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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureI wad ha’e gi’en him my lips tae kiss, Had I been his, had I been his…—Marion Angus, “Mary’s Song” published in THE TINKER’S ROAD & Other Verses (1924)Marion Angus (1865–1946) was born <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a>, 27 March“She has an authentic voice straight out of the ballad tradition, an eerie shimmer to her best poems” —Kathleen Jamie<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/womenwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenwriters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thcentury</a>

Dianora (Diane Bruce)<a href="https://www.scotslanguage.com/pages/view/id/10" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.scotslanguage.com/pages/view/id/10</a>Absolutely fascinating stuff!<a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a>

StoorydusterMy latest <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> word a week <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illustration</a> gam. Cleaning the teeth of Kong's bairns, Not on the list of Ellon's workers' decimation. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartoon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ape</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/IllustrationArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IllustrationArt</a>

StoorydusterMy latest <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> word weekly <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illustration</a>. Sometimes I lift a <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drawing</a> out of my pad of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/doodles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doodles</a> and find a word to fit. My subconscious supplies the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/image" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#image</a> for any <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/doodle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doodle</a> so don't ask me the meaning or the reason for any of them. They just come in quiet moments. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Scottish LassScots word I think should make a comeback....blunk.BLUNK, Blink, v. Also blonk. “To spoil a thing, to mismanage any business”<a href="https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/blunk_v" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/blunk_v</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Blunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blunk</a>

Steven Lawson PhotographyA Plea for Help.Do we have any <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Gaelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaelic</a> speakers on Mastodon? I need some help with the title of photography project I am working on and so far a search online has not been very helpful. If you are able to help then please contact me directly. Thanks in advance 🙏🏻

Charles HarperHere’s the link to the whole poem in my last post:<a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/heres-weather/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/heres-weather/</a>I realise most of the words will be unknown to most of you. Scots is a separate language from English and the sound of them highlights our wide range of weather and weather related words. I hope you can enjoy the poem anyway…<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weather</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureA video of William Neill from “Poets of the South-West”, created for Dumfries & Galloway Education Department in the 1980s & available online via Hugh McMillan. Neill reads some of his poetry & discusses his use of Gaelic & Scots 3/3<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opff3zwIAek" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opff3zwIAek</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaelic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaidhlig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaidhlig</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureYirdins are no for me, I was never ane tae wear a tile hat and a claw-hemmer coat; I was never ane tae staund aboot a cauld and clartie grave wi een like a wannert stot…—William Neill, “A Lament for Alba Moroon” 2/3<a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureEscape to the tailored suit, the pan-loaf speech, the benefits of higher education…—“Kailyard and After”, by William Neill (1922–2010) – born <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a>, 22 Feb. He was a prolific poet in all three of Scotland’s languages & an active campaigner for <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaelic</a> in education. A 🎂 🧵 1/3<a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a>

StoorydusterMy one a week <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> word <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illustration</a> - having your very own personal <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/extinctionrebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extinctionrebellion</a> protester - joy. I hate how they and their superglue tactic for the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environment</a> got up to 6yrs jail time and yet none of the farmers and their tractors against tax change even got arrested for the same road blocking stunt. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartoon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#planet</a>

Fedi.Garden 🌱Mastodon.scot is a Mastodon server mainly intended for people in Scotland or those who identify as Scottish::Fediverse: <a href="https://mastodon.scot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.scot</a>You can find out more at <a href="https://mastodon.scot/about" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.scot/about</a> or contact the admin <a href="https://mastodon.scot/@trumpet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@trumpet</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/FeaturedServer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FeaturedServer</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Scot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scot</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/G%C3%A0idhlig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gàidhlig</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Gaelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaelic</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/FreeFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeFediverse</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureThe International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon ed. Scott Lyall The best contemporary guide to Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s/James Leslie Mitchell’s literature, politics, life, & work – available in print or online via Project MUSE9/9<a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic1/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic1/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#modernism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HistoricalFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LewisGrassicGibbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LewisGrassicGibbon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SunsetSong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SunsetSong</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureProf Scott Lyall discusses SUNSET SONG – a talk given at our Schools Conference in 20158/9<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NMdO47oy4&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WYcu-9sTwjGIqkJDYOImwgK" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NMdO47oy4&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WYcu-9sTwjGIqkJDYOImwgK</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#modernism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LewisGrassicGibbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LewisGrassicGibbon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SunsetSong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SunsetSong</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureSUNSET SONGCurrently on the iPlayer: the digitally restored 1971 BBC adaptation of the first part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s SCOTS QUAIR trilogy about a young girl’s intellectual & sexual development in rural north-east Scotland just before WW17/9<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001bm9l/sunset-song" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001bm9l/sunset-song</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#modernism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LewisGrassicGibbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LewisGrassicGibbon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SunsetSong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SunsetSong</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/adaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#adaptation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TV</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureWhy Everybody Needs Smeddum“The heroine, Meg Menzies, is Gibbon’s answer to Austen’s Mrs Bennet. In fact, she works as a kind of anti-Mrs Bennet.”—Graeme Trousdale on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic short story “Smeddum”6/9<a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2007/05/why-everybody-needs-smeddum/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2007/05/why-everybody-needs-smeddum/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#modernism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LewisGrassicGibbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LewisGrassicGibbon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SunsetSong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SunsetSong</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/shortstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shortstory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/shortfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shortfiction</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature“Not only did he invent a sentence structure that works like breath through the body of the reader, and a kind of Scottish English that’s simultaneously rich and spare, but [A SCOTS QUAIR is] a formally stunning and cunning work of art”—Ali Smith in 2019, on James Leslie Mitchell / Lewis Grassic Gibbon3/9<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/29/ali-smith-books-that-made-me" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/29/ali-smith-books-that-made-me</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#modernism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LewisGrassicGibbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LewisGrassicGibbon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SunsetSong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SunsetSong</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureLewis Grassic Gibbon: Uncovering the morning star“The ambiguity of authority & reliability in narration, in Scots or English, is central to Hogg, Galt, Stevenson, many others, but in Gibbon’s trilogy it is utterly deconstructed”—Alan Riach: the influence of Gibbon on contemporary Scottish literature 2/9<a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/15550316.lewis-grassic-gibbon-uncovering-the-morning-star/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenational.scot/news/15550316.lewis-grassic-gibbon-uncovering-the-morning-star/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#modernism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LewisGrassicGibbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LewisGrassicGibbon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SunsetSong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SunsetSong</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureLoch A’an, Loch A’an, hoo deep ye lie! Tell nane yer depth and nane shall I. Bricht though yer deepmaist pit may be, Ye’ll haunt me till the day I dee. Bricht, an’ bricht, an’ bricht as air, Ye’ll haunt me noo for evermair.—Nan Shepherd, “Loch Avon” 📷 : Nick Bramhall4/8<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/black_friction/5845274155" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/black_friction/5845274155</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NanShepherd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NanShepherd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#modernism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thCentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NatureWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatureWriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WomenWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenWriters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotsLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotsLanguage</a>

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