Punctuation, who needs it.

'How It Is'
- Beckett

More people played bass in The Fall than voted for Laurence Fox

Punctuation, who needs it.

'How It Is'
- Beckett

Even if TCB runs for another decade, I doubt we'll ever have a better announcement than this one.

30.04.21

It is our great privilege to publish 'passing through', a collection of previously uncollected or unpublished poetry and prose by Tom Leonard :

thecommonbreath.com/onlineshop.html

The Common Breath @MartinGeraght1 I tip my hat to you Brian for publishing both books - a stroke of genius publishing! Brilliant my friend!😊

@MartinGeraght1 The Common Breath It’s a superb collection!! I loved it.

I’m reading ‘Waiting For Nothing’ at the moment and I’m left astounded that I’ve never read Tom Kromer before - it’s like a blend of Steinbeck, Hamsun and Fante all rolled into one!

ugh so appalled by the amount of folk who have voted Tory. So you’ve basically ticked a box saying you don’t give a flying fuck about the rest of society. Don’t give a flying fuck about poverty, the rise of the use of food banks, cuts to every bloody service, unemployment. WTF?

The Common Breath Publishing Scotland Books from Scotland Scottish Book Trust Association for Scottish Literature Hannah Scott Scottish Books International Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow Creative Writing at Strathclyde Alistair Braidwood Looking forward to receiving my copy. Love Tom Leonard. What a wonderful legacy he has left – what a fantastic influence on Scottish literature.

'...a fitting conclusion to his inimitable contribution to literature.'

- If you follow me on here then please do READ THIS REVIEW from BELLA CALEDONIA today! It will take only minutes, but it is perfection:

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/05/04/pas…

gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/articl…

#FictionFriday is here!

This wk: Newly-minted novelist Alan Gillespie Alan Gillespie ✍️ speaks of Iain Banks, Jenni Fagan, Sunset Song, and Dawn French:

thecommonbreath.com/FictionFriday7…

Next wk: The appearance of writer & editor Nicholas Royle Nicholas Royle

Alan Warner writing about 'Persian Love' by Holger Czukay in 2001

From 'swirl of colours running across the sky' by Jim Ferguson

gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/articl…

#FictionFriday is here!

This wk: Newly-minted novelist Alan Gillespie Alan Gillespie ✍️ speaks of Iain Banks, Jenni Fagan, Sunset Song, and Dawn French:

thecommonbreath.com/FictionFriday7…

Next wk: The appearance of writer & editor Nicholas Royle Nicholas Royle

Alan Warner writing about 'Persian Love' by Holger Czukay in 2001

From 'swirl of colours running across the sky' by Jim Ferguson

Something I should mention about 'passing through': We insisted from the start that this be a non-profit project for TCB. So when you buy a copy now, 100% of the proceeds go directly to the Tom Leonard Literary Estate & family:

thecommonbreath.com/passingthrough…