Colin Bramwell
Writer fae the Black Isle.
- Reposted by Colin BramwellBeyond with Colin Bramwell and Gerda Stevenson 17 June, online – pay what you can @brambrella.bsky.social & Gerda Stevenson will read and discuss poems from BEYOND, the second & last English-language poetry collection by the late Aonghas MacNeacail www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2594...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellOut now - a special Irish Pages on Scotland. Why Irish? Why have we no such journal of our own? 10 years since the referendum, we take stock. Cultural memory and (thanks be) new poets. irishpages.org/product/vol-...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellCelebrating the 2024 Highland Book Prize Longlist 14 May, Toppings & Co. Booksellers, St Andrews £10/£8, redeemable against featured books 3 poets – @brambrella.bsky.social, @niallpoetry.bsky.social, & Gerda Stevenson – celebrate 2 exceptional collections www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...
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- Some very kind words on Fower Pessoas from Paul Malgrati.
- Reposted by Colin BramwellFinally took the time to read Colin Bramwell´s brilliant Scots translation of the great Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. Stuart Kelly called it a ‘modern Scots language masterpiece’ in The Scotsman: this isn’t an exaggeration. (1/3)
- Blown away by this review of Fower Pessoas from Stuart Kelly.
- ‘Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be. … What is exceptional is that Bramwell fashions distinct Scots for Pessoa’s different heteronyms. The chutzpah is amazing.’ Stuart Kelly on brambrella.bsky.social, for @scotsman.com: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
- Heartening to see the general reaction to this poem from my latest: thanks to The Scotsman for selecting it as their poem of the week.
- ‘The poem here closes Bramwell’s new collection Fower Pessoas ... which could soon be considered a modern Scots language masterpiece.’ Lovely to see this poem by @brambrella.bsky.social as the Poem of the Week in @scotsman.com! www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellWhat's all that about the cruellest month?! We don't think so! April kicks off with a brilliant poetry launch party in #Edinburgh this Friday feat. three exceptional poets: Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social, Patrick Romero McCafferty & Charles Lang! Join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-braw-p...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellCouldn't make it to one of our launches of The Oasis in March? We've got you covered! Charles will be on tour across Scotland and Ireland in April. Join us in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Galway, Cork or Paisley for festival events, readings, conversations and more —see you there! 📙 #books #poetry
- Reposted by Colin BramwellHad I been less prepared, I would have left in springtime, when the plum tree in the yard was still in bloom, the windows open after months of snow, one magpie in the road and then another… —John Burnside, “The Night Ferry” published in the @lrb.co.uk, December 2020 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellSomewhere along this street, unknown to me, behind a maze of apple trees and stars, he rises in the small hours, finds a book… —John Burnside, “The Good Neighbour” THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR (Cape, 2005) Hear John Burnside read this poem on @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social poetryarchive.org/poem/good-ne...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellMusician Grace Stewart-Skinner recorded interviews with residents of Avoch in the Black Isle & combined these with her own musical compositions to create Auchies Spikkin’ Auchie. The Avochie dialect combines elements of Scots & Gaelic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
- Reposted by Colin Bramwell“I wanted to honour Scots in a dramatic, vocal context… I’ve tried to bring Pessoa to life in that new context – to embolden his characters, reimagining them a century later, dislocating them to a context more personal to me.” —Colin Bramwell on FOWER PESSOAS themadridreview.com/f/fower-pess...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellStoked to see ‘New Shoes’ by Charles Lang, from his brilliant #poetry collection The Oasis, featured as Poem of the Week in today’s @scotsman.com! 👟🩶 “The Oasis is the real deal”, you heard it here first! 🤫 Pick up a copy of the paper for the full poem or treat yourself to a new book today! 📚
- Reposted by Colin BramwellNew post 📰 Lesley Harrison writes about the launch of 'Fower Pessoas' by Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social northseapoets.substack.com/p/at-the-lau... #NorthSeaPoets #Poetry
- Many thanks to Lesley Harrison of @northseapoets.bsky.social for her generous response to my Fower Pessoas. Great to see one more stack in the north sea. Theirs is well worth subscribing to - open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
- Lesley Harrison’s lovely notice of Colin Bramwell’s fine Fower Pessoas over at open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellNew post! @kathleenjamie.bsky.social explores the place of lyric poetry in a post-lyric world ✍️ #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryCommunity
- Reposted by Colin BramwellAnd there’s also a big bunch of spoken word stuff that I produced with @strongmisgiving.bsky.social and featuring @brambrella.bsky.social, @ryanvance.bsky.social, @smaychel.bsky.social, @tyronelewis22.bsky.social and @seanwaikeung.bsky.social among others
- Reposted by Colin BramwellOn Wednesday 5th March at 7pm, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Fower Pessoas by Colin Bramwell. The event will be hosted by Scottish Makar Peter Mackay and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A. Book your ticket here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nCHoh...
