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Stephen Walsh @walshythebolshy.bsky.social · 1d

Saving himself for the next round
he did write well about disasters

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Stephen Walsh @walshythebolshy.bsky.social · 1d

Naughty me, I seem to have posted it

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Stephen Walsh @walshythebolshy.bsky.social · 1d

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba... lovely article by the great Hugh MacDonald with typically generous assessment of my new book ‘High Ball to the Wee Man’ and Hamish MacDonald’s ‘Square Baw’ @asls.org.uk @natlibscot.bsky.social @stephenwattpoet.bsky.social @juliemcneillwrites.bsky.social

ON THE ROAD meets two poets inspired by Scottish football

There is both a rhyme and reason behind the torrent of words that form the modern Scottish fitba' poetry oeuvre, as we never tire of declaiming in the salons of Saracen Street.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Stephen Walsh @walshythebolshy.bsky.social · 7d

@danigaravelli.bsky.social if you’d be interested in a look at this new book of mine please DM - happy to end a copy. People like it…

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 11d

Stop looking like a purse. How could a purse
squeeze under the rickety door and sit,
full of satisfaction, in a man’s house?

—Norman MacCaig, “Toad”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)
#poem #poetry #BookWormSat
birlinn.co.uk/product/the-...

Toad
by Norman MacCaig

Stop looking like a purse. How could a purse
squeeze under the rickety door and sit,
full of satisfaction, in a man’s house?

You clamber towards me on your four corners –
right hand, left foot, left hand, right foot.

I love you for being a toad,
for crawling like a Japanese wrestler,
and for not being frightened.

I put you in my purse hand, not shutting it,
and set you down outside directly under
every star.

A jewel in your head? Toad,
you’ve put one in mine,
a tiny radiance in a dark place.

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Stephen Walsh @walshythebolshy.bsky.social · 14d

It’s publication day for HIGH BALL TO THE WEE MAN

“Exuberant, varied and at times almost moves you to tears - just like Scotland's World Cup misadventures. Walsh captures them so well in this delightful, inimitable wee book”
Jonathan Northcroft - Sunday Times

yorkbookshop.com/poetry-and-d...

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Stephen Walsh @walshythebolshy.bsky.social · 21d

Necessary ‘open the box’ shot. HIGH BALL TO THE WEE MAN - my Scotland at the World Cup poem sequences - available for preorder here yorkbookshop.com/poetry-and-d... and the usual places …

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Stephen Walsh @walshythebolshy.bsky.social · 28d

@scotfootballmuseum.bsky.social this new book includes a sequence of three poems that is based on your wonderful Archie Gemmill exhibit -

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Stephen Walsh @walshythebolshy.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks so much!

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Stephen Walsh @walshythebolshy.bsky.social · 28d

@asls.org.uk how about a little repost of the cover for my new poetry book HIGH BALL TO THE WEE MAN - in which I measure out my life in Scotland World Cup campaigns - out on 1st Oct and available for preorder in the usual places now???

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Stephen Walsh @walshythebolshy.bsky.social · Aug 13

Issue 37 features, I’m pleased to say, my tale of a confraternal and carb-loaded weekend with the Scotland-daft fanáticos of @sdeibar.bsky.social

Nutmeg Magazine @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

📢 Nutmeg announcement 📢
Issue 37 is off to the printers!

🛒 You can pre-order it now: bit.ly/3JxR4Be
Read the full contents here: bit.ly/3JxckHl

Not a subscriber?
✍️ Sign up by 31 August and start with Issue 37
bit.ly/3vlKFT0

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Stephen Walsh @walshythebolshy.bsky.social · Feb 20

If you watch this little film you’ll see the front page of my article in Nutmeg 35 about Ted McMinn and Jock Wallace’s adventures at Seville, the only place in the world (as the old joke went) that Jock could find more Orangemen than on the Copland Road.

Nutmeg Magazine @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social · Feb 18

📢 NUTMEG ANNOUNCEMENT
Issue 35 is now at the printers.
It should reach subscribers in the first week of March.

Not a subscriber?
You can sign up here and start with Issue 35
bit.ly/3vlKFT0

Or pre-order: bit.ly/3CBPHPf
Full contents: bit.ly/3EuIBwg

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