Skeleton Architecture

Hi all, more good news this week in amongst the Brexit mess. My Poem for my red dress has been accepted for the fab Irish online poetry magazine Dodging the Rain, check it out here . Also, the lovely people at Speculative Books have let me know that this year's Speculative Book (including my poem He follows his own course ) will be coming out in April. Speculative Books are doing a subscription scheme which allows you to pay monthly and get a poetry book every single month while supporting a nice wee organisation. I've got a discount code for your first month if you fancy subscribing: MCKEE.

I've been doing lots of research lately on Scottish history, which is showing me just how much we never move on even if we think we're dead modern. I've also been writing poetry, I've been super inspired by Jacqueline Saphra's amazing poem Cimex Lectularius (see my post here for more on that), and have been writing a poem a week because of that, and informed by all my Scottish history research, and also the ongoing slow-motion car crash which is Brexit (as I write Westminster have rejected no-deal but not actually got rid of it, and they've asked for an extension but not actually got it *sigh*). Anyway, I've had a couple of bits of good news. Firstly, I'm going to have another poem in the May edition of the wonderful online poetry magazine Picaroon Poetry  - such a good magazine, I'm chuffed to bits to be in again. Secondly, my poem about a grumpy old man who was genuinely in a swimming pool with me is going to be in this year's Speculative Bo