Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone – I hope you’re having restful, joyous, and love-filled days!
It’s an apt day to pull out and share some close-ups of a few of T. S. Eliot’s gorgeous Christmas Cards – I think the 1950 card is my favourite! 🎄
Great news from the wonderful folks behind Project Fergusson @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social, who've worked with
Taproot Press to produce this beauty! Very honoured to have contributed 'The Last Tavern', a Dantesque encounter between Burns and Fergusson, and to be in the company of such amazing poets!
We're thrilled to announce 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.
Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives!
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Two books arrived on the same day, waiting for me at home having forgotten I’d ordered either of them a long while back: the posthumous books of Heaney and John— sad in themselves, but full of hope and beauty in their pages
An exceptionally apt day to share one of my favourite songs: 27 by @passengermusic —
From 33:00 to 36:18 in this video is my favourite performance of it
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Here’s a provisional clanjamfry of scholars, novelists, bodies and poets involved in Scottish literature and present on Bluesky.
Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added.
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Thank you for this! 💙
If there’s another cure for this last week other than buying books, then I don’t know of it 📚
The morning was spent working on Dante, and I wish more epics were collaboratively translated by modern and contemporary poets like this. Imagine an Aeneid with Heaney’s Book VI, combined with some Carson, Paterson, Oswald, and so on adapting a book each?
There’s a few that come to mind with the same preoccupations of learning and unlearning, though not necessarily first-day-of-School: The Graduates by Kathleen Jaime, An Tiona/The Tin by Padraig MacAoidh/Peter Mackay, for example!
