Got to see Louisa Hodgson's stunning 'The Collingwood Monument, Tynemouth, Trafalgar Night' at Laing Art Gallery for the first time in several years again today. The image featured on the cover of my first Blue Diode Press poetry collection and is even more impressive in person.

This is an outstanding book. Shereen's poems are wide awake, sensual, painful, courageous, strikingly contemporary - and important. Everybody should read them. Blue Diode Press

Tonight in London, Thurs 1 August! Readings start at 7.30pm, doors open 6pm. Charlotte Street Hotel, London launch of the brilliant 'Rabbi / Robin' by Shereen Akhtar (Blue Diode Press, 2024).

Leabhar ùr: 'The Fusslin Thrang' Blue Diode Press a’ toirt còmhla bàrdachd Alexander Hutchison ann an Albais ear-thuath (1973-2015), le iomadh dàn nach deach fhoillseachadh. Tha eadar-theangachaidhean ann bho Chatullus, Pasolini, agus 'Medea'. Thoiribh sùil air!

Great to have two books on the Saltire Awards First Book longlist of nine: 'Mephistopheles' by CD Boyland | New book - MEPHISTOPHELES - Out Now! and 'The Department of Work & Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish' by Nuala Watt. Here's hoping for the shortlist...

The next #MiniReview is Scots poetry follaein Scots prose, specifically the collected #AlexanderHutchinson - a dear, much-missed pal tae mony - expertly edited by #ABJackson for Rob A. Mackenzie’s Blue Diode Press: wnherbert.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/min… #Gairnet (2/2)

Fiona Moore's second collection, Okapi, is available from Blue Diode Press. A single poem, split into sections, set on a Scottish island. Loss, landscape, politics, grief and determination - it's all in here. The distant okapi is somehow never far away. bluediode.co.uk/product-page/o…

Review of "Bàrdachd a’ Bhaile Mhòir: 15 Glasgow Poems', a dual language anthology of Gaelic poems aabout Glasgow, edited by Niall O'Gallagher (Blue Diode Press, 2024), at the Glasgow Review of Books.

Newly published today, Czech poet Olga Stehlikova's 'Though the Sky is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat' (Blue Diode Press), selected poems in English translation by David Vichnar. Info, sample poems and shop at this link: bluediode.co.uk/product-page/t…

Books Tour: terrific Czech poet (Olga) and Scottish poet based in Prague (Chris) reading in Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh from 9-11th November, with fabulous special guests. Come along. Free entry, books on sale. Dates and times below.

Do people look at Twitter these days? London tonight, Tues 26 Nov, 6pm - showcase from the Saltire First Book of the Year Award shortlist, including Nuala Watt, whose 'The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish' (Blue Diode Press, 2024) ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsbookf…

"Wonderful lines about the sea and its landscapes." Thanks to @TheFridayPoem and Jane Routh for Okapi's first review. If you want to have, or give, a Hebridean experience for Xmas, it's here Blue Diode Press: bluediode.co.uk/product-page/o…

Head over to BfS where david robinson takes a look at the First Book shortlist in this year's SALTIRE SOCIETY lit awards! booksfromscotland.com/2024/12/david-…

Our Burns Week interview with Paul Malgrati is just out, with two brand new poems! Paul’s debut collection, Poèmes Ecossais Blue Diode Press, is the first book of poetry in Scots by a non-native Anglophone. His monograph on Burns was published by Edinburgh University Press. tinyurl.com/ynfjk4pb

Meg's Monday Muse is all about Mothers' Day this week, with books perfect for gifting from Faber Books, The Emma Press, Blue Diode Press and Pan Macmillan. Follow the link to find out more! mailchi.mp/poetrybooksoci…

Three recent books available now from bluediode.co.uk . Good Sons by Tim Craven, Recital by Dr Marianne MacRae , and Kiss My Earth by Alice Willitts. Info, sample poems, etc at the link. Have a look!

I met a lot of Trumps in my industry, and I met a lot of people who called themselves “artists” then chose vanity over humanity because it bought them fame. We can live in a world without this manipulation, but we’ll have to choose to do so. Believe me, they don’t make it easy.

Come along! Entry is free, and books will be on sale. Medha's book is £10 and the chapbooks are £7. Doors open 6.30pm, readings start sharp at 7pm.