Steve Smart
@duntruner.bsky.social
aerty boffin poetry, poetry film, photography, struggling up and down hills.. https://artsci.co.uk/sds
I'm always amused by the way humans fetishize "walking upright," "tool use," and "language" as the iconic features of a superior species. And of course we ignore or downplay the obvious signs of all three in every other species. "They only walk upright SOMETIMES. Not like a true upright walker."
On Thursday 7 May I'll be at the Music Centre in St Andrews, helping to lead workshops on the impact of anthropogenic noise pollution on the communication of whales and dolphins. We still have a few spaces free, do sign up if you're interested! forms.cloud.microsoft/e/nEZQsDBNwL
Delighted that 'Comma of Didymus' will be screened during the International Poetry Film Festival in Los Angeles later this month. Congratulations to all the selected films! 🎉👏👏👏 poetryfilmfestival.org
For this week’s #LiftToTheSky I’m highlighting the #Poetry Library, #Scotland. A fab resource with the aim of ‘bringing people and poetry together’ check their online resources, visit if in Edinburgh, or borrow books by post. A treasure. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk Discover more than Burns
Scottish Poetry Library
Books and resources in Scotland's national poetry library for Burns Night, Robert Burns and the best Scottish poets and poems about Scotland
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The Scotsman's Poem of the Week 'How to Behave With The Ill' by Julia Darling
@samillingworth.com must by now be something of a legend in the world of poetry and science - an excellent primer on how science and poetry can come together from @byleaveswelive.bsky.social below...
Scottish Poetry Library@byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 5mo agoNEW! Points of Intersection: Science and Poetry What happens when scientists pick up pens instead of pipettes? When researchers trade data for dactyls? This anthology offers one answer - Dr Sam Illingworth The 36 poem anthology now on SPL website: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2026/03/poin...
Burned out - urban badlands and chaotic art stevedsmart.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/b...
Burned out
a gallery and a poem
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I heard skylarks singing over Craighill this morning. First I’ve heard this year - they seem early to me. Below is from March three years back (by when they were well into full voice). Whenever though, it is always an uplifting and reassuring sound.. stevedsmart.wordpress.com/2023/03/26/a...
an archaeology of air
it’s skylark singing time again
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Brian Johnstone and Steve Smart / @duntruner.bsky.social share a filmpoem about intergenerational grief on Holocaust Memorial Day. Watch it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/brian-johnst... #FilmPoem #InkSweatAndTears #HolocaustMemorialDay
Walk, talk, trees, and art - Tansy Lee Moir chats to Scotland Outdoors stevedsmart.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/a...
A walk on the sane side:
BBC Scotland Outdoors podcast with Tansy Lee Moir
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If you’re longing for a quiet moment of sanity in the mad train-wreck of our times, this could well be it: a half hour pod-chat with artist Tansy Lee Moir. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... or search your own place of podding. :) see also www.tansyleemoir.co.uk
Scotland Outdoors - Drawing Ancient Trees with Tansy Lee Moir - BBC Sounds
Mark Stephen goes out sketching old trees at Haddo with artist Tansy Lee Moir
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our crazy fool tree do we inherit gestures? seven views and a poem.. substack.com/home/post/p-...
our crazy fool tree
seven views and a poem
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'Comma of Didymus' will screen in Edinburgh at the Cameo on Dec 15th. I have *no idea* how you'd get a ticket - organisers not very forthcoming! Turn up and say hi if you're near, I guess? But nice to be part of a screening in t' old hame toon anyway! 🙂 more about the film - artsci.co.uk/comma/
Recording a new poetry film podcast with @samueltongue.bsky.social at @byleaveswelive.bsky.social this afternoon. Great fun!
Taking a cue from @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's book 'Landmarks' which lists rare words describing landscape, light and weather, I made a small portfolio of images trying to capture aspects seen, found, or felt or experienced while traversing land and landscapes on foot. See.. artsci.co.uk/sds/
Steve Smart
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After... is a website dedicated to poetry inspired by other artworks. I'm very happy to have a poem included there this month..
𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭@afterpoetry.com · 11mo agoSculpture as movement frozen. Dance as light captured. This new #ekphrastic poem by @duntruner.bsky.social has it all. 'I saw her dance again there, enfolded in negative space, I saw again that hip-spun pause of lofted breath.' afterpoetry.com/poem/sep-21-...
I'm delighted that 'Comma of Didymus' will also be screened at Festival Fotogenia 2025 in Mexico this November! For more about 'Comma of Didymus' see: artsci.co.uk/comma/
A poem that started about a year ago - feels ready now.. stevedsmart.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/c...
Craighill barley
marvelling at barley..
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projected portrait - lady's mantle on a leaf and (related) some interactive poetry from yonks ago .. stevedsmart.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/b...
🧪 Open to Science Poetry Submissions 🖋️ The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 22 explores the topic of ‘Waves’. Submit your work for free here: www.consilience-journal.com/submit #SciComm #SciArt #Poetry
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For each issue of Consilience we invite submissions of poetry or artwork. All submissions must have a link to science, fit the theme of the upcoming issue, and also be in line with our inclusivity sta...
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– Kwame Anthony Appiah in The New York Review, 26 June 2025 #NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky
