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86d

Bus app: bus due. Bus stop information screen: bus due.

No bus.

Oh, the 2 is also diverted now?? FFS say so on the screen and app, you useless twats, instead of leaving people waiting for a bus that's not coming (but you promised it was).

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg

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57d

NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with book

Celebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naming-the-snakes-new-writing-scotland-44-tickets-1995684361648

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortstories #shortfiction #writing #writingcommunity #booklaunch #Edinburgh

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81d

#Edinburgh peeps, you can vote for our wonderful Filmhouse in the Cinema of the Year award https://www.bifa.film/coty-vote/?cinema=filmhouse&utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAcGRvZgJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAafIVtaUWoo-Lh_2FLA8jDEIJckkCml9Ccg8C_dhMZ0jAjSduHj-NVQzzZz2EA_aem_jvXce_fmOl17kJNOOBpGiQ

#film #cinema #Edimbourg

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49d

Book launch: A Wee Bit Zen, by Alan Spence
7 October, Typewronger Books, Edinburgh – free

Haiku & senryu, translations from the Japanese; found poems, sound poems, visual & text poems, puns & one-liners, overheard word-on-the-street poems, everyday zen – this new collection of short-form poetry from Alan Spence is a descendant of his bestselling cult classic GLASGOW ZEN

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-wee-bit-zen-a-new-poetry-collection-by-alan-spence-tickets-2001775231604

#Scottish #literature #poetry #booklaunch #Edinburgh #Zen #haiku #senryu #translation

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69d

Queer Scottish Voices: the suspended blue blue air
16 September, Typewronger Books, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed

Join host Iain Morrison for an evening with Scottish poets David Kinloch & Colin Herd, & hear them read from their latest books & talk about what queer poetics means to them today in Scotland.

The evening is raising money for the Terrance Higgins Trust in Glasgow.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-scottish-voices-the-suspended-blue-blue-air-tickets-1998667800193

#Scottish #literature #poetry #LGBTQ #queer #queerliterature #Edinburgh

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160d

Off to have poison pumped through my veins once more, IV chemo session awaits. Good start as I arrive early for the bus and find it's running ten minutes late... Just as well I left earlier than needed, just in case...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie

Red, stone Victorian tenements line an Edinburgh street

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66d

Daft gowk, in macaroni dress,
Are ye come here to shaw your face,
Bowden wi’ pride o’ simmer gloss,
To cast a dash at Reikie’s cross…

—“On Seeing a Butterfly in the Street”, by Robert Fergusson (1750–1774) – born #OTD, 5 Sept. In his short life he reinvigorated #poetry in Scots. A 🎂🧵

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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson

On Seeing a Butterfly in the Street
Robert Fergusson

Daft gowk, in macaroni dress,
Are ye come here to shaw your face,
Bowden wi’ pride o’ simmer gloss,
To cast a dash at Reikie’s cross;
And glowr at mony a twa-legg’d creature,
Flees, braw by art, tho’ worms by nature?

Like country laird in city cleeding,
Ye’re come to town to lear’ good breeding;
To bring ilk darling toast and fashion
In vogue amang the flee creation,
That they, like buskit belles and beaux,
May crook their mou’ fu’ sour at those
Whase weird is still to creep, alas!
Unnotic’d ʼmang the humble grass;
While you, wi’ wings new buskit trim,
Can far frae yird and reptiles skim;
Newfangle grown wi’ new-got form,
You soar aboon your mither worm.

Kind Nature lent but for a day
Her wings to mak ye sprush and gay;
In her habuliments a while
Ye may your former sell beguile,
And ding awa’ the vexing thought
O’ hourly dwinin’ into nought,
By beengin’ to your foppish brithers,
Black corbies dress’d in peacock’s feathers;
Like thee they dander here and there,
Whan Simmer’s blinks are warm and fair,
And lo’e to snuff the healthy balm,
Whan E’enin’ spreads her wing sae calm;
But whan she girns and glow’rs sae dour
Frae Borean houff in angry show’r,
Like thee they scour frae street or field,
And hap them in a lyther bield;
For they were never made to dree
The adverse gloom o’ Fortune’s e’e,
Nor ever pried life’s pinin’ woes,
Nor pu’d the prickles wi’ the rose.

