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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine

@crfirvine.bsky.social

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Poet, Academic, President past and present at St Andrews School of English, Oxford Faculty of English, and St Leonard’s College at St Andrews. Interested in Late Style, and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature. Sins my own, unless footnoted.

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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · Aug 8

Great news from the wonderful folks behind Project Fergusson @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social, who've worked with
Taproot Press to produce this beauty! Very honoured to have contributed 'The Last Tavern', a Dantesque encounter between Burns and Fergusson, and to be in the company of such amazing poets!

Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Aug 8

We're thrilled to announce 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.
Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives!
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...

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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · Aug 8

Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · Aug 7

Two books arrived on the same day, waiting for me at home having forgotten I’d ordered either of them a long while back: the posthumous books of Heaney and John— sad in themselves, but full of hope and beauty in their pages

Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · Aug 6

An exceptionally apt day to share one of my favourite songs: 27 by @passengermusic —
From 33:00 to 36:18 in this video is my favourite performance of it

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Passenger live at Pinkpop 2013 - FULL SHOW

YouTube video by Passenger NL

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Anindya Raychaudhuri (he/him) @dranindyar.bsky.social · Dec 3

Superb news.

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Poet and author Dr Peter Mackay appointed Scotland’s next Makar

Dr Mackay is the fifth person to hold the role since it was established by the Scottish Parliament in 2004.

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Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social · Nov 16

Here’s a provisional clanjamfry of scholars, novelists, bodies and poets involved in Scottish literature and present on Bluesky.

Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added.

go.bsky.app/3EEXPcA

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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · Nov 17

Thank you for this! 💙

Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · Feb 12

If there’s another cure for this last week other than buying books, then I don’t know of it 📚

Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · Feb 2

The morning was spent working on Dante, and I wish more epics were collaboratively translated by modern and contemporary poets like this. Imagine an Aeneid with Heaney’s Book VI, combined with some Carson, Paterson, Oswald, and so on adapting a book each?

Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · Jan 10

There’s a few that come to mind with the same preoccupations of learning and unlearning, though not necessarily first-day-of-School: The Graduates by Kathleen Jaime, An Tiona/The Tin by Padraig MacAoidh/Peter Mackay, for example!

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