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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-21 at 19:29

The History of Burns Night – History Scotland webinar

23 January, online – tickets £10

Dr Pauline Mackay of the University of Glasgow delves into the rich history of Burns Night. Discover how Burns Night has come to symbolise Scottish identity, gathering people worldwide to honour the poet’s contributions to literature, language, & national pride.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3517373695324/WN_uN-kss27TheF1wKPYXjkcg#/registration

[#]Scottish #literature #history #culture #poetry #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #culturalstudies

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-21 at 14:40

Beachd a’ Chànanaiche: Dè tha crìonadh cànain ag innse dhuinn mun Gàidhlig? | Thoughts of a Linguist: What does language decay tell us about Gaelic?

30 Jan, University of Edinburgh & online – free

Duncan MacLeod will give this year’s John MacLeod Memorial Lecture, in Gaelic with simultaneous interpretation into English.

https://llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scottish-studies/events/john-macleod-lecture

[#]Scottish #Gaelic #language #minoritylanguage #minoritylanguages #linguistics

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-21 at 13:26

Creative Conversations: Rodge Glass

27 Jan, University of Glasgow & online – free

Rodge Glass is the author of eight books published since 2005; two audio stories for children, both available on BBC Sounds; a regular contributor to TV and radio; and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde

@writingcommunity

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-conversations-rodge-glass-tickets-1137660556349

[#]Scottish #literature #creativewriting #writingcommunity

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-21 at 12:16

William Bonar (1953–2021) was interviewed for the Scottish Poetry Library podcast in 2016. He & Jennifer Williams discuss his pamphlet, OFFERING; the mythology of memory; Hugh MacDiarmid’s influence on Scots-language poetry; & more. Listen online:

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/william-bonar/

[#]Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-21 at 11:42

chats in squirrel are limited

to a sort of Roman salute

foreleg extended then folded

open paw on breast as if to say

Look I take you in my open paw

and hold you to my heart

then it gets tricky…

—William Bonar, “SQRL”

published in OFFERING (Red Squirrel Press, 2015)

This is how a “Roman salute” should be done… happy 🐿️ #SquirrelAppreciationDay!

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sqrl/

[#]Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #squirrel #squirrels

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-20 at 20:16

O man, but ye think much o’ truth;

Ye surely hae a hoard o’t

Laid up in store—for frae your youth,

Ye seldom spent a word o’t;

But falsity, ye mak’ a slave,

For every day ye wear it,

While truth, ye like your siller save,

Ay speakin’ lies, to spare it.

—“Epigram to a Liar”, by Hugh Porter (c.1780–?), the Ulster–Scots weaver-poet known as “the Bard of Moneyslane”. Published in POETICAL ATTEMPTS (1813)

[#]Scots #Scotslanguage #UlsterScots #poem #poetry #humour #epigram

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-20 at 16:55

When we take prisoners from other worlds

we are not cruel. We let their bodies die.

They become words, filtered into air…

—Edwin Morgan, “Twilight of a Tyranny”

published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1997)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857541885

[#]Scottish #literature #poetry #poem #EdwinMorgan #scifi #sciencefiction

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-20 at 16:17

Women writers in Edinburgh: 16th–20th centuries

30 Jan, Edinburgh – tickets £7.47

Ruth Boreham discusses Edinburgh’s female writers, both published & in manuscript, covering poetry, fiction, science, travel & more – including the “Scottish Jane Austen”, one of the inspirations for JANE EYRE, the first person to be called “scientist”, & someone who received a bullet in the post in response to her biography of Robert Burns

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-series-january-women-writers-in-edinburgh-16th-20th-centuries-tickets-1151188659269

[#]Scottish #literature #Edinburgh #womenwriters

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-20 at 14:28

I was the wrong music

The wrong guest for you

When I came through the tundras

And thro’ the dew…

—Olive Fraser, “The Unwanted Child”

5/5

[#]Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #womenwriters #OliveFraser

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-20 at 14:27

The grey roots circle thee, who never knew

At any hour within thy travels lone

A human shape but mine…

—Olive Fraser, “The Adder of Quinag”

4/5

[#]Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #womenwriters #OliveFraser

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-20 at 14:26

Cauld, cauld is Alnack . . .

