#Scottish
A requested art piece from one of my patrons and friends of my "Uncle Max's Mashed Tater Soup" Based off a joke convo we had a while back
#furry #furryart #furryartist #art #artist
#feline #kitty #hybrid #black footed cat #scottish fold #can #canned soup #cat #kiggy #hat #straw #straw hat #potato #soup #soup can
“This is punch-the-air poetry, the knowing in that feeling place in your gut that someone understands and can put it in words so much better than your own.”
—Alison Craig reviews Roddy Lumsden’s SO GLAD I’M ME
#Scottish #literature #poetry
3/3
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/so-glad-im-me-by-roddy-lumsden/
From 2017: Roddy Lumsden talks about his work & his collection SO GLAD I’M ME, published by Bloodaxe Books & shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize
#Scottish #literature #poetry
2/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqcnGeFxOqM
Into perplexity: as an itch chased round
an oxter or early man in the cave mouth
watching rain-drifts pour from beyond
his understanding…
—“The Beautiful”, by Roddy Lumsden (1966–2020) – born #OTD, 28 May
Published in POETRY magazine, Dec 2008
#Scottish #literature #poetry
1/3
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51938/the-beautiful
“‘The Circle’ illustrates what can still be achieved in traditional forms at a time when many practising poets might consider adherence to such rigours beyond the pale, or perhaps simply beyond their scope.”
Ben Wilkinson unpacks Don Paterson’s “The Circle” for The Friday Poem
#Scottish #literature #poetry
https://thefridaypoem.com/ben-wilkinson-on-the-circle-by-don-paterson/
My boy is painting outer space,
and steadies his brush-tip to trace
the comets, planets, moon and sun
and all the circuitry they run…
—Don Paterson, “The Circle”
Published in RAIN (Faber, 2010)
#Scottish #literature #poetry
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-circle/
#Backstage with the wonderful #GretchenPeters for the last night of her farewell tour. A packed Cadogan Hall was treated to an emotionally charged set marking 25 years of performing in the UK. The show was sublime!
Gretchen sang on my album 'Settler'
👇🏽
https://malcolmmacwatt.bandcamp.com/track/my-bonny-boys-have-gone-feat-gretchen-peters
#americana #folkmusic #singersongwriter #music #legend #songwriter #folk #rootsmusic #scottish #scottishartist #singer #celticmusic #folksinger #musician #songs #bonny
#UK ‘demanding’ glass bottles removed from #Scottish #DepositReturnScheme, Yousaf says
The #FirstMinister said he had received a letter late on Friday ‘demanding’ glass be dropped from the Scottish scheme.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousaf-scottish-drs-first-minister-uk-government-b1084125.html
#DRS #Scotland #Democracy #Independence #ToryPoliciesInAction #Environment #Sustainability
CFP – Provocative & Provoking: Fifty Shades of Byron
26–27 April 2024, Newstead Abbey
2024 marks the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death. This Byron Society conference will explore Byron’s life, his poems, & his contemporary & current reception worldwide
Deadline: 2 January 2024
#Scottish #British #literature #romanticism #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #LordByron #Callforpapers
@litstudies
http://www.thebyronsociety.com/2024-newstead-abbey-byron-conference
John Wagner on Judge Dredd, Bogie Man, & growing up in Greenock
“While Dredd may be his most famous character, Mr Wagner's favourite is Bogie Man, a mental patient escaped from a Greenock asylum who wanders the streets of Glasgow under the delusion he's Humphrey Bogart.“
Comics legend John Wagner on creating iconic characters with Carlos Ezquerra and Alan Grant.
#Scottish #literature #comics #comicbooks #JudgeDredd
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23542806.john-wagner-judge-dredd-bogie-man-growing-greenock/
Fantastic Feminist Praxis: Consciousness-Raising in the Speculative Fiction of Lady Florence Dixie
– Grace Borland Sinclair discusses gender politics in Florence Dixie’s speculative fiction
Scottish Literary Review 14/1, 2022 – available on #OpenAccess via Project MUSE
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #womenwriters
2/2
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857655
A Restless Intellect: Florence Dixie (1855–1905)
“Widely respected – and regularly attacked (once physically) – in her lifetime, she is now largely neglected; an intriguing aside to feminism or to agnosticism. Dixie deserves better.”
