This philosopher says humans use 4 methods to escape the absurd pointlessness of life: 1. Isolation (refusing to think) 2. Anchoring (making babies) 3. Distraction (busyness & addictions) 4. Sublimation (making art) He is Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899-1990) Which are you guilty of?

Another day, another request to use images (but of course there isn't a budget to pay for them). Thank god I don't work as a photographer as my main income any more.😒

Mesmerised by this essay (& I don’t say that often!). L&A tell a beautiful story through the inspiring archaeology of photography. I visited Ardeer with Alex when we were both Irvine-based, suspecting that his long duration study would be impactful. Here’s to many more outputs!

Well this had made my day. Bothy Culture desperately needs a vinyl release - what an album!

Welcome To Dungeness Offset printed by KOPA Hardback cover Debossed photograph and gold foil text 296mm x 296mm 100 pages 1 Gatefold  500 copies (310 copies left) £40 edwardthompson.co.uk/Welcome-To-Dun…

America isn’t better than this lol. This is exactly what this country is.

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans - John T. Flynn

Headline writers not messing about

I have 100 followers on Bluesky, and I have had more meaningful engagements with them in the last week than than the 10,000 on here in months. I can't recommend it enough - it's like old twitter! Join me here: alexanderboyd.bsky.social

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20 years ago today we lost a wonderful man, one of the best composers/musicians ever. Celebrating Martyn's incredible legacy Celtic Connections with the launch of Brave New Music by Gary West Go play some MB! Obligatory volume 11 aye Real World Records Peter Gabriel Luath Press Sam Heughan

We are delighted to have three books nominated in the SNPA Awards. 'KELP' by mark littlejohn 'Lowland Highlanders' by John Irvine and 'The Point Of The Deliverance' by Dr Alex Boyd Your vote would be greatly appreciated if you have the time! Many thanks 🙏 scottishnaturephotographyawards.com/bookvote/

We're loving reading your work. We especially welcome subs from women, non-binary people and gender non-conforming people. Send us your poems and short stories by 25th April!

Hello. I'm one of three Ayrshire lads cycling 250 miles from Irvine to Inverness to raise money for National Trust for Scotland. We want to help efforts to replant Glen Rosa on Arran after the devastating wildfires in April. Any help (or RTs) appreciated! ❤️ justgiving.com/page/rideforgl…

Great article on the shitshow that is the Salt Path - so many of us writers rip our hearts out in the name of good 'honest' memoir writing, the kind of writing that is written with authentic voice at its roots, don't see near the success of this book Why? Because our stories are

Our new issue is now out, scotching rumours of our demise; & the biggest edition in our 30-year history. Orders and more on the contents available here: thedarkhorsemagazine.com Readers: "bracingly uncompromising"; "the only [poetry magazine] I read from cover to cover"...

North Sea Poets S*****stack has been such a useful avenue to try write things that aren't poems. Not sure I would have done anything like this without it. Link in next post.

Thrilled to be on this shortlist with The Ayrshire Nestling, & honoured that it's with such terrific other writers and books. And delighted too for Sheila Wakefield's Red Squirrel Press, the new imprint of which, Tringa, took a chance on my wee book. 🙏🙏 to SaltireBookAwards Awards!