[drawing of Paddington walking OJ Simpson through the gates of Heaven]

If you're furious about this - good! Arts funding is abysmal in Scotland right now. Here are some things you can do:
- Join Campaign for the Arts
- Contact your MSPs asking them to increase arts funding
- Ask your local arts orgs what they need (and buy tickets to their shows!) (2/2)

A really immersive, dark, gothic poem fae Iona Lee for World Poetry Day

Join me to explore The Big Dark 🌚

#WorldPoetryDay

Just a clip 📎 of The Seed Kist by Iona Lee
Cultivating Equality: Women Working with Land exhibition will be in Street Level Photoworks next month as part of the We Feed the UK campaign with The Gaia Foundation
Watch the full poem: youtu.be/Py5fyx_RsP0

I'm not sure people appreciate how shaky Scotland's cultural landscape currently is. It wasn't long ago that the Filmhouse shut down and galleries were closing for the winter. It's expected that 40% of organisations will be turned down for Multi Year Funding in October.

After months of preparations our poetry films are out in the world! Watch a playlist of all our awesome poetry films full of regeneration and hope here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

This is not a war. This is a genocide.

Post about Palestine like your life depends on it, because their lives depends on it.

Don't stop talking about Gaza. Push for a permanent ceasefire.

This is unreal. Theres 1.3M Palestinians packed in Rafah because they were told it was a “safe zone” but we can clearly see it was a guise to lure them into a densely populated area to kill as many as possible. I can’t believe we are witnessing a holocaust of this magnitude

israеl just aired a super bowl ad while heavily bоmbing an area they told 1.4 million people to move to for “safety”. this is so dystopian and evil man

The body of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab has been found decomposing in the car where her family were killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza City.

A few metres away, the ambulance sent to rescue Hind was burnt out with the remains of two medics inside ⤵️

The Seed Kist by Iona Lee , inspired by Grampian Graziers & Lauriston Agroecology Farm, Scotland on the story of Cultivating Equality: Women Working with Land written for We Feed the UK with The The Gaia Foundation
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I'm really excited for this - my first Gutter as Poetry Reviews Editor 💚

A tantalising glimpse of 10 new regenerative farming commissions by the Hot Poets Afro Kilt Sound Sista Iona Lee DrKateFox Testament Bohdan Piasecki Jasmine Gardosi Zena Edwards Ifor ap Glyn Dizraeli & Chris Redmond for We Feed the UK with The Gaia Foundation

Tomorrow, Celtic Connections ✨

MONDAY! Milk Poetry presents Strong Bones ft Harry Baker & Iona Lee | A lovely glug of poets will present something old, something borrowed, and something new - featuring Harry Baker and Iona Lee thewardrobetheatre.com/livetheatre/mi… Milk Poetry Harry Baker Iona Lee

Self Assessment Question!

If I didn't earn enough to pay tax even before expense, do I still have to enter them? Is there any point?

5 Feb guest poets Harry Baker and Iona Lee will present something old, something borrowed and something new. They will show us how early words have shaped their worlds and influenced their writing and performance thewardrobetheatre.com/livetheatre/mi… Milk Poetry Harry Baker Iona Lee

This beautiful bunch of bards are our hot poets for We Feed the UK
Afro Kilt Sound Sista Iona Lee DrKateFox Testament Bohdan Piasecki Jasmine Gardosi Zena Edwards Ifor ap Glyn Dizraeli Chris Redmond
- we'll be telling you a more about them over the next few days!