Poetry Lit February 2022
My reading at the excellent Poetry Lit online event organised by Mille van der Have and Stephanie Green. Poems include You Watch the News, The Philanthropists, Letting Go, Testimony, In Time and Teach Your Child to Swim : all from my 2022 collection, Pibroch.
John Bolland Poetry lit! Feb ’22 – YouTube
Sweetness
Sweetness first appeared in Pibroch in 2022. In 2023 it was selected as one of the Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems of 2022.
Thin Ice first appeared in Aiblins: New Scottish Political Poetry published by Luath Press in 2016. It has subsequently featured in Fallen Stock, published by Red Squirrel Press in 2019.
My Father’s Hands was first published ion Open Mouse in 2016. It is included in Fallen Stock, published by Red Squirrel Press in 2019.
First published in Fallen Stock, Red Squirrel Press 2019.