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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…”
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“In an unpublished autobiographical novel… he used the experience of swinging on the trapeze over the pond at the Arlington Baths as a metaphor for childhood adventures around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 #Scottish#literature#20thcentury
One more from my Scotland visit.
I really like the motive and composition, the framing, the foreground, the statue in the back.. Just nice. And I am just happy that I didn't walk passed this point. It would have been a shame if I hadn't noticed it 🥰
In contrast, Common Weal (policy & research head @thecommongreen) propose collectivist - state rather than individual - infrastructure policies & approaches such as district heating.👌
(And the whole renewable energy market is another libertarian “free market” clusterfuck…)
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“Gordon Daviot” was courted by Hollywood; “Josephine Tey” was ‘the crime writer’s crimewriter’; & “F. Craigie Howe” might have become a household name too if Elizabeth MacKintosh—the Inverness writer behind all three pseudonyms—had survived beyond her 57th year
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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
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
#RobertBurns (1759–1796) died #OTD, 21 July, aged just 37. “A Bard’s Epitaph” is the final poem in the Kilmarnock Edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786).
Exploring Killin, Lochan na Lairige, and Bracklinn Falls. From rain-kissed wood-like motifs to enchanting woodland walks, we embraced history and nature's wonders, savoring each moment of our Scottish adventure.
“The work submitted […] felt different to earlier submissions: braver, more edgy, less aggressively embodying of the safety we all sought during the pandemic. Instead, 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.”
Outgoing editor Marjorie Lotfi introduces NOTHING BUT A SET OF EYES FOR STARS: New Writing Scotland 41
I get that 'vote SNP - it's less bad than the alternative' is a difficult sell sometimes, but #SNP/ #Green is the best route to #Scottish#Independence, SNP fragments to it's constituent parts and we all get to vote for whom we want.... And be part of a proper grown up, democratic, left leaning, Nordic, European country. #KeepTheFaith#ScottishIndependence#ToriesOut#RedToriesOut
Applications for @LitScotland Literature Alliance Scotland’s fourth Writers’ Advisory Group are open! Are you an under-represented #writer living & working in #Scotland? LAS will pay £200/meeting for four meetings where you share your expert knowledge & experience on the issues affecting #writers today!
New issue of #SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW online via Project MUSE
➡️ Muriel Spark’s Reception History in #Hungary
➡️ Place, Poetry, & Politics: The 17th & #18thCentury Reception of Alexander Montgomerie’s The Cherrie & the Slae
➡️ Toby or not Toby: An Existential Reading of #AliSmith’s There But For The
➡️ Poems Ascribed to #RobertBurns (1801): #WalterScott, John Ballantyne, & ‘Contraband’ Burns
➡️ Representations of China in the Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid
“Ireland & Gaelic Scotland have been often perceived as closely related, sister nations – & the poem “Dùn nan Gall” (Donegal) by Derick Thomson […] explores this sibling image in a startling manner when the two languages, #Irish & #Scottish#Gaelic are envisaged as two sisters dying in each other’s arms.”
Many Worlds: David Lindsay and Alternative Realities
‘Colin Wilson overstated the case when he called A Voyage to Arcturus “the greatest novel of the twentieth century”; but its cult status is undeniable.’
Stuart Kelly looks at David Lindsay’s A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS (1920), and examines a tradition of alternate realities in Scottish fiction going back to Walter Scott & REDGAUNTLET
“The editors of [New Writing Scotland] volume 9 were Janice Galloway and Hamish Whyte, who remembers going through the submissions in Janice’s kitchen and coming across ‘this dog’s breakfast of a manuscript, badly typed on scruffy paper’.”