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<p>Not-so-happy 100th birthday to Ireland’s Committee of Evil Literature.</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/not-so-happy-100th-birthday-to-irelands-committee-of-evil-literature/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/not-so-happy-100th-birthday-to-irelands-committee-of-evil-literature/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/not-so-happy-100th-</span><span class="invisible">birthday-to-irelands-committee-of-evil-literature/</span></a></p><p>At PG:</p><p>"The Pivot of Civilization" by Margaret Sanger <br> <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1689" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1689</a></p><p>"The Well of Loneliness" by Radclyffe Hall</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73042" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73042</a></p><p>"Family Limitation" by Margaret Sanger</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31790" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31790</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/censorship/" rel="tag">#censorship</a></p>

A stack of books with the pages facing the camera.

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<p>Is there a whim-inspired fool,<br>Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,<br>Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool,<br>Let him draw near…</p><p>Robert Burns (1759–96) died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 21 July, aged 37. “A Bard’s Epitaph” is the final poem in the 1786 Kilmarnock Edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect</p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/robertburns/" rel="tag">#RobertBurns</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/romanticism/" rel="tag">#romanticism</a> <a href="/tags/epitaph/" rel="tag">#epitaph</a></p>

A Bard’s Epitaph
Robert Burns

Is there a whim-inspired fool,
Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,
Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool,
Let him draw near;
And owre this grassy heap sing dool,
And drap a tear.

Is there a bard of rustic song,
Who, noteless, steals the crowds among,
That weekly this area throng,
O, pass not by!
But, with a frater-feeling strong,
Here, heave a sigh.

Is there a man, whose judgment clear
Can others teach the course to steer,
Yet runs, himself, life’s mad career,
Wild as the wave,
Here pause—and, thro’ the starting tear,
Survey this grave.

The poor inhabitant below
Was quick to learn the wise to know,
And keenly felt the friendly glow,
And softer flame;
But thoughtless follies laid him low,
And stain’d his name!

Reader, attend! whether thy soul
Soars fancy’s flights beyond the pole,
Or darkling grubs this earthly hole,
In low pursuit:
Know, prudent, cautious, self-control
Is wisdom’s root.

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<p>College students digitized 795 poems from the world’s oldest novel</p><p>‘The Tale of Genji’ is a cornerstone of classical Japanese literature.</p><p>By Andrew Paul</p><p><a href="https://www.popsci.com/technology/genji-poems-online/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.popsci.com/technology/genji-poems-online/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.popsci.com/technology/genj</span><span class="invisible">i-poems-online/</span></a></p><p>The tale of Genji at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/66057" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/66057</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/japan/" rel="tag">#Japan</a></p>

A 12th century illustrated scroll depicting a scene from 'The Tale of Genji,' considered one of history's longest novels.

Chapter 48 – Sawarabi (早蕨, "Bracken Shoots"). Tokugawa Art Museum's illustrated handscroll.

Imperial court in Kyoto - GENJI-MONOGATARI-EMAKI published by TOKUGAWA MUSEUM, NAGOYA, Japan, 1937.

A scene of the Chapter "SAWARABI "(SPROUT) of Illustrated handscroll of Tale of Genji (written by MURASAKI SHIKIBU(11th cent.). The handscroll was made in about ACE1130 and stored in TOKUGAWA Museum, Japan. The handscroll were separated to each sections and mounted to frame for conservation. Height about 21.5 cm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji#/media/File:Genji_emaki_SAWARABI.jpg

