"Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Scott Lyall
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Rare reference to Hugh MacDiarmid in a contemporary novel - Natalie Jayne Clark's The Malt Whisky Murders.
Rare reference to Hugh MacDiarmid in a contemporary novel - Natalie Jayne Clark's The Malt Whisky Murders.
In May, IASSL held its election for offices. Bob Irvine is the new convener, supported by a committee of re-elected and newly elected members, based at universities in Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, USA, and China, representing IASSL's global reach. tinyurl.com/yf5j35c6
2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For #GiesAScotsPoemDay @brambrella.bsky.social invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...
My eternal soul,
Redeem your promise,
In spite of the night alone
And the day on fire.
Rimbaud
10.23pm, early June, Edinburgh. It's such a beautiful, ridiculous time of year in Scotland. I never want to sleep.
Disability history has been widely suppressed to the extent it rarely even gets mentioned when talking about the past. Huge congrats to Prof. David Turner for his groundbreaking deep dive, A History of Resistance.
Out this week: www.waterstones.com/book/disabil...
