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Hello snow moon 🌕

Hello snow moon 🌕

It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

2026 is Agnes Owens’ centenary year, & Polygon will publish 7 new editions of her novels & short stories in collaboration with the Agnes Owens Archive – also launching this year. These new editions will be introduced by some of Scotland’s finest contemporary writers. 💙📚 birlinn.co.uk/2026/01/08/p...

This talk on "Scottish Women Writers in Children's Literature" from the fab Sarah Dunnigan and Lois Burke will be great. National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, 19 March 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM. Tickets free, but booking required. www.nls.uk/whats-on/sco...

This talk on "Scottish Women Writers in Children's Literature" from the fab Sarah Dunnigan and Lois Burke will be great. National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, 19 March 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM. Tickets free, but booking required. www.nls.uk/whats-on/sco...

Moon atop Barclay Church. Happy back to work day 🥶

This time of year the light seems keen to come north again. Tay Estuary at Buddon Ness. #Scotland

Happy birthday Alasdair Gray, born on this day in 1934. My chapter, '"The matter of Scotland": Alasdair Gray and Hugh MacDiarmid', features in the forthcoming EDINBURGH COMPANION TO ALASDAIR GRAY AND THE ARTS, out next year. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

Happy birthday Alasdair Gray, born on this day in 1934. My chapter, '"The matter of Scotland": Alasdair Gray and Hugh MacDiarmid', features in the forthcoming EDINBURGH COMPANION TO ALASDAIR GRAY AND THE ARTS, out next year. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

Free to stream: East German adaption of Stevenson's Kidnapped @scottlyall.bsky.social www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/online/st...

A new essay from me on the contentious topic of the sexuality of James VI and I - an attempt to get past the old ‘did he or didn’t he’ by looking at the king’s style as read by his contemporaries and subsequent historians. King James - QAF. main--britishartstudies-29.netlify.app/issues/29/qu...

Five years of editing SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW with the fab @rhonabrown.bsky.social and more exciting issues to come in 2026. The latest bumper issue is out now. Get yours by joining @asls.org.uk here: share.google/P8K28t8SNfWU...

Submitted the last major edit of my book, An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. I'm looking forward to An Injury To All being published in October 2026!

My review of William K. Malcolm's new biography of Lewis Grassic Gibbon is out now in SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW and is available to download on Project MUSE. muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/arti...

The relative calm before Storm Bram tonight on Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh #Edinburgh #StormBram #Weather

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025) The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly! #litstudies muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415

My review of William K. Malcolm's new biography of Lewis Grassic Gibbon is out now in SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW and is available to download on Project MUSE. muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/arti...

Lots in this one! Iain Crichton Smith, two portions of James Hogg, William Thom, Susan Ferrier, Robert Burns, Tom Nairn, Rauf Coilyear, Muriel Spark, The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour, James Beattie and a generous helping of reviews. Tuck in! @asls.org.uk @scottlyall.bsky.social

The latest edition of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW, edited by @rhonabrown.bsky.social and me, is now live on Project MUSE. This is a bumper edition, so fill yer boots! @asls.org.uk share.google/zC2gG3GXNdlu...

The latest edition of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW, edited by @rhonabrown.bsky.social and me, is now live on Project MUSE. This is a bumper edition, so fill yer boots! @asls.org.uk share.google/zC2gG3GXNdlu...

Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize. ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize. ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

Happy St Andrew’s Day! Alasdair championed Scottish independence and believed Scotland could be a nation with a new vision of itself. His 2014 screen print artwork reads: “Is Scotland a Possible Nation? Yes—Make It!” #alasdairgray #standrewsday

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Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027, Nanjing Normal University, China). Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2026.

🔴 Muriel Spark to be honoured in first ever memorial dedicated to a woman in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Villagers lose fight to stop ‘Sunset Song church’ being sold www.thetimes.com/article/9e72...

Poet, writer, artist, & avant-gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was born 100 years ago #OTD, 28 Oct, in Nassau, Bahamas. His father was a bootlegger, & Finlay was sent, aged 6, to Larchfield, a boarding school in Helensburgh, Scotland, where WH Auden had recently joined the staff A 🎂🧵 1/9

Call for Papers: ‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing. The 2026 annual conference of the Association for Scottish Literature will be held at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on 26–28 June.

Dreaming the Daily Darg: Working Lives in Scottish Writing since 1918 Studies in Scottish Literature 50/1, 2025 A special issue exploring work & working life in Scottish writing chiefly of the 20th & 21st centuries – available now on Open Access #litstudies scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...

Indian summer in Edinburgh

'Our Lady of the Hills.' (1921) The word anathemata, as David Jones unpicks it in his introduction to what later became an epic poem, means a lifting up and a setting apart of something for our particular savouring. A precise reading of what art is and always should be.

Reading MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle again. It was published 100 years ago next year. Kenneth Buthlay's annotated edition from 1987, published by @asls.org.uk, remains the best guide. The poem itself is as thrilling, ambitious and flawed as ever it was.

Excited to beam into Scotland next week!!!

📢 On 8 October, starting 3.30pm (UK time), @kristingrogan.bsky.social will talk about her research to @edinburghnapier.bsky.social's Centre for Arts, Media and Culture. Kristin's talk focuses on Gertrude Stein and is drawn from her new book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work.

A backlit St Boniface, while the clouds are drawn in the blue. The old kirk this evening, Papay, island of the Papar.

@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...