literature

<p>THE Q&amp;A: AMBROSE PARRY</p><p>Married pair Marisa Haetzman &amp; Christopher Brookmyre write historical crime fiction as “Ambrose Parry”. In The List’s Q&amp;A they muse on the benefits of apple corers, being a gay panda, &amp; putting your hands in the air like you just don’t care</p><p><a href="https://list.co.uk/news/the-qa-ambrose-parry-46686" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="list.co.uk/news/the-qa-ambrose-parry-46686"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">list.co.uk/news/the-qa-ambrose</span><span class="invisible">-parry-46686</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#crimefiction</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#historicalfiction</a></p>

<p>Gaelic &amp; Scots: Cultural Connections &amp; Inspirations in the 20th Century</p><p>Talks form the FRLSU’s May 6 webinar are now online, looking at</p><p>▶️ George Campbell Hay | Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa<br>▶️ William Neill | Uilleam Nèill<br>▶️ Douglas Young<br>▶️ translations between Gaelic &amp; Scots<br>▶️ Derick Thomson | Ruaraidh MacThòmais &amp; GAIRM</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvLWE-AoQoGZ7NF6Vt2oYlKn74u0_TKsW" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvLWE-AoQoGZ7NF6Vt2oYlKn74u0_TKsW"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/playlist?list=</span><span class="invisible">PLvLWE-AoQoGZ7NF6Vt2oYlKn74u0_TKsW</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/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/translation/" rel="tag">#translation</a> <a href="/tags/minoritylanguages/" rel="tag">#minoritylanguages</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a></p>

<p>How Ancient Greece Shaped Ovid, Rome’s Master Poet</p><p>By Nick Kampouris</p><p><a href="https://greekreporter.com/2025/05/23/ancient-greece-shape-ovid-rome-poet/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="greekreporter.com/2025/05/23/ancient-greece-shape-ovid-rome-poet/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">greekreporter.com/2025/05/23/a</span><span class="invisible">ncient-greece-shape-ovid-rome-poet/</span></a></p><p>Ovid at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2868" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2868"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2868</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Lesya Ukrainka: Ukraine’s Beloved Writer and Activist</p><p>“Lesya Ukrainka” was a carefully considered pseudonym for a writer who left behind a legacy of poems, plays, essays and activism for the Ukrainian language.</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich from the archives</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/lesya-ukrainka-ukraines-beloved-writer-and-activist/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/lesya-ukrainka-ukraines-beloved-writer-and-activist/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/lesya-ukrainka</span><span class="invisible">-ukraines-beloved-writer-and-activist/</span></a></p><p>Ukraine at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=ukraine" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=ukraine"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=ukraine</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Translating Alasdair Gray</p><p>Recorded at the Alasdair Gray Archive on 23 May: a conversation between Professor Enrico Terrinoni (translator of Gray’s work in Italian) &amp; Dr Rodge Glass (Gray’s biographer).</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/fXaiJeJE33k?si=0UG58FFH5DiiMgAP" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="youtu.be/fXaiJeJE33k?si=0UG58FFH5DiiMgAP"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/fXaiJeJE33k?si=0UG58F</span><span class="invisible">FH5DiiMgAP</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/translation/" rel="tag">#translation</a> <a href="/tags/literarytranslation/" rel="tag">#literarytranslation</a> <a href="/tags/italian/" rel="tag">#Italian</a></p>

<p>Val McDermid – A Kick Up the Arts Live Podcast Recording<br>9 July, Portobello Bookshop, Edinburgh. Online &amp; in person, tickets £0–£8.99</p><p>Join Val McDermid and Nicola Meighan for a special live recording of the Scottish Arts &amp; Culture Podcast, A Kick Up the Arts, to celebrate the paperback publication of Val’s latest book, QUEEN MACBETH.</p><p><a href="https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/val-mcdermid-with-nicola-meighan-queen-macbeth" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/val-mcdermid-with-nicola-meighan-queen-macbeth"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theportobellobookshop.com/</span><span class="invisible">events/val-mcdermid-with-nicola-meighan-queen-macbeth</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/edinburgh/" rel="tag">#Edinburgh</a> <a href="/tags/valmcdermid/" rel="tag">#ValMcDermid</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#historicalfiction</a></p>

