On the oneness of self and universe
IT’S AW WAN
TAE ME
—Alan Spence, GLASGOW ZEN
published by @canongatebooks 2012
https://canongate.co.uk/books/333-glasgow-zen/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Scots #Scotslanguage #Zen
glasgow
Yee-haw! Today – 25 July – is Cowboy Day! 🤠
“Prosaic & glib cartoon art is consigned along with yesterday’s newspaper, to the bin & oblivion; the few great strips lodge themselves in the public’s psyche”
—downthetubes.net celebrates Lobey Dosser, Glasgow’s greatest cowboy (& his 2-legged horse El Fildeldo)
https://downthetubes.net/lobey-dosser-a-very-surreal-glaswegian/
#Scottish #literature #Glasgow #comic #comics #comicstrip #cowboy #CowboyDay #NationalCowboyDay
#WhatWereReading : Joe found #Glasgow based Metaphrog's (John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs) new graphic novel for younger readers, Wilomina and the Land of Dreams and Nightmares, a total delight, both as a story, and visually, with some fabulous artwork.
A coming of age tale for a young girl, a heroic journey, talking cat, dragons, Easter Eggs for the adults to spot, this will charm our younger readers! Out now from Scholastic.
#books #livres #Wilomina #WilominaAndTheLandOfDreamsAndNightmare #BandeDessinee #comics #GraphicNovels #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #RecommendedReading #JohnChalmers #SandraMarrs #Metaphrog
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David Keenan & Andrew O’Hagan: Boyhood
“A book of great joy, of laughter in the face of horror and delight in storytelling… BOYHOOD is a hymn to the resilience of youth, to the brave dreams of artists and lovers and a love letter to Glasgow – a city where magic happens.”
In this London Review of Books podcast, David Keenan reads from his latest novel BOYHOOD, & talks with Andrew O’Hagan
@bookstodon
Alone in this bay near Port Mary
only the waves creeping in
and the squeal of a buzzard
high on a clifftop for company…
—Norman Bissell, “Lichen Circles”
published in Slate, Sea & Sky: a journey from Glasgow to the Isle of Luing (Luath Press, 2007)
https://luath.co.uk/products/slate-sea-and-sky
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #naturepoetry #Glasgow #Hebrides
The Atmosphere of My High School Exams in Gaza. ❗
Last year, I finished high school amid war, displacement, famine, and bombardment. During a ceasefire, my school held in-person exams to ensure fair results. I contracted Hepatitis A during the exam period, yet still graduated with 98%, ranking among the highest-performing students across Palestinian Al-Azhar Institutes and earning the highest Physics mark in Gaza that year. Now I’m raising funds to change this reality and reach University of Glasgow. If you're able to help, the link is in my bio. Sharing this campaign could help me reach someone who can.
Your donation will do more than help me attend university. It will give me the chance to build a career in technology, support my family, and create a future beyond war.
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Acknowledging Agnes Owens: a celebration of her writing & legacy
24 September, Òran Mór, Glasgow – free
Launch event for the Byres Road Book Festival, in collaboration with the Agnes Owens Archive – with Dani Garavelli, Kirstin Innes, William Letford, & Chitra Ramaswamy
#Scottish #literature #AgnesOwens #20thcentury #womenwriters #Glasgow
NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Glasgow launch
8 September, Waterstones Sauchiehall St, Glasgow – £5 / £12 with book
Celebrate the latest issue of NEW WRITING SCOTLAND with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!