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<p>Who called Shakespeare ‘upstart crow’? Our study points to his co-author, Thomas Nashe</p><p>By Brett Greatley-Hirsch, Andrew Hadfield and Andrew Hadfield</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/who-called-shakespeare-upstart-crow-our-study-points-to-his-co-author-thomas-nashe-259713?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2025%202025%20-%203428134923&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2025%202025%20-%203428134923+CID_4f8af5b6dde4d0dbf2fe65f5e3333fd0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Who%20called%20Shakespeare%20upstart%20crow%20Our%20study%20points%20to%20his%20co-author%20Thomas%20Nashe" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/who-called-shakespeare-upstart-crow-our-study-points-to-his-co-author-thomas-nashe-259713?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2025%202025%20-%203428134923&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2025%202025%20-%203428134923+CID_4f8af5b6dde4d0dbf2fe65f5e3333fd0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Who%20called%20Shakespeare%20upstart%20crow%20Our%20study%20points%20to%20his%20co-author%20Thomas%20Nashe"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/who-called</span><span class="invisible">-shakespeare-upstart-crow-our-study-points-to-his-co-author-thomas-nashe-259713?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2025%202025%20-%203428134923&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2025%202025%20-%203428134923+CID_4f8af5b6dde4d0dbf2fe65f5e3333fd0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Who%20called%20Shakespeare%20upstart%20crow%20Our%20study%20points%20to%20his%20co-author%20Thomas%20Nashe</span></a></p><p>Shakespeare at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/65</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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<p>Decoding the Iconic Cover of ‘The Great Gatsby’</p><p>What does Spanish artist Francis Cugat's 'Celestial Eyes' tell us about the American classic?</p><p>By Katie White</p><p><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/decoding-the-iconic-cover-of-the-great-gatsby-2672761" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="news.artnet.com/art-world/decoding-the-iconic-cover-of-the-great-gatsby-2672761"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.artnet.com/art-world/deco</span><span class="invisible">ding-the-iconic-cover-of-the-great-gatsby-2672761</span></a></p><p>The Great Gatsby at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

The front dust jacket art of The Great Gatsby with title against a dark sky. Beneath the title are lips and two eyes, looming over a city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby#/media/File:The_Great_Gatsby_Cover_1925_Retouched.jpg

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<p>just to see how you’re<br>faring up there<br>with little company</p><p>just the odd bat or hare<br>that careers around<br>‘turning the world’</p><p>so you tell me…</p><p>—Kathleen Jamie, “Considering a Hike to Yon Tree”<br>in the London Review of Books, 24 July 2025</p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n13/kathleen-jamie/considering-a-hike-to-yon-tree" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n13/kathleen-jamie/considering-a-hike-to-yon-tree"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n1</span><span class="invisible">3/kathleen-jamie/considering-a-hike-to-yon-tree</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

A poem by Kathleen Jamie
Considering a Hike to Yon Tree

just to see how you’re
faring up there
with little company

just the odd bat or hare
that careers around
‘turning the world’

so you tell me. I gather
you snap your fingers
in the face of the east wind

feel the moon groan as she
learns the ropes again
tangled among branches

that you bend, so you say,
to shake her free. You tell me
good will prevail, all

shall be well etcetera,
the same old saws I suspect
you rehearse when you

spot me toiling uphill
in my torn coat, expressly
to listen to your havers.

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<p>[To Sheila Lanyon, on the Flyleaf of a Book]<br>W. S. Graham</p><p>Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf of a copy of THE WHITE THRESHOLD belonging to Sheila Lanyon, widow of the late painter Peter Lanyon. The poem is dated June 18, 1966 and the “second summer” referred to is the second since Peter’s death, after a gliding accident, on August 31, 1964.</p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/145185/to-sheila-lanyon-on-the-flyleaf-of-a-book" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/145185/to-sheila-lanyon-on-the-flyleaf-of-a-book"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.poetryfoundation.org/poetr</span><span class="invisible">ymagazine/poems/145185/to-sheila-lanyon-on-the-flyleaf-of-a-book</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/wsgraham/" rel="tag">#WSGraham</a></p>

[To Sheila Lanyon, on the Flyleaf of a Book]
by W. S. Graham

Sheila, we speak here on the fly
Leaf of a book which was myself
A good few graves ago.
Now I am maintained by other
Words for better or for worse
To whisper my hello.

The seasons turn. Threshold on thresh
Hold forms continually and falls
Under grief’s lonely hammer.
What did you say? I thought between
These fly leaf words I heard you speak
Out of your Second Summer.

The summer chimes and turns its blue
Dragon-flying eyes to see
We two are not afraid.
Hello, Sheila, I can hear
Your breath on the other side of the word
And see you turn your head.