Florence Dixie – novelist, poet, dramatist, war correspondent, campaigning journalist, suffragist, & more – was born #OTD, 25 May. Valentina Bold explores Dixie’s roving life
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #womenwriters
@litstudies
1/2
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2021/12/a-restless-intellect-florence-dixie-1855-1905/
Agnes’ writing was championed by Kelman and Gray but she remained mysteriously un-celebrated. […] She had also been told her characters weren’t particularly attractive; “One publisher said people don't want that kind of writing… about poor people.”
Agnes Owens, through objects from the Glasgow Women’s Library Collections
4/4
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #WorkingClass
https://womenslibrary.org.uk/exhibition/agnes-owens/
‘I’m writing about strange people, people on the edge, people that society doesn’t like much’: the precariat in the work of Agnes Owens
3/4
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #WorkingClass
https://ojs.ub.gu.se/index.php/modernasprak/article/view/4497
“From time to time art publicists in London notice things are being achieved in Scotland and send a television company north to report on it. On one of these occasions an interviewer asked Agnes what made her write that story; she answered, ‘Spite’.”
—Alasdair Gray, “Honest Poverty”: Agnes Owens at 70
2/4
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #WorkingClass
https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2009/10/honest-poverty-and-agnes-owens-at-70/
“I don’t write about people that are nice people. They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.”
Giving “people like that” a voice: a conversation with Agnes Owens (1926–2014) – born #OTD, 24 May
A 🎂🧵
1/4
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #WorkingClass
@litstudies
https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises/89?lang=en
Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period—in print & online via Project MUSE
#Scottish #literature #imperialism #19thcentury #20thcentury #revolution #emancipation #equality #liberty
17/18
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/empires-and-revolutions/
What Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before the age of twenty? Wrote a book that became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris and married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches?
A #Scottish #literature 🧵 …
A #Scottish queen on her deathbed informed her daughter of a red calf that would assist her. Later, the princess was mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, who gave her only a coat of rushes and meagre meals.
A red calf came to her, and when she asked for food, it told her to pull it from its ears. The stepmother set one of her daughters to spy on „Rushen Coatie“, and the girl discovered the red calf. The stepmother feigned illness and told the king that she needed the sweetbread from the red calf. The king had it slaughtered, but the dead calf said:
"Take me up, bone by bone,
And put me beneath yon grey stone;
When there is aught you want
Tell it me, and that I'll grant."
The red calf continued to help the princess by providing food and clothing. Eventually, she attended church, where a prince fell in love with her. Despite attempts by her stepsisters to deceive the prince, the girl married him using a glass shoe. However, their marriage quickly came to an end.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushen_Coatie
#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday
@bookstodon
Dinosaurs in the Amazon
Alan Brown looks at Arthur Conan Doyle’s Scottish adventurer-scientist-explorer & dinosaur hunter Professor George Edward Challenger. Doyle himself preferred Challenger to the more famous (& successful) #SherlockHolmes …
#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #19thcentury #SherlockHolmesDay
4/4
https://www.tor.com/2018/03/15/dinosaurs-in-the-amazon-the-lost-world-by-arthur-conan-doyle/
@bookstodon
Sherlock Holmes, Hardboiled Detective
“[O]ne of the most striking features of Holmes’s stories is that they have a surprisingly grounded view of crime, and one that arguably fits better into the hardboiled tradition of Hammett and Chandler than the cozy tradition of Christie.”
–Alexis Hall makes the case for #SherlockHolmes as a noir icon
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SherlockHolmesDay
https://crimereads.com/sherlock-holmes-hardboiled-detective/
@bookstodon
According to the Guinness Book of Records, #SherlockHolmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character – & in a recent UK poll, over 50% of teenagers thought that he was a real person…
2/4
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SherlockHolmesDay
Arthur Conan Doyle was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂🧵
Bridget Kendall on BBC Sounds explores the life & work of the doctor & literary superstar who changed #CrimeFiction forever
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay
@bookstodon
1/4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v
28 years ago "Sparky's Dream" by Scottish rock band Teenage Fanclub was released in 1995 through Creation Records, as the lead single from the band's fifth studio album Grand Prix. The song was sung by its author and bassist Gerard Love rather than the usual lead singer Norman Blake.