https://www.waterstones.com/events/new-writing-scotland-44-launch/glasgow-sauchiehall-street
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #newwriting #booklaunch #Glasgow
“even though they are in colour, the Glasgow light – its tarnished humidity, its 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦 – gives the photographs something of the timelessness that monochrome bestows”
William Boyd writes about Depardon’s photos of 1980s Glasgow
#Scotland #Glasgow #1980s #Depardon #RaymondDepardon #photography #WorldPhotographyDay
Tom Leonard
“Jist ti Let Yi No”
(from the American of Carlos Williams)
ahv drank
thi speshlz
that wurrin
thi frij
n thit
yiwurr probbli
hodn back
furthi pahrti
awright
they wur great
thaht stroang
thaht cawld
Audio on Penn Sound:
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Leonard/Tom-Leonard_Jist-ti-Let-Yi-No.mp3
#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard #WilliamCarlosWilliams
efturryd geenuz iz speel
iboot whut wuz right
nwhut wuz rang
boot this nthat
nthi nix thing
a sayzti the bloke
nwhut izzit yi caw
yir joab jimmy…
—Tom Leonard, “liason coordinator”
from GHOSTIE MEN (Galloping Dog Press, 1980)
Tom Leonard (1944–2018) was born #OTD, 22 August
https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose/liasoncoordinator.html
#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard
this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn…
—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard
yi mist yirsell so yi did
we aw skiptwirr ferz njumptaffit thi lights
YIZIR AW PINE THEY FERZ THIMORRA
o it wizza scream
thaht big shite wiz dayniz nut…
—Tom Leonard, “A Scream”
from Six Glasgow Poems (1967)
https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose.html
#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard
right inuff
ma language is disgraceful
ma maw tellt mi
ma teacher tellt mi
thi doactir tellt mi
thi priest tellt mi…
—Tom Leonard, “right inuff”
published in GHOSTIE MEN (Galloping Dog Press, 1980)
#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard
Everybody to Kenmure Street
14 Oct, National Library of Scotland at Kelvinhall, Glasgow – free
A special screening of “Everybody to Kenmure Street” – winner of the Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everybody-to-kenmure-street-tickets-1998490522952
#Scottish #documentary #Glasgow #KenmureStreet #CivilResistance #film #cinema
Oidhche nam Bàrd – Poetry in Art & Sound
10 September, Tramway, Glasgow – £20/£12
A landmark celebration of over 1000 years of Gaelic poetry, weaving together Gaelic voices of the past & the words of our greatest living poets, presented through live performance, music, & visual projection. Welcoming Gaelic speakers & non-Gaelic speakers alike, all poems read will be accompanied by on-screen English translations.
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/oidhche-nam-brd-poetry-in-art-and-sound
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Glasgow launch
8 September, Waterstones Sauchiehall St, Glasgow – £5 / £12 with book
Celebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!
https://www.waterstones.com/events/new-writing-scotland-44-launch/glasgow-sauchiehall-street
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #booklaunch #writingcommunity #Glasgow
In Conversation: Callum McSorley
“I read THE CUTTING ROOM by Louise Welsh and everything clicked into place. Here was Glasgow, as I knew it but also totally different. Welsh had created a Glasgow that had all the glamour and seediness of hardboiled LA. This is what I wanted to write.”
Callum McSorley in conversation with Sindhu Rajasekaran about writing crime fiction & sequels, & his latest novel RAT RACE.
Taken this day, 2011, The Wee Spark
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/6278069108/in/photostream/lightbox/
A working, scale replica of the classic Clyde Puffer, made famous in the Tales of Para Handy, with the Vital Spark, sailing through Kirkintilloch, where many puffers were built & launched
#Scotland #Ecosse #photography #photographie #ClydePuffer #Ship #Bateau #ForthAndClydeCanal #WeeSpark #VitalSpark #ParaHandy #Kirkintilloch #Glasgow
#scotland pals: anyone out there able to temp foster a parrot who's currently in the glasgow area?
here's more info from the gf of the parrot's guardian:
'It's my partner's parrot.
His dad got him, then when he died 12 years ago, my parnter's been taking care of him. He is now getting evicted from his flat in Glasgow and struggling to find somewhere to host. The timeframe unfortunately is unclear. I'd say a couple of weeks at least 🤷♀️'
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The mile-high buildings flashed, flushed, greyed, went dark,
greyed, flushed, flashed, chameleons under flak
of cloud and sun…
—Edwin Morgan, “Clydegrad”
from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)
Today, 3 September, is Skyscraper Day
1/2
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #sonnet #skyscraper #SkyscraperDay #EdwinMorgan #Glasgow #scifipoetry
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Glasgow launch
8 September, Waterstones Sauchiehall St, Glasgow – £5 / £12 with book
Celebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!
https://www.waterstones.com/events/new-writing-scotland-44-launch/glasgow-sauchiehall-street
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #writingcommunity #Glasgow