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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 13h

All set to celebrate Scotland's literary history and a future that includes Scots, English AND Gaelic - TONIGHT!

Join us!

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#Gaelic #Scots #ScotLit #Fergusson #ScottishLiterature

'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergus

Join us in the bookshop for an evening of poetry celebrating Robert Fergusson with Scotland's Makar, Peter Mackay and friends. 6.30pm on Wednesday 15th October at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Stre...

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 13h

All set to celebrate Scotland's literary history and a future that includes Scots, English AND Gaelic - TONIGHT!

Join us!

goldenharebooks.com/products/oer...

#Gaelic #Scots #ScotLit #Fergusson #ScottishLiterature

'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergus

Join us in the bookshop for an evening of poetry celebrating Robert Fergusson with Scotland's Makar, Peter Mackay and friends. 6.30pm on Wednesday 15th October at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Stre...

goldenharebooks.com

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 13h

Lovely to take part in this event at @lighthousebooks.bsky.social for the first time, and to meet Menna.

Best of luck to Menna and publisher with the new collection.

Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight, POETRY! Welsh, Gaelic, English for an Edinburgh launch of Parch!

At the heart of Parch is the triumph of compassion over conflict, respect as refuge, and a deep love of the nuances in language.
Readings & discussion ft Menna & Marcas Mac an Tuairneir!
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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 13h

I would very much appreciate a response to my email of yesterday regarding this colonial erasure from Editor in Chief Rosamund West and Books Editor @anahitrooz.bsky.social

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U.S. Studies Online on X: "Beginning with: Anahit Behrooz! Anahit Behrooz has just completed a PhD in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, examining ecocritical and postcolonial narratives in the fictional cartography of J.R.R. Tolkien. https://t.co/CHZIpOmWik" / X

Beginning with: Anahit Behrooz! Anahit Behrooz has just completed a PhD in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, examining ecocritical and postcolonial narratives in the fictional cartography of J.R.R. Tolkien. https://t.co/CHZIpOmWik

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 14h

Thig ar là, is dòcha, if not this week. No matter, we'll keep doing what we've always done. Keep writing! Coming generations need your words!

#ScotLit #TheSkinny #GaelicErasure #SameOldSameOld #Nepotism #GaelicFutures #HighlandsAndIslands #GaelicLiterature #EDI #GaelicInclusion #ScottishLiterature

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 14h

Miraculously this #Gaelic writer and editor does still manage to be #Gay and Gaelic-speaking (and a few other things too) with or without royal assent. It's all intersectional, remember.

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 14h

it remains clear that #ScottishArts administrators and critics alike continue to face some kind of difficulty in integrating them into current #EDIFrameworks.

Why is this? The belief that #EDI is a strictly #Anglophone concept?

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 14h

No one begrudges writers coverage and encouragement, but I wonder if any raised this omission?

Whilst the #BracadaleReport is clear on #Gaelic and #Scots speakers, and those of #GRTLanguages, having a #ProtectedCharacteristic...

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 14h

You might rightfully perceive that, twenty years after the #GaelicLanguageAct, and as the #ScottishLanguagesAct receives royal assent, such legislation's ethos of indigenous multilingualism, inclusion and representation has not percolated fully through the #Scottish literary, and wider arts sectors.

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 14h

I know this commitment is shared by the likes of #POTB, #ThePoetsRepublic, #GutterMagazine and others, and we're in good company.

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 14h

Thank God, then, that #NorthwordsNow will continue to provide a platform for writing in both of Scotland's official languages, as well as English, and is unwavering in its commitment to writers across the #Highlands and #Islands - gu sìorraidh bràth.

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 14h

Interesting for @theskinnymag.bsky.social to countenance, if not promote, even, a future for #ScottishLiterature that doesn't include a single #Gaelic writer of note. And only one with links to the #Highlands and #Islands.

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A thread 🧵 👇🏻

The Next Generation of Scottish Writers – The Skinny

To celebrate 20 years of The Skinny we look ahead, presenting our Next Generation of Scottish Writers: 12 poets, novelists and essayists who are shaping the future of Scotland's literary landscape. We...

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight, POETRY! Welsh, Gaelic, English for an Edinburgh launch of Parch!

At the heart of Parch is the triumph of compassion over conflict, respect as refuge, and a deep love of the nuances in language.
Readings & discussion ft Menna & Marcas Mac an Tuairneir!
lighthousebookshop.com/events/poetr...

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 2d

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 2d

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'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergus

Join us in the bookshop for an evening of poetry celebrating Robert Fergusson with Scotland's Makar, Peter Mackay and friends. 6.30pm on Wednesday 15th October at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Stre...

goldenharebooks.com

Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · 8d

It's that time of the year again - time to nominate your favourite folky artists and facilitators.

If you do remember a certain Gaelic columnist for The List in the media category, that would be much appreciated.

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#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #NaTrads #TheTrads

Vote now for your favourite act or organisation now!

Nominate now in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Nominate your favourite act or organisation here or fill in the form below. Nominations close on Sunday 19th October at midnight. The awards cer…

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · Aug 29

Andrew Scott is a contemporary artist renowned for his bold "frame-breaking" creations, where characters in his paintings seem to penetrate through glass.

Through this unique creative approach, Scott explores themes of freedom, solitude, and resilience.

Artist: @andrewscott_art

#art #visualart

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · Aug 26

A lovely thing that a panel of writers and critics found these new poems to have creative originality and literary merit, after all

Mòran taing dhaibhsan

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · Aug 25

For immigrants who sign, meaningful integration is always going to start, at least, with another #SignedLanguage.

Perhaps in his tweet we hear Rupert's privilege of ability talking, too, as well as his #monolingual ignorance.

#Languages #Multilingualism #BSL #ISL #NISL #English #ReformUK

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · Aug 25

first option, when it comes to integrating an immigrant in those circumstances. Rupert doesn't acknowledge that #BSL, or #ISL, or #NISL exist (and aren't all the same!)

He thinks that to live here, you have to speak to him on his terms, in his #language.

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · Aug 25

But perhaps d/Deaf people and the hearing and speech impaired have an experience of language that Rupert might be able to grasp, if everything above is beyond him.

It's not rocket science that, if someone has difficulty hearing or speaking, it's a spoken language might not be the best

#BSL #ISL

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · Aug 25

It's fair then, to at least try to understand the dichotomy others might face, arrived somewhere in search of a home, yet seemingly forced to engage through a language that might carry with it all kinds of baggage. Another thing, Rupert never has to countenance.

#LanguageTrauma

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · Aug 25

Not necessarily, in places where that language has been the medium of destruction, or discrimination, or walks hand-in-hand with the loss of #LocalIndustry, or #Housing, or #Culture, or another #language itself.

#LanguageShift

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sometimes it's shaped like a silver spoon - because they presume it gives them access, welcome and privilege wherever they go, they expect it's the only way for others to secure the same.

#AnglophonePrivilege #LanguagePrivilege #Immigration #Scotland #Ireland #Wales #Incomers

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Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social · Aug 25

people into regions not limited to #TheValleys, the #Highlands and #Hebrides, #Orkney, #Sheltand Irish #Gaeltacht Regions, #IsleOfMan and #ChannelIslands continue to have impact on that native linguistic equilibrium.

They, like Rupert, were born with their key.

#MinLangs #IndigenousLanguages

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