- Tonight's the night folks! Fower Pessoas Zoom launch, 7pm. I'll be reading from the book, and in conversation with Scotland's Makar, Peter Mackay. See you there! www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/even...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellLive online launch of @brambrella.bsky.social new book, hosted by Peter Mackay, organised by @carcanet.bsky.social Info: www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/even... #online #launch #poetry
- Reposted by Colin Bramwell'Pessoa’s approach is either the last word in selfishness or the opposite - generous to a fault.' @brambrella.bsky.social interviewed about his new book Fower Pessoas, for The Madrid Review: themadridreview.com/f/fower-pess...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellNorth Sea Poets is live! We offer online masterclasses, webinars, workshops for poets everywhere (novice or adept) and readers, because poems sing in the dark times. Hope you'll join us. Pls see website. Do share. northseapoets.com 🌊 @northseapoets.bsky.social
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- Happy publication day to my latest volume, Fower Pessoas. To say I'm a little emotional would be an understatement. Finally, this wee thing I've worked on for ages gets released. Here's another poem from the book, then.
- Finally, I feel happy and ready for these poems to go out into what WS Graham called 'a silence I know nothing about, there to be let in and entertained and charmed out of their master's orders.'
- Thanks so much if you've bought the book already. To see it find its readership has been an unexpectedly beautiful thing. If you have a favourite poem or heteronym, let me know in comments,or post it so others can read.
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- Reposted by Colin BramwellHappy publication to our February books! 🎉 🌰 Fourth and Walnut by Jeremy Over 👓 Fower Pessoas by Colin Bramwell 📃 Cancer by Tom Raworth For just a few more days, you can still use the code JNFB2025 for 20% off and free UK P&P - order now at carcanet.co.uk! 🌰👓📃
- Delightful to be interviewed about Fower Pessoas by the wonderful Madrid Review. The magazine is well worth your time - a high quality of work contained within.
- Today sees the publication of the wonderful 'Fower Pessoas' by @brambrella.bsky.social from @carcanet.bsky.social We spoke with Colin Bramwell - well worth a look #poetry #translation #scots #scotland #pessoa #fernandopessoa themadridreview.com/f/fower-pess...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellMy poem ‘Climbing to Seefin Passage Tomb on Summer Solstice’, which is an homage to my late mentor John Burnside, has just been published in the Times Literary Supplement. Please have a read. www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/o...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellNews from Falkirk @brambrella.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social
- Thanks to @jntod.bsky.social for the shout out for Flower Pessoaa on his excellent blog, Some Flowers Soon. I fully agree with his observation on Scots/English here.
- Lots of people liked my post last month featuring a week’s worth of short poems from recent reading, so I thought I’d give it another spin for February substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Flower Pessoaa is what all the cool kids are calling the book now
- Reposted by Colin BramwellThis month, we are publishing Fower Pessoas by Colin Bramwell (@brambrella.bsky.social)! 👓 www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
- Ever wondered what Pessoas Scottish heteronyms might sound like after a few pints of heavy? Me neither.
- From Colin Bramwell's (@brambrella.bsky.social) article, Fae a pub in Glesca, about his new collection Fower Pessoas, published this month! Follow the link below to read in full. 👓 carcanet.substack.com/p/fower-pess...
- Reposted by Colin Bramwellfrom Fower Pessoas, by @brambrella.bsky.social from @carcanet.bsky.social
- Reposted by Colin BramwellLove by Salvador Novo (Mexico, 1904 - 1974) From They Exchange Glances, Gay Modernist Poems in Translation, Gregory Woods, Hercules Editions, 2024
- So cool to see this book of mine finding its readers.
