@thebletherscotlit.bsky.socialWe are back with a bumper issue full of articles to keep you in a Blether Scottish Literature frame of mind as the nights draw in.
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@celticbooks.bsky.socialExplore Scotland's rich folklore from Arthurian legends to magical beasts and witches. Discover its influence on writers like Burns and Stevenson across diverse landscapes in this captivating book! 📚
@gaspurves.bsky.socialTidying Up After a Firestorm: Staff at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 's School of Literature, Languages and Cultures have reacted grumpily to criticism of the closure of a slew of Scottish Literature programmes.
#HigherEducation #ScottishLiterature📚
@ginorgym.bsky.socialA bit of Muir for #nationalpoetryday
@purattu.bsky.social27 Eylül 1958’de Leith, Edinburgh’da doğan Irvine Welsh, çağdaş İskoç edebiyatının en ayırt edici yazarlarından biri oldu.
Trainspotting, Filth, Porno, Glue ve The Acid House en bilinen eserleri arasında yer alır.
#IrvineWelsh #Trainspotting #Filth #Porno #Glue #TheAcidHouse #ScottishLiterature
@ginorgym.bsky.socialEdwin Muir’s The Structure of the Novel was published in 1928, a year after his first novel The Marionette (1927) and a few years before his second and third, The Three Brothers, (1931) and Poor Tom in 1932.
#edwinmuir
#scottishliterature
@gaspurves.bsky.socialThe forenoon efter the nicht afore | Brian Holton in 'Ayont the Thistle', a gallimaufry o poems an prose tae mark the centenary o Hugh MacDiarmid's 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926):
#BookSky💙📚 #ScottishLiterature
@alisonrbaxter.bsky.socialThis Saturday I’ll be in Arbuthnott talking about my grandmother’s friendship with Lewis Grassic Gibbon. And for one week only the kindle edition of my book about them is available for just 99p. amzn.eu/d/0aZ59MWA #Scotslanguage #LewisGrassicGibbon #Scottishliterature
@gaspurves.bsky.socialChristine De Luca on Christopher Murray Grieve's shaky grasp of geomorphology, in 'Ayont the Thistle', a gallimaufry of poetry and prose to mark the centenary of 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle'.🤨
#BookSky💙📚 #ScottishLiterature
@gaspurves.bsky.social酔人アザミをみる (1981): Masaru Victor Otake's translation of Hugh MacDiarmid's 'A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle' into Japanese, with an Introduction by Cairns Craig (1949 - 2026):
#BookSky💙📚 #ScottishLiterature #DrunkManCentenary