literature

<p>Nam bhodach liath a-nis<br>a’ streap gu mullach a bhràighe,<br>chan eil mi a’ còrdadh riut, a Llywarch,<br>mun bhata càm is riatanach gach là…</p><p>—Uilleam Nèill, “Freagairt Do Llywarch Hen”<br>published in FRIENDS &amp; KANGAROOS: New Writing Scotland 17 (ASL, 1999)</p><p>(Llywarch Hen, c.534–608 CE, was an early Welsh poet &amp; prince of Rheged, who complained about his advancing age &amp; dependence on his walking stick)</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/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a> <a href="/tags/welsh/" rel="tag">#Welsh</a> <a href="/tags/celticstudies/" rel="tag">#CelticStudies</a></p>

<p>Another book list to tempt you, this one thanks to the excellent journal, World Literature Today, of their choice of seventy-five notable translations into English published in 2025. <br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/translations/" rel="tag">#translations</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lists/world-literature-todays-75-notable-translations-2025-michelle-johnson" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lists/world-literature-todays-75-notable-translations-2025-michelle-johnson"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/</span><span class="invisible">lit-lists/world-literature-todays-75-notable-translations-2025-michelle-johnson</span></a></p>

<p>Fog shroud<br>and clouds<br>(when the clock<br>chimed late<br>in the heavy<br>November night-<br>time) lifting<br>the mystery<br>for a greater…</p><p>—Edwin Morgan, “Guy Fawkes Moon”<br>published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1997)</p><p><a href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781847779656/collected-poems/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.carcanet.co.uk/9781847779656/collected-poems/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.carcanet.co.uk/97818477796</span><span class="invisible">56/collected-poems/</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/guyfawkes/" rel="tag">#GuyFawkes</a> <a href="/tags/bonfirenight/" rel="tag">#BonfireNight</a> <a href="/tags/november5th/" rel="tag">#November5th</a></p>

<p>Pepper Basham on How The Secret Garden Inspired Her Love for British Literature</p><p>&quot;I can still find my way there through these pages. Some gardens, it turns out, are always in season.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/pepper-basham-on-how-the-secret-garden-inspired-her-love-for-british-literature/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/pepper-basham-on-how-the-secret-garden-inspired-her-love-for-british-literature/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/pepper-basham-on-ho</span><span class="invisible">w-the-secret-garden-inspired-her-love-for-british-literature/</span></a></p><p>The secret garden at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17396" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17396</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a></p>

<p>&quot;The dusk crept out across the fields wiping out the day&#x27;s light.&quot;<br>Black April (1927)</p><p>American author Julia Peterkin died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1961.</p><p>In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American experience.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Peterkin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Peterkin"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Pe</span><span class="invisible">terkin</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72611" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72611</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>&quot;He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm. That is how she looks when she is alone! had been his first thought; and the second was to note in her the change which his coming produced.&quot;<br>&quot;The House of Mirth&quot; (1905), bk. 1, ch. 6</p><p>~Edith Wharton (24 January 1862 – 11 August 1937)</p><p>Books by Edith Wharton at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/104" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/104"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/104</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1951.</p><p>J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye.</p><p>Between 1961 and 1982, The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. According to the American Library Association, The Catcher in the Rye was the 10th most frequently challenged book from 1990 to 1999.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catc</span><span class="invisible">her_in_the_Rye</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>The mighty Mavors, jealous to behold<br>A Mars more mighty nor himself below,<br>Did once resolve his rivall to ore’throw…</p><p>—Sir Robert Ayton (1569–1638), “Upon the 5th of November”<br>published in JACOBEAN PARNASSUS: Scottish Poetry from the Reign of James I (ASL, 2022)</p><p><a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/jacobean-parnassus/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/jacobean-parnassus/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asls.org.uk/publications/books</span><span class="invisible">/volumes/jacobean-parnassus/</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/17thcentury/" rel="tag">#17thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/earlymodern/" rel="tag">#EarlyModern</a> <a href="/tags/bonfirenight/" rel="tag">#BonfireNight</a> <a href="/tags/guyfawkes/" rel="tag">#GuyFawkes</a> <a href="/tags/jacobean/" rel="tag">#Jacobean</a> <a href="/tags/5thnovember/" rel="tag">#5thNovember</a></p>

<p>“Ach thèid an crann a thoirt dhen fharadh”: Celebrating Thirty Years of Tuath is Tighearna (‘Tenants and Landlords’), 1995-2025</p><p>21 Nov, University of Edinburgh. Free, ticketed</p><p>This year&#x27;s Canna Lecture will be delivered by Dr Martin Macgregor who will assess the impact of Donald Meek&#x27;s anthology of 19th-century Gaelic verse, Tuath is Tighearna (SGTS, 1995), thirty years on from its publication.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/canna-lecture-2025-tickets-1924250979479" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/canna-lecture-2025-tickets-1924250979479"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/canna-l</span><span class="invisible">ecture-2025-tickets-1924250979479</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a></p>

