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Geraldine (ginorgym)

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🎓Post grad student (MPhil) University Of Glasgow, looking at the work of Edwin Muir, specifically Poor Tom. Powered by coffee ☕️ 📚avid reader & self confessed Scottish Literature geek 👵Older than I look but not wiser 🤪

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Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · 1d

Very grim! It had a lasting effect on him

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · 7d

It's #NationalPoetryDay! The perfect opportunity to share Robert Fergusson's translation of Horace's ode on the importance of seizing the day. In rich Scots, Fergusson gives us the keys to a good life: staying in the moment and surrounding ourselves with friends and conviviality.
#RobertFergusson

Ne'er fash your thumb what gods decree
To be the weird o' you or me,
Nor deal in cantrip's kittle cunning
To spier how fast your days are running,
But patient lippen for the best,
Nor be in dowie thought oppressed,
Whether we see mair winters come,
Than this that spits wi canker'd foam.

Now moisten weel your geyzen'd was
Wi couthy friends and hearty blaws;
Ne'er lat your hope owrgang your days,
For eild and thraldom never stays;
The day looks gash, toot aff your horn,
Nor care yae strae about the morn.

A close-up of the statue of Robert Fergusson outside Edinburgh's Canongate Kirk, which can be seen in part in the background. The bronze sculpture shows Fergusson, with 18thC hair and dress, looking ahead while holding a book in his right hand.

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Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · 8d

@graemek73.bsky.social now you know!!!!

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Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · 8d

Great induction session with all the current and new @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social Scottish Literature PGR’s.
And to top it off, @hannahgrim02.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of sitting beside @murrayp.bsky.social on the train home!

Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · 8d

We will miss @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social !

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 8d

I'll be on NTS radio on Saturday at 10am with a mix inspired by the folklore, the roots of activism 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 www.nts.live

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Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · 9d

Looks my latest find had one previous illustrious owner!

Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · 11d

Second hand book sites discoveries !

Including Edwin Morgan on Edwin Muir in The Review, February 1963

@edmorgantrust.bsky.social

#edwinmuir
#edwinmorgan
#scottishliterature

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Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · 18d

EBay bid finally got it

Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · 18d

Finally got my own copy!

@asls.org.uk

#edwinmuir
#edwinmuirpoems
#scottishliterature

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Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Sep 7

Engrossed in James Barke’s Major Operation. Stand by for quotes!

a baby is reading a book with his eyes closed while sitting at a table .

ALT: a baby is reading a book with his eyes closed while sitting at a table .

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Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Sep 5

👍🏻

Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sorry I had to rush away! Took lots of ‘theory’ from his talk. Now just need to unscramble my notes

Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great event with some very interesting speakers. And what a room with a view.
Thanks @asls.org.uk good way to spend a Friday afternoon

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · Sep 5

Poet Robert Fergusson was born #OTD in 1750. At #ProjectFergusson, we're working on a new edition of his works. You'll find an online exhibition, details of a poetry collection responding to Fergusson's life, works and legacies and much more besides on our website!
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk

A close-up of the bronze sculpture of Robert Fergusson by David Annand, at the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh. We can see Fergusson's head and torso. He is dressed in eighteenth-century garb, with a coat with lapels and large cuffs, a shirt with sleeves flowing under his jacket cuffs, a waistcoat and large bow at his neck. He is carrying a book in his right hand. His hair is curled on either side of his head and is tied back. He looks upwards, his expression reflective.

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Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Sep 5

I have chip guy! He has gone heavy in the vinegar and the pickled egg !! 🤢

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Sep 5

Happy Birthday to Robert Fergusson, born #OTD 275 years ago!

For more info on what we've been up to on Project Fergusson as the official end of the project approaches, see our website: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk

We've got online exhibitions, other resources, project updates and much more!

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Sep 5

🪶We'll be celebrating Fergusson next Wednesday in Glasgow at our SOLD OUT book launch for 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson.🪶

Free tickets are still available for the online launch on Thursday 25 September @ 6pm. ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/online-boo...

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Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Sep 5

Looking forward to today’s event

Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Aug 29

Stunning use of an extract from Edwin Muir’s The Horses in this short Sony film.
Scroll to the end of the article for the video.

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Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Aug 27

It has been a day of ‘isms, well sort of

Capitalism
Industrialism
Socialism
Sexism
Feminism
Masculinism !!!!!

a woman is laying on an office chair in a room with the words `` brain fried '' written on the floor .

ALT: a woman is laying on an office chair in a room with the words `` brain fried '' written on the floor .

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Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Aug 27

“It would take just one push”! she said as I walked over these stones.
Words said by someone who was and is, a huge influence in my life. We all need a little bit of imbalance to waken us up.
I have heard you my friend, and am wakening up.

Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Aug 22

Out for a walk with Dad! Well I walked, he got shoved.

Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Aug 22

Sitting beside me

Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social · Aug 3

Spent yesterday covering the West of Scotland Tennis Open at Western Health and Racquets Club in Hyndland. One of
My favourite places!