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“The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.”
—Pushkin

A birthday 🧵for Walter Scott. Born , 15 August, 1771, he was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature, of any era.

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1/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/issue-16/

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Scott, Opera, & the Italian Journey

“What was it about Scott’s poems and novels that attracted composers all over Europe—and inspired more than seventy operas?”


2/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/05/scott-opera-and-the-italian-journey/

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GREAT SCOTT

Currently on BBC Sounds: Allan Little discusses Walter Scott’s life & legacy with Kirsty Archer-Thompson, Stuart Kelly, Sir Tom Devine, Andrew O'Hagan, Rosemary Hill, Sara Sheridan, Rory Stewart & Joyce McMillan


3/8
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000y5vp

scotlit, (edited )
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“No Romanticist or Victorianist can excuse an ignorance of Scott. Back then, everybody read him. He was the first global superstar of the novel.”

—Prof Adam Roberts on , , irony, , & JRR


4/8
https://amechanicalart.blogspot.com/2016/06/some-thoughts-on-scott.html

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THE GREAT UNCREDITED

“No other single literary figure—not Shakespeare or Dickens—has been more significant in the evolution of film narrative”
—Prof Tim Dolin on &


5/8
http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-34-first-release/the-great-uncredited-sir-walter-scott-and-cinema/

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Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, & Walter Scott

11 essays examining in the Trossachs before & after Scott’s “The Lady of the Lake” (1810), surveying the culture of the area, & tracing Scott’s impact on those who thronged in his wake.


6/8
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/literary_tourism/

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AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME: Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott

FREE ebook, introduced by Dr Daniel Cook

🪞 “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror”: reckless romance & supernatural theatrics
🗡️ “The Two Drovers”: a slow-burn exposé of national conflict
🔥 “Wandering Willie’s Tale”: a trip to Hell, a demonic monkey, & an unreliable narrator

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7/8
https://asls.medium.com/as-it-was-told-to-me-7fe14474fb28

scotlit, to poetry
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NOTHING BUT A SET OF EYES FOR STARS
New Writing Scotland 41 – 2023
Eds. Kirstin Innes, Marjorie Lotfi, & Niall O’Gallagher

The best new & in English, , & – available now from all good bookshops! (& the evil one)


1/3
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws41/

CONTENTS Gail Anderson: A Season for Wheat Nasim Rebecca Asl: Across from me, my mam / Nini Khomkhomu Shelagh Campbell: An Teaghlach Rachel Carmichael: Every revolution has its casualties Leonie Charlton: Opal / Mrs Maclean F. E. Clark: O’Keeffe, Like a Bell Alison Cohen: Towards a definition of daughter / On the lack of a horse Lucy Cunningham: Swedish Fish Claire Deans: An Unkindness of Ravens B. A. Didcock: The Birthday Parties Samantha Dooey-Miles: Nice Things John Duffy: Average contents, 48 Thomas Elson: What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk Ophira Gottlieb: The Hundun Hamish Gray: Possil Marsh Julie Laing: A Mischief Nicole Le Marie: Last Day at East Wemyss Pippa Little: Brown Nights Marcas Mac an Tuairneir: Banrigh Bhailtean / Clàr Aodainn / ᓴᓐᓇ / Aon Ghaol Rob McClure: The Green / The Night Gillean McDougall: Pulse Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin: A’ Ghàidhlig / Gaelic Mora Maclean: The Hypo-Witch Kevin MacNeil: Fall in Love and Buy a Horse Annie Muir: Beldina
CONTENTS (continued) Chris Neilan: Me as Me Tom Newlands: Bel Cáit O’Neill McCullagh: From Thurso with Love Alistair Paul: Fògarraich Andy Raffan: Lights in the Darkness Martin Raymond: Messengers at Arms Julie Rea: Cannibals Nicola Rose: Even Birds Lie Neil Gordon Shaw: The Better Story Amy Stewart: The Orange Lynn Valentine: A Car Draws Up Ryan Van Winkle: The Ruined Houses of this Village Remind Me / Flight Path Away Katie Webster: Skin Taste Touching Jay Whittaker: Mistaken / An abandoned ice cream van considers its position at midwinter

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“so much of the writing submitted (and selected) peeks through the cracks of doors, pushes boundaries, asks the reader to step out of the known and comfortable… these are haunted pages. There are many, many ghosts.”
—from the editors’ intro to New Writing Scotland 41


2/3
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws41/nws-41-introduction/

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Send your work to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 42!

We want poetry & prose in English, , & from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!


