claudia daventry

Normal person by day, poet at full moons. For now writes out of Scotland. Which is in the UK. For now. Jumping ship to Blue Sky...

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@seedsgirl @msjlindsay It seems unlikely if not unbelievable but there are people out there who think it's a storm in a remote teacup somewhere off the coast of St Kilda & aren't even aware it's a thing. They're just thinking about what works for their own booklaunch, PR or whatever.

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@moveincircles Oh my days... you get away with the illusion you're moving about in a normalish world along with at least a few vaguely sane people (eating bread. Getting buses. Walking the dog) then you accidentally return to - Twitter.

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@torontoseverin @msjlindsay @ForWomenScot Barkin up the wrong terf, pal

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@msjlindsay @ForWomenScot sláinte, msj 🥃 xx

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@msjlindsay Malbec with cats is also a good start...

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@houchin_liz @ByLeavesWeLive @poetryireland @artscouncil_ie @IrlCGEdinburgh Loved the reading, Liz: *almost* as good as the dancin

[Scottish Poetry Library @ByLeavesWeLive]

An impromptu ceilidh captured the upbeat mood of party-people at our 40th anniversary celebration of partnerships and projects at Edinburgh Castle last night. Huge thanks to our talented performers and readers @shugmcmillan @houchin_liz @SiannieMoodie Nick Jenkins @shereencutty Ben Shankland and our genial host @Historic_Ally

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@msjlindsay @politybooks Pre-ordered

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@dpeccles @msjlindsay I *think* you’re still allowed common sense at some tables - just as long as those who are talking nonsense can’t hear it

[The Hippocrates Initiative @HippocratesInit]

📚 We are delighted to see all of you enjoying this year's #poetrycollection!
🩺 This year we have opened the doors of poetry and medicine to so many new #MedicalHumanities enthusiasts and we are so happy to see our family grow!
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[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@colwight @ItsGoneAwry Then it all gets more complicated. The apple goes and falls from the tree. You can’t eat the thought of gravity or the gravity… more’s the pity.

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@DanRebellato 🤔

[Scottish Poetry Library @ByLeavesWeLive]

It was an honour to meet Queen Camilla and share our mutual love of poetry & Robert Burns at the #Edinburgh900 celebration at Edinburgh Castle. We gifted a limited edition print of “Ae Fond Kiss” (Farewell to Nancy).

Sir Alexander McCall Smith dedicated a new poem, “Nine Hundred Years”, for the special occasion.

@RoyalFamily @Edinburgh_CC @HistEnvScot @LordProvostEdin @CreativeScots @McCallSmith

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

Thank you @HippocratesInit - and for having me in Avilés. It was a fantastic symposium with so many new ideas and amazing poems, from the medical community and beyond, at a beautiful venue.
The local cider wasn’t bad, too 🙃 #poetryandmedicine #hippocratesprize #sagradafamilia

[The Hippocrates Initiative @HippocratesInit]

🌷What do we do when someone we cared for is taken away from us? When we can’t share life with them? @cdaventry addresses this tough topic with her poem 'Sagrada Familia', 1st prize winner in the Open Category #HippoCratesPoetryPrize.

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

RIP John Burnside: a kind man and a rare talent. I still read and re-read his wonderful sustained homage to poetry, #themusicoftime

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@farfromcrowd @HippocratesInit What! Hello! Where are you guys? Send me an email on DM x oh, and also thank you 🙏🏽

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

Huge delight to be a winner last night @HippocratesInit Hippocrates Poetry Prize 2024 - and what a feast of amazing papers and poems over a packed 2 day symposium. Massive congrats to all winners and commended poets in all the categories 🎉🩹💉🩺🦾✍🏼

[The Hippocrates Initiative @HippocratesInit]

Open Category
🏆 1st prize – Claudia Daventry - "Sagrada Familia"
🥈 2nd prize – Rachel Davies - "This is Not a Poem about Dementia"
🥉 3rd prize – Julia Levine - "Catalog of Infant Leukaemia"
🥉 3rd prize – James Norcliffe - "The Chest Clinic, Armagh St"

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@Tanika_Gupta @HippocratesInit Aw, thanks, Tanika ☺️

[claudia daventry @cdaventry]

@ByLeavesWeLive Thanks, Laura ☺️