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<p>Michael Pedersen on Muckle Flugga: Isolation, Grief & Lighthouses</p><p>Following the release of his debut novel MUCKLE FLUGGA, Michael Pedersen speaks to SNACK magazine about turning lighthouses into legends, the ghost of Robert Louis Stevenson, and why this might be his most welcoming work yet.</p><p><a href="https://snackmag.co.uk/michael-pedersen-on-muckle-flugga" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="snackmag.co.uk/michael-pedersen-on-muckle-flugga"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">snackmag.co.uk/michael-pederse</span><span class="invisible">n-on-muckle-flugga</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a></p>

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<p>A Kick Up the Arts podcast</p><p>Nicola Meighan discusses SMALL TOWN JOY: from Glam Rock to Hyperpop: How Queer Music Changed the Sound of Scotland with musician & writer Carrie Marshall, & is joined by musician & composer Laura Jane Wilkie, whose album VENT is centred around waulking songs – women’s work songs from the Highlands and Islands. </p><p><a href="https://www.akickupthearts.org/blog-3-1/carrie-marshall-amp-laura-jane-wilkie" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.akickupthearts.org/blog-3-1/carrie-marshall-amp-laura-jane-wilkie"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.akickupthearts.org/blog-3-</span><span class="invisible">1/carrie-marshall-amp-laura-jane-wilkie</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/popmusic/" rel="tag">#popmusic</a> <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> <a href="/tags/queermusic/" rel="tag">#queermusic</a> <a href="/tags/highland/" rel="tag">#Highland</a> <a href="/tags/worksongs/" rel="tag">#worksongs</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

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<p>Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.<br>They found their minds were very clean and clear.<br>Clear crystals in swarms outside were their fireflies and larks.<br>Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring…</p><p>—Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space”<br>from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 20 July, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon</p><p><a href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.carcanet.co.uk/97817841099</span><span class="invisible">67/centenary-selected-poems/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/moonlanding/" rel="tag">#MoonLanding</a> <a href="/tags/moonlandingday/" rel="tag">#MoonLandingDay</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/astronauts/" rel="tag">#astronauts</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/scifipoem/" rel="tag">#scifipoem</a> <a href="/tags/scifipoetry/" rel="tag">#scifipoetry</a></p>

A Home in Space
Edwin Morgan

Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.
They found their minds were very clean and clear.
Clear crystals in swarms outside were their fireflies and larks.
Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring.
Soaring metal is flight and nest together.
Together they must hatch.
Hatches let the welders out.
Out went the whitesuit riggers with frames as light as air.
Air was millions under lock and key.
Key-ins had computers wild on Saturday nights.
Nights, days, months, years they lived in space.
Space shone black in their eyes.
Eyes, hands, food-tubes, screens, lenses, keys were one.
One night – or day – or month – or year – they all –
all gathered at the panel and agreed –
agreed to cut communication with –
with the earth base – and it must be said they were –
were cool and clear as they dismantled the station and –
and gave their capsule such power that –
that they launched themselves outwards –
outwards in an impeccable trajectory, that band –
that band of tranquil defiers, not to plant any –
any home with roots but to keep a –
a voyaging generation voyaging, and as far –
as far as there would ever be a home in space –
space that needs time and time that needs life.

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<p>When all this is over I mean<br>to travel north, by the high</p><p>drove roads and cart tracks<br>probably in June,</p><p>with the gentle dog-roses<br>flourishing beside me…</p><p>—Kathleen Jamie, “Lochan”<br>published in SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)</p><p><a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.panmacmillan.com/authors/k</span><span class="invisible">athleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

Kathleen Jamie
Lochan

(For Jean Johnstone)

When all this is over I mean
to travel north, by the high

drove roads and cart tracks
probably in June,

with the gentle dog-roses
flourishing beside me. I mean

to find among the thousands
scattered in that land

a certain quiet lochan,
where water lilies rise

like small fat moons,
and tied among the reeds,

underneath a rowan,
a white boat waits.