3/3

Submit free online via Submittable 👇
https://nws.submittable.com/submit

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Bring back the wolf!
He’s not long gone, you know.
He went out when sheep came in.
Sheep cleared men and women.
Now let wolves clear sheep…

—Edwin Morgan, “Wolf”
Published in Centenary Selected Poems, Carcanet 2020

#Scottish #literature #poetry #rewilding #wolf #wolves

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/11/britain-deer-population-ecological-disaster-wolves-humans-predators

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“A shepherd in Kintail was settling in for the night, when about 20 cats came & sat round the fire, holding up their paws to warm themselves…”
—from John Gregorson Campbell’s Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland (1902) – via @gutenberg_org


https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58894

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I have fled through land and sea, blank land and sea,
because my house is besieged by murderers
And I was wrecked in the ocean, crushed and swept,
Spilling salt angry tears on the salt waves…

—Edwin Muir, “The refugees born for a land unknown”

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“[I]f you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat.”

—Nancy Hawkins, the majestic narrator of Muriel Spark’s A FAR CRY FROM KENSINGTON, on why a writer should own a cat

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@bookstodon Important footnote:

“I had advised him only that a cat helps concentration, not that the cat writes the book for you.”

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scotlit, to Wargaming
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“the war game was constantly improved and elaborated, until from a few hours ‘war’ took weeks to play, and the critical operations in the attic monopolized half our thoughts.”

—from “Stevenson at Play”, by Lloyd Osbourne. Scribner’s Magazine, December 1898

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Read the article online here:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beattie/timeline/rlstext.html

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@Thebratdragon I stumbled across a reference to it, looking for Stevenson’s poem “The Dumb Soldier” – online here via @gutenberg_org :

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25609/25609-h/25609-h.htm

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We are come in a stone boat,
a miracle ship that steers itself
round skerries where guillemots
and shags stand still as graves…

—Kathleen Jamie, “One of Us”
Selected Poems, Picador Books 2018

with all our tat: the golden horn of righteousness, the justice harp; what folks expect. We took swans’ shape to cross the Minch, one last fling with silly magic – at our first mainland steps a dormobile slewed into a passing place; cameras flashed. So we stayed high, surprised a forester making aeolian flutes from plastic tubes, he shared his pay. ‘Avoid the A9. For God’s sake, get some proper clothes.” We ditched the cloaks, bought yellow Pringle sweaters in Spean Bridge, and house by safe house arrived in Edinburgh. So far so tedious: we all hold minor government jobs, lay plans, and bide our time.

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…a cop in a panda
wound down his window and asked us
what we had in our bags
to which we shouted POETRY!
in unison,
lifted
thick majestic photocopies
and POEMS OF THIRTY YEARS
by Edwin Morgan into the air
as he looked on in horror
and told us to be on our way
and not to do it again…

—Graham Fulton, “The Poetry Reaper”
Published in @gutter 11, 2014

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/poetry-reaper/

and Bobby disappeared over the hill as I turned right into Atholl Crescent to go to a house where I no longer live to talk to people who are no longer there, and Jim Ferguson is wearing a burning red tie and brandishing a virtual cigarette, and We Shall Overcome was sung by Joan Baez in 1963, it’s really hard to believe, it feels as if yesterday has still to happen, tomorrow is already gone

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“I think Trocchi is important, more so now than ever. We’re living in a time when the very ‘uncreative work’ against which he permanently struck is dominating culture…”

—A Moveable Void: Tom McCarthy on Trocchi’s CAIN’S BOOK, in 3AM Magazine
2/5

https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-moveable-void-tom-mccarthy-on-alex-trocchis-cains-book/

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“For Alexander Trocchi as much as for George Mackay Brown, the world is always in need”

—Prof Alan Riach looks at 2 startlingly different Scottish writers: Alexander Trocchi & George Mackay Brown
3/5

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17490399.george-mackay-brown-alexander-trocchi-two-startlingly-different-scots-novelists/

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“In an unpublished autobiographical novel… he used the experience of swinging on the trapeze over the pond at the Arlington Baths as a metaphor for childhood adventures around the tenements & streets of the West End”
4/5

https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/on-the-trapeze-with-alexander-trocchi/

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The Alexander Trocchi papers—manuscripts, journals, notebooks, magazines & ephemera, including material relating to the International Situationist movement—are held at Washington University in St Louis
5/5

https://aspace.wustl.edu/repositories/6/resources/690#:~:text=The%20Alexander%20Trocchi%20Papers%20include,and%20his%20journals%20and%20notebooks

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“Questions of identity permeate her novels. […] Masks and the identities they hide run through her work like the unifying thread in a tapestry.”

Val McDermid on how Josephine Tey opened up the crime novel for contemporary writers

4/5
https://crimereads.com/val-mcdermid-dreams-of-a-lost-josephine-tey-mystery/

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Celebrating Josephine Tey

Val McDermid discusses Josephine Tey’s MISS PYM DISPOSES with Andy Miller and John Mitchinson in a collaboration between the Backlisted Podcast & Aberdeen’s 2021 Granite Noir festival

5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omuqekhpM8A

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