'Now westlin winds, and slaught'ring guns/
Bring Autumn's pleasant weather...'
My latest episode talking about Robert Burns & folk song is available here on YouTube:
youtu.be/JqX7eFjRSIk
Or wherever you get your podcasts!
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Discover the enchanting world of Scottish literature at the Writers' Museum in Edinburgh. Fiona MacGregor's captivating storytelling breathes life into historical treasures. #ScottishLiterature #WritersMuseum #Edinburgh
A mosaic portrait of the 18th Century Scottish poet Joanna Baillie made from Venetian Glass by the Murano Glass Company in the 1890s for the Joanna Baillie Monument in Bothwell.
#glasgow #bothwell #poetry #joannabaillie #memorial #scottishliterature #mosaic #muranoglass
Happy #WorldBookDay 😊📚
some of my favourite books I’ve read in the past few years which I highly recommend 🫶🏻
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I finished Kirsty Logan memoir a few days ago and I can’t stop thinking about it. A ‘Queer Motherhood Memoir’ in the second person - I’ve never read anything like it! So clever, unique & eye-opening, I’ll be recommending for a long time. #scottishliterature #books #uofgscotlitsoc
Available in paperback for £9.99 (plus P&P) here: ringwoodpublishing.com/product/the-pr… 🍀
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Click the link in our bio to purchase YOUR copy of The Way of the Hermit.
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Wee break from dissertation writing today to attend Edinburgh Museums event ‘In Conversation with Sir Ian Rankin’ with Sara Sheridan and Hannah Lavery to mark the anniversary of the makars’ court. Fascinating and engaging conversation 🤩
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Looking for something to read? 📚I’ve just finished this book.
It was given to me by a friend ,she knows me well.I loved it ❤️❤️based on a true story and a real page turner. #scottishliterature Jennifer McCarey
Good morning from Arran! Day 2 of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow trip …
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'The river was gunmetal grey;
Stretching away under a lead sky.
And when the shop slipped into the Clyde,
Grown men cried'
May Day, a new collection by the fabulous Jackie Kay is out from Picador Books
#books #livres #poetry #ScottishLiterature
The bookstore specializes in second-hand and antiquarian books, with a particular focus on Scottish literature and history.
Photo credit: chrisdonia on flickr
#secondhandbooks #antiquebooks #books #scottishliterature #literature #History
Last piece of Edwin Muir reading before putting the books away for the weekend. From the British Council series, The British People, How They Live And Work … The Scots and Their Country (1945)
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Honoured to have been awarded (along with my co-author Prof Nigel Leask) the IASSL's 2022 RDS Jack Medal for our article 'Co-ainm na taca seo an-uiridh: Dugald MacNicol's Caribbean Lament for Argyll', Studies in #ScottishLiterature 47.2 #GaelicCaribbean #GaelicDiaspora
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