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Blue Diode Press

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Poetry book publisher, run by @RobAMackenzie1 . Left-field, slant poetic brilliance. Quality not Quantity. Check out the books.

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Tonight, Thurs, 7 for 7.30pm, Waverley Bar, Edinburgh. Launching a new debut poetry collection, 'Knottis' by Lindsey Shields Waters, with Alan Buckley up from Oxford for a one-off reading in Scotland from 'Still', and the excellent Colin Bramwell and Sophie Cooke. Free entry!
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This Friday 6 March, 7pm, Typewronger Books, Haddington Place (top of Leith Walk), Edinburgh - launch of Andrew Neilson's debut poetry book, 'Little Griefs' (Blue Diode Press). Annie Brechin has unfortunately had to travel south, but Medha Singh will read instead. Free entry!
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Call for submissions of debut poetry collections, UK only.
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Excellent news. Alice Willitt's Kiss My Earth (Blue Diode Press, 2025) is one of three books shortlisted in the poetry category of the East Anglian Book Awards!
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Three recent books available now from bluediode.co.uk . Good Sons by Tim Craven, Recital by @MarianneMacRae , and Kiss My Earth by Alice Willitts. Info, sample poems, etc at the link. Have a look!
Three books. Tim Craven's features multicoloured gravestones facing a similarly multicoloured landscape. Marianne MacRae's is a purple background with a three legged green creature inside a turquoise circle. And Alice Willitts's is an orange yellow background with a dark blue portrait of a woman with big hair and eyes and the words Kiss My Earth replacing her nose and mouth.

ALT Three books. Tim Craven's features multicoloured gravestones facing a similarly multicoloured landscape. Marianne MacRae's is a purple background with a three legged green creature inside a turquoise circle. And Alice Willitts's is an orange yellow background with a dark blue portrait of a woman with big hair and eyes and the words Kiss My Earth replacing her nose and mouth.

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This Saturday, Manchester, there's a poetry bonanza! From 4-6pm, @PeterBarlowsCig features Maria Sledmere, Harriet Tarlo and Lucy Wilkinson. And then from 7pm, Olga Stehlikova, Christopher Crawford, David Gaffney and @lydiowanie, courtesy of Blue Diode Press. Links below.
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Books Tour: terrific Czech poet (Olga) and Scottish poet based in Prague (Chris) reading in Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh from 9-11th November, with fabulous special guests. Come along. Free entry, books on sale. Dates and times below.
Blue Diode poets launch their new books - Olga Stehlikova and Chris Crawford - readings in Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, Sat 9th Nov, 7pm; Bigglestones Books, Glassford St, Glasgow, Sun 10th Nov, 4pm; Typewronger Books, Edinburgh, Mon 11th Nov, 7pm.

ALT Blue Diode poets launch their new books - Olga Stehlikova and Chris Crawford - readings in Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, Sat 9th Nov, 7pm; Bigglestones Books, Glassford St, Glasgow, Sun 10th Nov, 4pm; Typewronger Books, Edinburgh, Mon 11th Nov, 7pm.

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Newly published today, Czech poet Olga Stehlikova's 'Though the Sky is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat' (Blue Diode Press), selected poems in English translation by David Vichnar. Info, sample poems and shop at this link: bluediode.co.uk/product-page…
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Fiona Moore's second collection, Okapi, is available from Blue Diode Press. A single poem, split into sections, set on a Scottish island. Loss, landscape, politics, grief and determination - it's all in here. The distant okapi is somehow never far away. bluediode.co.uk/product-page…
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ALT A background of greyish sand. Black-purplish seaweed in the rough shape of a leafless tree in the foreground, and a few scattered shells.

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Tonight in London, Thurs 1 August! Readings start at 7.30pm, doors open 6pm. Charlotte Street Hotel, London launch of the brilliant 'Rabbi / Robin' by Shereen Akhtar (Blue Diode Press, 2024).
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London launch of Shereen Akhtar's astonishing 'Rabbi / Robin' collection (Blue Diode Press, July 2024) - Charlotte Street Hotel, from 6pm. All welcome. You can buy the book and read poems and info here - bluediode.co.uk/product-page…
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