<p>What Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before the age of twenty? Wrote a book that became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris and married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches? </p><p>Buckle up – it’s going to be a long, wild 🧵 …</p><p>1/18</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> <a href="/tags/edwardian/" rel="tag">#Edwardian</a></p>

<p>“I don’t write about people that are nice people. They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.”</p><p>Giving “people like that” a voice: a conversation with Agnes Owens (1926–2014) – born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 24 May<br>A 🎂 🧵</p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises/89?lang=en" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises/89?lang=en"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.openedition.org/etude</span><span class="invisible">secossaises/89?lang=en</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/workingclass/" rel="tag">#WorkingClass</a></p>

<p>A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction</p><p>B. Pietras on Queering “Flint Anchor,” LGBTQ Historical Stories, and Finding the Present in the Past</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/a-past-most-queer-remembering-sylvia-townsend-warners-radical-gay-historical-fiction/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/a-past-most-queer-remembering-sylvia-townsend-warners-radical-gay-historical-fiction/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/a-past-most-queer-r</span><span class="invisible">emembering-sylvia-townsend-warners-radical-gay-historical-fiction/</span></a></p><p>Sylvia Townsend at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=sylvia+townsend" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=sylvia+townsend"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=sylvia+townsend</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/lgbt/" rel="tag">#lgbt</a></p>

<p>The International Council on Archives / Conseil international des archives was founded <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 9 June, 1948, under the auspices of UNESCO.</p><p>To celebrate, here’s Edwin Morgan’s poem “Archives”, published in Centenary Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2020)</p><p><a href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/ind</span><span class="invisible">exer?product=9781784109967</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/archives/" rel="tag">#archives</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/internationalarchivesday/" rel="tag">#InternationalArchivesDay</a> <a href="/tags/unesco/" rel="tag">#UNESCO</a> <a href="/tags/edwinmorgan/" rel="tag">#EdwinMorgan</a></p>

<p>A Restless Intellect</p><p>“Widely respected – &amp; regularly attacked (once physically) – in her lifetime, she is now largely neglected; an intriguing aside to feminism or to agnosticism. Dixie deserves better.”</p><p>Florence Dixie (1855–1905) – novelist, poet, dramatist, war correspondent, campaigning journalist, suffragist, &amp; more – was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 25 May. Valentina Bold explores Dixie’s roving life</p><p>@litstudies </p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2021/12/a-restless-intellect-florence-dixie-1855-1905/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2021/12/a-restless-intellect-florence-dixie-1855-1905/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2021/1</span><span class="invisible">2/a-restless-intellect-florence-dixie-1855-1905/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a></p>

<p>Well Versed Author Event: Peter Mackay</p><p>18 June, free online</p><p>Open Book welcomes Scotland’s Makar Peter Mackay to share some poems, have a chat, &amp; give attendees a chance to ask questions. Part of Open Book’s Well Versed series in partnership with StAnza International Poetry Festival.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/well-versed-author-events-peter-mackay-tickets-1383659144749" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/well-versed-author-events-peter-mackay-tickets-1383659144749"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/well-ve</span><span class="invisible">rsed-author-events-peter-mackay-tickets-1383659144749</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></p>

<p>Where’s Brude? Where’s Brude?<br>So many souls to be saved!</p><p>—Edwin Morgan, “Columba’s Song”<br>in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)</p><p>Today, 9 June, is the feast day of St Columba (c.521–597), who led the Irish monastic missions to Dál Riata &amp; the kingdoms of the Picts</p><p>1/4</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/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/edwinmorgan/" rel="tag">#EdwinMorgan</a> <a href="/tags/saints/" rel="tag">#saints</a> <a href="/tags/stcolumba/" rel="tag">#StColumba</a></p>