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<p>Judge, Critic, Saloniére: On Sylvia Lynd, One of the Great Literary Citizens of the 20th Century</p><p>Nicola Wilson on the Book Society, Hugh Walpole, and Lynd’s Overshadowed Author Career</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/judge-critic-saloniere-on-sylvia-lynd-one-of-the-great-literary-citizens-of-the-20th-century/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/judge-critic-saloniere-on-sylvia-lynd-one-of-the-great-literary-citizens-of-the-20th-century/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/judge-critic-saloni</span><span class="invisible">ere-on-sylvia-lynd-one-of-the-great-literary-citizens-of-the-20th-century/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

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<p>The Politics of Care and Resistance in the Work of a Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner</p><p>Finding Hope in the Stories of Zona Gale</p><p>By Deborah Williams</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/the-politics-of-care-and-resistance-in-the-work-of-a-forgotten-pulitzer-prize-winner?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K04CWV2AG43DEMDF677YQN2F&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/the-politics-of-care-and-resistance-in-the-work-of-a-forgotten-pulitzer-prize-winner?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K04CWV2AG43DEMDF677YQN2F&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/the-politics-of-car</span><span class="invisible">e-and-resistance-in-the-work-of-a-forgotten-pulitzer-prize-winner?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K04CWV2AG43DEMDF677YQN2F&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Zona Gale at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3531" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3531"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/3531</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

Zona Gale from a 1918 publication.

Photographer not named. - Rounds, Charles Ralph , ed. (in English) (1918) Wisconsin Authors and Their Works (Public domain ed.), Madison: Parker Educational Company.

Zona Gale is shown in formal attire, posed in a studio setting.

The backdrop and styling are minimal, with the focus squarely on her face and upper body, emphasizing her dignified presence as one of the first women to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1921).

Her hair is styled in the fashion of the time—often parted in the middle or to the side and pinned up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona_Gale#/media/File:Zona_Gale_(Wisconsin_Authors,_1918).png

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<p>Seo mi, ma tha sibh gam aithnicheadh, neo fiù’s mura h-eil,<br>a’ coimhead oirrbh bho oir an rìan-grèine,<br>mar gum b’e aonaran a bh’unnam <br>a’ fuireach a-muigh ràthad na mòintich<br>le prosbaig aig gach uinneag…</p><p>—Pàdraig MacAoidh, “Pluto”</p><p>Today, 18 February, is Pluto Day! </p><p><a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/pluto/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/pluto/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.</span><span class="invisible">uk/poem/pluto/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a> <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/pluto/" rel="tag">#Pluto</a> <a href="/tags/plutoday/" rel="tag">#PlutoDay</a> <a href="/tags/planet/" rel="tag">#planet</a> <a href="/tags/minorplanet/" rel="tag">#minorplanet</a> <a href="/tags/solarsystem/" rel="tag">#solarsystem</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

Pluto
Pàdraig MacAoidh

(An dèidh Masadonais Katica Kulavkova)

Seo mi, ma tha sibh gam aithnicheadh, neo fiù’s mura h-eil,
a’ coimhead oirrbh bho oir an rìan-grèine,
mar gum b’e aonaran a bh’unnam
a’ fuireach a-muigh ràthad na mòintich
le prosbaig aig gach uinneag.
Can sibh gu bheil mi ‘iomallach’
ach tha mi an teas-mheadhan an neonitheachd agam fhìn,

Seo mi, cho ifrinneach sa shaoileadh tu:
le mo bheanntan ’s mo raointean reòite
’s mo bhrat meatain, naidhtreoidsein ’s CO2.
Tha mi cho puinnseanta ri là shàmhraidh ann an Nis.
Cha tig ur sòlas faisg orm, ’s co-dhìu aon chas agam
ann an dorchadas bith-bhuanta.

Tha mi ag ràdh ‘bith-bhuanta’ ach
Fad’ on robh mi a’ tuigsinnn tìde idr,
agus e air tighinn a-steach orm nach eil
mothaid cudromach ann an dòigh sam bith.
Tha mi nas tana na na Stàitean Aonaichte
ach tha coig gealaich agam ’s mi ag iarraidh tuilleadh baby.
Tha mi a’ gabhail sùil air croit Aonghas Phrionns’.

Seo mi, a’ seinn ‘Teann a-nall ’s thoir dhomh do làmh’
ann an oisean taigh-seinnse àiteigin ann an Glaschu
ach ged a bha mi riamh coimhead orm fhìn mar mheall den òr
chan eil duine a’ toirt suim dhomh.
O tha buannachdan ann a bhith neo-aithnichte,
a bhith beò air crìoch eadar dà ughdarras.
Aig a’ ghairm mu dheireadh thig mi sgrìob leam fhìn.

