The Short But Magical Life of John Keats
Poet John Keats, in his short life, wrote some of the most beloved poems in the English language.
https://www.thecollector.com/john-keats-english-poet/
Books by Keats at PG:
The Short But Magical Life of John Keats
Poet John Keats, in his short life, wrote some of the most beloved poems in the English language.
https://www.thecollector.com/john-keats-english-poet/
Books by Keats at PG:
Nuair a bha Gàidhlig aig na h-Eoin – When the Birds Spoke Gaelic
28 March, Isle of Lewis. £12
Port na h-Eala & Skylark’s Ascension are two of the many songs, stories & tunes in the Gaelic tradition featuring or inspired by birds. Join Màiri MacMillan, Alana MacInnes, Gillebrìde MacMillan, Padruig Moireasdan & Coll MacDonald for an evening of songs, stories, folklore & music inspired by birdlife
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mairimacmillan/2103909
#Scottish #literature #song #music #folklore #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #birds
“It is not a romantic Tale that the Reader is here presented with, but a real History. Not the Adventures of a Robinson Crusoe, a Colonel Jack, or a Moll Flanders, but the Actions of the HIGHLAND ROGUE…”
Rob Roy MacGregor was baptised #OTD, 7 March, 1671. Walter Scott’s novel made the Scottish outlaw internationally famous – & created the model for today’s roguish antiheroes
@litstudies
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#Scottish #literature #history #historicalfiction #romanticism #WalterScott
Currently on BBC Sounds: THE STATE OF THE ART by Iain M. Banks
In 1977, the Culture starship GCU ARBITRARY discovers Earth: a primitive society on the edge of self-destruction.
When Contact agent Dervley Linter decides to go native, can Diziet Sma change his mind?
@bookstodon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hv1dz
#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #audiobook
Climate change to identity: The vital lessons in Metamorphoses, Ovid's 2,000-year-old poem
You might think that Ovid's Metamorphoses, an ancient compendium of the greatest Greek myths, would hold little relevance today. But its tales of desire and deceit reveal surprising parallels with contemporary concerns, from climate change and the refugee crisis to gender-based violence and identity.
by Cath Pound
Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate it, Project Gutenberg created a new bookshelf titled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706
More information about these magnificent women can be foud in PG´s March Newsletter:
https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was baptised #OTD, 19 March.
George Orwell thought him “Scotland’s best novelist”, “whose outstanding intellectual honesty may have been connected with the fact that he was not an Englishman” (TRIBUNE magazine, 22/9/1944)
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Typing for Love or Money
The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/
At PG:
"The Story of the Typewriter":
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60794
Books by Henry James:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/113
"Henry James at Work" by Theodora Bosanquet:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63377
Books by T. S. Eliot:
Scotland, you have invoked her name
just once too often
in your Presbyterian living rooms.
She’s heard, yea
even unto heathenish Arabia
your vixen’s bark of poverty…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Queen of Sheba”
first published in THE QUEEN OF SHEBA (Bloodaxe Books,1994)
A poem for International Womens’ Day
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #womenwriters #InternationalWomensDay #QueenofSheba
Edwin Only Helped
Women Writers of the Scottish Literary Renaissance: the handmaids, midwives, mothers, mistresses, cooks, nannies, & skivvies to that literary revolution. Oh, & contributors, too. Let’s not forget about their own writing! Again…
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/edwin-only-helped/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #InternationalWomensDay
All our lives, in every city,
out of every landscape
the waters of the Alhambra
have been murmuring to us…
—Imtiaz Dharker, “Women Bathing”
from The Terrorist At My Table (Bloodaxe Books, 2006)
A poem for International Woman’s Day
https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-terrorist-at-my-table-837
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #womenwriters #InternationalWomensDay
Radcliffe Acquires a Black Feminist’s Archive
An architect of Black women’s studies, Barbara Smith introduced the concepts of “identity politics” and “intersectionality.”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Black fiction & Feminism at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=black+fiction
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=feminism
I didna speak
whan it bleetert doon.
