This intriguing plaque can be found on the side of the 1895 former British Linen Bank on High Street in Glasgow. It reads: On this site stood the house in which the poet Campbell lived. An additional plate seems to have been added later with the text: born 1777, died 1844.

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#glasgow #plaques #memorials #highstreet #thepoetcampbell #ucl #poetscorner #literature #scottishliterature #scottishpoets #georgesquare

#WhatDougsReading : today Doug is enjoying #Edinburgh based crime with Doug Johnstone's (Dougs support other Dougs!) new Skelf novel from @OrendaBooks , The Opposite of Lonely, and hoping Doug didn't forget about tides & get stuck on Crammond Island...

#books #DougJohnstone #ScottishFiction #ScottishLiterature #CrimeFiction #ScottishCrimeFiction #TheOppositeOfLonely #CramondIsland #Edimbourg #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

Looking forward to delivering one of these BACK TO BASICS workshops, with Federation of Writers (Scotland).

Join me for practical tips on how to edit a poem, bringing some of the know-how I've shared as a mentor for Scottish Book Trust and the Gaelic Books Council.

More too from Laura T. Fyfe and Charlie Roy!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/federationofwritersscotland?fbclid=IwAR2jDXV4Kk9XAHk6wWlpSYSXfyTmNwdUTvHcsUnrnRAb-4KG9Nen1q5fn6g

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #CreativeWriting #Poetry #ScottishLiterature #GaelicLiterature

CRUINNEACHADH IN STIRLING

Join us on 4th July at Stirling Central Library, to celebrate Cruibneachadh!

Joining me will be Stirling Makar, Laura T. Fyfe as well as well-known writers Charlie Gracie and Charlie Roy.

Each poet will read a selection of their own work as well as the poem selected and translated for the anthology.

~ Marcas

#stirling #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Poetry #ScotLit #ScottishLiterature

The Master of Ballantrae, 1889, is a cracking good yarn, more disturbing than Jekyll & Hyde. Fraternal hatred, and a steward (principal narrator) caught between -- a kind of threesome of hatred, thwarted loyalty and love. Makes sense that Henry James liked it. There is an Indian character, Secundra Dass, but more as a function of the plot, which ends in pre-independence America, among 'the dregs of colonial rascality'. #Bookstodon #RLStevenson #ScottishLiterature

Great visit & chat with writer & broadcaster James Crawford.

We have signed copies of his new Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland, just out from excellent Scottish Indy publisher Birlinn Books.

#Edinburgh #books #Scotland #ChooseBookshops #History #WildHistory #HistoryBooks #author #livres #bookshops #Librairie #Scottish #ScottishLiterature #ScottishHistory #bookstodon

'Captain tell me one thing: why aren't all the poor foot-pads?' Seeking critical accounts of #imperialism and #whiteness as produced in late C19 literature, I had somehow missed Stevenson. The Beach at Falesá, 1892 and The Ebb-Tide, 1893 are extraordinary and surprising tales, which went against what his public expected and were rarely read much until Penguin republished them in 1979, edited by Jenni Calder. readers of #Conrad or #OliveSchreiner -- read these! #RLStevenson #ScottishLiterature

#Balquhidder Kirkyard, #Perthshire, #Scotland. To the left of the ruined old #church, the supposed grave of legendary outlaw Rob Roy (or maybe it isn't!). He was immortalised by Sir Walter Scott- this is an area Scott (who has a claim to be the inventor of the historical #novel) made famous.
#History #literature #ScottishLiterature #ScottishHistory #WalterScott

I started to hear about #NanShepherd from Samantha Walton, whose book on her I will now read. Stunned by the brilliance of the novels and The Living Mountain, the phenomenological account (she does not use that word) of the Cairngorms. The ethical interests of the novels, and the remarkable way each character inhabits an idiom of being as well as speech, are original. The Weatherhouse shouldn't just be seen in #ScottishLiterature contexts but read alongside Passage to India -- it's that good.

I've just finished reading #hisbloodyproject by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

This is written in a really unique style, using fictional historical documents to tell the story of a graphic triple murder in a remote Scottish village in the mid 19th Century. The writing is so emersive and convincing, it's hard to believe it's not a true story.

#bookstodon @bookstodon #amreading #historicalfiction #scottishliterature #scottishfiction

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/9aa32637-43ad-4b34-8b1d-5bf0e68bad86

This week's wee history video is from Castle Douglas and is the story of Joseph Train, exciseman, antiquarian, poet and historian who was admired by the likes of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens.
#history #Galloway #Scotland #ScottishLiterature #video
https://youtu.be/EjYdsIbFAzg

This week's upcoming wee #history #video is about Joseph Train, a man who you haven't heard of, but he was admired by the likes of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens during his lifetime.
Coming tomorrow night at 7pm.
#Scotland #Galloway #ScottishLiterature

This week's upcoming wee #history #video is about Joseph Train, a man who you haven't heard of, but he was admired by the likes of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens during his lifetime.
Coming tomorrow night at 7pm.
#Scotland #Galloway #ScottishLiterature

Really fascinating references to James #Watt and Maria #Edgeworth in #Scott’s preface to The Monastery #ScottishLiterature #Romanticism #c19Studies

A wonderful visit to McNaughtan’s Books in Edinburgh this morning. I don’t think I’ve seen such a varied selection of Scottish poetry before, and I found a couple of George Mackay Brown items missing from the collection.

For some reason, Voyages, Brown’s 1983 collection of poetry, is quite hard to find, so it was lovely to see it there and liberate it from the shelves!

#GeorgeMackayBrown #ScottishPoetry #ScottishLiterature #Poetry #ChapmanMagazine #McNaughtansBookshop #EdinburghBookshop

Eager to dig into this beauty #ScottishLiterature #WalterScott

Ended up at the page of a #Gaelic lady poet whose poem I already know well from a sung #Capercaillie version. So then have to dig that out in iTunes! This in the new collection of Scottish #Poetry 1730-1830. It includes a lot of Gaelic poems (Gaelic first then translated version after) and poems by women. #ScottishPoetry #ScottishLiterature #Gaelic #GaelicPoetry #GaelicSongs #Scotland #EighteenthCentury #18thCentury

Supper and a new #book to read, a new collection of Scottish #poetry 1730-1830. Really looking forward to this. My own #PhD looked at Scottish reading habits in the same period, but I need to read more of the texts being read! #Books #Supper #Literature #ScottishLiterature #ScottishPoetry #Gaelic #GaelicPoetry #EighteenthCentury #18thCentury #ScottishHistory #Reading #ReadingHabits

I've never really delved into short stories before, however I've just finished Every Seven Years, and Rizzio, both by Denise Mina. They were both so so well written, engaging, kind of left me wanting more but satisfied with the ending at the same time.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #reading #shortstories #scottishliterature #scottishfiction #historicalfiction #shortstory

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/26bbcbcc-08fe-4443-9000-a288cd45fba6

Joie de Livres!

Poetry performance from Lesley Storm, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir and Jane Goldman In the fun surroundings of Edinburgh's Kafe Kweer!

Saturday, 4th March 2023, 17:30 – 20:00

Kafe Kweer 5 St Peter's Buildings Edinburgh EH3 9PG

Bithibh còmhla rinn!

~ Marcas

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joie-de-livres-tickets-533572378347

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #ScottishPoetry #ScottishLiterature #Edinburgh #EdinburghEvents