1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: `A cattle-herding <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/brownie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brownie</span></a> of the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> islands, the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/gunna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gunna</span></a> hung about small farms making sure the cows did not trample the garden. As with many such helpful sprites, he went naked despite the weather. Any attempt to provide clothes drove the gunna away.`<br>Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a>`<br><a href="https://x.com/DaubWattle/status/1174613244369129472" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/DaubWattle/status/117461</span><span class="invisible">3244369129472</span></a></p>
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Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>From October 2024: Alan Riach, Gerrie Fellows & Stewart Sanderson present an online reading of selected works from the third volume in The Hunterian Poems series: Hunter’s Voices</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG-kDgxLeME" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=dG-kDgxLeM</span><span class="invisible">E</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>HUNTER’S VOICES, edited by Alan Riach, is an anthology of poems from some of the finest poets of contemporary Scotland, writing in English, Gaelic, & Scots, responding to paintings & objects in the Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow</p><p><a href="https://stewedrhubarb.org/product/hunters-voices-edited-by-alan-riach/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stewedrhubarb.org/product/hunt</span><span class="invisible">ers-voices-edited-by-alan-riach/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>The trees have green shoulders:<br>her hair is flowers and fruit,<br>a dome inverts her chin;<br>her fingers form the angle of a roof,<br>assurance in the geometry of her arms…</p><p>—John Purser, “J.D. Fergusson, Glasgow Spring, 1942”</p><p><a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/collections/#/details?irn=35134&catType=C" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gla.ac.uk/collections/#/detail</span><span class="invisible">s?irn=35134&catType=C</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/spring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spring</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>painting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>20thcentury</span></a></p>
Denis Olivier | Photography<p>Sun Behind The Window, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland. August 2022. Ref-11647<br /><a href="https://www.denisolivier.com/photography/sun-behind-the-window-edinburgh-castle-scotland/en/11647" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">denisolivier.com/photography/s</span><span class="invisible">un-behind-the-window-edinburgh-castle-scotland/en/11647</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/portra" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>portra</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shadow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shadow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/window" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>window</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/monument" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>monument</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/castle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>castle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/light" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>light</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/denisolivier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>denisolivier</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>edinburgh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/denisolivierphoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>denisolivierphoto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/backlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>backlight</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Elle McNicoll’s 2020 debut, A KIND OF SPARK, won the Blue Peter Book Award & the Overall Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, as well as Blackwell’s Book of 2020. Her latest YA novel, WISH YOU WERE HER, will be published in June. She is an advocate for better representation of neurodiversity in publishing, as an autistic & dyspraxic novelist.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://ellemcnicoll.com/about" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ellemcnicoll.com/about</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/kidlit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kidlit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/InternationalChildrensBookDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalChildrensBookDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WorldAutismAwarenessDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldAutismAwarenessDay</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>If sailor tales to sailor tunes,<br>Storm and adventure, heat and cold,<br>If schooners, islands, and maroons<br>And Buccaneers and buried Gold,<br>And all the old romance, retold<br>Exactly in the ancient way,<br>Can please, as me they pleased of old,<br>The wiser youngsters of to-day…</p><p>—Robert Louis Stevenson’s introductory poem to TREASURE ISLAND</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/19thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>19thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Victorian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Victorian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RobertLouisStevenson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RobertLouisStevenson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TreasureIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TreasureIsland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/kidlit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kidlit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/InternationalChildrensBookDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalChildrensBookDay</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>If this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.<br>—Robert Louis Stevenson, writing to W.E. Henley about TREASURE ISLAND (24 Aug 1881)</p><p>Matthew Bevis on TREASURE ISLAND & some of its spinoffs, in the London Review of Books, 25 Oct 2012 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n20/matthew-bevis/kids-gone-rotten" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n20/ma</span><span class="invisible">tthew-bevis/kids-gone-rotten</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/19thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>19thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Victorian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Victorian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RobertLouisStevenson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RobertLouisStevenson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TreasureIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TreasureIsland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/kidlit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kidlit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/InternationalChildrensBookDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalChildrensBookDay</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>George MacDonald Fraser on Desert Island Discs in 2001 – available to listen to on BBC Sounds</p><p>5/5</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009498m" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009498m</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>20thCentury</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>“There is a story they tell in Breadalbane:<br>Gordon of Achruach was at feud with Campbell of Kentallan, who hired certain Gregora, landless men, who took the Gordon unawares while he was hunting in the Mamore. And they cut off his head and put it in a bag to show the Campbell that the work was done. That was the way of it…”</p><p>– From “The Gordon Women”, by George MacDonald Fraser. Published in THE SHEIKH AND THE DUSTBIN (1988)</p><p>4/5<br> <br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/clans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clans</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>“At one moment when President Richard Nixon was taking part in his inauguration ceremony, he appeared flanked by Lyndon Johnson and Billy Graham […] it was one of those historical coincidences which send a little shudder through the mind…”</p><p>– George