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I’m happy to announce that for the first time since the original Kickstarter campaign...

Burds, Baists and Bugs: Wildlife Poems in Scots is now available to residents in USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand via my reopened Etsy shop!

https://emseeitch.etsy.com/listing/4489575108

Apologies for the postage costs! I’ve really tried to keep it affordable as I possibly can.

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Assoc for Scottish Literature 1d ago

Oh to be at Crowdieknowe
When the last trumpet blaws,
An’ see the deid come loupin’ owre
The auld grey wa’s…

—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Crowdieknowe”
from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry (Carcanet, 2004)

🎨 : “Crowdieknowe”, by Catriona Campbell (b. 1940). Oil on canvas.

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/selected-poetry/

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Assoc for Scottish Literature 4d ago

…Man sall tak wings;
And, as a bird, flee owre the wa’ o’ the world
To bigg his nest in the braid breast
O’ Cassiopeia
Or whaur the galaxy hings like a watergaw
Lippen on nae sin…

—William Soutar, “Apotheosis”
published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2016)

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Apr 9

It steppit like a stallion,
Wha’s heid hauds up a horn,
And weel the men o’ Scotland kent
It was the unicorn…

—William Soutar (1898–1943), “Birthday”

Another poem for National Unicorn Day 🦄 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #NationalUnicornDay #unicorn

Assoc for Scottish Literature Apr 6

Your carolan’s blythe, bricht bird i the blackthorn bou,
this braw Voar morn, wi trill eftir spirlan trill,
tho you only ken the warld as it liggs the nou,
an nocht but a glisk concerns your chatteran bill…

—Maurice Lindsay, “On Hearin a Merle Singan (Arbroath Day, April 6th, 1946)”
published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL 2016)

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Apr 5

“‘Done is a Battell’ is not only a religious work but also a heroic poem depicting the triumph of good over evil, life over death, light over dark”

—Courtney Brown discusses Dunbar’s poem, & provides a full gloss, on the University of Stirling’s That Scots Lit Blog

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https://thatscotslitblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/23/william-dunbar-done-is-a-battell-on-the-dragon-blak/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #medieval #medievalliterature #Easter #Scots #Scotslanguage

William Dunbar, “Done is a Battell on the Dragon Blak”

William Dunbar, “Done is a Battell on the Dragon Blak” Edited and Introduced by Courtney Brown Little biographical information is available for many poets in Early Modern Scotlan…

That Scots Lit Blog

Assoc for Scottish Literature Apr 5

Done is a battell on the dragon blak,
Our campioun Chryst confoundit hes his force;
The ȝettis of hell ar brokin with a crak,
The signe triumphall rasit is of the croce…

—William Dunbar, c.1460–1520. The poem was most likely written when Dunbar was at James IV’s court

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