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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks to all who read at and attended yesterday's online launch - what a fantastic event!

Our final launch (for now!) is in Edinburgh on 15 October
at Golden Hare Books with Scotland's Makar Pàdraig MacAoidh | Peter Mackay
and a range of lovely poets!
Get your tickets ⤵️
shorturl.at/Xg3XC

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · 15d

Free tickets are still available for our online launch, taking place this Thursday at 6pm!
www.eventbrite.com/e/online-boo...

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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 18d

Just drapped! I'm in this. Cheers @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social

Oer a' my labours sey your skill - book of poems celebrating Robert Fergusson.

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Louise @louisehurrell.bsky.social · 18d

Some fun book post this afternoon! Thank you to Taproot Press for sending it over and to Rhonda and Amy @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social for including a wee poem of mine in the anthology. That’s my Saturday night reading sorted!

The front cover of ‘O’er a’ my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson’ designed by Andrew Redmond Barr: a black and white sketch of Edinburgh below a blue and yellow sky. In the background is my flowery tablecloth whose pink and red colour scheme clashes with the book.

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · 25d

🎆It's out!🎆
'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson is out NOW!
Check out our blog post for more info about the publication, about our wonderful Glasgow launch on Wednesday and for the link to buy your own copy!
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/publication-...

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · 28d

This event was such a joy. An array of brilliant poets responding to the poet’s poet, Robert Fergusson. More launches are on the way, so join us to hear some great new poetry and remember Fergusson. You can order a copy from Taproot Press by following the link 👇
#ScottishLiterature #18thC 📖

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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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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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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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · Sep 2

We’re really pleased that our Robert Fergusson exhibition, initially held at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library last year, is now available online. If you weren’t able to visit last year, click along and remember Robert Fergusson with us 👇

Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Sep 2

We're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition!

Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhib...

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Sep 2

and lots of lovely pictures of the amazing Fergusson Special Collections holdings at the Mitchell. Thanks to all who allowed us to use their material in the exhibition, Brian Aitken who designed the exhibition and Clare Thompson at the Mitchell for her amazing expertise!

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Sep 2

It features all the best bits of the in-person displays, with added video links to National Gallery: Portrait talks and Braw Clan Scots Language Theatre Company materials, recordings of Fergusson's poems by the wonderful James Robertson ...

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Sep 2

We're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition!

Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhib...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Aug 25

“O’er a’ my labours sey your skill”
10 Sep, @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Free

@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social & @glasgowburns.bsky.social launch a new poetry collection where contemporary writers respond to #C18th poet Robert Fergusson’s work, in English, Gaelic, & Scots
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-bo...

Glasgow Book Launch and Celebration: 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill'

Join us in Glasgow for the launch of the new poetry collection 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Aug 25

Join us for our Glasgow and online launches of 'O’er a’ my labours sey your skill’: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.
More information and to book free tickets, see below:
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/events/

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earreadthis.bsky.social @earreadthis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Looking forward to seeing this in print next month: a new collection of poems in tribute to Robert Fergusson including one of my own in Scots!

Available to pre order now from Taproot's website: taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...

#edinburgh #literature #scotland #poet
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social

'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson (9781739207762) - Taproot Press UK

Marking two hundred and fifty years since the death of Robert Fergusson, this collection of poems in Scottish, English and Gaelic from Scotland's most celebrated writers and emerging poets alike evoke...

taprootpressuk.co.uk

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Sadie Maskery @saccharinequeen.bsky.social · Aug 9

Absolutely thrilled to be part of this. #Poetry #ScottishPoetry #TaprootPress #Scots

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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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fair tricket tae hae a poyum o mines in this here buik.

It's cried Foostie Oysters, an it's a repone tae yer man's Caller Oysters.

Thare'll be a gey wheen ither braw poyums in it an aw fae a hantle braw makars.

Get the dammt thing bocht 😃

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

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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Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social · Aug 8

Congratulations to Project @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social and Taproot Press, honoured to have a Gaelic poem responding to Fergusson's 'Canongate Playhouse in Ruins' included in the collection.

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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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · Aug 8

🚨 New publication from Project Fergusson! In this collection, emerging and established poets respond to the life and afterlives of 18thC Edinburgh poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-74). We’re delighted with this, and hope you will be too. Details of our book launches to come, so please watch this space 🚨

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

Thank you to the wonderful poets who offered up their work to be included in this collection, to Andrew Redmond Barr for his WONDERFUL cover design, to Gillebride MacMillan for being our Gaelic editor and to Patrick Jamieson at Taproot Press for his support throughout the whole project!

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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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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Jun 2

An update on what we've been up to over the past few months!
Collation, copytexts, poetry collections, archive trips & more!
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/copytexts-an...

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Ainsley McIntosh @ainsley76.bsky.social · Apr 30

Robert Fergusson looking canty and braw in the Edinburgh sunshine this evening @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social @rhonabrown.bsky.social 💐

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Apr 10

Talk: ‘Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Death’, Textual Editing Lab

Thursday 22nd May 2025, 2-4pm
On Uni of Glasgow campus

In this session, we discuss the complexities of editing Fergusson.
Tickets and more details ⤵️
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/event/talk-e...

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