<p>c. 1813, London. Reading List</p><p>John Stuart Mill turns the page. via @laphamsquart </p><p>&quot;I have no remembrance of the time when I began to learn Greek. I have been told that it was when I was three years old....&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ways-learning/reading-list/?campaign=FE7LQA2" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.laphamsquarterly.org/ways-learning/reading-list/?campaign=FE7LQA2"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.laphamsquarterly.org/ways-</span><span class="invisible">learning/reading-list/?campaign=FE7LQA2</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Dod! – that’s him nou – eik up the byne;<br>afore the hairth, his claen sark hing:<br>pit claes is waffin on the line;<br>merle on a rowan singin fine.</p><p>—David Purdie, “Merle on a Rowan”</p><p><a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/merle-rowan/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/merle-rowan/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.</span><span class="invisible">uk/poem/merle-rowan/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/scotstober/" rel="tag">#Scotstober</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></p>

<p>Robert Louis Stevenson’s KIDNAPPED began life serialised in a children’s magazine, but its sophistication &amp; depth won the lifelong admiration of Henry James.</p><p>In this episode of NOVEL APPROACHES, Clare Bucknell, Andrew O’Hagan &amp; Tom Crewe explore RLS’s startlingly modern handling of perspective &amp; pacing, his approach to the art of fiction, &amp; the value of being ‘betwixt &amp; between’.</p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/novel-approaches-kidnapped-by-robert-louis-stevenson" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/novel-approaches-kidnapped-by-robert-louis-stevenson"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-vid</span><span class="invisible">eos/podcasts/close-readings/novel-approaches-kidnapped-by-robert-louis-stevenson</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/19thcenyury/" rel="tag">#19thcenyury</a> <a href="/tags/robertlouisstevenson/" rel="tag">#RobertLouisStevenson</a> <a href="/tags/kidlit/" rel="tag">#KidLit</a> <a href="/tags/childrensliterature/" rel="tag">#ChildrensLiterature</a></p>

<p>“It&#x27;s not the barbarian who threatens us, it&#x27;s civilization that frightens us.”</p><p>Brazilian sociologist and journalist Euclides da Cunha died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1909.</p><p>His most important work is Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides_da_Cunha" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides_da_Cunha"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides</span><span class="invisible">_da_Cunha</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>The Oxfam bookshop on Glasgow’s Byres Road moved, recently, to a new location further down the hill – but I’m very pleased that they managed to take Alasdair Gray’s mural with them! I think he did this when on a break from painting the ceiling in Òran Mór …</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/glasgow/" rel="tag">#Glasgow</a> <a href="/tags/alasdairgray/" rel="tag">#AlasdairGray</a> <a href="/tags/murals/" rel="tag">#Murals</a> <a href="/tags/visualart/" rel="tag">#VisualArt</a></p>

<p>Alasdair Gray’s “The Great Bear Cult” is a script for a (rejected) documentary on the movement which briefly swept Britain in the 1930s. Although mention of the Cult is still suppressed, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bookish.community/@canongatebooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>canongatebooks</span></a></span> includes the script in UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY</p><p>Today, 7 November, is Hug A Bear Day 🧸</p><p>@bookstodon </p><p><a href="https://canongate.co.uk/books/100-unlikely-stories-mostly/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="canongate.co.uk/books/100-unlikely-stories-mostly/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">canongate.co.uk/books/100-unli</span><span class="invisible">kely-stories-mostly/</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/hugabearday/" rel="tag">#HugABearDay</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856.</p><p>Wilkie Collins&#x27; &quot;Anne Rodway&quot;, a story in diary form about a needlewoman and her fiancé investigating the murder of a friend, appears in Household Words (first chapter), as the first English story to feature a woman as the main detective character.</p><p>The story is set in mid-19th century London, depicting the harsh realities of life for the working poor.</p><p><a href="https://djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-xiv/page-1.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-xiv/page-1.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">djo.org.uk/household-words/vol</span><span class="invisible">ume-xiv/page-1.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>&quot;Not uselessly employed,<br>Might I pursue this theme through every change<br>Of exercise and play, to which the year<br>Did summon us in his delightful round.&quot;</p><p>In July 1850.</p><p>William Wordsworth&#x27;s The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet&#x27;s Mind: An Autobiographical Poem, on which he has worked since 1798, is first published about three months after his death by Edward Moxon in London in 14 books, with the title supplied by the poet&#x27;s widow, Mary.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prelude" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prelude"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prel</span><span class="invisible">ude</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>The Scandalous Play in Mansfield Park</p><p>Jane Austen uses Elizabeth Inchbald’s Lovers’ Vows to explore the social boundaries, both public and private, of Regency England.</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-scandalous-play-in-mansfield-park/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-scandalous-play-in-mansfield-park/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-scandalous</span><span class="invisible">-play-in-mansfield-park/</span></a></p><p>Mansfield Park at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/141" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/141</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>9 Misconceptions About Shakespeare</p><p>Think you know everything about The Bard? Think again.</p><p>By Meredith Danko</p><p><a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/misconceptions-about-shakespeare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/misconceptions-about-shakespeare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mentalfloss.com/literature</span><span class="invisible">/authors/misconceptions-about-shakespeare</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>

