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Ourhailit with my feble fantasie,
Lyk til a leif that fallis from a trie
Or til a reid ourblawin with the wind…
—“Sonet of Venus & Cupid”, by Mark Alexander Boyd (1563–1601), born #OTD, 13 Jan
from THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF SCOTTISH VERSE, @canongate.co.uk 2021
Ourhailit with my feble fantasie,
Lyk til a leif that fallis from a trie
Or til a reid ourblawin with the wind…
—“Sonet of Venus & Cupid”, by Mark Alexander Boyd (1563–1601), born #OTD, 13 Jan
from THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF SCOTTISH VERSE, @canongate.co.uk 2021
An’ there cam’ tum’lin doon
Tapsalteerie the half o’ a gate,
Wi’ an auld fish-hake an’ a great muckle skate,
An’ a lum hat wantin’ the croon!
—David Rorie, “The Lum Hat Wantin’ the Croon”
As things start to thaw in the north-east, mind how ye go…
#poem #song
trade and tobacco lording
over golden and red sandstone
where the tree never grew,
the bird never flew,
the fish never swam,
the bell never rang…
—a #poem by IEE Lees on the @glasgow.ac.uk library wall
6/6
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trade and tobacco lording
over golden and red sandstone
where the tree never grew,
the bird never flew,
the fish never swam,
the bell never rang…
—a #poem by IEE Lees on the @glasgow.ac.uk library wall
6/6
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come home and look
at the pictures in your brand-new book—
a tree, a bird, a fish, a bell,
a bell, a fish, a tree, a bird.
Point, wee Molly, and say the word!
—Liz Lochhead “Glasgow Nonsense Rhyme”
from FUGITIVE COLOURS, Polygon 2016
#poem
5/6
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come home and look
at the pictures in your brand-new book—
a tree, a bird, a fish, a bell,
a bell, a fish, a tree, a bird.
Point, wee Molly, and say the word!
—Liz Lochhead “Glasgow Nonsense Rhyme”
from FUGITIVE COLOURS, Polygon 2016
#poem
5/6
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Thàinig iad nan gràisg: “Is ann a dh’eug
brù-dhearg, mharbh esan e”…
—Niall O’Gallagher, “An t-eun nach d’rinn sgèith” / “The Bird That Never Flew” (trans. Peter Mackay). Listen to Niall read & discuss the #poem here
4/6
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Thàinig iad nan gràisg: “Is ann a dh’eug
brù-dhearg, mharbh esan e”…
—Niall O’Gallagher, “An t-eun nach d’rinn sgèith” / “The Bird That Never Flew” (trans. Peter Mackay). Listen to Niall read & discuss the #poem here
4/6
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Here is the tree that never grew
Here is the bell that never rang
Here is the fish that never swam
Glasgow’s coat of arms encodes 4 stories from the life of St Mungo
#folklore #saints #heraldry
2/6
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Here is the tree that never grew
Here is the bell that never rang
Here is the fish that never swam
Glasgow’s coat of arms encodes 4 stories from the life of St Mungo
#folklore #saints #heraldry
2/6
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From CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry
1/6
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From CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry
1/6
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#C17 #C18
5/5
—Walter Scott’s 1829 Introduction to ROB ROY
4/5
4/5
Since you lately learnt to die,
You are this unsetting star
That shines unchanged in my eye…
Born in Kirkwall, Ann Scott-Moncrieff was a friend of the Orkney poet & translator Edwin Muir, who wrote this poem for her when she died.
#womenwriters #C20th
7/7
Since you lately learnt to die,
You are this unsetting star
That shines unchanged in my eye…
Born in Kirkwall, Ann Scott-Moncrieff was a friend of the Orkney poet & translator Edwin Muir, who wrote this poem for her when she died.