https://i.devol.it/Cr11GUuTFVU?t=3
#anniversary #song #single #rock #scottish #indierock #powerpop #junglepop #music #musica
#FolkloreSunday: The #Scottish water bull was unfriendly to humans. The #tarbh uisge often stood guard at the entranceway to #fairy mounds or palaces.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
My Skye ghost story, TORMENTOR is now available for the first time in paperback.
https://www.williammeikle.com/abouttormentor.html
#scottish #supernatural #bookstodon
"...a genuine classic haunted house story that excels in so many different ways." - The Ginger Nuts of Horror
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of LOCAL HERO
“It’s one of those rare ventures where everything gels…”
Neil Drysdale looks at how Bill Forsyth & Burt Lancaster joined forces to create one of Scotland’s most enduring movies
#Scottish #cinema #film #movies #BurtLancaster #PeterCapaldi #LocalHero
Glasgow Comic Con 2023
Sat 3 June – tickets £0–£27.80
Browse more than 130 exhibitors, meet comic creators, enjoy panels from your favourite artists & writers & marvel at some of the best cosplayers in the country. Children can also enjoy the return of the dedicated Kids’ Zone which hosts workshops & activities all day
Tickets are limited – book early!
#Scottish #literature #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-comic-con-2023-tickets-600653469697
It's the start of the weekend, so a bit of a festive turn for #NightMusic tonight, and a wee bit of eye candy as well. It's a #Scottish #fiddle medley for an eightsome reel. In order, the tunes are:
Mrs McLeod of Raasay
The Fairy Dance
The De'il Among the Tailors
Soldier's Joy
The Mason's Apron
Staten Island
The De'il Among the Tailors
Soldier's Joy
The Mason's Apron
Kate Dalrymple
And isn't the bow-tied chappie wearing what looks to be Royal Stewart dreamy?
This #Scottish #Union Just Made a Horrible #Transphobic #Mistake.
#UNISON #Scotland, the biggest #publicservice #union in the region, #liked and #retweeted a series of #transphobic #tweets over the weekend. The union subsequently issued an #apology and has promised "an #internalinvestigation."
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #UK #Scotland #SocialMedia #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #TERFIsland #TERFFails https://www.intomore.com/impact/politics/this-scottish-union-just-made-a-horrible-transphobic-mistake/
Archiving Agnes Owens: Asserting the Marginal Voice
#PhD opportunity
This full-time funded project will see the creation of the Agnes Owens Archive.
Owens’ champions point to her class, gender, & age in explaining her neglect. This project will absorb & supersede these contexts in its collation & critical appraisal of Owens’ full literary output, leading to a variety of events marking her centenary in 2026.
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #archive
A genius #ElonMusk #Twitter #verified story:
Verified Twitter User pretends to be an #Ecuadorean footballer takes a dig at a #Scottish football club. Then tells the #journalist reporting a news about the real footballer that they’re fake.
All the tweets before that tweet are only in #Turkish. The footballer in question never played in #Turkey.
Funny, got lots of interaction made some #news from sites desperate for clicks.
NOW imagine that during a #political campaign,#crisis,#emergency
A feel fur thon wee Lewis keelies stuck in Lunnon
Goggle-e’ed wi chowin the taps aff their shields,
Haimseek fur Norroway ower the faem.
—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
#Scottish #literature #Scots #ScotsLanguage #poem #museum #MuseumDay #chess
https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/queens-gambit-how-lewis-chessmen-won-world-over
Pale yellow letters
humbly straggling across
the once brilliant red
of a broken shop-face
CONFECTIO
and a blur of children
at their games, passing…
—“To Joan Eardley” by Edwin Morgan
The artist Joan Eardley (1921–1963) was born #OTD, 18 May. Edwin Morgan owned her painting “Sweet Shop, Rotten Row, 1960–1961”, and donated it on his death to the Hunterian Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.
