples across Scotland where landowners large and small are continuing to frustrate the ambitions of individuals, businesses and social enterprises through the exercise of the fundame...
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