One second from every episode of Twin Peaks.

good selection of 🇭🇺 poetry here at CPL --- this pamphlet new in feat. the Edwin Morgan translation of an astonishing Lajos Kassák long poem which doesn't appear in the EM Collected Translations

This is great. The Smiths wander about with a bunch of children, not really answering their questions, and suddenly Sandie Shaw arrives and sings Jeane to them in a park! youtu.be/POceGR_WlKY?si…

FAROES, LATVIA & SCOTLAND 2 evenings of poetry featuring poems in Scottish Gaelic, Faroese and Latgalian. Tues 17 Oct (Glasgow) and Wed 18 Oct (Edinburgh) . #internationalpoetry

What a wonderfully surprising collection this is from Kathryn Gray - I love this short punchy poem: ‘Late summer is / always memory — so promiscuous with us’ 💛

“Sartre thought that life could be caught in a trap of words, and I’ve always felt that words weren’t life itself but a reproduction of life, of something dead, so to speak.” We’ve unlocked our interview with Simone de Beauvoir. buff.ly/453ZqG8

What an honour to be mentioned alongside @robamackenzie1, @maithreyikarnoor, @betarish, @emilycotterill, @poetryhilary and brilliant others by @zoebrigley! It was a very lovely reading last night: the weather outside was cold(ish), the poetry was warm. zoebrigley.com/2023/11/28/ref… ✨

Review of my fourth poetry collection 'Woof! Woof! Woof!' in The Bottle Imp by Matthew Macdonald. Interesting and pretty good review. There are mistakes in the quote from 'Year of the Rat' but you can have fun working out what it's meant to be😀. thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/woof-w…

These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza. lithub.com/these-are-the-…

My musical highlight of 2023 was the long overdue discovery of The Saints. What a joy it's been!

Live poetry, Tues 16 Jan, from 5 Scottish poets and 2 U.S. poets, plus live music, 7 for 7.30pm. Proceeds to Medical Aid Palestine. Brilliant line-up. Registration details at the link. Sketchy Beats Cafe, 208 Great Junction Street, Leith, EH6 5LW. eventbrite.co.uk/e/island-weath…

'I can experience something I call the “trembling of speech.” I learn of meanings that can be hiding in those texts and about which I didn’t have the faintest idea. I realise the poem does not belong to me... it is a living space belonging to the person reading it at the moment'

While I strachil through the last o the January duties, I find my brain has, all by itself in the woods, been singing the praises of the swede. ‘To A Neep’, an instance of the post-#BurnsNicht blues (for Rob A. Mackenzie): tumblr.com/billherbert23/…

3 for 2 on #VanguardEditions poetry anthologies throughout Feb to celebrate #VanguardEditions10. From #3PoetryAnthology Rob A. Mackenzie Lines from Those Killed by the State is constructed from lines by Anne Frank, Federico García Lorca, Mary Queen of Scots, Max Jacob, Robert Desnos..

Mark your calendars! Sunday Salon Chicago happens at 7 pm on March 24, 2024 RoscoeBooks w/ an amazing lineup, featuring Marmarcia, Tyler Mills, Ben Tanzer, Kenyatta Rogers, Thea Goodman & Rob A. Mackenzie 🤗🙆👏 Pls share❣️🙏👌 Website update coming soon...

Our acts for Hame-ish: Rodeo- returning performers Norman Lamont, Rob Mackenzie, Paper Rifles (duo setup), & @jaywhittapoet will join new performers Naomi Head and Chiara Berardelli! No horses/cowboy hats involved, just a brand new devised show... see our Linktree for tickets!

Now 11 days! Alas, Chiara is no longer able to join Paper Rifles Rob A. Mackenzie @jaywhittapoet @naomieah_ & Norman Lamont, but please welcome back Emma Martin! We're hard at work adjusting the show- what better way to show support than nabbing a ticket via the link in our bio?

Hame-ish: Rodeo is TOMORROW. Here's the last bio- Rob A. Mackenzie ! Rob joined us for the very first Hame-ish in Summerhall Old Lab, so we're very glad to see him return. Ticket link via bio!

I'm reading on Zoom this Friday 14 June, 7pm GMT, with John Challis , part of the regular PoetryLit reading series. Register free at the link. (Note: the 8pm start time on Eventbrite is EU time. It's 7pm in the UK). eventbrite.nl/e/poetry-lit-o…

🎉 40 POETS/40 YEARS #6 Rob A. Mackenzie reads 'Dance Dance Dance' #SPLat40