#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Glasgow #art #womensart
https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/virtualexhibitions/thehunterianpoems/edwinmorgantojoaneardley/
Now available for #sale at the Jasper Cultural & Historical Centre, the companion #magazine for the Jon Bowie #gallery #show “The #Weird and #Wonderful of #Scottish #Architecture”. Included in the magazine are #bonus #photos as well as some descriptions and #history of the featured #architectural pieces and areas they are found in. All proceeds from the sale of the magazine go to the Jasper Centre.
More impressions from the Scottish Highlands
#visitABDN #majesticABDN #beautifulABDN #braemar #scottish #explorescotland #scotlandhighlands #visitscotland #scotland
I already miss the #Scottish #highlands. I'm really looking forward to getting into my photos & sharing with you.
Medieval (Scottish) Gaelic literature: the case of Finn mac Cumaill
23 May, 5–6:30pm BST (6–7:30 CET), free online
Introducing the corpus of #medieval works centred on the legendary hero Finn mac Cumaill. The earliest texts are #Irish – yet, outwith the #Gaelic tradition, Finn is often seen as a #Scottish literary creation, not least because of James Macpherson’s imagining of him as Fingal in the #18thcentury
#literature #CelticStudies
@litstudies https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/
And should some brother Scot wander this way...
Full epitaph transcribed in alt text
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#cemetery #TombTuesday #taphophile #NewEngland
#Scottish
Christening the new arrival #Scalan - in honour of the historically significant seminary. It kept the pilot light of #Scottish #Catholic faith alive during dark days. Deliberately tucked away in the middle of nowhere #BraesOfGlenlivet near #Tomintoul. If you didn't know it was there, you wouldn't. Handy name for a machine that will be hidden away...quietly getting along doing the Lord's work.
#Scotland #History
https://youtu.be/nuWgkeuhOiY
http://www.scalan.co.uk/
@litstudies
Was Boswell just an idiot who had the good fortune to meet Johnson and write his biography? Or is this “Samuel Johnson” actually a brilliant dramatic character created by Boswell?
Jorge Luis Borges: A Lecture on Johnson & Boswell, in the New York Review of Books
#Scottish #literature #biography #SamuelJohnson #JamesBoswell #18thCentury #Borges
3/3
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2013/07/28/lecture-johnson-and-boswell/
“The Life of Samuel Johnson was an instant sensation. While the works of Johnson were quickly forgotten, his biography has never been out of print”
—When the Worst Man in the World Writes a Masterpiece: James Boswell & the nature of genius
#Scottish #literature #biography #SamuelJohnson #JamesBoswell #18thCentury
2/3
https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/10/22/when-the-worst-man-in-the-world-writes-a-masterpiece/
“Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.”
“That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.”
May 16 is Biographers Day – marking the 1st meeting of James Boswell & Samuel Johnson in 1763
#Scottish #literature #biography #SamuelJohnson #JamesBoswell #18thCentury
@litstudies
1/3
https://lithub.com/of-course-samuel-johnson-met-james-boswell-in-a-bookstore/
Edwin Muir and a Story of Europe
“Muir’s contact with Europe is significant, however, not only in a personal and literary sense, but also in a wider political context which resonates with our own early twenty-first century times. His travels in the 1920s immediately after the end of World War One, and again at the end of World War Two, tell a story of Europe itself at critical points in its history.”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
6/6
https://blog.oup.com/2017/05/edwin-muir-story-europe/
One foot in Eden still, I stand
And look across the other land.
The world’s great day is growing late,
Yet strange these fields that we have planted
So long with crops of love and hate…
—Edwin Muir, “One Foot in Eden”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
5/6
Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long
Through time and never found eternity,
Fettered by wasting wood and hollowing hill,
You should have fled our ever-dying song…
—Edwin Muir, “To the Old Gods”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
4/6
“Edwin Muir (1887–1959) is a mysteriously neglected, gorgeous, and emotionally penetrating poet. Of all the many pieces of writing spurred by the Cold War and the threat of nuclear apocalypse, and of the other kinds of 20th century apocalyptic writing, his poem ‘The Horses’ may be the most effective, perhaps because it is the most calm and gentle.”
—Robert Pinsky
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury #postapocalypse
3/6
https://slate.com/culture/1999/01/the-horses.html
On the second day
The radios failed; we turned the knobs; no answer.
