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Medha Singh
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Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / Afterbody, Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/afterbodybluediode
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Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social · May 2
I am deeply elated to announce that my book of poems, Afterbody is out through Blue Diode Press in June.

It has been touched and seen by all my living heroes and I bring this to you with all that is good inside me.

Available for pre-order here: www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/aft...
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Friends, I am reading at the Shore Poets, Edinburgh on the 23rd at Waverley Bar. 6.00 PM door open.

On the 27th for Still Point, KIng's College litmag - this is at The Ship, 134 New Cavendish Street (near Euston), 7:30pm.
October 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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For Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social
a review of Medha Singh's @medhawrites.bsky.social's new poetry collection, Afterbody, published by Blue Diode Press.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri on Medha Singh — Socrates on the Beach
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September 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Always awed by @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social's prose, and looking forward to this book by @medhawrites.bsky.social. Thoroughly enjoyed her previous work, Ecdysis.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri on Medha Singh — Socrates on the Beach
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September 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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He has gone down into darkness at the wrecked end of the year
And is lying, gaberlunzie, in the needled nest of frost…

—Gerry Cambridge, “Processional at the Winter Solstice”
Published in Notes for Lighting a Fire (HappenStance Press 2012)
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Processional at the Winter Solstice by Gerry Cambridge He has gone down into darkness at the wrecked end of the year And is lying, gaberlunzie, in the needled nest of frost. The arctic thrushes call for him although he cannot hear, And the worm too understands him in the chilled grip of its dark, And the ptarmigan in blizzards where no thought is worth a crumb, And treecreepers in shivering puffs in Wellingtonias’ bark. Shop windows glint in city lights like ice and sky, but still No tinsel gifts can touch him, freed to silence like a stone’s; His face is white as paper’s white in miles-high midnight chill. He lies as plain as frost-dust where those starving thrushes call, And his lime and ray-struck armoury could hardly be less small On the anvil of beginnings in the sun’s gate on the wall.
December 22, 2023 at 12:55 PM
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A solitude of sea.
August 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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“in the wide swathes of time,
everything will wash over us”

Afterbody, Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Blue Diode Press
August 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I'm reading at Typewronger Books, Edinburgh for the Edinburgh Fringe/Book Fringe. An evening of wine, poetry, friendships. This is going to be great. See you!
August 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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I'm thrilled to say that Afterbody was launched to a full house at the Scottish Poetry Library! Afterbody saw all come together: you could throw a stone into this audience and it would land on a poet. Thanks to Rob Mackenzie, an important literary citizen in our little world of Scottish poetry.
August 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Blue Diode Poetry Launches
26 June @byleaveswelive.bsky.social, Edinburgh – free & all welcome

Blue Diode Publications presents poets James Appleby, Sophie Cooke, David Kinloch & @medhawrites.bsky.social launching their new collections
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Blue Diode Poetry Launches
Blue Diode Publications presents poets James Appleby, Sophie Cooke, David Kinloch and Medha Singh launching their new collections.
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June 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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"The sequence is gorgeous, poignant, beautifully evocative and strange, masterfully subtle, yet poetically exhilarating… Afterbody will properly announce Singh as one of the most notable emerging #poets in #Scotland.” —Alan Gillis

Do come for the launch of Afterbody (Blue Diode Press). 26th, SPL.
June 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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A Letter From The Mountain comes out one month from today!! I’m so excited to share this one with you all—preorders are open at 🔗 in 🧵:) ⛰️

to count down to the release, I’ll share a “mountain poem” each day—something in the book’s cosmos it couldn’t have been written without.
A picture of A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems on top of a mountain dulcimer in an open case. Around it are a small flower painting, a copy of Rimbaud’s Poésies, some dried roses, and a little wooden owl, who knows more than he lets on.
June 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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A brilliant issue of Almost Island, one of my favourite publications of poetry and prose: www.almostisland.com
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June 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Friends! I am thrilled: the book jacket is here, complete with blurbs. We'd be having a launch at the SPL end of June with David Kinloch, Sophie Cooke, James Appleby + myself who have wonderful pamphlets out with Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh. 26th, 7PM. See you!

#Poetry #Scotland #ScottishPoetry
June 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Mood / RIP, Monica.
June 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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“…like coming across fragments of a Psalter or song-book of North-eastern folk ditties… all clasped within the ragged covers of a rumbustious, medieval recipe book for everything”

—David Kinloch on the poetry of Alexander Hutchison
www.davidkinloch.co.uk/journal/the-...
The Poetry of Alexander Hutchison — David Kinloch, Writer
When Alexander (Sandy) Hutchison died in 2015 there was an understandable outpouring of grief and affection for a Scottish poet who — despite his long career — was only just beginning to become more w...
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November 22, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Zoila Conan, photographed by William Mortensen, 1928
June 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Marie Howe
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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'Crowds Over London Bridge' (2024) by Clive McCartney
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May 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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McLELLAN POETRY COMPETITION

Poems in English or Scots
£1000 prizes for English poem and Scots poem

Closing Date: 15 June 2025
Judge: Jim Carruth

Prize-winners will be invited to read at the award ceremony on Isle of Arran on Fri 29 Aug 2025

Details:
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Arran Theatre and Arts Trust | Poetry Competition
The Isle of Arrans Annual Art Competition
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May 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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This week our Meet the Author video is by David Morley, writer of Passion, which is published this month! 🐦‍⬛

Click below to hear David talk about mist nets, capturing life in poetry and some of the poems' origins.
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Meet the Author: David Morley Discusses Passion
Listen to David Morley introduce his new poetry collection, Passion. David talks about mist nets, capturing life in poetry and describes some of the poems' origins. On Wednesday 25th June at 7pm, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Passion! The event will be hosted by Sinéad Morrissey and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A. Book your ticket here: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/events/passion-by-david-morley-carcanet-online-book-launch/ For more info, and to buy the book: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800174818/passion/ Carcanet Press is supported by Arts Council England. Please consider donating to support our future work: https://www.paypal.me/carcanet Edited and produced by Pixel Assist www.pixelassist.co.uk
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May 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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i thought maybe i could share some of my favourite poetry here. this is consolation for tamar, by alicia e stallings
Consolation for Tamar by Alicia E. Stallings on the occasion of her breaking an ancient pot You know I am no archeologist, Tamar, And that to me it is all one dust or another. Still, it must mean something to survive the weather Of the Ages—earthquake, flood, and war— Only to shatter in your very hands. Perhaps it was gravity, or maybe fated— Although I wonder if it had not waited Those years in drawers, aeons in distant lands, And in your fingers’ music, just a little Was emboldened by your blood, and so forgot That it was not a rosebud, but a pot, And, trying to unfold for you, was brittle
October 8, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.
'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955) Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.
January 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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We’re not all doomed to repeat our parents’ mistakes, or destined to inherit their successes. In the Wonder Reader, @isabelfattal.bsky.social offers a guide to taking useful lessons without losing your own way: https://theatln.tc/MghNhGtj
May 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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⚡Live on our blog, our latest interview with Claudia Piñeiro, among the most decorated writers in Latin America today speaking with our editor, James Appleby ⚡️
Crime Appears As If By Accident: An Interview With Claudia Piñeiro
An interview with Claudia Piñeiro, one of Latin America's most decorated modern writers.
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March 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM