Proud to share this piece I wrote for Vagabond Voices about the late Helen Lamb. She was a gifted novelist, poet, short story writer and writing teacher and she was also my friend. I miss her and hope many more people get to read her brilliant work.

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🔔 If you're in Glasgow on the 30th and have a free night, join us and Waterstones Byres Road in two weeks' time to celebrate the life and works of Helen Lamb: eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating-…

🗓️WHEN? Thursday 30th May at 7pm
📍WHERE? Waterstones, 351-355 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8AU

The Spelt podcast is now live. Our first guest is the wonder Vagabond Voices poet Sharon Black. We got to chatting about everything from poetry, rural isolation, inspiration and workshops. Fancy a listen?

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We’re now joined by Vagabond Voices who are running through their upcoming book highlights to delegates.

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צחי My knowledge is your enemy So, is this Holocaust survivor a terrorist?

🇱🇹 A classic novel for #TranslationThursday : WHITE SHROUD by Antanas Škėma (translated from Lithuanian by Karla Gruodis), considered by many to be the most important work of modernist fiction in Lithuanian. More on one of our most popular books here: vagabondvoices.co.uk/changelings/wh…

Praise for 'Three Kinds of Kissing': a novel of friendship, drama and deception, set in a small Scottish community in the late 60s and early 70s - find this new old favourite here: buff.ly/3W7M2Qe

Just a week ago @tjemersonwrites wrote us a heartfelt essay in memory of Helen Lamb, 'Three Kinds of Kissing', and communion with the words of those no longer with us. Read the newsletter here: mailchi.mp/259e5a05b312/c…

Here's a short essay I wrote for @vagabondvoices about Three Kinds of Kissing, the brilliant novel by my much missed friend, Helen Lamb. It's a piece about literary friendships and the way words can connect the living and the dead: tinyurl.com/yahbsbp4

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'Literatures are at their best when they have an ear for what other literatures are doing.' —Allan Cameron

It's #TranslationThursday ! What are you reading at the moment? If you need any new translated novels in your life, visit our Changelings catalogue: vagabondvoices.co.uk/changelings

New newsletter just in! Allan Cameron reviews Halldór Laxness’s 'Fish Can Sing' - an Icelandic novel with a certain nostalgia for the non-modern and the non-urban, for a world not unlike Scotland’s Gaelic past. More here: buff.ly/3J9DUaf

Three years ago we published MITHER TONGUE! Jidi Majia is from the minority Nuosu culture in China, and his poetry is translated here by Stuart Paterson, Sheena Blackhall and Christine de Luca into three strands of the Scots language. More here: vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/mither-…

'You don't want to call it a genocide, call it a massacre, call it mass murder. whatever word you want to use, that is the reality for Palestinian people.' Earlier today when Sky News tried to argue it’s not a genocide

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Update on Gaza II - The Flour Massacre: mailchi.mp/72a7cb7f56ec/u…

Just finished reading Sharon Black’s poetry collection ‘The Last Woman Born on the Island’ from Vagabond Voices . Lyrical, forceful poems full of longing and belonging. Very much enjoyed this fine collection. Recommend.

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