Cauld is the snaw wind and sweet.

The maukin o’ Creagan Alnack

Has snaw for meat.

—Olive Fraser, “Benighted in the Foothills of the Cairngorms: January”

3/5

[#]Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #Scotslanguage #OliveFraser

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-20 at 14:25

“I know of no other poet in modern times who can so rouse the reverberations of meaning within a word”

Open the Door: Olive Fraser – from 2018, Jess Orr looks at the life & work of Olive Fraser for Glasgow’s Women’s Library

2/5

https://womenslibrary.org.uk/discover-our-projects/open-the-door/open-the-door-2018/olive-fraser-2/

[#]Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #womenwriters #OliveFraser

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-20 at 14:24

I saw the dead upon St Laurence Wake

Sailing in beautiful Brimvald. They were young,

Younger than death and life, with a sweet tongue

I have heard in my blood before…

—“The Vikings”, by Olive Fraser (1909–1977) – born #OTD, 20 Jan, & a poet whose work was sadly neglected in her lifetime. A 🎂 🧵

1/5

[#]Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #womenwriters #OliveFraser

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-20 at 12:49

Lord, when I’m speechless

when something – not just sorrow

but under that – a dull, numb, nameless dreich

about the heart I hardly seem to have…

—Diana Hendry, “Psalm 88 Blues”

published in TWELVE LILTS: Psalms & responses (Mariscat Press, 2003)

Today, 20 January, is #BlueMonday

– officially the most depressing day of the year…

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/psalm-eighty-eight-blues/

[#]Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #hope

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-19 at 13:26

“MacBeth out-Hughes’ Hughes here. A masterpiece of control, ‘Owl’ is stitched with the kinds of metaphor that capture the brutality of evolutionary purpose in simple, uncompromising phrases”

—Steve Whitaker on George MacBeth’s poem “Owl”

2/2

https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem-Of-The-Week-Owl-By-George-Macbeth-1932-1992

[#]Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #naturepoetry #naturewriting

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-19 at 13:25

George MacBeth (1932–1992) was born #OTD, 19 Jan

“MacBeth’s language is beautifully melodic: the stanzas unfold like operatic arias, becoming more florid and complex in thought as the poem develops…”

—Carol Rumens discusses MacBeth’s “The God of Love” (text of poem available via the link)

1/2

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/jun/07/poem-week-god-love-macbeth

[#]Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #naturepoetry #naturewriting

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-18 at 17:49

Poetry in Motion: Poetry Films by Neurodivergent Artists

29 Jan, Glasgow – tickets by donation

Celebrating the creativity of neurodivergent poets & filmmakers – a series of short poetry films, showcasing the words & worlds of neurodivergent artists. All welcome!

https://events.humanitix.com/neuk-presents-poetry-in-motion-poetry-films-by-neurodivergent-artists

[#]Scottish #literature #poetry #film #filmpoem #neurodivergent #neurodiversity

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-17 at 13:25

“The tartan comedy […] belies the fact that Mackenzie was deeply politicised”

Prof Alan Riach compares the lives, politics, & wildly varied & prolific careers of 2 major 20th-century Scottish writers: Compton Mackenzie & Naomi Mitchison

4/4

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17388505.prolific-politically-minded-naomi-mitchison-compton-mackenzie/

[#]Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #politics #NaomiMitchison #ComptonMackenzie

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-17 at 13:23

Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)

Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)

Free online via Project MUSE

@litstudies

3/4

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909

[#]Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #Queer #QueerLit #QueerHistory #JMBarrie #ComptonMackenzie

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-17 at 13:18

Compton Mackenzie served with British Intelligence during WW1. Banned in 1932, the original version of his war memoir GREEK MEMORIES wasn’t published until 2011 – & was still not officially declassified in 2017

2/4: Mark Kaufman on “Spyography”: “a modernist genre…that trades on the pleasures of secrecy & revelation, blurs the line between fact & fiction, & redefines the relationship between literature & national security”

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol13_2017_kaufman

[#]Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism

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