"In the converted ballroom that then housed his library, he stomped all over my poems like Gene Kelly in combat boots." Beautiful tributes to Douglas Dunn - who would've been 84 today - from @dharmabam.bsky.social, @nemoloris.bsky.social, Greenlaw, Muldoon, Hofmann, Armitage, &c.

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Lesson learned: if Washington sanctions you, hoard American citizens, ransom them one by one for diplomatic wins, and wash, rinse, repeat. The hunt is on!

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#紅葉 #Edinburgh #UnionCanal #AutumnColours

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There they are, widows of the professoriate Tied to their frail routines, but not unfree Wheeling their shopping zimmers on Market Street… —Douglas Dunn, “Progress” published in SECOND WIND (Saltire Society, 2015) #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/progress/

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An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class is published one week today! To celebrate, I'll be having an Edinburgh book launch at Leith Arches on Leith Walk. Sign up here! 🔽 argonautbooks.co.uk/event/2j2uXL...

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