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

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!

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

Looks my latest find had one previous illustrious owner!

Second hand book sites discoveries ! Including Edwin Morgan on Edwin Muir in The Review, February 1963 @edmorgantrust.bsky.social #edwinmuir #edwinmorgan #scottishliterature

Finally got my own copy! @asls.org.uk #edwinmuir #edwinmuirpoems #scottishliterature

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

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

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

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!

🪶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...

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. pro.sony/en_CL/insigh...

It has been a day of ‘isms, well sort of Capitalism Industrialism Socialism Sexism Feminism Masculinism !!!!!

“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.

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

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

This is incredibly sad! First the old cottage theatre and now St Mungos. Landmarks that those of us who grew up in this mess of a town could identify with, and were part of our lives in work, rest, faith and pints of beer!!!!

And in other news! Apparently I am an adult!!!!

Having a writing in the garden kind of day

Book haul! Finally a copy of Edwin Muir’s Autobiography with a cover on

Great event today at Saints of Ingram! @liammcilvanney.bsky.social discussing his new novel The Good Father. Good to put a face to the avatar! Apologies to @hannahgrim02.bsky.social for ‘landing you in it’!!!!

It’s a garden reading kind of day

Awakening the old blog site to review The Good Father by @liammcilvanney.bsky.social www.ginorgym.co.uk/post/the-goo... #booksofbluesky #bookreview #liammcilvanney

26 chapters into this novel! @liammcilvanney.bsky.social this is completely unputdownable!

Well that is this weekend sorted @liammcilvanney.bsky.social !

While hunting for a bridge to connect pieces of writing in my MPHil dissertation, I came across this piece in a Chapman magazine on Edwin Muir, by the late Robert Calder. Good to see that he agrees with me on the book’s importance. #edwinmuir

Not that I am bragging or anything ….

Great to see Growing Up In The West included in this from Glasgow Libraries “As Glasgow celebrates its 850th birthday, get lost in the stories set right here in our city. We’ve curated 254 fiction titles, all set in or inspired by Glasgow” libbyapp.com/library/glas... cc @liammcilvanney.bsky.social

Wrong AI!

What else would you be doing on a sunny Scottish afternoon, but double checking your quotes and referencing!!! #edwinmuir #scottishliterature #gettingbacktopostgradlife

Looking for reading on the characters in Shakespeare’s King Lear! Must be good for use in academic writing

When literary friends just get you! With apologies to Edwin Muir for their edit of The Birthday

Sunset by Edwin Muir from Edwin Muir, Collected Poems published by Faber and Faber. This edition includes Poems Not Previously Collected. This section was added after Muir’s death, and after he had written the introduction to the collection. #edwinmuir #poetry

In favoured summers These islands have the sun all to themselves And light a toy to play with, weeks on end… —Edwin Muir, “The Northern Islands” published in The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir, ed. Peter H. Butter (ASLS, 1999) #poetry #Orkney

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...

Looking forward to the @waterstones.bsky.social Glasgow event!

Staring how things work out! @hannahgrim02.bsky.social is in a second hand bookshop and finds Edwin Muir books and I find this in a charity shop in Cumbernauld. #edwinmuir #robertburns #scottishliterature

‘The book is unfortunately a very lugubrious one; but I had to get it out of my system; and I look upon it only as the first third of a whole, the second of which I look upon as noisily comic - if I can bring it off.’ (ed. Butter, 1974) Edwin Muir to his sister & brother in law in 1932 on Poor Tom.

PLEASE SHARE 🙏 OPEN CALL FOR AN UNPUBLISHED WRITER: ART WRITING COMMISSION Responding to Holly Rennie Brown’s new curatorial project ‘The City’, exploring Glasgow through a queer, working-class lens. For eligibility, brief & details of how to apply ⬇️

Happy place!

Quick reminder that I am talking part in the EICSP’s online zoom forum on Edwin Muir on the 21st May. Full details via the link below. Including how to register for the zoom link www.eicsp.org/events/event...

First visit to St Conan’s Kirk! What a place, and can recommend the Kirk Tearoom!

Edwin Muir, born 15/05/1887 #edwinmuir #scottishliterature

Scotland at its best!

@scottishopera.bsky.social Really sad to hear of the passing of Matthew Best. I had the pleasure of hearing him perform many times with Scottish Opera and will never forget him as Wotan in the Ring Cycle. Memorable!

Today has reluctantly been sponsored by Sudafed, ice lollies, orange juice and cough sweets.

Thank you @iassl.bsky.social for sharing

The recording of my talk on ‘The Caledonian Antisyzygy: Origins, Legacy and Solution of a Paradox’ is online. Scottish contradictions, imperialism, Celtic Revival, Aryan race myth, postmodernism, Devolution and infinite possibilities are all on the menu. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 youtu.be/chd9QrXyukI

First paper presented outside the @uofglasgow.bsky.social Scot Lit PGR community. Presented on my research around Edwin Muir’s Poor Tom at the UCSL PGR symposium. Some great conversations & so much encouragement from everyone. Looking forward to getting back to writing & research after a wee break.

Edwin Muir’s Poor Tom: An Emerging View of Class, Community and Chips! My first talk on Edwin Muir outside of the PGR community. Thank you to the EICSP for asking me. It is amazing, & slightly nerve wracking, to be asked to be part of such a great panel. #edwinmuir www.eicsp.org/events/event...