Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Association for Scottish Literature
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“[Spark] knew what the world thought of women like her, who prioritize their artistic and intellectual development over marriage, men and motherhood”
— @drjamesbailey.bsky.social on Muriel Spark’s eternal pursuit of the literary life – via @literaryhub.bsky.social
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UNVEILING NEW ACCOUNT If you were following my Coffin Boffin account on Twitter @drsamgeorge1 please follow this bsky account. I can't make the transition easily as I have 35K followers on there and only 700+ on here. I am posting on the same themes of Gothic Enchantment and Dark Folklore!!
Association for Scottish Literature
It's a Bothwell double bill in Stirling on September 19, with me representing the genteel southern end of the village, and @radiomukhers.bsky.social the less refined north.
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New publications by our members: Alan Sharp’s 'A Green Tree in Gedde' (1965) in a scholarly edition prepared by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social @insuhi.bsky.social and Colin Mcilroy @natlibscot.bsky.social and published by @asls.org.uk. asls.org.uk/publications...
Coffee time in a rainy Glasgow. (Scottish summer is back!) A quick browse of my bookshelves reveals I have all three books that Leng Gold medal winners have received over the years ...
#LengMedals #Dundee
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Read Home Sick before you even think about packing your bags.” https://gnofhorror.com/home-sick-by-rhiannon-grist-review/
High in the Tuscan hills, a light grilling is underway. “Sexually, probably, I could be faithful,” seventy-two-year-old Spark is in the middle of explaining, “though that’s not th…
Just a quick post today – I realised that I do actually possess all three of the Scottish song books that have been awarded to Leng Gold medallists over the years. They make a pleasing displa…
Someone is waving a white handkerchief
from the train as it pulls out with a white
plume from the station and rumbles its way
to somewhere that does not matter…
—George Bruce (1909–2002), “Departure and Departure and…”
from The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (EUP, 2005)
#poem
Coffin Boffin
Robert Burns & Black Lives
24 June, Alloway – free
Clark McGinn, author & honorary research fellow @glasgowburns.bsky.social, examines Burns’s connections to the transatlantic slave trade, highlighting the paradoxes & moral conflicts of the poet’s time
#C18
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Clark McGinn’s book, BURNS & BLACK LIVES (@luathpress.bsky.social 2025), does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, & presents a nuanced portrait that challenges readers to reconcile Burns’s literary genius with the ethical ambiguities of his time
#C18
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Rhiannon Grist’s Home Sick is slow-burn folk horror at its finest. Rreview of the debut that makes a thin shared wall feel like the most terrifying thing.
Have we got a World Cup blog post for you! It's got Dundee, Football, Mexico, Canada & the USA. Plus the first club in Mexico to win the league - which just so happens was started by a Dundonian. Did Dundee give Mexico football? 🤔 dundeecityarchives.w...
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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
Free Highlight Talk in the Robertson Room at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway.
A discovery in a school admissions register takes us into the tale of a family in Mexico and how Dundonians helped to introduce football to the country