Ma man wis gey taen up wi’ getting us
sortit, an’ it wis fell lang afore we had
the bastes in an’ the fowl settled…
—Eunice Buchanan, “Wife to Noah”
published in MARKINGS 30 (2010)
A poem for International Women’s Day
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/wife-noah/
#Scottish #literature #InternationalWomensDay #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
The Real Count of Monte Cristo Was Alexandre Dumas’ Father, a Trailblazing Black General
Ahead of the March 22 premiere of a new TV adaptation, learn about the life of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the French Army officer who inspired the beloved novel
by Joel Sams
The Count of Monte Cristo at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184
Her hair is cut into that perfect slant –
An innovation circa ’64 by Vidal Sassoon.
She’s wearing C&A’s best effort at Quant
Ending just below the knicker-line, daisy-strewn…
—Liz Lochhead, “Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class, 1966”
Published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Birlinn, 2016)
A poem for International Women’s Day
in the room/in the street/on the stair/where some men make free
in plain sight or in secret as if we were sweetmeat…
—Pippa Little, “Spartaca”
published in #MeToo: A women’s poetry anthology (Fair Acre Press, 2018)
A poem for International Women’s Day
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #InternationalWomensDay #MeToo
“Scottishness is as much myth as it is history, which means that we must guard it carefully, retell it beautifully &, more than anything else, love it wisely”
John Burnside (1955–2024) was born #OTD, 19 March. His career as an author & poet spanned nearly 40 years
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https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/07/in-search-of-a-homeland
#Scottish #literature #poetry #novels #JohnBurnside #Scottishness #ScottishIdentity
"The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose."
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire
The Chronicler of Decline
Is it too late for our republic to learn from Gibbon’s epic history of Rome’s collapse?
by Ed Simon
https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-chronicler-of-decline
Gibbon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/375
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Unsung Author Jane Austen And Brontë Fans Will Love
The Victorian writer had the wit of one, and the friendship of the other.
By Amy Glover
Gaskell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/220
#OTD in 1892, Vita Sackville-West is born.
"Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life.... She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West
Books by Sackville-West at PG:
How we could ever have come to this pass?
Is all we are asking…
—James Findlay Hendry (1912–1986), “Question & Answer”
With GS Fraser & Henry Treece, the author, poet & translator JF Hendry was a contributor to the “New Apocalyptics” poetic movement of the 1930s & 40s
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #warpoetry #20thcentury #WW2
How Burns Suppers Became a Global Phenomenon
What if the traditional Burns Night could fuse cultures & challenge traditions? Dr Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman from the University of Glasgow reveals how this centuries-old tribute to Scotland’s national poet is transforming around the world
Responding to Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
15 April, University of Glasgow – free, ticketed
Rachelle Atalla in conversation with Rodge Glass, presented by The Alasdair Gray Archive. Rachelle Atalla will read from her newly commissioned short story, “Waste Management”, which delves into Glasgow’s hidden subterranean layers, drawing inspiration from LANARK & the city’s sanitation infrastructure
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-to-alasdair-grays-lanark-tickets-1984371725248
“not only is there no invocation of the free market […Smith] plainly sees that government, not private industry, is the only force capable of effectively ‘erecting and maintaining’ the technically unprofitable but nevertheless indispensable ‘publick works’ and ‘publick institutions’”
—Adam Smith’s THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was published 250 years ago #OTD, 8 March 1776. Evan Gottlieb examines Smith’s “Invisible Hand”
you don’t get prose in anapaestic dimeters
nobody publishes their first slim volume of prose
aristotle never wrote The Proses
—Tom Leonard, “100 Differences Between Poetry & Prose”
Today, 21 March, is World Poetry Day!
https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose/100-differences-between-poetry-and-prose.html