<p>Circe in The Odyssey: The Enchantress Who Defied a Hero</p><p>A goddess, a witch, a sorceress—Circe in The Odyssey has been called many things.</p><p>By Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/circe-the-odyssey-enchantress/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/circe-the-odyssey-enchantress/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/circe-the</span><span class="invisible">-odyssey-enchantress/</span></a></p><p>The Odyssey at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/mythology/" rel="tag">#mythology</a></p>

<p>“The Sodgers”, by Alexander Scott (1920–1989)</p><p>Alexander Scott landed in Normandy with the Gordon Highlanders, &amp; saw action in the Ardennes &amp; crossing the Rhine. He later became Head of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, &amp; was president of ASL from 1976–79</p><p>Published in FROM THE LINE: Scottish War Poetry 1914–1945, ed. David Goldie &amp; Roderick Watson</p><p><a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asls.org.uk/publications/books</span><span class="invisible">/volumes/from_the_line/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#ScotsLanguage</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/dday/" rel="tag">#DDay</a> <a href="/tags/ww2/" rel="tag">#WW2</a> <a href="/tags/warpoetry/" rel="tag">#WarPoetry</a></p>

<p>‘Do you know what we should do<br>what turns over in my mind?<br>Begin to sing old songs!<br>Lend voice to our runes.’</p><p>Reading the Kalevala</p><p>By Lyonel Perabo </p><p><a href="https://wildhunt.org/2025/06/reading-the-kalevala.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wildhunt.org/2025/06/reading-the-kalevala.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wildhunt.org/2025/06/reading-t</span><span class="invisible">he-kalevala.html</span></a></p><p>Kalevala at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/5186" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/5186</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>When you have walked through a town, as an infantryman<br>you’ll never go through streets the same way again…</p><p>—Colin McIntyre (1927–2012), “Infantryman”<br>Published in FROM THE LINE: Scottish War Poetry 1914–1945</p><p><a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asls.org.uk/publications/books</span><span class="invisible">/volumes/from_the_line/</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/dday/" rel="tag">#DDay</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/warpoetry/" rel="tag">#WarPoetry</a> <a href="/tags/ww2/" rel="tag">#WW2</a></p>

<p>From the Scottish Poetry Library archives: poet &amp; novelist John Burnside discusses fellow Scottish poet W.S. Graham. During the talk, recorded at the National Library of Scotland, Burnside talks about poetry &amp; visual art, the poet as nomad, &amp; “feeding the dead”</p><p><a href="https://splpodcast.podbean.com/e/john-burnside-on-ws-graham" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="splpodcast.podbean.com/e/john-burnside-on-ws-graham"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">splpodcast.podbean.com/e/john-</span><span class="invisible">burnside-on-ws-graham</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/visualart/" rel="tag">#visualart</a> <a href="/tags/poets/" rel="tag">#poets</a> <a href="/tags/johnburnside/" rel="tag">#JohnBurnside</a> <a href="/tags/wsgraham/" rel="tag">#WSGraham</a></p>

<p>We’re the D-Day Dodgers out in Italy,<br>Always on the vino, always on the spree…</p><p>—“The Ballad of the D-Day Dodgers”, a WW2 soldiers’ song collected by Hamish Henderson<br>Sung by Rod Paterson</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDXoXx7RRWs&amp;list=OLAK5uy_lyHb3w_CdLiyDsHl84M6obGIoyIc2Ydl4&amp;index=2" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDXoXx7RRWs&amp;list=OLAK5uy_lyHb3w_CdLiyDsHl84M6obGIoyIc2Ydl4&amp;index=2"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDXoXx</span><span class="invisible">7RRWs&amp;list=OLAK5uy_lyHb3w_CdLiyDsHl84M6obGIoyIc2Ydl4&amp;index=2</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/song/" rel="tag">#song</a> <a href="/tags/soldiers/" rel="tag">#soldiers</a> <a href="/tags/dday/" rel="tag">#DDay</a> <a href="/tags/warpoetry/" rel="tag">#warpoetry</a> <a href="/tags/italy/" rel="tag">#Italy</a></p>