<p>Nan Shepherd &amp; her friends<br>21 Nov, Aberdeen – free, ticketed</p><p>Nan Shepherd has often been imagined as a solitary walker &amp; writer. In this talk, Dr Timothy Baker looks at the importance of female friendship in Nan Shepherd’s writing &amp; life, placing her as part of a much larger network of Aberdonian women writers &amp; thinkers</p><p><a href="https://aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&amp;RNI=16811409" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&amp;RNI=16811409"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-</span><span class="invisible">bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&amp;RNI=16811409</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a> <a href="/tags/nanshepherd/" rel="tag">#NanShepherd</a> <a href="/tags/aberdeen/" rel="tag">#Aberdeen</a></p>

<p>Walking in a waking dream<br>I watched nineteen deer<br>pour from ridge to glen-floor,<br>then each in turn leap,<br>leap the new-raised<br>peat-dark burn…</p><p>—Kathleen Jamie, “The Hinds”<br>from THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador, 2015)</p><p><a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.panmacmillan.com/authors/k</span><span class="invisible">athleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718</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/naturepoetry/" rel="tag">#naturepoetry</a> <a href="/tags/deer/" rel="tag">#deer</a></p>

<p>Poetic Gems for Topaz: Verses for the Bicentenary of McGonagall<br>19 Nov, Dundee. Free, ticketed</p><p>The Wyvern Poets will share their verses written to celebrate the life, works &amp; legacy of William Topaz McGonagall. The Wyvern Poets acknowledge McGonagall’s enduring impact, which has spread far beyond the city he called home.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetic-gems-for-topaz-verses-for-the-bicentenary-of-mcgonagall-tickets-1920903677609" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetic-gems-for-topaz-verses-for-the-bicentenary-of-mcgonagall-tickets-1920903677609"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetic-</span><span class="invisible">gems-for-topaz-verses-for-the-bicentenary-of-mcgonagall-tickets-1920903677609</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/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> <a href="/tags/mcgonagall/" rel="tag">#McGonagall</a> <a href="/tags/badpoetry/" rel="tag">#BadPoetry</a></p>

<p>Postcards from Virginia Woolf</p><p>By Sarah Bochicchio </p><p><a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/07/postcards-from-virginia-woolf/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/07/postcards-from-virginia-woolf/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theparisreview.org/blog/20</span><span class="invisible">25/11/07/postcards-from-virginia-woolf/</span></a></p><p>Virginia at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/89</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Frankenstein pop-up display<br>7 Nov, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free.</p><p>A special one-day pop-up display exploring the enduring legacy of Mary Shelley&#x27;s Frankenstein. Discover the novel’s lasting influence on works by Scottish writers such as Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway &amp; Liz Lochhead</p><p><a href="https://www.nls.uk/whats-on/frankenstein-pop-up/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nls.uk/whats-on/frankenstein-pop-up/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nls.uk/whats-on/frankenste</span><span class="invisible">in-pop-up/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/frankenstein/" rel="tag">#Frankenstein</a> <a href="/tags/maryshelley/" rel="tag">#MaryShelley</a> <a href="/tags/edinburgh/" rel="tag">#Edinburgh</a></p>

<p>Velvetine Verses: Scotland’s Young Makars Poetry Evening<br>11 Dec, Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed</p><p>An evening of poetry and music showcasing poets from four years of the Scottish Poetry Library’s Next Generation Young Makars mentoring scheme. Curated by Ria Smart. </p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/velvetine-verses-scotlands-young-makars-poetry-evening-tickets-1780093410309" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/velvetine-verses-scotlands-young-makars-poetry-evening-tickets-1780093410309"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/velveti</span><span class="invisible">ne-verses-scotlands-young-makars-poetry-evening-tickets-1780093410309</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/edinburgh/" rel="tag">#Edinburgh</a></p>