Stuart Paterson

Writer, award-winning poet in Scots & English & truths not trends , ex BBC Scotland Poet in Residence, happy to work with all ages & classes no matter where

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Happy #burnsnight2026 tae aw freens aw owre. Here's a 1-off unique pic of Rabbie drawn for me in 1992 for the mag I founded & edited '89-96, a cover made by the great Malky McCormick @EALeisure @Burns_Ellisland @AllowayBurns @ByLeavesWeLive @BBCScotLearn @LiamMcIlvanney

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A poem from a stravaig round a nearby old estate this afternoon. I often unexpectedly find old domestic ruins in the countryside & wonder who lived there, for how long & why they left @RuralScotland @dgplacenames @DG_Unlimited @penpontpark

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A poem from a stravaig round a nearby old estate this afternoon. I often unexpectedly find old domestic ruins in the countryside & wonder who lived there, for how long & why they left @RuralScotland @dgplacenames @DG_Unlimited @penpontpark

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Love these wee fellas that get busy on the berries in Spring

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@joao_kay @billykayscot @Historic_Ally Hae a gey smashin time owre in Venice, ma favourite wattery place oan the planet

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Here's a poem aboot a houlit fae ma 2020 @TippermuirBooks book o poems for weans A Squatter o Bairnrhymes. Thocht the day wis World Owl Day an it's no but here's ma poem onywey! Flittermoose is Scots for bat, gey close tae the German word for a houlit, fliedermaus 🦉

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@billykayscot @RobynStapleton @edbookfest @ayrshire_AFHS Ah'll no be in Ayrshire next weeken but am shair ye'll hae a grand turnoot up the Valley in Dervel

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@FaetheRye @DG_Unlimited @JudithRalston @DGArtsFest @penpontpark @VisitSWScotland @VisitScotland The name o the village Ah stey in's maist likely fae auld Welsh

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A wee dauner up near the top of Scaur Glen in Nithsdale earlier above Penpont village. Lambies in the field & a grand local snyster later from the shop @DG_Unlimited @JudithRalston @DGArtsFest @penpontpark @VisitSWScotland @VisitScotland

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@d_anderson878 A pejorative Scots word? Nae wey!

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@d_anderson878 Haik, no heard thon yin afore, grand, like a hike eh.

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@caravanoke @joannaccherry 'Following 23' & '1 Follower' (probably yourself) says it all. Happy you've now got the attention you obviously sought?

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@FaetheRye @DG_Unlimited @JudithRalston @DGArtsFest @penpontpark @VisitSWScotland @VisitScotland Aye it's a braw 'undiscovered' part of the world to live in. From my back garden the view includes a flat-topped 1,000 foot hill made so by an Iron Age tribe to build a fort on 2,000 years ago.

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Smashin weather on the Solway coast this afternoon at Sandyhills & Rockliffe with clear views over to Hestan Isle & clear views to the Cumbrian mountains. And a Beltie & buying at @ColvendMarket of course @BBCScotWeather @JudithRalston @dgplacenames @AlanMcFadyen2 @ColvendMarket

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Smashin weather on the Solway coast this afternoon at Sandyhills & Rockliffe with clear views over to Hestan Isle & clear views to the Cumbrian mountains. And a Beltie & buying at @ColvendMarket of course @BBCScotWeather @JudithRalston @dgplacenames @AlanMcFadyen2 @ColvendMarket

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@LiamMcIlvanney Aye maybe, I'll have tae find oot noo!

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Nice wee trip up the nearby Dalveen Pass in good weather on Sunday. We've lots places in the south west that are as braw & remote as much further north in the Highlands 🙂 @VisitScotland @VisitSWScotland @BBCScotLearn @DumfriesVisit @DG_Unlimited @_TravelScotland

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@menzies_liz Aye & just next to it's Leadhills where lead was mined

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Nice wee trip up the nearby Dalveen Pass in good weather on Sunday. We've lots places in the south west that are as braw & remote as much further north in the Highlands 🙂 @VisitScotland @VisitSWScotland @BBCScotLearn @DumfriesVisit @DG_Unlimited @_TravelScotland