Excellent John Bellany exhibition at the City Art Centre - runs until 28 September

@bethlcampbell.bsky.social reviews Kerri Andrews’ ambitious edited collection, Nan Shepherd’s Correspondence 1920-1980 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024): modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...

Wind Dial, by Adrienne McStay (2006), with Broughty Ferry castle in the background

Wind Dial, by Adrienne McStay (2006), with Broughty Ferry castle in the background

Excellent launch today of The International Companion to The Scottish Novel, published by @asls.org.uk and edited by Cairns Craig.

North Berwick feather sculpture, by Gill White

From Milsey Bay beach, North Berwick

Now online, my Scottish Art News chat with Andy Goldsworthy. flemingcollection.com/scottish_art... This was done in the run up to Fifty Years, Goldsworthy’s spectacular mix of old and new work for his NGS show at the RSA in Edinburgh until November 2. www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/a...

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/1 Spring/Summer 2025 Special issue Scotland’s Branches: Language, Literature & Culture across Time Guest edited by Gioia Angeletti & Marina Dossena Now online free on Open Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social #litstudies #AcademicSky muse.jhu.edu/issue/55288

The Scottish Novel – book launch & seminar 5 Sept, Edinburgh – free, ticketed This seminar presents papers by contributors to The International Companion to the Scottish Novel (ed. Cairns Craig) with a focus on literature from the 20th & 21st centuries www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scotti...

Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress

ICYMI - my thoughts on the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay and why Scottish culture needs to rediscover something of his revolutionary practice www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/art/...

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Granton the bluest of blues today, with the bridges shimmering in the distance.

Me chatting about Lacan and my Jacques Lacan: the Basics book with Quique Autrey for his Psyche Podcast: www.quiqueautrey.com/podcast/epis... For the chance to win an Audible code for the book, like, follow and share this post. Winner picked on 31 August. #lacan #lacanthebasics #psychoanalysis

🚨 @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the publication on 1 September of a new collection of poems in response to Robert Fergusson's life, works, and legacies, published with the brilliant Taproot Press! You can pre-order the book here: taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...

The new Scottish Literary Review is out on Project Muse! A Special Issue, guest edited by Gioia Angeletti and Marina Dossena, it features articles on Early Modern ScotLit, Mary, Queen of Scots, Scottish Picturebooks, migration writings and drama. You can access it here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55288

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

My new novel will throw its arms around you a month today. I can’t wait for you to meet the Two Roberts. It’s based on two real artists and it’s all about love & art & class & queerness & Scottishness & all that hot stuff. It’s set 1933-1962. Thanks for supporting! buythebook.online/the-two-robe...

At the Moderns today. Alasdair Gray's 'Eden and After' is always worth pausing at for a while.

Scottish Seabird Centre chief's dismay at Berwick Bank wind farm OK | East Lothian Courier share.google/wq2tBXcPpuw7...

Timeline 28: 1982 - Following the breakout success of Lanark Alasdair joined with Liz Lochhead & Tom Leonard to perform a review for the Edinburgh Fringe. Lanark wins the Frederick Niven Award. The prize money was substantial, but Alasdair donated it all to the miners’ strike 💪🏽

In the NLS today looking at work by figures closely associated with the Scottish Literary Renaissance. A couple of nice first edition Porpoise Press pamphlets from Andrew Dewar Gibb and George Malcolm Thomson.

In the NLS today looking at work by figures closely associated with the Scottish Literary Renaissance. A couple of nice first edition Porpoise Press pamphlets from Andrew Dewar Gibb and George Malcolm Thomson.

"Before I wrote this book, I was determined not to."-- Ragini Srinivasan In OVERDETERMINED, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan explores the politics of identity in literary studies and the complexities of teaching minoritized literatures in the West. bit.ly/3IhmpHX @columbiaup.bsky.social

So, the book has a cover, thanks to the kindness of Colin Davidson. Out in January 26 with some events in Ireland the end of February, start of March. Will be available in the US slightly later. Thanks to you all for encouragement along the way. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Excited to announce that my upcoming monograph, William Blake's Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women (new title, same book), now has an official page & web presence on Palgrave's website 💫 and a publication date, February 2026! link.springer.com/book/9783032...

WRITERS! New Writing Scotland seeks a new co-editor for English- & Scots-language work. Applicants should be currently based in Scotland & have a strong publishing record, with a focus on prose. Post is up to 3 years: stipend £1500 per issue. #writers #writing Pls RT 👇 asls.org.uk/new-writing-...

Edinburgh’s First Burghers: revealing the lives and hidden faces of Edinburgh’s medieval citizens. Free Event Mon - Fri : 10am - 6pm; Sat : 9am - 5pm; Sun : 1pm - 5pm 6th June - 30th November St Giles' Cathedral High Street Edinburgh EH1 1RE buff.ly/qcXUuvA

July Fields, 1959 by painter Joan Eardley #WomensArt

For #scape Friday my #photography captures #clouds on the Beltane #sunrise seen from Higher Tor, Dartmoor on 1st May. It’s 05:57am 🌤️

A CHAOS OF LIGHT New Writing Scotland 43 Ed. by Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici & Niall O’Gallagher “writing that unsettles and challenges, that questions assumptions… A rich, boisterous, tender, charming, angry, sorrowful, gleeful mix” Aug 2025 – available for preorder! 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...

Wishing Kirkcaldy Galleries a happy 100th birthday! A year of celebrations begins with 'Century of Kirkcaldy Galleries', now open, check the website for more details - buff.ly/jqPQou5 The gallery have one exquisite WBG in their collection, from her 'small energy' series, 'Atlantic Squall', 1975.

Hugh MacDiarmid’s poetry collection Sangshaw – 100th anniversary celebration reading at Montrose Playhouse on 9 September. Readings by James Robertson, Matthew Fitt, Sheila Mann, and others. Tickets available here: montroseplayhouse.co.uk/product/hugh...

Geese in Flight Benjamin Chee Chee ~ Anishinaabe 1976

Moody St Monans

Pittenweem

Looking towards East Lothian from the East Neuk

Crail

Portal to beyond

‘Stone suits the poetry. Or perhaps it’s the other way round. I think poetry suits stone, more than it suits paper, certainly more than it suits a screen. The poetry releases something latent in the stone.’ New: Kathleen Jamie visits the Canongate Wall in Edinburgh. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

My review of Modern Irish and Scottish Literature by @richardalanbarlow.bsky.social is now published by @mfsjournal.bsky.social. Richard's book is definitely worth a read if you are interested in modern Scottish and/or Irish literature, revivalism, and modernism. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

My review of Modern Irish and Scottish Literature by @richardalanbarlow.bsky.social is now published by @mfsjournal.bsky.social. Richard's book is definitely worth a read if you are interested in modern Scottish and/or Irish literature, revivalism, and modernism. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Arbuthnott Church where Lewis Grassic Gibbon's ashes are laid to rest in the graveyard.

Looking out to the North Sea from St Cyrus beach. C.M. Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) holidayed here when he lived in Montrose in the 1920s.

'the old stones rose up around her silently, not old when you thought of the Standing Stones of Blawearie brae but old enough for all that.'

In Montrose, home of the interwar Scottish Literary Renaissance

last week i gave a talk about Alexander Trocchi’s aesthetics and politics of failure at a centenary symposium at Glasgow University which has now been published by @bellacaledonia.bsky.social bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/19/s...