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Tha sinn toilichte a bhith a’ tòiseachadh le pròiseact bàrdachd ùr, a bheir cothrom do shianar bhàrd LGDTC+ obair a chruthachadh is a choileanadh le chèile. Stèidhte air ‘còmhraidhean cruthachail’, bidh bàird Gàidhlig na h-Alba ag obair le bàird Gàidhlig na h-Èireann gus bàrdachd fhada, dhà-chànanach a dhèanamh. Bheir am pròiseact cothrom dhaibh an cuid eòlais-bheatha a chur an cèill tro chànan is bàrdachd.
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Seven Makar-ish Things

A Makarship must give you time to write, it should suggest how to turn that into a performance or a publication, and, ideally, fund it. Such a set-up understands that the writer, their community, heritage, and artistic peers are all equals.
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Lúibíní

16 June 2022
Tha sinn toilichte a bhith a’ tòiseachadh le pròiseact bàrdachd ùr, a bheir cothrom do shianar bhàrd LGDTC+ obair a chruthachadh is a choileanadh le chèile. Stèidhte air ‘còmhraidhean cruthachail’, bidh bàird Gàidhlig na h-Alba ag obair le bàird...
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Seven Makar-ish Things

19 February 2022
A Makarship must give you time to write, it should suggest how to turn that into a performance or a publication, and, ideally, fund it. Such a set-up understands that the writer, their community, heritage, and artistic peers are all equals.
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The Thursday Post: 400 years of Shakespeare

20 April 2016
Image: Shakespeare's Words by Meg, under a Creative Commons licence
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The Thursday Post: The Kaki Tree

6 August 2015
Image: Morven Gregor Thinking of myself as a phoenix, cling on until now. But how painful they have been, those twenty-four years past. Those words were written by Tsutomu Yamaguchi, often described as the luckiest – sometimes as the unluckiest – man of all...
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