Pluto
Peter Mackay

(after the Macedonian of Katica Kulavkova)

Here I am, whether you recognise me or not,
looking at you from the edge of the galaxy,
as if I was a loner
living out the peat-road
with a telescope at each window.
You’ll say that I’m ‘remote’
but I’m in the middle of my own nothing.

Here I am, as hellish as you’d imagine:
with my mountains and frozen plains
and my cloak of methane, nitrogen and CO2.
I’m as poisonous as a summer day in Ness.
Your light won’t come close to me; I’ve at least one foot
in eternal darkness.

I say ‘eternal’ but
it’s ages since I understood time,
and it strikes me that
size doesn’t really matter at all.
I am thinner than the United States
but I have 5 moons, and want more baby.
I have my eye on Aonghas Prince’s croft.

Here I am, singing ‘Teann a-nall ’s thoir dhomh do làmh’
in the corner of a pub somewhere in Glasgow
and though I always thought of myself as a lump of gold
no one pays me any attention.
There are advantages in anonymity,
to living between two authorities.
At last orders I’ll go for a stroll by myself.

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<p>Today, 20 July, is World Chess Day</p><p>Episode 2 of the Alasdair Gray Archive’s UNLIKELY OBJECTS MOSTLY looks at Alasdair’s chessboard & the part chess played in his practice, uncovering the game’s pivotal role in the making of his Hillhead Subway mural & the novel POOR THINGS</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbB7OeYkeo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbB7OeYkeo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbB7O</span><span class="invisible">eYkeo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/alasdairgray/" rel="tag">#AlasdairGray</a> <a href="/tags/poorthings/" rel="tag">#PoorThings</a> <a href="/tags/mural/" rel="tag">#mural</a> <a href="/tags/murals/" rel="tag">#murals</a> <a href="/tags/publicart/" rel="tag">#publicart</a> <a href="/tags/glasgow/" rel="tag">#Glasgow</a> <a href="/tags/chess/" rel="tag">#Chess</a> <a href="/tags/worldchessday/" rel="tag">#WorldChessDay</a></p>

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<p>Belle Stewart (1906–1997) – singer, storyteller, tradition-bearer – was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 18 July, in a bow tent on the banks of the Tay at Caputh, near Blairgowrie. She ranks alongside Jeannie Robertson in the roll of the finest Scots ballad-singers.</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0sMwlevTMU" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0sMwlevTMU"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0sMwl</span><span class="invisible">evTMU</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/travellers/" rel="tag">#travellers</a> <a href="/tags/folklore/" rel="tag">#folklore</a> <a href="/tags/folksong/" rel="tag">#folksong</a></p>

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<p>Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?</p><p>"Sam Kelly Explores the Potential Influence of Cannabis on the Bard’s Prolific Literary Output"</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/did-shakespeare-write-hamlet-while-he-was-stoned/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/did-shakespeare-write-hamlet-while-he-was-stoned/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/did-shakespeare-wri</span><span class="invisible">te-hamlet-while-he-was-stoned/</span></a></p><p>Shakespeare at PG</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/65</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/plays/" rel="tag">#plays</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/drugs/" rel="tag">#drugs</a></p>

cannabis leaf

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<p>Vintage Posters for The Royal Court Theatre</p><p>Founded by the English Stage Company (ESC in 1956), London's Royal Court Theatre focuses on contemporary theatre - and great posters</p><p>By Sheldon D. </p><p><a href="https://flashbak.com/posters-for-the-royal-court-476550/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=posters-for-the-royal-court" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flashbak.com/posters-for-the-royal-court-476550/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=posters-for-the-royal-court"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flashbak.com/posters-for-the-r</span><span class="invisible">oyal-court-476550/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=posters-for-the-royal-court</span></a></p><p>English theatre at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=english+theatre" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=english+theatre"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=english+theatre</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#Theatre</a></p>