#womenwriters #C20th
7/7
Linden Bicket, SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/2, 2024
Available online via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional subscription required)
#womenwriters #C20th
6/7
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Linden Bicket, SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/2, 2024
Available online via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional subscription required)
#womenwriters #C20th
6/7
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#kidlit
3/7
#kidlit
3/7
The essential elements of English history are neatly summarised in AUNTIE ROBBO, Ann Scott-Moncrieff’s children’s novel that was rejected as being “too Scottish” by London publishers in 1941…
#kidlit
2/7
The essential elements of English history are neatly summarised in AUNTIE ROBBO, Ann Scott-Moncrieff’s children’s novel that was rejected as being “too Scottish” by London publishers in 1941…
#kidlit
2/7
near to Matisse’s ‘Draped Nude’ (1936).
Sometimes someane touches a canvas
and I staun up, which is usually enough…
—Duncan Glen,“Twa Warlds”
in The Edinburgh Book of 20th-Century Scottish Poetry (2005)
#poem #poetry
2/3
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near to Matisse’s ‘Draped Nude’ (1936).
Sometimes someane touches a canvas
and I staun up, which is usually enough…
—Duncan Glen,“Twa Warlds”
in The Edinburgh Book of 20th-Century Scottish Poetry (2005)
#poem #poetry
2/3
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At ane wi the great North wun
At the heid o hecht…
—“The Heid o Hecht” by Duncan Glen, born #OTD, 11 Jan, 1933. Starting out as an apprentice printer he was a poet, designer, editor, publisher, & academic
#poem #poetry
1/3
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At ane wi the great North wun
At the heid o hecht…
—“The Heid o Hecht” by Duncan Glen, born #OTD, 11 Jan, 1933. Starting out as an apprentice printer he was a poet, designer, editor, publisher, & academic
#poem #poetry
1/3
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The state that Scotland’s in the day.
Spring to the North has aye come slow
But noo dour winter’s like to stay
For guid,
And no’ for guid!
—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Lourd on My Hert”
SELECTED POETRY (New Directions, 1993)
#BookWormSat #poem
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The state that Scotland’s in the day.
Spring to the North has aye come slow
But noo dour winter’s like to stay
For guid,
And no’ for guid!
—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Lourd on My Hert”
SELECTED POETRY (New Directions, 1993)
#BookWormSat #poem
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20 Jan, 6–7:30 German time (5–6:30 GMT)
Free online
Dr Cordula Lemke looks at witchcraft in Scottish literature, & how Geillis Duncan – one of the first Scottish witches to die – is remembered in literature & popular culture today
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20 Jan, 6–7:30 German time (5–6:30 GMT)
Free online
Dr Cordula Lemke looks at witchcraft in Scottish literature, & how Geillis Duncan – one of the first Scottish witches to die – is remembered in literature & popular culture today
www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scot...
Tho’ scarce provision, learning's good:
What can these hungries next explore,
Even Samuel Johnson loves our food.
—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “To Dr Samuel Johnson: Food for a New Edition of his Dictionary”
#poem #poetry #C18th #food #SamuelJohnson
Tho’ scarce provision, learning's good:
What can these hungries next explore,
Even Samuel Johnson loves our food.
—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “To Dr Samuel Johnson: Food for a New Edition of his Dictionary”
#poem #poetry #C18th #food #SamuelJohnson
that collapsed on us, a roof brought down by snow.
The year of riding through abandoned stations
on the riverside line that never crossed the river…
—Pippa Little, “This Was the Year”
from OVERWINTERING, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012
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that collapsed on us, a roof brought down by snow.
The year of riding through abandoned stations
on the riverside line that never crossed the river…
—Pippa Little, “This Was the Year”
from OVERWINTERING, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012
www.carcanet.co.uk/978190618806...
—From BUDDHA DA, DUCK FEET, THE PANOPTICON, TRAINSPOTTING, & more: Gina Lyle looks at vegetarianism in contemporary Scottish fiction
#BookologyThursday
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—From BUDDHA DA, DUCK FEET, THE PANOPTICON, TRAINSPOTTING, & more: Gina Lyle looks at vegetarianism in contemporary Scottish fiction
#BookologyThursday
💙📚
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/vege...