LordWoolamalooJan 25

For #BurnsNight : "heaven-sent" Fergusson, inspiration to Burns, lies in the Canongate Kirk. His headstone erected by Burns; years later RL Stevenson planned to restore it. One memorial, three Scots writers, all Roberts.

A wee piece of history https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/3442828274/in/pool-791272@N20/lightbox/

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureOct 17

Ye’re stridin doon the Canongate, brent new
and lookin like ye’ve never been awa,
were never found curled deid upon the straw
in Bedlam’s cells…

—James Robertson, “Fergusson’s Statue”

5/5

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/fergussons-statue/

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureOct 17

A bleary chiel, monger o targes an dirks
redds his windae. Neist Holyrood Kirk

a shop chock fu o fudge. Taxis
judder on the setts…

—Kathleen Jamie, “At Robert Fergusson’s Grave”
published in the London Review of Books, 22 March 2001

4/5

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v23/n06/kathleen-jamie/at-robert-fergusson-s-grave

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureOct 17

Prof Rhona Brown looks at how Fergusson’s death had “not only a profound effect on a key figure in Edinburgh’s medical establishment but also a lasting influence on the therapeutic & psychiatric treatment available in the city”

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2014/06/memorialising-the-death-and-legacy-of-robert-fergusson-romantic-sympathy-and-enlightenment-medical-improvement/

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Memorialising the Death and Legacy of Robert Fergusson: Romantic Sympathy and Enlightenment Medical Improvement - The Bottle Imp

The story of Robert Fergusson (1750-74) is a compelling and, in the end, alarming one. Although Tom Leonard recently (and rightly) rejected the traditional view of the poet as ‘tragic’, instead portraying Fergusson’s life as a ‘triumph’, nineteenth– and twentieth-century biographical accounts have tended to place a magnifying glass over the grim circumstances of his […]

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureOct 17

‘The night is young,’ they said, ‘it’s only nine.
We’ve brought a carriage for you, see, it’s there.
What your blue devils need is a wheen wine…’

—Edwin Morgan, “In the Cells: i.m. Robert Fergusson, 1750–1774”
published in HEAVEN-TAUGHT FERGUSSON, ed. Robert Crawford (Tuckwell Press 2003)

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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureOct 17

Robert Fergusson (1750–1774) died #OTD, 17 Oct, aged just 24. Notable for his poetry in both Scots & English, his works include “Auld Reikie”, “The Daft Days”, & “Hallow Fair”. His legacies are broad, from the literary & cultural to the medical.

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https://robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureOct 16

… while Amy Wilcockson offers a palate cleanser of “Oysters and Aqua Vitae: Food and Drink in Robert Fergusson’s Poems”, washed down with a Tavern Rat cocktail brewed especially for the 250th anniversary of Fergusson’s death …
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/oysters-and-aqua-vitae-food-and-drink-in-robert-fergussons-poems/

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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureAug 25, 2025

“O’er a’ my labours sey your skill”
10 Sep, University of Glasgow – free

In this new poetry collection, across Scots, Gaelic and English, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to the work of the 18th-century Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson.

This celebration will include readings of Fergusson's poetry, poets reading their own works responding to Fergusson, & discussion of Fergusson's life & legacy.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-book-launch-and-celebration-oer-a-my-labours-sey-your-skill-tickets-1567701109219

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Glasgow Book Launch and Celebration: 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill'

Join us in Glasgow for the launch of the new poetry collection 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.

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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureMar 11, 2025

Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth
18 March, University of Aberdeen & online – free

A talk by Professor Rhona Brown of the University of Glasgow

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https://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-events/events/21986/

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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureNov 12, 2024

Robert Fergusson: Poet, Prodigal Son, or Tavern Rat?

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the death of poet Robert Fergusson. Join Professor Rhona Brown, Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures at the University of Glasgow, & Scottish National Portrait Gallery curator Liz Louis as they discuss the life, death & artistic networks of Edinburgh’s unofficial poet laureate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjeoOXUQVXg

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Robert Fergusson | Poet, Prodigal Son, or Tavern Rat?

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