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ASL is an educational charity, promoting the reading, writing, teaching and study of Scotland's literature and languages, past and present.

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scotlit, to ShareYourMusic
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“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”

Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married , 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof Penny Fielding explores the dangerous between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life

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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/

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@bookstodon You can download a free ebook of THE DYNAMITER by Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson via @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/647

scotlit, to martialartsmemes
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CFP: ‘We Are Amused’: Victorian Humour & the Digital
7–8 Nov, Université Caen Normandie

Exploring intersections between & the digital, & investigating the migration of jokes, squibs, spoofs & parodies, verbal & visual, from the pages of comic periodicals to 21st-century screens

Submission deadline: 30 June

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https://eribia.unicaen.fr/evenement/cfp-we-are-amused-victorian-humour-and-the-digital/

scotlit, to literature
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—“Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.”
—“That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.”

May 16 is Biographers Day – marking the 1st meeting of James Boswell & Samuel Johnson in 1763


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https://lithub.com/of-course-samuel-johnson-met-james-boswell-in-a-bookstore/

scotlit, to literature
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CFP: Voices from the Edge in Scottish Literature, Theatre, & Film

21–22 Nov, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, France

Exploring constructs, developments & transgressions within , , &

Guest speaker: Scottish actor & playwright Matthew Zajac, who will be also performing his critically acclaimed play THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS – the first performance of this play in France

Deadline for submissions: 1 Aug

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http://www.llseti.univ-smb.fr/web/llseti/320-actualites-du-laboratoire.php?item=2696

scotlit, to literature
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Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin’ through the strife,
Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty
Lichts the grey o’ life.

—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born , 15 May

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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/

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Broad in the beam? More broad in sympathy.
Stiff in the joints? More flexible in mind.
Deaf on the right? New voices from the Left
In politics and art more clearly sound…

—Helen Cruickshank, “On Being Eighty”

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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/being-eighty/

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“Bide the storm ye canna hinder”

Jenni Calder on Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975): poet, author, founder member of the Saltrie Society, Hon Sec of Scottish PEN, & linchpin of the 20th-century Scottish renaissance

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/helen-cruickshank-bide-the-storm-ye-canna-hinder/

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Helen Cruickshank Lecture

Dr Candice Goucher’s lecture, given in 2021 for the Scottish PEN Writers for Peace Committee, celebrates the life, poetry & activism of Helen Cruickshank, & explores how the themes of her work resonate for writers today

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byrjIZX3B6M

scotlit, to literature
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I never felt so much
Since I have felt at all
The tingling smell and touch
Of dogrose and sweet briar,
Nettles against the wall,
All sours and sweets that grow
Together or apart
In hedge or marsh or ditch…

—“A Birthday”, by Edwin Muir (1887–1959)—born , 15 May 1887

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scotlit,
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On the second day
The radios failed; we turned the knobs; no answer.
On the third day a warship passed us, heading north,
Dead bodies piled on the deck…

—Edwin Muir, “The Horses”

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We leave them where they are and let them rust: “They’ll molder away and be like other loam.” We make our oxen drag our rusty plows, Long laid aside. We have gone back Far past our fathers’ land. And then, that evening Late in the summer the strange horses came. We heard a distant tapping on the road, A deepening drumming; it stopped, went on again And at the corner changed to hollow thunder. We saw the heads Like a wild wave charging and were afraid. We had sold our horses in our fathers’ time To buy new tractors. Now they were strange to us As fabulous steeds set on an ancient shield Or illustrations in a book of knights. We did not dare go near them. Yet they waited, Stubborn and shy, as if they had been sent By an old command to find our whereabouts And that long-lost archaic companionship. In the first moment we had never a thought That they were creatures to be owned and used. Among them were some half a dozen colts Dropped in some wilderness of the broken world, Yet new as if they had come from their own Eden. Since then they have pulled our plows and borne our loads, But that free servitude still can pierce our hearts. Our life is changed; their coming our beginning.

