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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie A @ntsonline.bsky.social Production Presented in partnership with @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social & in association with @pitlochryft.bsky.social Directed by Vicky Featherstone Featuring Gayle Rankin as Jean Brodie 2 Oct–7 Nov www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/the-p...

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | National Theatre of Scotland‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life’At the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, junior-school teacher Miss Jean Brodie is famouslwww.nationaltheatrescotland.com

You have returned to Glasgow after a long exile… —Tom Leonard claps back from Situations Theoretical and Contemporary (Galloping Dog Press, 1986)

Returning to Glasgow after long exile Nothing seemed to me to have changed its style. Buses and trams all labelled “To Ibrox” Swung past packed tight as they’d hold with folks… —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Glasgow, 1960” fitba’s back #poem #poetry

Men slapped the ponies from pit bank to field, slammed the gate shut and left them to their fortnight but it rained solid so their poor backs turned black-sodden as old carpet… —Pippa Little, “Lammas Goldfish” NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44 (ASL, 2026) #poem asls.org.uk/publications...

In December 1788, the first President of the USA acquired one of the earliest American editions of Burns’s 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴, 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵. Washington’s signature sits on the title page, showing how quickly Burns’s words crossed the Atlantic to captivate the new republic. #BookHistory #C18

I hear your 𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥, that slow singer, alone at my desk yet walking with you through your valleys and hills, that shining stream bubbling notes of your music your pure Welsh music… —Sheila Templeton, “For R.S. Thomas” from New Writing Scotland 30 (ASL, 2012) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry

It was upon a Lammas night, When corn rigs are bonie, Beneath the moon’s unclouded light, I held awa to Annie… —Robert Burns, “Corn Rigs” text from Robert Burns: Selected Poems & Songs (OUP, 2013) Today, 1 August, is #LammasDay #poetry #C18 #romanticism #folksong global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I think there’s a Scots joke about a pavlova – or a meringue?

The Arkbound Foundation are looking for volunteer mentors to join their Writing Within Walls programme, which pairs volunteers with young people & adults in prison who want to develop their creative writing @societyofauthors.bsky.social @writersscotland.bsky.social volunteer.scot/search/a0gQD...

“You will have heard that I am going to commence Poet in print; & to-morrow my works go to the press. I expect it will be a volume of about 200 pages. It is just the last foolish action I intend to do…” Robert Burns’s 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴, 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 published #OTD, 31 July, 1786 #BookHistory

Take Four Books Currently on BBC Sounds: @brookmyre.bsky.social discusses his latest novel, Quite Ugly One Evening. Together with presenter James Crawford, they explore its links to three other books #CrimeFiction 💙📚 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Christopher BrookmyreThe Scottish writer on his latest crime novel, Quite Ugly One Evening, and its influences.www.bbc.co.uk

The latest issue of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW is on its way to subscribers, & available online via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional subscription required) Essays on Robert Louis Stevenson; Muriel Spark; Anne Grant of Laggan; & Robert Fergusson #litstudies asls.org.uk/publications...

M’ n’m ’z ’zym’ndias, kng’v kngz! —Edwin Morgan, “The Mummy” from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 Edwin Morgan’s “The Mummy” marked the arrival of Rameses II at Orly airport in 1976. I don’t know if this was his passport though #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...

“The plotless beauty of his writing, and its fearless look at the emptiness of his own life, put ‘the Scottish Beat’ on a par with Kafka and Camus” —Tony O’Neill on “The junky genius of Alexander Trocchi (1925–1984)”, born #OTD, 30 July. A 🎂 🧵 💙📚 1/9 www.theguardian.com/books/booksb...

The junky genius of Alexander TrocchiThe plotless beauty of his writing, and its fearless look at the emptiness of his own life, put 'the Scottish Beat' on a par with Kafka and Camus.www.theguardian.com

the rain has stopped but still it’s falling under the trees —Alan Spence published in CLEAR LIGHT, @canongate.co.uk 2012 #poem #poetry #haiku #WorldRainDay 🌧️ canongate.co.uk/books/94-cle...

Clear Light by Alan Spence - Canongate BooksClear Light by Alan Spence - paperback (9781841956640) published by Canongate. 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence’s characteristic verve and wit.canongate.co.uk

I love all films that start with rain: rain, braiding a windowpane or darkening a hung-out dress or streaming down her upturned face… —Don Paterson, “Rain” Published in RAIN, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2010 #poem #poetry #WorldRainDay 🌧️ www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

Nairn Book & Arts Festival 29 Aug–6 Sep Tickets are on sale for the 2026 Nairn Book & Arts Festival, an annual celebration of literature, art, music, and drama in the Scottish Highlands. www.nairnfestival.co.uk