My MP is trending. People disgusted at the silence over
#PartyGate
For balance here’s my MP
@AmyCallaghanSNP
a thoroughly decent person trying to do her best within a system that is outdated & at times, downright cruel. Thank you to the good guys, I wish there were more of you!
A wee poem for now. The Secret. This has been a hard one to keep but worth every precious moment. Currently scraping children back down off the ceiling and into bed. Let’s do this let’s make some memories ⚽️🏴💪🏻 👦🏻👧🏻
#TeamMcNeill
#OffOnAnAdventure
#SCO
#EURO2020
It’s official!
We Are Scottish Football is coming soon. Ridiculously excited, delighted, relieved, honoured and elated to share this beautiful book with you.
Poems and photographs inspired by the beautiful game
It’s been a bit of a turbulent few days of illness and injury in the McNeill household but last night will live long in the memory
Thank you to friends and fellow performers for all their support as I read poems on stage at Glasgow Concert Hall to raise funds for
@MedicalAidPal
It’s not every day you get the opportunity to co-host an event in the Hall of Fame at
@HampdenPark
to celebrate
#Fitba150
reading poems in front of the Ravenscraig Pioneers surrounded by the echoes of Scottish footballing history was a real thrill. A night I’ll never forget.
Hugely honoured to be featured as
@TheScotsman
poem of the week with ‘Pipe Smoke’ inspired by my late grandfather.
With thanks to the wonderful
@AsifKhanSPL
and
@ByLeavesWeLive
Fair cheered up my Saturday!
@PaulHMcNeill
Happy birthday old yin! The best (dad) joke teller, funny dancer, football encyclopaedia, wingman, all round cheerer-upper, dad, husband, friend we know! You always fight our corner so today let us take care of you.
#paulsbirthday
#wrongsideof45
#alwaysmyfavourite
Nine months since
@DyslexiaMission
flew out into the world. A reminder that difference should be celebrated and that it’s ok to take an alternative path. Thank you to my three dyslexic musketeers for reminding me of this every day.
#beyourbrilliantself
#dyslexia
Coming soon
@LuathPress
We are Scottish Football.
Stoked to collaborate with the ridiculously talented
@CampbellRamage
and honoured to be housed in the
@LuathPress
kennel alongside some of my most favourite writers.
I’m a tiny wee bit excited about this one, can you tell?
@ScottishFA
Just amazing 👏🏻 So, so proud of you
@PaulHMcNeill
You inspire us every day to be the best we can be. A great ambassador for the sport and all-round great guy!
Nothing to see here folks... just three very excited AUTHORS signing their contracts with
@JKPBooks
New exciting title for children with dyslexia begins its journey 🙌🏻🏴
What a huge privilege to be invited to read three commissioned poems as part of a football and hate crime project ‘For the love of the game?’ at the stunning
@FootballMuseum
in Manchester - thanks to everyone involved in this remarkable and worthwhile project.
Delighted to be selected as one of four winners of the
@burrellcollect
Hidden Gems poetry competition. Thank you to judge
@jim08218867
and congratulations to Lilya, Craig and James. Poems will be available via the Bloomberg Connects App soon. 🥂
We are delighted to announce the winners of our ‘Hidden Gems’ poetry competition, chosen by Glasgow Poet Laureate, Jim Carruth 💠
View the titles of the four winning poems here:
Poems will be available to listen to via the
@bloombergconnects
app soon
Coming soon
@LuathPress
We are Scottish Football. Photographs by the ridiculously talented
@CampbellRamage
and poetry by me celebrating Scotland and its role in bringing the beautiful game to the world
Lovely words from
@Detroit67Book
Rose Reilly and Ian Maxwell. Cannae wait. 👇🏻
Happy
#WorldPoetryDay
@HampdenPark
and
@hampdenbowling
I love bringing poetry to new and unexpected places and was delighted to celebrate 150 years of the Scottish Cup with poetry, stories and a new exhibition. What a great privilege to be part of the celebrations
@Hampdeners
I was in my 30s with two children before I found poetry again.
Last week I stood on a stage at
@BelladrumFest
and read a poem for my grandfather. I think he would’ve liked that, but he always believed in me before I believed in myself.
There really is
#NoWrongPath
4 days left to finish my Masters 🙌🏻🤯Studying, working and looking after small children is tough, but I wouldn’t have changed the last two years for anything. Thank you
@OpenUniversity
for helping me find my voice, I feel so lucky to have been able to do something I love👩🏼💻✍️
This is my poem ‘Pressure’ something girls are all too familiar with.
Shelley Kerr described the pressure of playing for your national team as a privilege.
Never forget everything that has brought you to this point. Heads up, proud to know you this
#InternationalWomensDay
💪🏻
Still on a high after this beautiful night in Glasgow. Overwhelmed with the support.
If you haven’t got
#SomethingSmall
head over to the gorgeous folk at
@drunkmusepoetry
who will sort you out.
Thanks for supporting a small press and a small writer.
It’s been quite the week. Standing on the shoulders of giants here. Thank you for trusting me with this unique poetry collection charting our beautiful game, I promise to take good care of it
@JimCMackintosh
@Hampdeners
⚽️📖🍃
So an announcement - my time as Poet in Chief of the Hampden Collection has come to an end but the good news is that the new Poet in Chief is the incredibly talented
@JulieMcNeill1
All the best Julie -
@Hampdeners
is in wonderfully creative hands. 😊👍⚽️💙🥃
He's played in
@ScottishCup
finals with
@HibernianFC
.
