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Now that @NeuReekie is out of the way, tomorrow marks the weekend's 2nd BTFTLT event, @ShorePoets' Quiet Slam: shorepoets.org.uk

Many thanks to @williamsonkev & @ScribePedersen for asking to blether on about BTFTLT at last night's @NeuReekie. Sold quite a few copies!

Join us for our poetry night 'Tricolour' on Mon 1 Dec, 6.30 pm George IV Bridge #Edinburgh #dec1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nls.uk/events#dec1

Here at the SPL with @tsrosenberg, who is about to launch her new pamphlet The Naming of Cancer.

"I scramble down the seamy beach, all bias and shifting lines. / I scrape the shining dots." 'Photophobia', Tracey S Rosenberg

'Camel. Centurion. Archangel. Map of Jerusalem. On the Via Dolorosa are shadows of minarets' #TreeLanguage @EyewearPoetry

Events today in #Edinburgh: @tsrosenberg launch; @eulitsoc's Poetry Slam; Elizabeth Laird @prevhistfest + more! cityofliterature.com/events/today/

@JimCMackintosh Thanks Jim, for the kind words.

This weekend's other event featuring BTFTLT is the Quiet Slam held by @ShorePoets shorepoets.org.uk/2014/11/03/sho…

Neu! Reekie! this Friday. I shall be there mumbling incoherently about why you should buy BTFTLT: facebook.com/pages/Neu-Reek…

Gerry Loose, who's pub'd by Vagabond Poets, has his Fault Line collection picked as a bk of the yr on Burned Thumb: burnedthumb.co.uk/2014/11/the-ye…

On Sunday, there's a BTFTLT-themed 'Quiet Slam' held by @ShorePoets at St John's Church, Edinburgh: shorepoets.org.uk/2014/11/03/sho…

On Friday, we'll be at Neu Reekie flogging copies of BTFTLT. Will make an excellent Xmas present! brownpapertickets.com/event/932988

Lots of BTFTLT-related activity over the next few days. Tracey S Rosenberg launches pamphlet at SPL tomorrow: scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/events…

nick-e melville, @rvwable & other poets/artists feature in exhibition linking Scotland & Greece, Another Athens: scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/events…

More on @BTFTLT from Colin Waters #TheBottleImp Tip of the hat to our @TMunoz17 for title @ByLeavesWeLive @GlasgowUni asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/SWE/TBI/TBIIss…

@JimCMackintosh Hope you like it!

"Poetry's God's way of telling a publisher he's got too much cash." Colin Waters writes about BTFTLT for Bottle Imp: asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/SWE/TBI/TBIIss…