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<p>How Locke and His Heirs Redefined Beauty (Aesthetic Sense)</p><p>In the 18th century, British empiricists, under the influence of Locke, turned to subjectivism and coined the term aesthetic sense.</p><p>by Mirjana Jojić</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/notion-aesthetic-sense-british-empiricism/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/notion-aesthetic-sense-british-empiricism/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/notion-ae</span><span class="invisible">sthetic-sense-british-empiricism/</span></a></p><p>John Locke at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2447" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2447"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2447</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#Philosophy</a></p>

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<p>Bruno the brave</p><p>For anyone who dares to voice dangerous ideas and risk imprisonment or exile, Giordano Bruno remains a hero</p><p>by Stephanie Merritt</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/why-giordano-bruno-is-still-a-free-speech-hero-today?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5751d1b9e0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/why-giordano-bruno-is-still-a-free-speech-hero-today?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5751d1b9e0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/why-giordano-br</span><span class="invisible">uno-is-still-a-free-speech-hero-today?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5751d1b9e0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>About Giordano Bruno at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7069" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7069"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/7069</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>

Illustration of Bruno by German symbolist artist Fidus (1900), mixed media on paper, 60 x 50 cm, The Jack Daulton Collection.

This is a striking Symbolist mixed media artwork showing a frontal portrait of a hooded figure in dark robes against a background of radiating orange and golden light with white stars. The subject has an intense, direct gaze with large, haunting eyes and wears the dark cowl of a Dominican friar. His pale hands are crossed at the chest in a contemplative or protective gesture.

At the bottom, a greenish-gray banner bears the name "GIORDANO·BRUNO" in red Art Nouveau-style lettering. The notation "II 1900" appears in the lower left, with the artist's signature "Fidus" in the lower right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno#/media/File:Fidus_-_Giordano_Bruno,_Aquarell_1900.jpg

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<p>Come all ye lovers and affairs,<br>singles, discrete souls, and bears,<br>straightest of straights, bentest of bents,<br>carbolic scrub, Armani scents…</p><p>—Edwin Morgan, “G.G.L.C.”</p><p>A poem composed for the opening of the Glasgow Gay & Lesbian Centre, 1995</p><p><a href="/tags/pride/" rel="tag">#Pride</a> <a href="/tags/prideday/" rel="tag">#PrideDay</a> 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️</p><p><a href="https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/lgbt-history-month-poem-that-launched-gglc/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/lgbt-history-month-poem-that-launched-gglc/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">universityofglasgowlibrary.wor</span><span class="invisible">dpress.com/2014/02/20/lgbt-history-month-poem-that-launched-gglc/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/glasgow/" rel="tag">#Glasgow</a> <a href="/tags/pride/" rel="tag">#Pride</a> <a href="/tags/prideday/" rel="tag">#PrideDay</a> <a href="/tags/internationalprideday/" rel="tag">#InternationalPrideDay</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a></p>

G.G.L.C.
Edwin Morgan

On the opening of the Glasgow Gay & Lesbian Centre, 4th November 1995

Come all ye persons of goodwill,
from Newton Mearns to Maryhill,
rattle the chains and launch the boat
and get it properly afloat.
I bash this poem against the bow,
name it G.G.L.C., and endow
its future cruise with benedictions,
sailing past all feuds and frictions.
Come all ye lovers and affairs,
singles, discrete souls, and bears,
straightest of straights, bentest of bents,
carbolic scrub, Armani scents,
Doc Martens girls, minikilt boys,
buyers of exotic toys,
opera queens, ballet queens,
and all the hesitant in-betweens,
trendsetters and anoraks,
underdogs looking for whacks,
indomitably spring-heeled dykes
sweeping up on mountain bikes,
jessies with attitude, closet cases,
solicitors with bright red braces,
Levis with a coloured hanky
to signal the right hanky-panky,
Lurex and Spandex and other ex-es
to mix the senses and the sexes,
but if you should prefer a suit
we'll certainly no pit ye oot,
for this is where we all can meet
down by the river in Dixon Street,
and the Broomielaw rolls on to the sea
with the happy cargo of G.G.L.C.