He's played in play-off finals with
@AVFCOfficial
.
But now,
@jmcginn7
faces his toughest challenge yet – an interview with eight-year-old Shea!
➡️ Get your Scotland v Russia and Belgium tickets now:
When you get to lead
@ScotlandNT
out to a 2-1 victory Hampden Park. The stuff dreams are made of. So proud of you son 👦🏻⚽️🏴Now on countdown for England V Scotland in Nice
#OurGirlsOurGame
you got this 🏴💪🏻
🔥Today we announce the appointment of our new Hampden Collection Gaffer - Julie McNeill 👏
We've evolved over the last 7 years. Read all about our announcement about The Hampden Collection 2.0 and The Football's Square Mile Company Ltd organisation. ⬇️
#SWNTPoetsSociety
- ANNOUNCEMENT
Our Poet-In-Chief,
@JimCMackintosh
is delighted to announce
@JulieMcNeill1
, as our 1st Makar of our Poets Society.
Julie is a brilliant poet, writer of short fiction, a football fan and a champion for women in sport.
@HumzaYousaf
@SNPBishopbriggs
@joswinson
If you do find her, going to send her our way - her constituency has forgotten what she looks like. Good job she’s on the tv every two minutes to remind us 🙄🙄
Poetry has taken me to some beautiful places. On Friday
@FionaSkillen
@KJ61
and myself will present the first session of the International Football History Conference at Hampden Park.
Such an honour to be bringing poetry to
#FootyCon23
and to work with such inspiring women.
Happy
#dyslexiaawarenessweek
As the mother of one (pending assessment, two) dyslexic child(ren) and the wife of a dyslexic husband I’m going to use this week to celebrate all the wonderful gifts they bring to the world by learning and thinking a little bit differently.
#mytribe
If I do nothing else with my life I’ll always be proud that the fabulous
@ByLeavesWeLive
trusted me to widen the net taking poetry to children, young people & teachers through this project. It’s been a dream to work on, hoping it makes a difference
#PoetryUnwrapped
#FindYourVoice
A busy August. My first appearance
@edbookfest
this Sunday and it’s alongside one of my idols the brilliant Rose Reilly.
Then two dates
@edfringe
with
@LuathPress
ScotlandsFest on 22/23rd August.
Be wonderful to see you there. Tickets 👇🏻
📸
@CampbellRamage
Thanks to
@CreativeScots
I’m excited to embark on a poetry collection themed around the stories of the Paisley mill workers.
Can’t wait to get stuck in!
One down, two to go.
We Are Scottish Football
@edfringe
my first solo show Thursday 22/ Friday 23rd in the beautiful Gladstone’s Land.
Football, blethers, poems.
Be wonderful to see you there.
Delighted to be sharing a stage with
@NutmegMagazine
brilliant poets and authors including my great pal
@StephenWattPoet
but I’m not going to lie - being on the bill with the World Cup winning Rose Reilly is one of those ‘pinch me’ moments
Come along this will be very special 👇🏻
A whole year since this incredible evening surrounded by friends to launch
#SomethingSmall
published by the radically good
@drunkmusepoetry
So much has happened since, that wee book has worked very hard. I’m incredibly grateful to the Drunk Muse team for welcoming me in.
That beautiful, terrifying moment where people send photos of your book arriving through letterboxes near and far
Overwhelmed by the support, don’t wake me up - can’t quite believe it’s real
Looking forward to launch events Fri 17th and Mon 20th so I can thank you in person ⚽️
Bringing poetry a crowd of international football historians at 1st Hampden, then to Hampden Park lecture theatre to celebrate the rise of the women’s game alongside two of my favourite women’s sport historians before rounding the hat trick off at the Paisley Sma’ Shot Slam. Braw
Deadline fast approaching for the next chapter of our
@DyslexiaMission
adventure. Once again I’m blown away by Rossie Stone
@DekkoComics
such a talented artist, it’s coming to life in the most beautiful, creative, imaginative way. I can’t wait for you all to see it!
@JKPBooks
Launch details coming soon… thank you to
@Detroit67Book
for this wonderful endorsement.
Copies are whirring through the printer and will be in our hands in no time at all. Want yours to be the first? Pre order your copy at the links below. 👇🏻👇🏻
So grateful to
@PaulEnglishhack
for featuring ‘We Are Scottish Football’ in the
@heraldscotland
Best of Scotland
This book of poetry and
@CampbellRamage
photography will ensure our footballing stories endure past the
@EURO2024
results
A summer of memories, a summer of stories.
Shea and I were watching this again this morning. Wow the pre-COVID world really was rather wonderful wasn’t it? What an amazing day he had with
@jmcginn7
@PaulHMcNeill
absolute legend ✊🏻🏴
"Why is your nickname meatball?" 🤔
“I saw a video of you dancing to a band called Steps. Are they your favourite band?” 🕺😂
@jmcginn7
faces up to some tough questions from 9 year old Shea in 'A Little Interview with John McGinn'.
#SCORUS
Paul McNeill and the
@DyslexiaMission
team have been nominated for an award for outstanding contribution to education. Once we’ve picked ourselves up off the floor could you please vote 🗳 for Paul below 👇🏻 well done
@PaulHMcNeill
you’re a superhero 🦸🏽 🏅