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Poor Butterfly! thy case I mourn,
To green kail-yard and fruits return:
How could you troke the mavis’ note
For “penny pies all-pipin’ hot?”
Can lintie’s music be compar’d
Wi’ gruntles frae the City Guard?
Or can our flow’rs, at ten hour’s bell,
The gowan or the spink excel?

Now shou’d our sclates wi’ hailstanes ring,
What cabbage-fauld wad screen your wing;
Say, fluttering fairy! wert thy hap
To light beneath braw Nanny’s cap,
Wad she, proud butterfly of May!
In pity let you skaithless gae?
The furies glancing frae her een
Wad rug your wings o’ siller sheen,
That, wae for thee! far, far outvy
Her Paris artist’s finest dye;
Then a’ your bonny spraings wad fall,
And you a worm be left to crawl.

To sic mishanter rins the laird
Wha quits his ha’-house and kail-yard,
Grows politician, scours to court,
Whare he’s the laughing-stock and sport
O’ Ministers, wha jeer and jibe,
And heeze his hopes wi’ thought o’ bribe,
Till in the end they flae him bare,
Leave him to poortith, and to care.
Their fleetchin’ words owre late he sees,
He trudges hame, repines, and dies.

Sic be their fa’ wha dirk their ben
In blackest business nae their ain;
And may they scad their lips fu’ leal,
That dip their spoons in ither’s kail.

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19d

Characters on the Scott Monument: Their Stories
7 November, Edinburgh Central Library. Free, ticketed

The statuettes on Edinburgh’s Scott Monument show characters from Walter Scott’s poems & novels. This talk will examine the statuettes & show how they shed light on Scott’s works.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/characters-on-the-scott-monument-their-stories-tickets-1999689835127

#Scottish #literature #sculpture #19thcentury #Victorian #visualart #sculpture #WalterScott #romanticism #Edinburgh #memorial

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63d

Pentlands Book Festival
26 October–25 November

The programme for the 2026 Pentlands Book Festival is now online! Tickets to the events are free but essential – see the website for details.

https://pentlandsbookfestival.org

#Scottish #literature #BookFestival #Pentlands #Edinburgh

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61d

Creative Writing: Rain
13 Oct/3 Nov/1 Dec, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh – £5

This series of three workshops, led by writer Lynn Davidson, will explore the rhythms, sounds, moods & patterns of rain & weather through creative writing. All welcome.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-writing-rain-tickets-2000395472708

#Scottish #literature #writing #creativewriting #rain #weather #Edinburgh

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61d

NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with book

Celebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naming-the-snakes-new-writing-scotland-44-tickets-1995684361648

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh

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25d

There's a petition calling on the council to protect Summerhall as an arts venue - the owners are planning to demolish part of the site, developing flats and more student accommodation.

(Cos what Edinburgh really needs is more student accommodation...)

#Edinburgh #Summerhall

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-summerhall-scotland-s-premier-multidisciplinary-arts-venue

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7d

Yes, the clocks have gone back, it's now November, and darker a little earlier each day...

On the other hand, how cosy & inviting does our bookshop look at night???

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#Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies #IndieBookshops #IndependentBookshops

an angled view of the Edinburgh Bookshop after dark, the large, plate glass windows lit up, the shelves inside visible, looking inviting and cosy against the dark outside

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40d

Push The Boat Out – Edinburgh’s International Poetry Festival
12–15 November + pre-festival events

The programme for the 2026 PUSH THE BOAT OUT poetry festival is now online – from poetry as protest & social justice to workshops, new writers, experimental performance, music, conversations & collaborations

https://pushtheboatout.org/programme/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #poetryfestival #Edinburgh

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32d

Wondering what incredibly stupid thing the driver of this car did to crash it like this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6m2d9n1dy7jo
That's a quiet, West End Square, no space for speeding up, & their vehicle is at a right angle to the direction of the road, so wtf were they doing to end up like this, drving backwards into the building and basement? Why would the car even be facing that way beforehand??

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg

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