On the third day a warship passed us, heading north,
Dead bodies piled on the deck…
—Edwin Muir, “The Horses”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury #postapocalypse
2/6
I never felt so much
Since I have felt at all
The tingling smell and touch
Of dogrose and sweet briar,
Nettles against the wall,
All sours and sweets that grow
Together or apart
In hedge or marsh or ditch…
—“A Birthday”, by Edwin Muir (1887–1959)—born #OTD, 15 May 1887
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
1/6
“Bide the storm ye canna hinder”
Jenni Calder on Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975): poet, author, founder member of the Saltrie Society, Hon Sec of Scottish PEN, & linchpin of the 20th-century Scottish renaissance
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters
3/3
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/helen-cruickshank-bide-the-storm-ye-canna-hinder/
Broad in the beam? More broad in sympathy.
Stiff in the joints? More flexible in mind.
Deaf on the right? New voices from the Left
In politics and art more clearly sound…
—Helen Cruickshank, “On Being Eighty”
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poetry
2/3
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/being-eighty/
Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin’ through the strife,
Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty
Lichts the grey o’ life.
—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #poetry
1/3
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
My family come from a very staunchly British, Protestant, #Unionist Monarchist background
On one side, it's a mixture of United-Frees & Jehovah's Witnesses with a sprinkling of masonry
The other side are a mixture of Orange & high-anglican Royal Household, Balmoral, staff
I'm #English & #Scottish. I'm non-religious, pro #Independence & #republican. My family are now too. Why?
Those Unionist communities couldn't reconcile with my existence as an #lgbtq person
A fantastic write up of our film #ToSeeOurselves @newlichtfilms in the National today.
See the full article by @TheNational here:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23519469.see-scotland-see-2014-indyref-documentary/
To support our film and journey go to our kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/toseeourselves/to-see-ourselves?ref=user_menu
#story #storytelling #toseeourselves #film #filmmaking #documentary #scotland #scottish #independence #films #yes
@ChrisMayLA6 The #Scottish government requires us to pay for approx £12k insulation in our house (built C1880) before we're eligible for a grant to install a #heatpump. The net cost would be about three times that of replacing our oil-fired boiler with another of the same.
I suspect that many are in a similar position where #ecofriendly technology is not an economically viable option.
The government must either increase funding, or reduce the stringent #EPC prerequisites for historic houses.
“Dystopian fiction … has this wonderful ability to heighten our compassion and broaden our empathy for one another. It is a reminder that ultimately nothing can be taken for granted.”
—read BUNKER LIFE, by Rachelle Atalla – on writing THE PHARMACIST
Compact Pictures Options Rachelle Atalla’s Acclaimed Debut Novel THE PHARMACIST
“THE PHARMACIST is a stand-out novel and will make an atmospheric, claustrophobic adaptation – in the lo-fi, speculative vein of ‘Children of Men,’ but with a strong female perspective”
#Scottish #literature #dystopian #cinema #adaptation
@bookstodon
https://variety.com/2023/film/global/compact-pictures-rachelle-atalla-the-pharmacist-1235608882/
Good morning with this great view from yesterday's hike. More to come after the vacation.
#scotland #visitscotland #scottish #mountains #landscapephotography #hiking #wanderlust #wandern #panorama #photography
Currently available on BBC Sounds – MARY ROSE, JM Barrie’s haunting play about a girl who never grows up…
Written in the aftermath of WW1, Barrie’s play about loss & the mystery of life is by turns comic, eerie, & heartbreaking
8/8
#Scottish #literature #20thCentury #drama #WW1
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0801l4v
Although Barrie is remembrered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.
GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career
7/8
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #20thCentury #drama #cinema #Victorian #Edwardian
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/gateway_to_the_modern/
Peter Pan & Trainspotting
“Mark Renton and Peter Pan […] share one feature in particular: a mutual reluctance to enter adulthood and instead remain without attachment to society.”
Tracing similar undercurrents in two very different Scottish texts…
6/8
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature #Trainspotting
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/peter-pan-and-trainspotting-escaping-adulthood/
“Neverland is as much a tomb for the unloved and forgotten as it is a map of a child’s mind. It is a place ruled by a boy with a memory as thin as the skeleton leaves he wears.”
