Bliadhna mhath ùr / Happy new year when it comes
Photo is from this morning, looking over the River Tay as the sun rose. -5°C and beautiful.
#Scotland #Perthshire #Photography #Scottish #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Nikon
Bliadhna mhath ùr / Happy new year when it comes
Photo is from this morning, looking over the River Tay as the sun rose. -5°C and beautiful.
#Scotland #Perthshire #Photography #Scottish #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Nikon
“Hogg defied categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short story writer & parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots & English”
James Hogg, AKA “the Ettrick Shepherd” (1770–1835, DOB unknown) was baptised #OTD, 9 Dec
🧵
1/10
#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury
“Hogg defied categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short story writer & parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots & English”
James Hogg, AKA “the Ettrick Shepherd” (1770–1835, DOB unknown) was baptised #OTD, 9 Dec
🧵
1/10
#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury
“[P]ay attention to the moments of contradiction and uncertainty threaded through character dialogue and self-reflection […] Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, that’s where the sharpest lessons are.”
—Bethany Jacobs on the worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks
#Scottish #literature #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #ScienceFiction #Scifi #worldbuilding
“Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!”
William McIlvanney (1936–2015) – author & poet (& provider, at a rally in Edinburgh in 1992, of our profile header, as quoted in Neal Ascherson’s 2002 book STONE VOICES) – was born #OTD, 25 November
A 🎂 🧵
1/9
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #Scottishness #identity
“[P]ay attention to the moments of contradiction and uncertainty threaded through character dialogue and self-reflection […] Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, that’s where the sharpest lessons are.”
—Bethany Jacobs on the worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks
#Scottish #literature #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #ScienceFiction #Scifi #worldbuilding
Dr David Goldie discusses LAIDLAW, William McIlvanney’s first detective novel – video from our 2018 Schools Conference
3/9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA8S5_rq2M&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WZwMUjyxVcQZ8J2K1gp3_Nh
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir
Tartan Noir, or, Hard-Boiled Heidegger
Prof Matt Wickman asks, What does William McIlvanney’s LAIDLAW tell us about the literary tradition within which it is embedded? & how might the novel help us conceptualise the political state of Scotland?
4/9
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/tartan_noir/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir #Heidegger #philosophy #politics
The real deal: How William McIlvanney transformed Scottish fiction
“If there is a direct line from the so-called ‘Kailyard’ writers of the late 19th century […] to the playful savagery of Irvine Welsh and the still rising body-count of ‘tartan noir’, then at its midpoint stands William McIlvanney.”
Brian Morton profiles William McIlvanney for BBC Arts
2/9
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir
Dr David Goldie discusses LAIDLAW, William McIlvanney’s first detective novel – video from our 2018 Schools Conference
3/9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA8S5_rq2M&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WZwMUjyxVcQZ8J2K1gp3_Nh
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir
“Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!”
William McIlvanney (1936–2015) – author & poet (& provider, at a rally in Edinburgh in 1992, of our profile header, as quoted in Neal Ascherson’s 2002 book STONE VOICES) – was born #OTD, 25 November
A 🎂 🧵
1/9
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #Scottishness #identity
The real deal: How William McIlvanney transformed Scottish fiction
“If there is a direct line from the so-called ‘Kailyard’ writers of the late 19th century […] to the playful savagery of Irvine Welsh and the still rising body-count of ‘tartan noir’, then at its midpoint stands William McIlvanney.”
Brian Morton profiles William McIlvanney for BBC Arts
2/9
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir
“Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!”
William McIlvanney (1936–2015) – author & poet (& provider, at a rally in Edinburgh in 1992, of our profile header, as quoted in Neal Ascherson’s 2002 book STONE VOICES) – was born #OTD, 25 November
A 🎂 🧵
1/9
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #Scottishness #identity
Discovering and reconnecting to my #Scottish roots by listening to the incredible smallpipes piper Brìghde Chaimbeul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_M_AxzcT0c
Love rules. Love laughs. Love marches. Love is the wolf that guards the gate.
Love is the food of music, art, poetry. It fills us and fuels us and fires us to create.
Love is terror. Love is sweat. Love is bashed pillow, crumpled sheet, unenviable fate…
—Edwin Morgan, “Love”
A poem for Pride Month 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
published in A BOOK OF LIVES (Carcanet, 2011)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857549188/a-book-of-lives/
#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #love #lovepoem #loveislove #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2025
Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane, 1897–1999) was born #OTD, 1 Nov, & saw almost every day of the #20thcentury. A hugely influential writer, with 80+ books—poetry, politics, historical novels, #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, #ChildrensLiterature & more—to her credit
A 🎂🧵
“She liked to challenge, she liked to shock, she liked to deliver the unexpected, she liked to experiment”
—Jenni Calder looks at Mitchison’s life & work
@litstudies
1/9
https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/09/25/naomi-mitchison/
“In the year C.S. Lewis published THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE, 1950, Naomi Mitchison published a very different fantasy novel for children”
—Prof Rob Maslen on how Naomi Mitchison’s THE BIG HOUSE mixes folklore, class war, global conflicts, & the supernatural
7/9
https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/naomi-mitchison-the-big-house-1950/
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #Kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #fantasy
CROSSROADS & COINS
“Where might I have gone if, instead of a middle-aged Hobbit enamored of his pantry, I had embraced a girl who lost three homes before choosing the open road?”
—Amal El-Mohtar on discovering Naomi Mitchison’s strange children’s fantasy TRAVEL LIGHT, for @NPR
8/9
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/01/258384937/crossroads-and-coins-naomi-mitchisons-travel-light
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #fantasy
CROSSROADS & COINS
“Where might I have gone if, instead of a middle-aged Hobbit enamored of his pantry, I had embraced a girl who lost three homes before choosing the open road?”
—Amal El-Mohtar on discovering Naomi Mitchison’s strange children’s fantasy TRAVEL LIGHT, for @NPR
8/9
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/01/258384937/crossroads-and-coins-naomi-mitchisons-travel-light
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #fantasy
“Correction: January 20, 1999, Wednesday An obituary on Saturday about Naomi Mitchison, the British writer and early feminist, misspelled the surname of the Labour Party leader at whom she once threw a half-plucked partridge. He was Hugh Gaitskell, not Gaitskill.”
—Essential correction to Mitchison’s obituary in the NEW YORK TIMES
9/9
CROSSROADS & COINS
“Where might I have gone if, instead of a middle-aged Hobbit enamored of his pantry, I had embraced a girl who lost three homes before choosing the open road?”
—Amal El-Mohtar on discovering Naomi Mitchison’s strange children’s fantasy TRAVEL LIGHT, for @NPR
8/9
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/01/258384937/crossroads-and-coins-naomi-mitchisons-travel-light
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #fantasy
