It was such a pleasure to read in Dunkeld at the Corbenic Poetry Path with Pip Osmond-Williams - thanks to John Plunkett and Taylor Strickland for this wonderful opportunity. What a beautiful place. @corbenic.bsky.social
Medha Singh
@medhawrites.bsky.social
Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Carson - completely well deserved and how great it is that poets have started winning the Nobel Prize again; the hope was great indeed when Louise Gluck earned it, today it has cemented. This is a great day for all poets who are women.
"Another Life" from my book Afterbody (Blue Diode Press, '25) appears in the @edinburghtrams.bsky.social. Thanks to @edincityoflit.bsky.social. Wild this is happening/happened.
Poetry & Music at Corbenic Cafe 6 Oct, Dunkeld. £10 – book with corbenicpoetry@gmail.com Join @taylor-strickland.bsky.social for #poetry, music & discussion with @medhawrites.bsky.social & Pip Osmond-Williams, both recipients of the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social’s New Writers Award for Poetry
Some good news - Afterbody has been nominated for the National Book Awards! An amazing set of books to find Afterbody amongst. Thanks to @creativescots.bsky.social, my mentors Alan Gillis and Don Paterson, and to Moniack Mhor. Gratitude owed to my publisher Rob Mackenzie, Bharat Iyer, and family.
As AI continues to threaten the world of literature with its vestigial, non feeling and imitative capacity, I expect the memoir and life writing market to explode in the next ten years. What I hadn't quite confronted: a part of being human is an effervescence in us, flowing towards other bodies.
We had a remarkable edition of Les Bijoux: Poetry at the Boundary. It was the tenth in our series and has happily moved to the Boubdary Bar on Leith Walk. That stained glass is a definite improvement.
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...
Chinmaya Lal Thakur, praises the ‘unceasing, restless struggle [that] not only makes Singh’s poetry in Afterbody vital, alive, and resonant but also makes readers look forward to what she will do next.’ for Gutter: www.guttermag.co.uk/reviews/afte...
Afterbody — Gutter
Medha Singh Reviewed by Chinmaya Lal Thakur
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Excellent list of litmags for sending reviews, compiled by @alinaetc.bsky.social - some links don't work, either because the journal folded or the link expired. All fixed by a quick google search. Here: www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2020/4/...
A list of places that like book reviews — alina Ştefănescu
When you’ve read too many incredible books and you need to write about it or talk about it and no one else has read that book yet or wants to chat at the pitch you think it deserves, there is this thi...
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Friends, I am reading at the Shore Poets, Edinburgh on the 23rd at Waverley Bar. 6.00 PM door open. On the 27th for Still Point, KIng's College litmag - this is at The Ship, 134 New Cavendish Street (near Euston), 7:30pm.
For Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social a review of Medha Singh's @medhawrites.bsky.social's new poetry collection, Afterbody, published by Blue Diode Press. socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...
Christina Tudor-Sideri on Medha Singh — Socrates on the Beach
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Always awed by @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social's prose, and looking forward to this book by @medhawrites.bsky.social. Thoroughly enjoyed her previous work, Ecdysis. socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...
Christina Tudor-Sideri on Medha Singh — Socrates on the Beach
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“in the wide swathes of time, everything will wash over us” Afterbody, Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Blue Diode Press
I'm reading at Typewronger Books, Edinburgh for the Edinburgh Fringe/Book Fringe. An evening of wine, poetry, friendships. This is going to be great. See you!
I'm thrilled to say that Afterbody was launched to a full house at the Scottish Poetry Library! Afterbody saw all come together: you could throw a stone into this audience and it would land on a poet. Thanks to Rob Mackenzie, an important literary citizen in our little world of Scottish poetry.
Blue Diode Poetry Launches 26 June @byleaveswelive.bsky.social, Edinburgh – free & all welcome Blue Diode Publications presents poets James Appleby, Sophie Cooke, David Kinloch & @medhawrites.bsky.social launching their new collections www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blue-diode...
Blue Diode Poetry Launches
Blue Diode Publications presents poets James Appleby, Sophie Cooke, David Kinloch and Medha Singh launching their new collections.
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A brilliant issue of Almost Island, one of my favourite publications of poetry and prose: www.almostisland.com
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Friends! I am thrilled: the book jacket is here, complete with blurbs. We'd be having a launch at the SPL end of June with David Kinloch, Sophie Cooke, James Appleby + myself who have wonderful pamphlets out with Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh. 26th, 7PM. See you! #Poetry #Scotland #ScottishPoetry
“…like coming across fragments of a Psalter or song-book of North-eastern folk ditties… all clasped within the ragged covers of a rumbustious, medieval recipe book for everything” —David Kinloch on the poetry of Alexander Hutchison www.davidkinloch.co.uk/journal/the-...
The Poetry of Alexander Hutchison — David Kinloch, Writer
When Alexander (Sandy) Hutchison died in 2015 there was an understandable outpouring of grief and affection for a Scottish poet who — despite his long career — was only just beginning to become more w...
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'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955) Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.
⚡Live on our blog, our latest interview with Claudia Piñeiro, among the most decorated writers in Latin America today speaking with our editor, James Appleby ⚡️
Crime Appears As If By Accident: An Interview With Claudia Piñeiro
An interview with Claudia Piñeiro, one of Latin America's most decorated modern writers.
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