Larissa
Poet, writer, freelance science journalist, and current chair of the Friends of Hugh Miller charity ✨
- Christmas #poetry gifts... I've copies of my short collection 'rock|salt' (2022) #poems about #Fife in Scotland & its industrial / seafaring #heritage. Pls donate to my friend Victoria McGloin's memorial in aid of #womenshealth, then DM me & I will post books: www.justgiving.com/page/vicky-m... 💙
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- Thank you so much, and so sorry I missed this! I’ve not been online much in recent months, I’ve had to focus on my health for a while. Grateful to still have folk interested in (& remembering!) my poetry 🙏💫❤️
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- Reposted by Larissa#Cromarty will fill with a wheen of writers & musicians 23-24 May, celebrating #HughMiller folklorist, geologist, paleantologist, essayist, sennachie; person of many pairts. I look forward to sharing my #poems there, along with @gillshawwrites.bsky.social @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social & many more 👇
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- A lovely mystery story from us at The Friends of Hugh Miller and Hugh Miller's Birthplace NTS today! Huge thanks to all involved in bringing this beautiful object to Scotland 💎 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Reposted by LarissaThese deeply beautiful maps show the migration patterns of––respectively––Curlew, Kittiwake & Blackcap. From this interactive migration atlas recording migrations of 300 bird species: migrationatlas.org Birds both tether us to places & stitch the world together.
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- Reposted by LarissaIn 2021 The GMB Fellowship published Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums – a collection of poetry and prose in Orcadian dialect. The Orkney Voices writing group have now recorded it as an audio collection. Listen to the first episode NOW at gousters.transistor.fm or wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧
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- From this bright start to the day, a nosedive into the red zone for #stormeowyn 🤞🏻 #staysafe #winterstorm
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- #Edinburgh decided to show off at #sunset 😍
- Glimpses of our stunning #winter walk round to the local loch today - all ice, feather and water ruffles 💙❄️
- A transient new pathway over ice - curious which creature made this journey over the hill pond… #desireways #newpaths #ice #winterwalk
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- Reposted by LarissaWe are open for an extended period through January for * Welsh writers only * Whether you are Mohammed from Swansea, Callum from Gilfach or Sian from Bala, we want to hear from you. If you identify as Welsh (not excluding other heritages), go for it. 🏴
- Reposted by LarissaGet booking poets! Our first open mic of the year, 5 mins. per poet on Zoom. Limited places. Roadtest your work at our popular event. Ideal for the nervous. Sunday 12th January 6:00pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-bough-online-open-mic-tickets-1129444481849?aff=oddtdtcreator
- Another from last night; less detail in the light side of the moon, but I love that I caught something of what you could actually see! #moonandvenus #crescentmoon #NikonD3500
- Crescent moon with Venus, taken with my Nikon D3500 camera, 70-300 lens, & a tripod. Very much a beginner at #astrophotography 🌙✨❄️ Gorgeous, crisp, cold night.
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- A beautiful moment to end a tough year; Giant’s Causeway with good friends, epic turquoise waves and a pod of dolphins passing by 💙 Couldn’t believe that last part, but it happened. Much love, courage and resilience to you all for 2025 ✨
- Festive greetings and warm wishes to all my followers from my wee corner of this beautiful world 💙
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- Muted #dawn colours over the Binn hill, Fife coast, early this morning. A blue silver #frost and orange-reds left over from autumn. The only sound was a blackbird sounding the alarm that I was in his space (forgive me, good sir, it was so beautiful).
- Reposted by LarissaThe wilderness and the mountains... from the wee road home. Baosbhein, Beinn Dearg, Beinn Alligin taken a few days ago. #naturewriting #writingcommunity #landscapephotography
- My incredibly talented #horrorwriter friend Keith Foreman has scribed a winter story for the Decadent Serpent competition... Please do read, and vote for it if you are creeped out enough to do so! ❄❄❄ (Voting options are at the end of the story...) decadentserpent.com/2024/12/04/c...
- Reposted by LarissaThis Saturday Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast, is hosting a special funding episode A Podcast for Palestine 🇵🇸 All funds will go to www.childrennotnumbers.org This is the list of writers, so far, taking part, more to be added before Saturday We now also have a GoFundMe page gofund.me/553c2548
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- Reposted by LarissaWe're thrilled to announce that submissions are now OPEN for our #SelectedPoetry series—an online-only showcase celebrating boundary-pushing, thought-provoking poetry! Join us in redefining the poetic landscape. Deadline: December 2024. thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/11/30/p...
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- Reposted by LarissaPoetry submission opportunity coming up! Read carefully! 🎄 🤶 🎅 🧝 www.blackboughpoetry.com/events #writingsubmissions #poetic #poetry #poetrysubmissions
- Reposted by LarissaNEWS!! The National Poetry library have accepted numerous #poetry collections from Black Bough - a milestone. 🔥 🔥 🔥 Check out this poetic epicentre. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/natio...
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- Two years ago, I was lucky enough to be part of a collaborative #mixedmedia #art and #poetry project with Fife artist, Elspeth Knight. The rock|salt project celebrated life past, present and future in our corner of the #Fife coast, east Scotland 💙🌊
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- Reposted by LarissaEarly winter berry palette, for the possible dopamine it might trigger in your brain. The colour of spindle berries (bottom rightish) never seems quite real...
- Oh #Edinburgh, Edinburgh 💙
- First time in a while, but I’ve been invited to read my #poetry at a Christmas carol concert in a couple of weeks time ✨ So lovely to be invited… now, what to read…?
- Reposted by LarissaPoetry submission opportunity coming up in December. Prepare now! ✒️🎄🌟 blackboughpoetry.com/events
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- My #poem 'Net' was selected for an anthology called 'Salt Songs' by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship in Orkney, (2023). This tiny piece was inspired by GMB's writing, & appeared in my rock|salt collaboration with artist Elspeth Knight (2022) 💙 Link to anthology: www.orcadian.co.uk/shop/orkney-...
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- Here’s a link to read a few of my #poems, as featured on @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Silver Branch last summer. I was so grateful to be invited to contribute to this beautiful series 💎 #PoetsonBlueSky #poetry #poetrycommunity www.blackboughpoetry.com/larissa-reid...
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