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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureSohira Amona Subwey Goina Rangwey Cozza Ootirsirkelzaff—John Duncan, “Inner Circle” published in FROM GLASGOW TO SATURN #33<a href="https://glasgowtosaturn.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://glasgowtosaturn.com</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/subway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#subway</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/publictransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publictransport</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureFor Pilgrims and PassengersThe Flowers of Time The bags you carry The Flags of Romance the everyday signsEach other Each other—Anonymous poem on the wall of Kelvinhall subway station, Glasgow <a href="https://aaronykchan.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/glasgow-subway-poetry/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://aaronykchan.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/glasgow-subway-poetry/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/subway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#subway</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/publictransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publictransport</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature“…rather than a locked-room mystery in which the murder is an impossible crime, the detective is in (and becomes) the locked room, using cerebral means to reason his way into a solution to a genuine historical conundrum”“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before” – <a href="https://journa.host/@sarahweinman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@sarahweinman</a> on the fiction of Josephine Tey<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://lithub.com/a-mystery-novel-like-no-other-before-on-josephine-teys-the-daughter-of-time/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lithub.com/a-mystery-novel-like-no-other-before-on-josephine-teys-the-daughter-of-time/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CrimeFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CrimeFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DetectiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DetectiveFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Crimewriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crimewriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Womenwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Womenwriters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#20thCentury</a>

MarkScottish ministers consider gull controls amid fears people may dieSNP MSP Fergus Ewing raised concerns about impact aggressive <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/seagulls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seagulls</a> are having in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Moray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Moray</a> suggesting a public inquiry needed should one of the birds <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/kill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kill</a> a personPressure is building on <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> Govt to controls seagulls after one attacked an elderly woman in Moray, causing her to fall & break her leg – then attacking her again after returning home from <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/hospital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hospital</a><a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/25113619.scottish-ministers-consider-gull-controls-amid-fears-people-may-die/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenational.scot/news/25113619.scottish-ministers-consider-gull-controls-amid-fears-people-may-die/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birds</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/gulls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gulls</a>

QuokkaMochaThanks to <a href="https://writing.exchange/@Firlefanz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Firlefanz</a> and <a href="https://mindly.social/@strangeseawolf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@strangeseawolf</a> for already giving this a shout out. But, yes, I have finally taken the plunge and my first collection of short Scottish-inspired horror / dark fantasy stories is available now from Amazon - <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5XW26N3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5XW26N3</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HorrorWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HorrorWriters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#horror</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/selfpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfpublishing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/selfpromo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfpromo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/shortstories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shortstories</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Scottishwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottishwriter</a>

Michael Fenichel>>. ‘Rare’ ancient chariot wheel found at golf course in Scotland. ‘Jaws dropped’'What we've been waiting for, and long suspected:The Trump (then Drumpf) family forefathers near the Scottish Golf plains..... no doubt now, invented the wheel! /sarcasm But wait 'til Sir hears! <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article304873836.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article304873836.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chariot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chariot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#archeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Roman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inventions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inventions</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpVirus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antrhopology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antrhopology</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureThe Company One Keeps: Ian Hamilton Finlay & the Concrete Poets 14 May, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh & onlineDr Greg Thomas explores Iain Hamilton Finlay’s aesthetic & cultural ties with the international concrete poetry movement, & to figures such as Edwin Morgan & Dom Sylvester Houédard<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/litstudies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@litstudies</a> <a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/event/the-company-one-keeps-ian-hamilton-finlay-and-the-concrete-poets-in-person" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nationalgalleries.org/event/the-company-one-keeps-ian-hamilton-finlay-and-the-concrete-poets-in-person</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/concretepoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#concretepoetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#20thcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/IanHamiltonFinlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IanHamiltonFinlay</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureThe Crime Fiction of Dundee Jute, Jam, & Journalism – & Tartan noirPaul French looks at Dundonian crime fiction, from the the Victorian soot & grime of Malcolm Archibald’s Detective Watters to Wendy H. Jones’s DI Shona McKenzie Mysteries, & more<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://crimereads.com/the-crime-fiction-of-dundee-scotland-jute-jam-and-journalism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://crimereads.com/the-crime-fiction-of-dundee-scotland-jute-jam-and-journalism/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/crimefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crimefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/historicalfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#historicalfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Dundee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dundee</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureSee the fields, Neera— green. Wonder if the day’ll come whun I canna see thaim onymair…—Colin Bramwell, “See the Fields” from FOWER PESSOAS – translations into Scots of poems by Fernando Pessoa (or by four of his aliases/heteronyms), Carcanet Press, 2025<a href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800174641/fower-pessoas/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800174641/fower-pessoas/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#translation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FernandoPessoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FernandoPessoa</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature“William Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns… I count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry”—Prof Gerard Carruthers on the links & commonalities between Burns & Shakespeare <a href="https://theconversation.com/haggis-neeps-and-soliloquys-the-bonds-that-tie-robert-burns-and-shakespeare-53578/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/haggis-neeps-and-soliloquys-the-bonds-that-tie-robert-burns-and-shakespeare-53578/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/drama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#drama</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RobertBurns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RobertBurns</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/18thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#18thcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/romanticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#romanticism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shakespeare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ShakespeareDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShakespeareDay</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureThere was this king sitted in his garden all alane When his brother in his ear poured a little bit o’ henbane, Stole his brother’s crown and his money and his widow; But the dead king walked and got his son and said, “Hey listen, kiddo…”—Adam McNaughtan, “Oor Hamlet”: a tragedy in 3 minutesAdam McNaughtan sings “Oor Hamlet”: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPclD-m64Tg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPclD-m64Tg</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/song" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#song</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/drama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#drama</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tragedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tragedy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Hamlet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hamlet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shakespeare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ShakespeareDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShakespeareDay</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureFor William Shakespeare’s (probable) birthday:“This single poem gets, via the heart of all theatre, to the heart of the communal in all the arts, and to the heart of form, the heart of voice and silence and to the heart of a kind of life that will never actually stop.”—Ali Smith, on “Instructions to an Actor”, by Edwin MorganA recording of Ian McKellen reading ‘Instructions to an Actor’ in July 1979:<a href="https://www.tumblr.com/catullus101/653524303372042242/ian-mckellen-reads-edwin-morgans-poem" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tumblr.com/catullus101/653524303372042242/ian-mckellen-reads-edwin-morgans-poem</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shakespeare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/acting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#acting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/drama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#drama</a>

