scott lyall
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Hyperlocal aesthete, spiritual atheist, professional dilettante
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Sad to hear that Perth & Kinross Council has decided not to retain the William Soutar House. Family don't want it and so it is being sold. This is where the bed-bound Soutar wrote much of his poetry and his diaries. A blow to Scotland's cultural heritage.
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Soutar House – Perth Civic Trust
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November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Sad to hear that Perth & Kinross Council has decided not to retain the William Soutar House. Family don't want it and so it is being sold. This is where the bed-bound Soutar wrote much of his poetry and his diaries. A blow to Scotland's cultural heritage.
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Sad to hear that Perth & Kinross Council has decided not to retain the William Soutar House. Family don't want it and so it is being sold. This is where the bed-bound Soutar wrote much of his poetry and his diaries. A blow to Scotland's cultural heritage.
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Soutar House – Perth Civic Trust
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November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Sad to hear that Perth & Kinross Council has decided not to retain the William Soutar House. Family don't want it and so it is being sold. This is where the bed-bound Soutar wrote much of his poetry and his diaries. A blow to Scotland's cultural heritage.
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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
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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
Heaney on the Underground
Don Paterson on Seamus Heaney's choice of words
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November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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My one true god descends
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
My one true god descends
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Reigniting Spark: Jewish Values in the Modernism of Muriel Spark
26 Nov, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social & online – free
Prof Holli Levitsky investigates how Spark navigates her Jewish identity amidst the broader themes of modernity, nationalism, & personal identity
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26 Nov, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social & online – free
Prof Holli Levitsky investigates how Spark navigates her Jewish identity amidst the broader themes of modernity, nationalism, & personal identity
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Professor Holli Levitsky: "Reigniting Spark: Jewish Values in the Modernism of Muriel Spark" | IASH
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November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Reigniting Spark: Jewish Values in the Modernism of Muriel Spark
26 Nov, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social & online – free
Prof Holli Levitsky investigates how Spark navigates her Jewish identity amidst the broader themes of modernity, nationalism, & personal identity
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/profes...
26 Nov, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social & online – free
Prof Holli Levitsky investigates how Spark navigates her Jewish identity amidst the broader themes of modernity, nationalism, & personal identity
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/profes...
Debut novel wins Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2025 | The Herald share.google/fith9Z90VkVf...
Debut novel wins Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2025
Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands has been announced as the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2025.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Debut novel wins Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2025 | The Herald share.google/fith9Z90VkVf...
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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.
Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027)
The Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China, on 17-20 June 2027. Being China’s first city designated as a “UNESCO City of Literature…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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.
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🔴 Muriel Spark to be honoured in first ever memorial dedicated to a woman in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens
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Muriel Spark to be honoured in first ever memorial dedicated to a woman in gardens
The memorial will be the first dedicated to a woman in Princes Street Gardens
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November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🔴 Muriel Spark to be honoured in first ever memorial dedicated to a woman in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens
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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
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October 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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
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Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of the great lyric and love poets of the twentieth century in any language, not merely Scots. His reputation still, and wrongly, sits in the shadow of Hugh MacDiarmid. Smith's Under the Eildon Tree: A Poem in XXIV Elegies, is one of the great poetic sequences in Scots.
In Gránada, in Gránada,
They dumbed the mou o a makar,
In Gránada, in Gránada,
They strak doun Garcia Lorca…
—“In Gránada, in Gránada”, by Syndey Goodsir Smith (1915–1975) – a major figure in the #C20th Scottish renaissance, born #OTD, 26 Oct
#poem #poetry
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They dumbed the mou o a makar,
In Gránada, in Gránada,
They strak doun Garcia Lorca…
—“In Gránada, in Gránada”, by Syndey Goodsir Smith (1915–1975) – a major figure in the #C20th Scottish renaissance, born #OTD, 26 Oct
#poem #poetry
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October 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of the great lyric and love poets of the twentieth century in any language, not merely Scots. His reputation still, and wrongly, sits in the shadow of Hugh MacDiarmid. Smith's Under the Eildon Tree: A Poem in XXIV Elegies, is one of the great poetic sequences in Scots.
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#31DaysofHalloween #Halloween #Halloween2025. It was reading this book at 19—with all its dizzying imagery of ancient sacrifice & ordeals by fire & water—that drew me into anthropology. McNeill lovingly recycles all sorts of pseudo-ethnographic mumpsimus—BUT she does conjure seasonal eldritch magic
October 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
#31DaysofHalloween #Halloween #Halloween2025. It was reading this book at 19—with all its dizzying imagery of ancient sacrifice & ordeals by fire & water—that drew me into anthropology. McNeill lovingly recycles all sorts of pseudo-ethnographic mumpsimus—BUT she does conjure seasonal eldritch magic
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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.
2026 ASL Annual Conference - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing
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October 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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.
Autumn Edinburgh sky
October 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Autumn Edinburgh sky
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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
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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
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October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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...
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
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A new revised and annotated edition of Sydney Goodsir Smith's Collected Poems was published this year by Calder. Looking forward to working my way through it.
October 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A new revised and annotated edition of Sydney Goodsir Smith's Collected Poems was published this year by Calder. Looking forward to working my way through it.
A new revised and annotated edition of Sydney Goodsir Smith's Collected Poems was published this year by Calder. Looking forward to working my way through it.
October 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A new revised and annotated edition of Sydney Goodsir Smith's Collected Poems was published this year by Calder. Looking forward to working my way through it.
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To Fife and beyond
October 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
To Fife and beyond