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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 1 Jul 1943 gay Dutch anti-Nazi resistance fighter Willem Arondeus was executed after attacking the Amsterdam ID registry. Before his death Willem asked a friend to testify after the war that &quot;homosexuals are not cowards&quot; <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8082/willem-arondeus-executed" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8082/willem-arondeus-executed"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8082/willem-arondeus-executed</span></a></p>

<p>The Battle of Harlaw was fought <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 24 July, 1411. Before the battle the Clan Donald bard Lachlann Mòr MacMhuirich composed this brosnachadh or incitement to battle. Each line contains 2 describing words, &amp; each successive pair of lines all begin with the same letter while retaining the 7-syllable format of each line. The poet works through the entire Gaelic alphabet in sequence.</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/inverurie/battleofharlaw/index.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/inverurie/battleofharlaw/index.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk</span><span class="invisible">/inverurie/battleofharlaw/index.html</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/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a> <a href="/tags/medieval/" rel="tag">#medieval</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/battle/" rel="tag">#battle</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 2 Jul 1928, the UK&#x27;s Representation of the People Act comes into effect, finally giving women equal voting rights to men. It increases the number of women eligible to vote to 15 million. </p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/votesforwomen/" rel="tag">#VotesForWomen</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856 playwright George Bernard Shaw was born.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B</span><span class="invisible">ernard_Shaw</span></a></p><p>George Bernard Shaw books at PG</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/467" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/467"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/467</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/plays/" rel="tag">#plays</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>Elizabeth Hamilton (1756?–1816) was (probably) born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 25 July. We republished her 1808 novel THE COTTAGERS OF GLENBURNIE, edited by Pam Perkins: an entertaining &amp; skilful dissection of 18th-century class issues, British imperialism, &amp; war </p><p>@litstudies </p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/glenburnie/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/glenburnie/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asls.org.uk/publications/books</span><span class="invisible">/volumes/glenburnie/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1883, Franz Kafka is born</p><p>Books by Kafka at PG</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1735</span></a></p><p>Cover of Der Prozess (German version of The Trial)</p><p><a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT was published <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 31 July 1786.</p><p>Copies are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio: Patrick Scott &amp; Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions</p><p>1/3</p><p><a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/1</span><span class="invisible">1/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/</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/robertburns/" rel="tag">#RobertBurns</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/bookhistory/" rel="tag">#BookHistory</a> <a href="/tags/rarebooks/" rel="tag">#RareBooks</a></p>

<p>“The plotless beauty of his writing, and its fearless look at the emptiness of his own life, put ‘the Scottish Beat’ on a par with Kafka and Camus.”</p><p>—Tony O’Neill on “The junky genius of Alexander Trocchi (1925–1984)”, born 100 years ago <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 30 July – a 🎂 🧵</p><p>1/6</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/aug/23/thejunkygeniusofalexander" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/aug/23/thejunkygeniusofalexander"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/book</span><span class="invisible">sblog/2007/aug/23/thejunkygeniusofalexander</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/trocchi/" rel="tag">#Trocchi</a></p>

<p>When Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, <a href="/tags/orkney/" rel="tag">#Orkney</a> &amp; <a href="/tags/shetland/" rel="tag">#Shetland</a> were annexed by the Scottish crown <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 20 Feb, 1472</p><p>NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future</p><p>1/8</p><p><a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/northern-ness/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/northern-ness/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/0</span><span class="invisible">7/northern-ness/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/orkney/" rel="tag">#Orkney</a> <a href="/tags/shetland/" rel="tag">#Shetland</a> <a href="/tags/orcadian/" rel="tag">#Orcadian</a> <a href="/tags/shetlandic/" rel="tag">#Shetlandic</a> <a href="/tags/norse/" rel="tag">#Norse</a></p>

<p>Cuil-lodair, is Briseadh na h-Eaglaise,<br>is briseadh nan tacannan –<br>lamhachas-làidir dà thrian de ar comas;<br>’se seòltachd tha dhìth oirinn…</p><p>—“Cruaidh?” (“Steel?”), by Ruaraidh MacThòmais (Derick Thomson, 1921–2012) – born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 5 Aug. A 🎂 🧵 </p><p>1/6</p><p><a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/cruaidh/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/cruaidh/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.</span><span class="invisible">uk/poem/cruaidh/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</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>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*. </p><p>She&#x27;d got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him.</p><p>Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#WomenInSTEM</a> <a href="/tags/europeanhistory/" rel="tag">#EuropeanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 7 Aug, 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson boarded the SS Devonia to make the ten-day passage from Greenock to New York to pursue his thwarted relationship with Fanny Osbourne. In THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT he gives a vivid, sharp, &amp; engaging account of his (impoverished) travels to &amp; in America – read the first 5 chapters free 👇</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/the_amateur_emigrant/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/the_amateur_emigrant/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asls.org.uk/publications/books</span><span class="invisible">/free-publications/the_amateur_emigrant/</span></a></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/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> <a href="/tags/travelwriting/" rel="tag">#travelwriting</a> <a href="/tags/robertlouisstevenson/" rel="tag">#RobertLouisStevenson</a> <a href="/tags/emigration/" rel="tag">#emigration</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 7 Aug1948, Fanny Blankers-Koen wins her fourth gold Olympic medal at a single games: the first woman to do so.</p><p>Fanny had been regarded by critics as &#x27;too old&#x27; at 30, and nicknamed &#x27;the Flying Housewife”. Yes, really. 🙄</p><p>Watch footage here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_G0H-b3QE" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_G0H-b3QE"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_G0H</span><span class="invisible">-b3QE</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/olympicwomen/" rel="tag">#OlympicWomen</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>Alasdair Maclean (1926–1994) was born 100 years ago <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 16 March. Maclean left school at 14 to work in the shipyards, before travelling the world in the Merchant Marine &amp; as a National Service infantryman. His 2 poetry collections, published in the 1970s, were critically acclaimed, and his one full-length prose work, the poetic memoir/journal NIGHT FALLS ON ARDNAMURCHAN, is a modern classic.</p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/alasdair-maclean/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/alasdair-maclean/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.</span><span class="invisible">uk/poet/alasdair-maclean/</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/argyll/" rel="tag">#Argyll</a></p>

