I’m delighted to have a new poem, ‘Fusion’, published in Silk and Smoke issue 2: https://silkandsmoke.com/portfolio/fusion-by-larissa-reid/ Silk and Smoke is a beautiful publication, and I had them in mind when I was working on the final draft of ‘Fusion’. It’s brilliant to be a small part of a fairly new, local (Edinburgh-based) online magazine. OneContinue reading “Silk and Smoke: ‘Fusion’”
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Not yet spring
Last weekend the temperatures here in Fife dropped from 18C to 2C overnight. It snowed again in the hills, and for several days we have been shivering in blasts of arctic air flows – the last gasp of winter: the lambing snows. The third of my poems for the #Cateran100 project is now up online:Continue reading “Not yet spring”
Herringbone
The second of my #Cateran100 poems is now available to listen to online: https://soundcloud.com/user-557410710/herringbone-by-larissa-reid This poem was first published in the autumn 2017 edition of Northwords Now, issue 34. I was honoured to have three poems appear in this particular edition, Herringbone, The Crow Road and Skye-light. All are available to read here: https://www.northwordsnow.co.uk/author/Larissa-Reid
The Cateran100 project
Really honoured to be part of the #Cateran100 project being run by the Cateran Ecomuseum https://www.cateranecomuseum.co.uk/ during these strange times. The team at Cateran are posting daily audio recordings of poems old and new on social media, together with local photographs and history related to Perthshire, Tayside and Angus, Scotland. The first of four ofContinue reading “The Cateran100 project”
Shortlisted for Janet Coats Memorial Prize
I’m delighted I have recently had a poem selected for the shortlist of the Janet Coats Memorial Prize at Paisley Book Festival: https://paisleybookfest.com/prize/ The theme for 2020 is ‘Radical Voices and Rebel Stories’, with a focus on the young people who have been making their voices heard on the climate crisis over the past twoContinue reading “Shortlisted for Janet Coats Memorial Prize”
Twisted::Colon blog pages
You can read some of my latest poems and short fiction pieces on the Twisted::Colon blog – http://twistedcolon.blog This is where my friends in the writing group and I share material, ideas and promote our public readings and published work. Do follow us to see what we’re up to!
Twisted::Colon Anthology II
Originally posted on TWISTED::COLON:
It’s been a wee while since Twisted::Colon committed anything to print, but the latest collection, available to buy now, is well worth the wait. In this collection we are transformed into other beings, we enjoy the sensuality of plums, we remember Africa, we break plates, we play hide and seek,…
Poetry collection: In February
Originally posted on TWISTED::COLON:
“Poetry to shake senses awake with the splash of language.” Kenny Taylor, editor Northwords Now Last February, 2018, I challenged myself to write a poem every day for a month. Starting on February 1st, and taking writer Robert Macfarlane’s ‘words of the day’ on Twitter as inspiration, I began to…