“Poyums” by Len Pennie to start the month of women's history in Street Prophets Coffee Hour

I met some amazing people on Twitter and associated and connected to some amazing people. As much as the website is now malicious, it is still an important connection for me. Spoutible dropped my radar. Blue Sky is doing well enough in health and politics. But there are still some important voices that I can't let go on Xitter. Len pennie is one of them.

I don't know len. She found it necessary to complete her account for security reasons, and I understand and respect that. After long -term domestic violence in her own life, she became intensive and disregarded online. And good for you to enforce your limits. So if you don't already follow her on Xitter, you may not be able to access your work there.

I respect copyright. I only used what permission to use in private correspondence with len.

So who is Len Pennie? She is an amazing Scottish woman born in 1999, with a passion for the Scottish language (not for Scottish Gaelic, which I have a couple, but Scots that I don't speak at all). A few years ago, she started the publication of “Scots Word of the Day” short videos on Twitter and attracted a supporter. Those of us who have followed her from the beginning can still do so on Xitter, but no new accounts are permitted.

And then she started posting videos in which she reads her own poems. It is powerful and intense – see the comment on the protective jacket about “violent fire” – and relies on her life as a woman and talks to the world about being a woman.

In order not to violate copyright, I will link to some of the videos and minimize the amount of poetry that I post here. I think they all have subtitles if they have to fight with the accent.

She recorded a poem about Scots on her profile page: “I'm not a children”. It begins: “I am not a children, I will have WEANS instead.”

One of several poems in relation to their experiences with domestic violence:

And “justice” (some of them will also sound very true for our society here):

She reads more about her poems. You can watch one of you on YouTube and then click on your page, where you can find more Poyums and your “Scots Word [or Phrase] of the day “short video.

She now has a podcast and was presented in a number of other programs. Here is one (your part starts around 11:25 a.m.):

Your book is available in Scotland in the Portobello Bookshop in Edinburgh and Amazon in the USA (because not everything?) And other book pages. In it she writes poems of her experiences with intimate partner abuse and navigates in her world as a young woman who has to struggle with psychological health problems while trying to work within the legal system to hold her perpetrator into account.

A short story of your situation is told Here.

I'm pretty old, three times my age. I am not sure whether I also have the clarity of thoughts and expression that Len brings into their life – and to mine.