Robert Alan Jamieson

lives by the river Almond, writes, reads, paints, grows things

[Kathleen Jamie @KathleenJamie]

From lines submitted, we've made a Scottish People's Address to World Leaders. Fellow poet Niall Campbell joined me for an inaugural reading at @PTBOpoetry. The poem will be launched on Friday, St Andrew's Day.

[Laura Fyfe @FigmentLaura]

It’s funny sometimes where this old writing life can take a gal.

Here’s “Poem of the Week” in @TheScotsman, ahead of my performance on Wednesday at Holyrood’s cross-party St Andrew’s Day celebration.

#poetry #standrewsday #stirlingmakar

[Rodge Glass @rodgeglass]

Looking forward to 2024 with the good folks at @PressTaproot. Exciting to have a publication date for my memoir JOSHUA IN THE SKY 💕

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Women of the Day - the Edinburgh Seven, the first group of matriculated undergraduate female students at any British university. They began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869 but were denied their degrees by the Court of Session which ruled that they should never have been admitted in the first place. 🧵

It began when Sophia Jex-Blake applied to study medicine. The university claimed it couldn’t possibly be expected to make arrangements for “just one lady” so she advertised in newspapers for other women to join her. She found six. Edinburgh had no choice but to admit them so it announced it would charge them more than men for attending the same classes. The Seven paid. Sophia actually tutored the other six in mathematics. 🧵

[Taproot Press @PressTaproot]

Wonderful news and no surprise to us. This essay is a remarkable piece of work, and part of an equally remarkable book which we are lucky enough to be publishing.

Privileged to be working with Rodge to bring #JoshuaintheSky out into the world next year, Summer 2024.

[Robert Alan Jamieson @RAJamie]

@ScotsWhayHae That was the one I read as well.

[Taproot Press @PressTaproot]

Not every review can be glowing, and we don't always agree with what's written. What we do appreciate is a considered reading, and that's what this is.

Thanks @scotsman_arts for this review of #ConnectiveTissue @EleanorJThom

Do you have your copy yet?

https://t.co/9Ia0QVFUJn

[Rodge Glass @rodgeglass]

Don't tell me the ending! I'm reading this book just now, a beautifully written story which draws on complex legacies & our pasts shape our present. Congratulations to @EleanorJThom & to the good folks @PressTaproot on #ConnectiveTissue. A decade well spent...

[Taproot Press @PressTaproot]

Fitting to see #ConnectiveTissue on the runway, ready to cross borders.

[Robert Alan Jamieson @RAJamie]

@Jenni_Fagan It’s almost the perfect start — I chop a banana into mine too.

[Robert Alan Jamieson @RAJamie]

@Jenni_Fagan Porridge (with honey)?

[Taproot Press @PressTaproot]

Tickets for tomorrow's event with Eleanor Thom and Wiz Wharton are now SOLD OUT.

Nice to be able to type that! (Sorry)

[Kathleen Jamie @KathleenJamie]

Climate. Scotland. Action. Writing. Announcing Paperboats: a website, a zine, actions in the real and beautiful world. Please follow, please join. More later today. We will rise! @paperboatswrite

[Taproot Press @PressTaproot]

And so the cat escapes the bag!

So excited to be working with @rodgeglass on Joshua in the Sky, which will be published late summer 2024. This one is special.

[Rodge Glass @rodgeglass]

Seeing Joshua's name in print makes me so happy. This book is an autobiography & biography in one, myself & my nephew linked by our shared pasts & rare blood condition. Thanks good folk @PressTaproot & esp to @JennyBrownBooks who has kept believing in me, for 20yrs. More soon ↘️

[Taproot Press @PressTaproot]

Early copies of Connective Tissue are landing 🥳 we can't wait for people to read this book. Keep the photos coming!

And if you haven't got your copy yet, pop over to the event at @edbookfest one week from today to get a copy signed by @EleanorJThom herself!

[Taproot Press @PressTaproot]

As a thank you for the support we have decided to send out pre-orders of Connective Tissue a few weeks early 💫

This way you can have your questions all prepared ahead of this month's @edbookfest event with @Chomsky1 😁

Official publication date is still 6 September 🧭