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<p>Queerness in Scotland has always existed, hidden in medieval manuscripts, coded in Jacobite poetry, or expressed through the arts. In the first of a 3-part series, the National Galleries of Scotland explores queer artforms & artists from Scotland, past & present</p><p><a href="/tags/pride/" rel="tag">#Pride</a> <a href="/tags/prideday/" rel="tag">#PrideDay</a> 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBCxUmPBho" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBCxUmPBho"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBCxU</span><span class="invisible">mPBho</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/manuscripts/" rel="tag">#manuscripts</a> <a href="/tags/medieval/" rel="tag">#medieval</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/jacobites/" rel="tag">#jacobites</a> <a href="/tags/queerhistory/" rel="tag">#queerhistory</a> <a href="/tags/queerness/" rel="tag">#queerness</a> <a href="/tags/pride/" rel="tag">#Pride</a> <a href="/tags/prideday/" rel="tag">#PrideDay</a> <a href="/tags/internationalprideday/" rel="tag">#InternationalPrideDay</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a></p>

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<p>Scotland’s a sense of change, an endless<br>becoming for which there was never a kind<br>of wholeness or ultimate category.<br>Scotland’s an attitude of mind.</p><p>—“Speaking of Scotland” by Maurice Lindsay (1918–2009) – born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 21 July<br>Published in COLLECTED POEMS 1940–1990 (AUP 1990)</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/speaking-scotland/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/speaking-scotland/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.</span><span class="invisible">uk/poem/speaking-scotland/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a></p>

Speaking of Scotland
Maurice Lindsay

What do you mean when you speak of Scotland?
The grey defeats that are dead and gone
behind the legends each generation
savours afresh, yet can’t live on?

Lowland farms with their broad acres
peopling crops? The colder earth
of the North East? Or Highland mountains
shouldering up their rocky dearth?

Inheritance of guilt that our country
has never stood where we feel she should?
A nagging threat of unfinished struggle
somehow forever lost in the blood?

Scotland’s a sense of change, an endless
becoming for which there was never a kind
of wholeness or ultimate category.
Scotland’s an attitude of mind.

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<p>Oh ye, wha in your oors o ease, ‍‍<br>‍‍Are fashed wi golochs, mauks, an flees,<br>Fell stingin wasps an bumble bees,<br> Tak tent o this:<br>There’s ae sma pest that’s waur nor these<br> To mar your bliss…</p><p>—W.R. Darling, “The Pest”<br>published in Oor Mither Tongue: An Anthology of Scots Vernacular Verse (Alexander Gardner, 1937)</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/midge/" rel="tag">#midge</a> <a href="/tags/midges/" rel="tag">#midges</a></p>

The Pest
W. R. Darling

Oh ye, wha in your oors o ease, ‍‍
‍‍Are fashed wi golochs, mauks, an flees,
Fell stingin wasps an bumble bees,
Tak tent o this:
There’s ae sma pest that’s waur nor these
To mar your bliss.

They hing ower hedges, burns, an wuds, ‍‍
‍‍An dance at een in dusky cluds;
Wi aw your random skelps an scuds,
They’re naeweys worrit:
Gin there’s a hole in aw your duds,
They’ll mak straucht for it.

I’ve traivled wast, I’ve traivled east; ‍‍
‍‍‍I’m weel aquaint wi mony a beast;
Wi lions, teegers, bears – at least
I’ve kent their claw:
I’ve been the fell mosquito’s feast –
But this cowes aw.

Auld Scotland, on thy bonnie face, ‍‍
‍‍Whan Mither Nature gied ye grace,
Lown, birken glens an floery braes,
Wild windy ridges,
To save ye frae deleerit praise,
She gied ye midges.

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<p>We were oot for oor usual dauner roond the toun, Tam and me, and had stopped for a pech at the tap o the hill, whaur they’re plannin tae build eichty new hooses if naebody objects, and probably even if they dae …</p><p>—James Robertson, “Bible Talk”<br>published in THE BOTTLE IMP 3, 2008</p><p><a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2008/05/bible-talk-by-james-robertson/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2008/05/bible-talk-by-james-robertson/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2008/0</span><span class="invisible">5/bible-talk-by-james-robertson/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/shortstory/" rel="tag">#shortstory</a> <a href="/tags/flashfiction/" rel="tag">#FlashFiction</a> <a href="/tags/bible/" rel="tag">#bible</a></p>

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