<p>Anima Celtica: Ella Carmichael as scholar, activist &amp; muse in the Scottish Celtic Revival</p><p>Ella Carmichael (1870–1928) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 9 Aug. Abigail Burnyeat talks about Ella Carmichael &amp; her role in the Scottish Celtic revival. The first female student of Celtic at Edinburgh University, Ella Carmichael was also founder of the Celtic Union &amp; the journal The Celtic Review</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVzPDYfsoQ" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVzPDYfsoQ"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVzPD</span><span class="invisible">YfsoQ</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/folklore/" rel="tag">#folklore</a> <a href="/tags/celticstudies/" rel="tag">#CelticStudies</a> <a href="/tags/celticrevival/" rel="tag">#CelticRevival</a></p>

<p>I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur<br>Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken<br>To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt<br>That damns the vast majority o’ men.</p><p>—from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”</p><p>A 🎂🧵 for Hugh MacDiarmid—born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 11 Aug 1892</p><p>1/8</p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hugh-macdiarmid" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hugh-macdiarmid"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.poetryfoundation.org/poets</span><span class="invisible">/hugh-macdiarmid</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/modernism/" rel="tag">#modernism</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/macdiarmid/" rel="tag">#MacDiarmid</a></p>

<p>Escape to the tailored suit,<br>the pan-loaf speech,<br>the benefits of higher education…</p><p>—“Kailyard &amp; After” by William Neill (1922–2010), b. <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 22 Feb. He wrote poetry in all three of Scotland’s languages &amp; was an active campaigner for Scots &amp; Gaelic </p><p>A 🎂 🧵</p><p>1/4</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/minoritylanguage/" rel="tag">#minoritylanguage</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1880 Radclyffe Hall was born. She was the author of the pioneering lesbian novel &quot;The Well of Loneliness&quot; and was also a poet.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radclyffe_Hall" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radclyffe_Hall"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radclyff</span><span class="invisible">e_Hall</span></a></p><p>Books by Hall at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Radclyffe+Hall" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Radclyffe+Hall"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Radclyffe+Hall</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 12 Aug 1900 Dorvalina Martins was born in Brazil. She set up the rationalist Modern School in her hometown, educating 400 working class children, later raiding a Catholic barracks with her husband to rescue children from poor conditions <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8370/dorvalina-martins-ribas" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8370/dorvalina-martins-ribas"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8370/dorvalina-martins-ribas</span></a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in In 1830, Victor Hugo‘s play Hernani premieres in Paris, eliciting protests from the audience for its attack on Classicism.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernani_(drama)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernani_(drama)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernani_</span><span class="invisible">(drama)</span></a></p><p>&quot;Hernani&quot; (in French) at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9976" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9976</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/drama/" rel="tag">#drama</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> &quot;in 1812, the first two cantos of Lord Byron‘s poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage are published by John Murray in London. Copies sell out in five days, prompting Byron to comment: “I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”&quot;</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-march-20-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-march-20-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-march</span><span class="invisible">-20-2026/</span></a> </p><p>&quot;Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage&quot; at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5131" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5131</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>A’ bheinn luiseanach fhailleanach<br>Mheallanach lìontach,<br>Gun choimeas dh’ a fallaing<br>Air thalamh na Crìosdachd…</p><p>—“Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain”, by Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (Duncan Ban MacIntyre, 1724–1812), one of the greatest <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> poets of the <a href="/tags/c18th/" rel="tag">#C18th</a> – born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 20 March</p><p>A 🎂 🧵</p><p>1/5</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a> <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a></p>

<p>“I can’t begin to convey to you the power of Lindsay’s vision; I found it overwhelming when I first read the book, thirty years ago, &amp; I’ve seldom seen its equal outside Blake.”<br>—Philip Pullman</p><p>David Lindsay (1876–1945) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 3 March – author of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS &amp; other weird works</p><p>A 🎂 🧵</p><p>@bookstodon </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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/metaphysics/" rel="tag">#metaphysics</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thCentury</a> <a href="/tags/cultfiction/" rel="tag">#cultfiction</a></p>

<p>I hear your 𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥, that slow singer,<br>alone at my desk yet walking with you<br>through your valleys and hills, that shining<br>stream bubbling notes of your music<br>your pure Welsh music…</p><p>—Sheila Templeton, “For R.S. Thomas”<br>Published in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30 (ASL, 2012)</p><p>The Welsh poet R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 29 March</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/rsthomas/" rel="tag">#RSThomas</a></p>