– Sabrina Orah Mark on boyhood, motherhood, race, & Peter Pan
5/8
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature #motherhood #race
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/19/sorry-peter-pan-were-over-you/
“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
– Brian Till explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook” in
@TheAtlantic
📷: Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
4/8
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/12/the-secret-history-of-captain-hook/68313/
“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”
From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, a chain of real & fictional islands leads John Pielmeier to JM Barrie’s Neverland…
3/8
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature
https://lithub.com/visiting-the-actual-island-that-inspired-neverland/
“Barrie’s book may ostensibly be about the boys’ eternal childhood, but it’s the mother figures who are the scaffolding upon which his story rests.”
– Liz Michalski, author of DARLING GIRL, on the mother figures in PETER PAN
2/8
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature
https://lithub.com/empathizing-with-the-mother-figures-of-peter-pan/
“Barrie was a wounded creature, from his earliest youth, and his probing of that wound is what makes PETER PAN so enduringly painful to read […] The tensions are bald and excruciating.”
A 🎂 🧵 for JM Barrie (1860–1937), born #OTD, 9 May
1/8
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/22/lost-boys
Dear #BBCNews, #WestminsterAbbey has not “hosted every British coronation since 1066”. They hosted most but not all #English coronations from 1066, and none of the #Scottish coronations. Even after the Union of the Crowns in 1603 Scotland continued separate coronations until Charles II, not least because of the #EnglishCivilWar resulting in Charles II being crowned King of #Scotland in 1649 at Scone Abbey, and didn’t become King of #England until the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
Late afternoon sun over Loch Tula in the #ScottishHighlands on a winter afternoon in January some years ago.
See prints here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/astonishing-beauty-of-loch-tulla-mark-e-tisdale.html
#Scotland #Scottish #Highlands #Loch #Lake #Landscape #Photography #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt
Presence, Process, Prize
“This collection of essays is intended to explore the world of Edwin Morgan & act as a companion to his multifaceted trajectory through space & time”
—read the Introduction to the INTERNATIONAL COMPANION TO EDWIN MORGAN free online
#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/112964/1/112964.pdf
THE INTERNATIONAL COMPANION TO EDWIN MORGAN
Edited by Alan Riach
Edwin Morgan is one of the giants of modern poetry. In his long life he produced an incredible range of work, from the playful to the profound.
Available in print or online via Project MUSE
#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poetry
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic2/
“The poetry voice first for me. ‘The Death of Marilyn Monroe’, ‘Los Angeles!’ Blew my socks off! His voice always reminded me a bit of that of Ian McAskill the weatherman (though he didn’t turn up on telly until 1978). Another South Side boy, according to Wikipedia.”
—James McGonigal & John Coyle discuss Edwin Morgan as a teacher & a writer
#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poetry
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2020/04/in-touch-with-edwin-morgan/
👆“Signs & Wonders” is one of 47 pieces of Morgan’s prose—journalism, book & theatre reviews, essays & lectures, drama & radio scripts, forewords & afterwords—collected in EDWIN MORGAN: IN TOUCH WITH LANGUAGE, ed. John Coyle & James McGonigal. Out now!
#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/
…knew Glasgow – what? – knew Glasgow new – somehow …
“Edinburgh is a city which has never eaten the apple, but Glasgow has, and although it is deeper in sin it is readier for grace.”
—Morgan’s essay “Signs & Wonders”, on #Glasgow & #culture in 1965
#Scotland #Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #Sixties #1960s
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https://booksfromscotland.com/2020/04/in-touch-with-language/
At ten I read Mayakovsky had died,
learned my first word of Russian, lyublyu…
—written for his 70th birthday, Edwin Morgan’s “Seven Decades” takes us through key moments in the poet’s life
Published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, Carcanet 2020
#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/seven-decades/
Push the boat out, compañeros,
push the boat out, whatever the sea.
Who says we cannot guide ourselves
through the boiling reefs, black as they are…
—Edwin Morgan, “At Eighty”
#EdwinMorgan (1920–2010) was born #OTD, 27 April – a 🎂 🧵
Morgan write “At Eighty” for his own 80th birthday
#Scottish #literature #poetry
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/eighty-0/
Smailholm Tower, between Melrose and Kelso in the Scottish Borders, a reminder this was a deeply unsettled area for centuries. It was built by the Pringle family in about 1450 and remained in use until the early 1700s. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stboswells/smailholmtower/index.html
#Scotland #SmailholmTower #TowerHouse #Castle #Scottish Borders #UndiscoveredScotland
‘Merge and Emerge’
Bet Low (1924 – 2007) a Scottish painter, notable as one of the Glasgow Girls, and as a co-founder of the Clyde Group.
