For many years I would go meat free from my birthday in May to September, but a couple years back decided to give up meat entirely. If you’re debating the switch, it’s far easier than you could imagine, and it feels good, physically and emotionally.
Tarn MacArthur
@tarnnation.bsky.social
Poems in: London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The New Republic, Poetry Review, & Poetry London. https://linktr.ee/tarnmacarthur
From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · last mo.I think functionally all of the post-resignation coverage that was about him rather than Cambridge was excessive (e.g. this poisonous review of a book nobody is going to buy - why)
Ma’a Nonu, one of the greatest All Blacks of all time just faced off against his own nation at 44 years old returning the call with a solo Haka. (He’s also a vegetarian 🌱 )
Submissions close this afternoon at 5!
Suna@sunaafshan.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy little poetry press is alive. We’re currently open for pamphlet submissions from UK poets until the end of July, with the aim of bringing these beauties into readers’ hands by Christmas. Find out more below: www.pallinapress.com
I know, let’s burn more oil and build more data centres. Sorry, been listening to British and American politicians too much.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2mo agoFire crews in France and Spain battling unchecked wildfires that have forced more than 300,000 people to flee were overwhelmed as the unpredictable blazes advanced
From Linda Bierds collection The Ghost Trio, still one of my all time favourites.
That is the most bullshit thing I've ever seen on a rugby pitch 🤣🤣
Dirty Dancing Iconic Lift with Patrick Swayze & Jennifer Grey
ALT: Dirty Dancing Iconic Lift with Patrick Swayze & Jennifer Grey
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Ok 🏴 we get it, you’ll turn anything into a flagpole.
++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"
…Teacher, scholar, he had worked a true task when all alive… —Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod” in New Collected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011 Iain Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, commemorates the life of a former Headmaster of Oban High School 17 June is #ThankATeacherDay 1/3
OUT NOW: Issue twenty-four: 'Hopes Unspool' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-four
Issue twenty-four — Bad Lilies
Issue twenty-four of Bad Lilies
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This place was never yours, they’ll say, though years from now as she steps from factory floor to city street, the winter haar pouring in, muting the world, effacing everything, it’s here that she’ll be A poem by Tarn MacArthur (@tarnnation.bsky.social). www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tarn MacArthur · Poem: ‘The Clearance of Aoineadh Mòr, 1824’
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fragment John Burnside, 'Taxonomy', The Light Trap (2002), p. 6. the neighbour's in-by, sky SW darkening with rain
There will be no shelter here tonight, only the long road to the land of strangers. Every house will be stripped and every roof caved in, as each man, woman, and child is made to bear on their back the sum of a life. A poem by Tarn MacArthur (@tarnnation.bsky.social). www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tarn MacArthur · Poem: ‘The Clearance of Aoineadh Mòr, 1824’
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This place was never yours, they’ll say, though years from now as she steps from factory floor to city street, the winter haar pouring in, muting the world, effacing everything, it’s here that she’ll be A poem by @tarnnation.bsky.social. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tarn MacArthur · Poem: ‘The Clearance of Aoineadh Mòr, 1824’
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There will be no shelter here tonight, only the long road to the land of strangers. Every house will be stripped and every roof caved in, as each man, woman, and child is made to bear on their back the sum of a life. A poem by Tarn MacArthur (@tarnnation.bsky.social). www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tarn MacArthur · Poem: ‘The Clearance of Aoineadh Mòr, 1824’
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Please go and have a read of a new poem I wrote after visiting and researching the township of Aoineadh Mòr in Lochaber. The narrative is based on a true story of a woman whose family were evicted during the Clearances and settled in Edinburgh.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 4mo agoThere will be no shelter here tonight, only the long road to the land of strangers. Every house will be stripped and every roof caved in, as each man, woman, and child is made to bear on their back the sum of a life. A poem by Tarn MacArthur (@tarnnation.bsky.social). www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Poems by @tricialockwood.bsky.social and Tarn MacArthur (@tarnnation.bsky.social ) and a cover by Dror Cohen. Read now at www.lrb.co.uk
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Very excited to have a new poem in the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tarn MacArthur · Poem: ‘The Clearance of Aoineadh Mòr, 1824’
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My review of Solie's latest: The Water in These Poems May Be Poisoned, but Beauty Persists www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/b...
The Water in These Poems May Be Poisoned, but Beauty Persists
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Standing in passport line in Nice airport and a French woman goes, “I’m not a fan of the British for many things but they’d never behave like this in a queue.”
Well done Scotland, zero reform constituency wins! Let’s hope they underperform in the lists now.
What a pleasure to find myself holding forth on Scottish poetry in the new issue of the New York Review of Books. Many thanks to Jana Prikryl and the Review for extending me the hospitality of their pages. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Against Nostalgia | David Wheatley
In their poems and essays, Kathleen Jamie and Peter Davidson transcend Scottish sentimentalism and find new points of entry into their shared past.
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