- Colin Bramwell has been translating Pessoa into Scots!! "Fower Pessoas" from @carcanet.bsky.social it's brilliant @brambrella.bsky.social
- Reposted by Colin BramwellJust blaan in. Turns oot there are _fower_ seasons. Aa the Pessoas telt us till they were blue in the fisses… Plus a quartet o X-Men (and Shostakovich) micht hae mentioned it. Translations o a hotch o heteronyms frae @brambrella.bsky.social and @carcanet.bsky.social, and affy fine they are tae.
- I wanted to share this video of Michael Longley reading a very bonnie late poem. An immeasurable loss to poetry.
- Reposted by Colin BramwellPoem, baby, poem! @NEUboots25 is looking for poems responding to the list of Executive Orders signed by Donald Trump on Day One of his presidency. More details including submission guidelines are available here: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/e...
- That's copies of my Fower Pessoas just arrived and a first stack being sent out as we speak. My wee boy Pablo is enjoying munching on his chippy. Anyone want a signed one? Send us a message on here and I'll get you hooked up.
- To the cinemas of Edinburgh: not one of you has put on a baby-friendly screening of Nosferatu. Cowards.
- Reposted by Colin BramwellWe'd love to have your submissions for a new collection of poems responding to the life, works and legacies of 18thC Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson, published by Taproot Press. Deadline extended and full info 👇
- Reposted by Colin BramwellHell is empty, And all the devils are here.
- Reposted by Colin BramwellI would give this anger to Orion, whom I’ve only recently learned to identify, forever on his back foot, his stories go from bad to worse, and the benzene rises like a prayer, arsenic on the breath cold makes visible ‘Orion’, a poem by Karen Solie: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Fower Pessoas - preorders open now!
- Say hello to our January - February titles! ☁️ All our books published in January and February can be pre-ordered from the Carcanet site using the code JNFB2025 for 20% off and free UK P&P. www.carcanet.co.uk
- Reposted by Colin BramwellI am very sad to say, David Lodge died on January 1st. He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer. I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much. His campus novels will be read for years to come. A great loss. www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
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- Interesting article on why all of Netflix's original films are unwatchably bad. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
- It's Christmas Eve! Here's the cover for my next book, Fower Pessoas. That's Fernando Pessoa's four main heteronyms (Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and Pessoa himself) in Scots - out with @carcanet.bsky.social in February 2025. Can't wait to see what the world thinks.
- Thanks to Iona Lee for the beautiful illustration of those famous specs which graces the front cover - if you look closely you'll see Loch Ness reflected there. That was important to me - the whole project of the book brings Scotland into Pessoa's universe, and Pessoa into Scotland's.
- I'll share more stuff from the book over the coming weeks - poems, readings, more illustrations, info about launches and of course details on how to pre order. In the meantime, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas you bonnie lot - sending Glenn Gould, Frankenstein and Meh.
- Reposted by Colin BramwellFor years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellToday, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10
- Love Saki.
- “In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them” Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec. @hekale.bsky.social looks at Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction 1/4 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
- Reposted by Colin Bramwell"So the publishing workforce is getting more diverse, but no more equal. [...] We’ve also seen publishing begin to advocate for a politics of respect and celebration for working class lives, a kind of Pride for the working-classes." Sunjeev Sahota on class v identity in literature:
- Reposted by Colin BramwellAn interview with Scottish Makar, Peter Mackay, where he outlines his vision for his 3 year Makarship, and his thoughts on the current poetry scene, performance poetry, the Gaelic language, and the crisis in arts funding. www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
- Early next year I'll be partnering up with The Poetry School to deliver a workshop on the craft of poetry, for new poets. We've decided to make the course free at the point of entry for anyone who can't afford it. More details at the link below. Do share! poetryschool.com/courses/the-...
- Reposted by Colin BramwellHere’s a provisional clanjamfry of scholars, novelists, bodies and poets involved in Scottish literature and present on Bluesky. Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/3EEXPcAat://did:plc:zefuwvh4yxqsiaeenwtw4dym/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb2h54eqa32w