Low studied at the Glasgow School of Art during WWII and continued her studies at Hospitalfield House under James Cowie in 1945, who stimulated her lifelong interest in literature, philosophy and politics.
Following the war, she was a co-founder of the Clyde Group, part of the left-wing New Scottish Group of writers and artists.
So I got trolled today out of the blue by a Scottish lady who was upset that I put "from the UK" on my profile.
Was she just a disgruntled one-off or do Scottish people in general feel offended when English people say they're from the UK?
Mastodon.scot is a server intended for (but not limited to) users in Scotland or who identify as Scottish:
:Fediverse: https://mastodon.scot
The server is open to speakers of English, Scots and Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic).
If you have any questions, ask their admin @trumpet
#FeaturedServer #Scotland #Scottish #Scots #Gàidhlig #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Mastodon #Fediverse
How native tongues became silent or 'lesser used', children and their grandchildren traumatised with their culture destroyed. The descendants sitting in slums and easing their pain with addictions.
This, from Canada but ditto Scottish #Gaelic, Welsh and Aboriginal tongues on different continents.
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Gàidhlig #Colonialism #MastoDaoine #SilentSunday #Cymraeg #Scottish #education
“The view of the Jacobites as quasi-colonial primitives is persistent […] The seriousness of Jacobitism is ignored because the power of the threat undermines the story of British unity.”
—Prof Murray Pittock argues that the conventional historical picture – with Jacobites representing a #romantic, tragic, doomed past, & Hanoverians representing #Enlightenment, stability, & the triumph of #modernity – is a misleading one.
#Scottish #Jacobite #history #18thcentury
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2008/11/jacobitism-in-history/
I have uploaded more #Scottish #watercolours to my website
https://johnaltringham.co.uk
Please boost, buy, do both or just enjoy.
My #WoodEngravings are on the same site.
#Introduction
(Pronouns: he, him, his & idiot).
Hello, from "not your average red fox furry fursuiter." I'm an American, White, #Scottish kilt-wearing highlander descended (❤️ single malts, fish & chips & haggis). I sport a handlebar mustache in memory & out of respect for my late father, whose avocation was a magician.
In real life, I am a remarried widower with a teenager, financially stable & work full time as a tenured #research #scientist /manager in high energy #physics & #engineering .
The Evening I saw Eilean Donan #castle it was raining and dark but it still inspired this.
See it here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/eilean-donan-scottish-highland-fantasy-mark-e-tisdale.html?product=art-print
#Scotland #ScottishArt #Scottish #Britain #EileanDonan #DigitalArt #painting #MastoArt #MarkOnArt
Available to watch online: “Scottish Shores: Folktales of the Coast”, an evening of tales of spooky shores with Orkney storyteller Tom Muir
#Scottish #Orkney #literature #supernatural #storytelling #folklore #folktales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epSdgTGsdFM
Ben Glas, child summit to Beinn Chabhair. I set out with a vague plan of attack. The way up I took was adventurous to say the least and to be honest if I was to do it again, I'd choose another route 😂. The rarity of having a whole mountain to myself albeit silently eerie is cherished.
#benglas #beinnchabhair #mountain #scotland #scottish #highlands #lochlomond #hiking #mountainleader #hikescotland #walks #walking #adventure #outdoors #navigation #mountainskills #loch #ordnancesurvey
Florence Marian McNeill (1885–1973) was born #OTD, 26 March. A notable figure in Scotland’s #20thCentury literary Renaissance, her contributions include works on #suffrage, politics, #food #heritage (THE SCOTS KITCHEN remains a central text in all discussions of Scottish cuisine) & #folklore (her 4-volume study of Scotland’s folk festivals THE SILVER BOUGH)
#Scottish #Orkney #literature
#ReadMoreWomen
https://www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/florence-marian-mcneill