<p>as we find a way to wipe your armpit<br>without lifting your arm up and away</p><p>you say, you’ve never seen me so (I forget<br>the word you use and replace it with close</p><p>as in, we’ve never been so close) and I say<br>I was thinking that…</p><p>—Kathrine Sowerby, “about your armpit”<br>published in GUTTER 28</p><p>A poem for <a href="/tags/pride/" rel="tag">#Pride</a> 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️</p><p><a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/about-your-armpit/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/about-your-armpit/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.</span><span class="invisible">uk/poem/about-your-armpit/</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/pride/" rel="tag">#Pride</a> <a href="/tags/pride2025/" rel="tag">#Pride2025</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a></p>

<p>The Scottish anthropologist who inspired Dracula</p><p>“More decidedly evil is the nosferatu, or vampire, in which every Roumanian peasant believes as firmly as he does in heaven or hell…”</p><p>—from THE LAND BEYOND THE FOREST: Facts, Figures, &amp; Fancies from Transylvania (1888), by Airdrie’s own Emily Gerard. Gerard’s work was a key part of Bram Stoker’s research materials for Dracula.</p><p><a href="/tags/draculaday/" rel="tag">#DraculaDay</a> 🧛‍♂️</p><p><a href="https://crimereads.com/the-scottish-anthropologist-who-inspired-dracula/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="crimereads.com/the-scottish-anthropologist-who-inspired-dracula/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crimereads.com/the-scottish-an</span><span class="invisible">thropologist-who-inspired-dracula/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/romania/" rel="tag">#Romania</a> <a href="/tags/vampire/" rel="tag">#Vampire</a> <a href="/tags/dracula/" rel="tag">#Dracula</a></p>

<p>On a quiet riverbank a boy meets a stranger going through a rough patch, as the two keep tabs on a controversial rewilding project</p><p>Currently on BBC Sounds: “The Give &amp; Take”, by Linda Cracknell </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bv3p" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bv3p"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002b</span><span class="invisible">v3p</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/drama/" rel="tag">#drama</a> <a href="/tags/radiodrama/" rel="tag">#radiodrama</a> <a href="/tags/rewilding/" rel="tag">#rewilding</a></p>

<p>To quote my distant friend Imran MacLeod,<br>“A man with no culture has no identity”…</p><p>—Hamid Shami, “Lost”<br>published in Wish I Was Here: a Scottish multicultural anthology (pocketbooks, 2000)</p><p><a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/lost/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/lost/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.</span><span class="invisible">uk/poem/lost/</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/multiculturalism/" rel="tag">#multiculturalism</a></p>

<p>Mrs Bram Stoker’s recipe for “Dracula Salad” – published in CRUDEN RECIPES &amp; WRINKLES (Cruden Parish Church, 1912), &amp; contributed shortly after Bram Stoker’s death – via Mike Shepherd on Facebook </p><p><a href="/tags/draculaday/" rel="tag">#DraculaDay</a> 🧛‍♂️ </p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/scotlit/posts/10161485849160090/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.facebook.com/groups/scotlit/posts/10161485849160090/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.facebook.com/groups/scotli</span><span class="invisible">t/posts/10161485849160090/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/bramstoker/" rel="tag">#BramStoker</a> <a href="/tags/dracula/" rel="tag">#Dracula</a> <a href="/tags/recipes/" rel="tag">#recipes</a> <a href="/tags/salad/" rel="tag">#Salad</a></p>

<p>Ye think thon wes the end?<br>Yon meetin in the wuids<br>When Thracian Orpheus heard the drum, the cries,<br>The whud o the bacchantes’ thrangan feet…</p><p>—“Orpheus”, by Tom Scott (1918–1995), born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 6 June<br>Published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS</p><p>1/3</p><p><a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asls.org.uk/publications/books</span><span class="invisible">/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/</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/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/mythology/" rel="tag">#Mythology</a> <a href="/tags/greekmythology/" rel="tag">#GreekMythology</a></p>