The Common Breath

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this one. 30.04.21 It is our great privilege to publish 'passing through', a collection of previously uncollected or unpublished poetry and prose by Tom Leonard : thecommonbreath.com/onlineshop.html

Punctuation, who needs it. 'How It Is' - Beckett

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

@20MinuteTims My proudest moment wasn't the Invincible season. No. It was a young guy, first job in this country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went 'Mr Rodgers, will you be the Godfather to my child?' Didn't happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish.

"It's like, if you're cleaning a floor and you're up against it, then come to me and I'll help us clean our floor together... Not literally."

@JENNIFE55690269 It's not really a condemnation of punctuation you know, just a comment on how a book has been written without it.

@thecommonbreath I do.

@freobhoy God. OK, "Punctuation in prose fiction, who needs it". Would've thought that was obvious but hey ho, forgot to tailor every tweet for the bored twitter pedant.

@thecommonbreath Yet you used a comma. 😐

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this one. 30.04.21 It is our great privilege to publish 'passing through', a collection of previously uncollected or unpublished poetry and prose by Tom Leonard : thecommonbreath.com/onlineshop.html

@Lenniesaurus My story, The Snib, was published in 2014: thecommonbreath.com/fiction12.html

@MartinGeraght1 @beardedbadgerpc Tis in motion...

@beardedbadgerpc @MartinGeraght1 Thank you my friend, that's lovely to hear. B

@beardedbadgerpc @MartinGeraght1 Exactly my friend! B

@drewgum @MartinGeraght1 Yup!

@MartinGeraght1 @thecommonbreath It’s great, isn’t it?

@thecommonbreath @PublishScotland @scottishbooks @scottishbktrust @scotlit @han_sc98 @ScotBooksInt @ScottishLit @StrathclydeCW @ScotsWhayHae 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 @bellacaledonia today! It will take only minutes, but it is perfection: bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/05/04/pas…

#FictionFriday is here! This wk: Newly-minted novelist Alan Gillespie @afjgillespie speaks of Iain Banks, Jenni Fagan, Sunset Song, and Dawn French: thecommonbreath.com/FictionFriday7… Next wk: The appearance of writer & editor Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle

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