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“Edwin Muir (1887–1959) is a mysteriously neglected, gorgeous, and emotionally penetrating poet. Of all the many pieces of writing spurred by the Cold War and the threat of nuclear apocalypse, and of the other kinds of 20th century apocalyptic writing, his poem ‘The Horses’ may be the most effective, perhaps because it is the most calm and gentle.”
—Robert Pinsky


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https://slate.com/culture/1999/01/the-horses.html

scotlit,
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Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long
Through time and never found eternity,
Fettered by wasting wood and hollowing hill,
You should have fled our ever-dying song…

—Edwin Muir, “To the Old Gods”

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scotlit,
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One foot in Eden still, I stand
And look across the other land.
The world’s great day is growing late,
Yet strange these fields that we have planted
So long with crops of love and hate…

—Edwin Muir, “One Foot in Eden”

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Edwin Muir and a Story of Europe

“Muir’s contact with Europe is significant, however, not only in a personal and literary sense, but also in a wider political context which resonates with our own early twenty-first century times. His travels in the 1920s immediately after the end of World War One, and again at the end of World War Two, tell a story of Europe itself at critical points in its history.”


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https://blog.oup.com/2017/05/edwin-muir-story-europe/

scotlit, to literature
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The Scottish Novel in 1824
1 July, University of Edinburgh – free

This one-day in-person symposium marks the bicentenary of 1824, an ‘annus mirabilis’ in the history of Scottish fiction that saw the publication of two experimental masterpieces: James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner, & Walter Scott’s Redgauntlet.

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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scottish-novel-in-1824-tickets-873941782397

scotlit, to Bi
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Free eBook (Open Access)

‘Transgressing into poetry’: Nationality, Gender & Sexuality in SONNETS FROM SCOTLAND by Edwin Morgan & THE PRICE OF STONE by Richard Murphy

by Prof Tara Stubbs

Both poet Edwin Morgan & (Anglo-) poet Richard Murphy transgressed poetic norms: contradicting ‘nationalist’ poets of their respective traditions, making playful use of language, & treating & in daring ways

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https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/transgressing-poetry

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And aye the reik bleeds frae the warld’s rim
as it has duin frae Babylon and Troy,
London, Bonn, Edinbro, time eftir time…

—Robert Garioch Sutherland (1909–1987), “During a Music Festival”
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/

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Thàinig uair-san leis na sligean,
leis na spealgan-iarainn beàrnach,
anns an toit is anns an lasair,
ann an crith is maoim na h-àraich…

—Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) (1911–1996), “Curaidhean” (“Heroes”)
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/curaidhean/

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scotlit, to movies
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Big Banana Feet (1976)
in cinemas across the UK from 10 May

Capturing ‘The Big Yin’ on and off stage during his 1975 tour of Ireland, Big Banana Feet is a captivating record of Billy Connolly on the cusp of international stardom.

Director Murray Grigor and cinematographer David Peat present Connolly at his beguiling best, using humour & charm to successfully navigate the political tensions of 1970s Dublin and Belfast.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-film-releases/big-banana-feet

scotlit, to Scotland
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Technical Texts & Terminology in Scottish Gaelic
Reading Scotland with Lena Krochmann
14 May, free online

With increased efforts to revitalise in , it has also been promoted in areas where specialised registers & terminologies are required. This talk outlines how technical or specialised texts are produced & their relevance for the language.

https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/

scotlit, to Scotland
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Call for papers – international conference of the Société Française d’Études Victoriennes et Edouardiennes

A Scottish Air: Inspirations & models from Scotland

30–31 Jan 2025, Université Grenoble Alpes

Looking at as a source of inspiration & example in the & eras, but also as a counter-model – within & beyond the borders of the UK

https://sfeve.hypotheses.org/colloque-sfeve

scotlit, to literature
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Understanding King James VI & I

A multi-day conference is planned for Glasgow in summer 2025 (dates TBD) to mark the quatercentenary of the death of James VI & I. Please register your interest via the online form (NB this is NOT a CFP)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16g_Wo_Y_96GhQDkzW34zkxY4O07Os-qTMIFyeJa-vZY/

scotlit, to literature
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A 🎂 🧵for John Galt (1779–1839), born , 2 May. His novels & short stories are sharp political satires & fascinating chronicles of Scottish life.

Read our INTERNATIONAL COMPANION, ed Gerard Carruthers & Colin Kidd – also available online via Project MUSE


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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic5/

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There’s a selection of Galt’s works available as free ebooks on @gutenberg_org


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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/588?sort_order=title

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Addendum: we should address the 🐘 in the room… in case of confusion, there is of course a FICTIONAL “John Galt”, created by a very famous American author, whose towering influence on literature still resonates today…

…of course I speak of the late, great Robert E. Howard, whose character “John Galt” appears in the short story “Black Talons”, published in STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES, Dec 1933 (it’s not one of his best, though—stick to the Barbarian)


https://www.blackgate.com/2022/06/19/a-black-gat-in-the-hand-weird-menace-from-robert-e-howard/

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