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192d

Here are some work in progress shots from my new Highland cow painting. Enjoy!

https://www.artheroes.de/de/motiv/Hochlandrind-mit-Locken/1386506/132

#cow #highlander #cattle #farm #MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #creativeToots #ArtForSale #ArtMatters #HumanArtist #ArtCollector #handmade #farming #animals #portrait #nature #rural #scottish #animal #wip #wipwednesday #workinprogress #ArtistAtWork

Collage of four stages of my acrylic painting Curly Highland cow. Curly highland cow is a handmade acrylic painting by artist Karen Kaspar.
A shaggy Highland cow with a thick, reddish-brown coat looks directly at the viewer, its long horns extending outward. The background is a solid light blue, contrasting with the textured appearance of the cow's fur.

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153d

Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died 200 years ago #OTD, 19 April 1824

This poem was written in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…

#Byron #LordByron #Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving

So We'll Go No More a Roving
BY Lord Byron (George Gordon)

So, we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon.

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123d

“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”

Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married #OTD, 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof Penny Fielding explores the dangerous #collaboration between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #WomenWriters #humour

@bookstodon

https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/

Book cover

More New Arabian Nights

THE DYNAMITER

By R. L. & F. Stevenson

London

Longmans Green & Co.

Price One Shilling

Cover illustration shows a man in a Victorian frock coat nervously descending a ladder which is propped up against a tall stone wall. At the top of the wall we can the head and shoulders of a smiling man with side-whiskers and a slouch hat.

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118d

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?

Buckle up – it’s going to be a long, wild #Scottish #literature 🧵 …

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108d

“Of aal the fish there iss in the sea,” said Para Handy, “nothing bates the herrin’; it’s a providence they’re plentiful and them so cheap!”

Neil Munro (1863–1930) – journalist, novelist, short-story writer, & poet – was born #OTD, 3 June. Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of Herring discusses Munro’s PARA HANDY stories, as well as giving the full text of the tale “The Herring – A Gossip”

#Scottish #literature #humour #shortstory #herring #19thcentury #20thcentury

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https://www.herripedia.com/para-handy/

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104d

“[Milne’s] cryogenics story, ‘Ten Thousand Years in Ice’, in which a survivor from an ancient advanced civilisation is revived in the present, unintentionally became one of science fiction’s great literary hoaxes”

Robert Duncan Milne (1844–1899) was born #OTD, 7 June, in Cupar, Fife. He emigrated to the USA & became America’s first full-time writer of #sciencefiction

#Scottish #literature #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury

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https://theconversation.com/remembering-the-lost-father-of-american-science-fiction-and-his-scottish-roots-78968

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73d

DON’T. EVEN. ASK. TOO. HOT.
New Writing Scotland 42
Ed. by Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici, & Niall O’Gallagher
🚨OUT 29 JULY – PREORDER NOW🚨

“Here is writing that is not afraid to get up close, to name the things that scare us, but that also reawakens us to the grace of love, the call of place and community, the thrill of music, the consolation of art, and, not least, the presence, despite everything, of the marvellous.”

#Scottish #literature #shortstories #poetry

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws42/

Book cover

On a red background, a blue-and-black skull grins in the top left-hand corner. Below, a stylised match flares, its curling yellow flame resembling a question mark. The book title, at a slight tilt, marches down the right hand side:

DON’T.
EVEN.
ASK.
TOO.
HOT.

The letters are white but the initial letter of each word is blue, spelling out DEATH.

At the foot of the cover:
NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 42
Edited by Kirstin Innes and Chis Powici
Gaelic Editor: Niall O’Gallagher

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CONTENTS (first page)

Introduction
New Writing Scotland 43: submission instructions

Shasta Hanif Ali . . . . . How to get eggs off your windows (following a racist incident)
Henry Bell . . . . . An Obvious Secret
C. D. Boyland . . . . . Saint Sebastian
Colin Bramwell . . . . . Devotional Music
Eve Brandon . . . . . Bog Body, Again
Nathan Breakenridge . . . . . Frank
Nathaniel Cairney . . . . . In which two magpies realise they are not alone
E. E. Chandler . . . . . Things You Left Me
Rachel Clive . . . . . I met your sister today
Claire Deans . . . . . Getting Rid of Gabriella
Lara Delmage . . . . . Crush / I don’t cry
Johana Egermayer . . . . . Àite nan Iomadh Loch
Graham Fulton . . . . . Do You Feel
Niamh Gordon . . . . . Food
Zoë Green . . . . . Leven Street
Lydia Harris . . . . . Robert Dick
Benjamin K. Herrington . . . . . Yo’ Momma
Michael Hopcroft . . . . . Echoes from Calder Glen
Ellis Jamieson . . . . . Stolon
Ioulia Kolovou . . . . . [A Bilingual Dictionary of Loss & Mourning Weaved with Fragments from a Journal]
Ruby Lawrence . . . . . Moulting
Hannah Ledlie . . . . . Sleeper / The Embroidery
Kate McAllan . . . . . Gerry
Donnchadh MacCàba . . . . . Còig Mionaidean
Hayli McClain . . . . . In All its Moving Parts

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CONTENTS (second page)

Jennifer McCormack . . . . . Always, Something is Lost
Rowan MacDonald . . . . . 23 Club
Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin . . . . . Litrichean nan Leughadair
Carol McKay . . . . . Watching Orion While You Sleep / Pawn
Gordon Mackie . . . . . We Waste Away Like Something Rotten
Jane McKie . . . . . When we stay by the sea we drink only White Star
Iain MacRath . . . . . Dheigheadh sinn a dh’iasgach
Luke Mackle . . . . . Carluke
Emily Munro . . . . . Frog vs. Prince / To start a fire
Donald S. Murray . . . . . Tales of a Cosmic-Crofter
Sindhu Rajasekaran . . . . . unreal love/r(s)
Martin Raymond . . . . . The Path
Aimee Elizabeth Skelton . . . . . Across the Inner Sound
George Smith . . . . . Wild Flowers
Morag Smith . . . . . Renaissance Bat
Caitlin Stobie . . . . . Deep Dive
Tia Thomson . . . . . Thus’ air mo chuimhne
John Tinneny . . . . . 923 / A Riddle
Jacques Tsiantar . . . . . Fruits of the Sea
Claire Urquhart . . . . . Dipper / Exchange
Lynn Valentine . . . . . Midnight, Midsummer, Croft na Creich / St Kilda Crossing
Lorna J. Waite . . . . . Wee Mercury
Catherine Wilson Garry . . . . . Besom
Ania Zolkiewska . . . . . Shrapnel from Kharkiv

Biographies

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🥳 !PUBLISHED TODAY!🥳

DON’T. EVEN. ASK. TOO. HOT.
New Writing Scotland 42
Ed. by Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici, & Niall O’Gallagher

“No, the times are not subtle. But the many, varied ways the writers in this book approach them are, and with that subtlety comes space for tenderness, gentleness and the tiny moments of everyday interaction that make us human.”

Available from all good (& evil) bookshops!

@bookstodon

#Scottish #literature #shortstories #poetry #writing

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws42/

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18d

A birthday 🧵 for Violet Jacob (1863–1946) – poet, novelist, short story writer, & key figure in the 20th-century Scottish renaissance & #Scots language revival – born #OTD, 1 September

#Scottish #literature #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters
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https://www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/violet-jacob

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