MacDonald Fraser, THE STEEL BONNETS (1971)</p><p>3/5</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/reivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reivers</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>“QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE … provides insight into what it takes an individual to survive, both (with luck) physically and, more importantly, ethically”</p><p>– retired Australian Army officer Jason Thomas on George MacDonald Fraser’s memoir of the WW2 Burma campaign</p><p><a href="https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/special-series/dusty-shelves/quartered-safe/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">warroom.armywarcollege.edu/spe</span><span class="invisible">cial-series/dusty-shelves/quartered-safe/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memoir</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Burma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Burma</span></a> </p><p>2/5</p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008) – author, historian, journalist, screenwriter – was born 100 years ago <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a>, 2 April, 1925</p><p>“His dedication to strongly researched stories, built firmly on a bedrock of historical fact, but always with an eye to the humour of a situation, was the core of what appealed to me”</p><p>Historical novelist Michael Jecks discusses MacDonald Fraser’s writing for the Royal Literary Fund:</p><p>1/5</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/not-a-serious-writer/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rlf.org.uk/showcase/not-a-seri</span><span class="invisible">ous-writer/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/historicalfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historicalfiction</span></a></p>
Peter Nimmo<p>Andy Arthur <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@cocteautriplets" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cocteautriplets</span></a></span> on that <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> treat, the Empire Biscuit. Andy goes to the trouble of proving a graph of what they are were called over the years in Scottish publications, going above and beyond to inform his loyal readers!<br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a><br><a href="https://threadinburgh.scot/2025/03/31/the-thread-about-the-empire-biscuit-and-how-its-evolution-into-a-staple-of-the-scottish-bakery-counter/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">threadinburgh.scot/2025/03/31/</span><span class="invisible">the-thread-about-the-empire-biscuit-and-how-its-evolution-into-a-staple-of-the-scottish-bakery-counter/</span></a></p>
CLondoner92 (New Account)<p>An independent report by Steer highlights ScotRail’s £4 billion contribution to Scotland’s economy ahead of its third anniversary in public ownership. The report shows <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ScotRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScotRail</span></a> supports 11,300 jobs, boosts regional growth, and aids a greener <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a>. Passengers also spent £567 million on tourism, leisure, and hospitality. By using <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trains</span></a> over cars, ScotRail passengers avoid over 120,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually. The <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> Government’s investment in ScotRail has provided strong returns, linking cities and towns and supporting businesses. ScotRail’s achievements include growing passenger numbers, revenue, and customer satisfaction, alongside creating 500 new jobs since returning to public ownership. The report underscores ScotRail’s broader social and economic impact, helping to create jobs and opportunities across <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a>.<br><a href="https://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/news/independant-economic-impact-report-scotrail-4billion-contribution-scotland" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/</span><span class="invisible">news/independant-economic-impact-report-scotrail-4billion-contribution-scotland</span></a></p>
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Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Transatlantic Poetry Series - Niall Campbell<br>6 May, free online</p><p>Niall Campbell’s first collection, Moontide, appeared in 2014 & won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. His second collection, Noctuary, appeared in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. His third collection, The Island in the Sound, was published in September 2024</p><p><a href="https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/online/online/transatlantic-poetry-series-niall-campbell/e-odblzy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/on</span><span class="invisible">line/online/transatlantic-poetry-series-niall-campbell/e-odblzy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Scottish and Irish Gothic<br>11 April, University of Edinburgh – free</p><p>Christina Morin: ‘“This execrable place”: Irish Gothic and the American Republic’</p><p>Dale Townshend: ‘Matthew Gregory Lewis in Scotland'</p><p>Matthew Sangster: ‘The Scottish Roots of Theorising the Fantastic’</p><p>Maddy Potter: ‘“'I shuddered at my own image”: Doubles, Doppelgängers, and the Demonic in Scottish Gothic</p><p>Claire Connolly: ‘Wet Gothic in Melmoth the Wanderer’</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swinc-scottish-and-irish-gothic-tickets-1216652042009" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eventbrite.co.uk/e/swinc-scott</span><span class="invisible">ish-and-irish-gothic-tickets-1216652042009</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Irish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/gothic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gothic</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Ayont the linn; ayont the linn,<br>Whaur gowdan wags the gorse,<br>A gowk gaed cryin’: “Come ye in:<br>I’ve fairins in my purse…”</p><p>—William Soutar, “The Gowk”<br>in Collected Published Poetry, @tippermuirbooks.bsky.social 2024</p><p>April Fool’s Day is Huntigowk Day in Scotland (“gowk” is a cuckoo &, by extension, a foolish person)</p><p><a href="https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/william-soutar-collected-works-vols-1-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/</span><span class="invisible">william-soutar-collected-works-vols-1-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>20thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scots</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotslanguage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WilliamSoutar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WilliamSoutar</span></a></p>
CLondoner92 (New Account)<p>A planning application has been submitted for a 9km active travel route between <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Aviemore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aviemore</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Carrbridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carrbridge</span></a>, designed for <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/walking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>walking</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cycling</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/wheeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wheeling</span></a>. The route will provide a safer, more direct connection and integrate with existing local routes. Following public feedback, the plans include a signalised crossing of the A95 at <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Granish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Granish</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> Government Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop highlighted the commitment to promoting active travel in <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a>, emphasising the collaboration with Cairngorms National Park Authority, The <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Highland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Highland</span></a> Council, and Sustrans. The route will offer safer, accessible travel for all ages and enable circular trips between Aviemore, Carrbridge, and Boat of Garten using the Speyside Way.<br><a href="https://www.transport.gov.scot/news/plans-submitted-for-segregated-active-travel-route-between-aviemore-and-carrbridge/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">transport.gov.scot/news/plans-</span><span class="invisible">submitted-for-segregated-active-travel-route-between-aviemore-and-carrbridge/</span></a></p>
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