jdmccafferty23 Apr 1598: David Fergusson <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Scots</a> minister predicts <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#otd</a>: "If our king get Ingland ... then he will erect Bishops in this Kirk also". Prescient man, who also left a collection of 900 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> proverbs, published in 1641 (James VI, Historic England Archive)

Astrobach :breadified:Folklore read live! The true (sort of) legend of Princess Thyra and her tragic lovers!Hear the legend LIVE right NOW: <a href="https://youtube.com/live/4aEAeb_k2hw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/live/4aEAeb_k2hw</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FairyTaleTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FairyTaleTuesday</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/storyteller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#storyteller</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FairyTale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FairyTale</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmReading</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/indieWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indieWriter</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fairy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#folklore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/folk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#folk</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tales</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/stories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stories</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GrimmBrothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GrimmBrothers</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dnd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dnd</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dnd5e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dnd5e</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/pathfinder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pathfinder</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/pf2e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pf2e</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/lotr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lotr</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scottish</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/thyra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thyra</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/legends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#legends</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/princess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#princess</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Garlatha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Garlatha</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ulster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ulster</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature“It is the foreigner within that is interesting”: Imaginations of Scottish Multicultural Identity in Jackie Kay’s Memoir RED DUST ROAD 29 April, free onlineDr Angelica Michelis will focus on Jackie Kay’s memoir RED DUST ROAD and the ways in which it engages with questions of multiracial/multicultural narratives of Scottishness. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/litstudies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@litstudies</a> Link: <a href="https://t.co/dqFyZAFYf3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://t.co/dqFyZAFYf3</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/JackieKay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JackieKay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#identity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/multiracial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multiracial</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/multicultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multicultural</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/sexuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sexuality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ethnicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ethnicity</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureNEW COUNTRIES WILL GROW UP ON GRACEFUL PROMONTORIES WHERE A FEW PEOPLE GATHER TOGETHER/ IN THEIR WORLD IT WILL BE ILLEGAL TO OWN THE LAND…Billboard Robert Montgomery Ostend Wall Piece. The Crystal Ship Festival, 2016 Hahnemühle Photorag<a href="https://www.robertmontgomery.org/new-gallery/hlltwglwt2au4gtsho09mz2afejeee" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.robertmontgomery.org/new-gallery/hlltwglwt2au4gtsho09mz2afejeee</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EarthDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EarthDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EarthDay2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EarthDay2025</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literaturedear small daughter for a long time I did not write what had already become past-tense was past-tense and I am sorry I was not able to hold it as one might in a dream hold a stream of water and sing it to sleep… —Sheila Black, “Climate (7) (Past Tense)” published in BREAK IN CASE OF SILENCE: New Writing Scotland 39 (ASL, 2021)<a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws39/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws39/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EarthDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EarthDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EarthDay2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EarthDay2025</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureHugh MacDiarmid The Bonnie Broukit Bairn (For Peggy)Mars is braw in crammasy, Venus in a green silk goun, The auld mune shak’s her gowden feathers, Their starry talk’s a wheen o’ blethers, Nane for thee a thochtie sparin’, Earth, thou bonnie broukit bairn! – But greet, an’ in your tears ye’ll droun The haill clanjamfrie!<a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/bonnie-broukit-bairn/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/bonnie-broukit-bairn/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EarthDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EarthDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EarthDay2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EarthDay2025</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature“An outflung peninsula on an abandoned island whose birds are in crisis and whose people are long gone, ‘Fianuis’ means ‘testimony’, or ‘witness’.”—from “Island at the edge of the world”, by Kathleen Jamie Guardian Books 2006<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/aug/26/featuresreviews.guardianreview4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/aug/26/featuresreviews.guardianreview4</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EarthDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EarthDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EarthDay2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EarthDay2025</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureChange, change – that’s what the terns scream down at their seaward rocks; ﬂeet clouds and salt kiss – everything else is provisional, us and all our works…—Kathleen Jamie, “Fianuis”<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58566/fianuis" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58566/fianuis</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EarthDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EarthDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EarthDay2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EarthDay2025</a>

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