Stuart Paterson

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Stuart Paterson

@StuartPoet

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

Scotland, United Kingdom Bergabung Haziran 2017

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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·25 Oca

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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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·17 Nis

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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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·17 Nis

@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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Billy Kay@billykayscot·17 Nis

A wee video intro to my gig with @RobynStapleton a week tonight in Darvel Town Hall. Tickets and more details are available here: discoverdarvel.com You can read the review of our event @edbookfest here: edinburghmusicreview.com/reviews/945t2b… Really looking forward to it. @ayrshire_AFHS

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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·30 Mar

@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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Comin fae the Rye@FaetheRye·30 Mar

@StuartPoet @DG_Unlimited @JudithRalston @DGArtsFest @penpontpark @VisitSWScotland @VisitScotland Aye, and a lot of Gaelic-derived place names.

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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·29 Mar

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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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·30 Mar

@d_anderson878 A pejorative Scots word? Nae wey!

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Diane Anderson 🇺🇦@d_anderson878·30 Mar

Aye, bit mair auld fashiont - noisy kine - an less aboot healthy exercise. Haikin is mair pejorative.

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

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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·30 Mar

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

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Diane Anderson 🇺🇦@d_anderson878·30 Mar

A didna hae a haik roon Markies oan Setterday - A jist got fit A neddit an cam awa.

Doric Books@BooksDoric

Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “haik”. “Haik”: wander, roam aimlessly. Example: “Are ye haikin aroon?” (Are you wandering around?)

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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·30 Mar

@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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not the Shadow Home Secretary@caravanoke·29 Mar

@joannaccherry You bullied David paisley off here. Your behaviour needs reflection in a mirror. You thrive on bile and bullying

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Joanna Cherry KC@joannaccherry·29 Mar

Not true. You have me blocked because I complained about your unprofessional twitter pursuit of me & other gender critical feminists to your editor & you got carpeted. I was fully exonerated by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner of the bullying claims you “reported” on.

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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·30 Mar

@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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Comin fae the Rye@FaetheRye·29 Mar

@StuartPoet @DG_Unlimited @JudithRalston @DGArtsFest @penpontpark @VisitSWScotland @VisitScotland Idyllic 😋

Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·28 Mar

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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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·28 Mar

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

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Liam McIlvanney@LiamMcIlvanney·28 Mar

@StuartPoet There must be some shop catering to Kiwi exiles, you’d think…

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Liam McIlvanney@LiamMcIlvanney·27 Mar

Going in…

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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·25 Mar

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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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·26 Mar

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

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Liz Menzies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🕷@menzies_liz·25 Mar

There’s the Mennock Pass too, which is a bit further north off the 76 and heads up to Scotland’s highest village, Wanlockhead. #LoveDandG

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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·24 Mar

@flyer1387192 @Stooshie @ionafyfe Says the numpty cryin a language millions o folk talk 'ridiculous' 😅

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Paulie Walnuts@flyer1387192·24 Mar

@Stooshie @ionafyfe That's right and it sounds fucking ridiculous 😂

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Iona Fyfe@ionafyfe·23 Mar

Can I please ask 25 of you lovely folks to heid ower tae the Face place and gies a follae? 🌿♥️ facebook.com/ionafyfe

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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·21 Mar

@billykayscot @d_anderson878 An Alan Reid o Battlefield Band fame? Smashin songwriter, musician & fella. A Killie boy an aw!

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Billy Kay@billykayscot·21 Mar

Five weeks the morra I’ll be doon Carrick wey wi the wonderful Robyn Stapleton. Jyne us for a laugh and a greet an awthin in atween.

Billy Kay@billykayscot

Six weeks the day I’ll be in Girvan in the hert o Carrick wi douce stories fae ma Ayrshire memoir Born in Kyle. I’ll be jyned by Gallowa’s bonniest sangster Robyn Stapleton sae I’m eident tae see a guid wheen o ye there. Why no mak a weekend o it? The crack will be ootstaundin.

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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·21 Mar

On #worldpoetryday 2026 here's a poem of hopes & optimism for each of our own wee worlds, close by or far apart, together or alone, in a bigger world now emptying of hope & optimism @ByLeavesWeLive @BBCScotLearn @billykayscot @JudithRalston @LiamMcIlvanney @natpoetrylib

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Stuart Paterson@StuartPoet·21 Mar

@LiamMcIlvanney A smashing wooden bookcase pal, a braw bibliophiliac world now filled with its own individual wee worlds of words

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Liam McIlvanney@LiamMcIlvanney·21 Mar

New (or anyway new to me) bookcase, so I am now morally obliged to fill it… 😉📚#IDontMakeTheRules

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@TippermuirBooks @billykayscot @RobynStapleton @edbookfest @ayrshire_AFHS @FaetheRye @DG_Unlimited @JudithRalston