Coming May 2026:
The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray & the Arts
Ed. Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Camille Manfredi, & Kirsten Stirling

Interrogating Alasdair Gray’s literary & visual artistic practice & exploring relationships between these forms

@litstudies

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-alasdair-gray-and-the-arts.html

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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/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #painting #art #visualart

A bony horse with a bird on it droops its head.
With a cart of skulls like potatoes Death drives onward…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “Bruegel”
from DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)

A poem for World Art Day

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/m0h6nl?hl=en

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mar a rachadh sinn, clann na dùthcha,
mach as a bhaile-mhór, air feasgar àrd
samhraidh…

—Aonghas MacNeacail, “feasgar samhraidh (do Dhaibhidh A. MacDhòmhnaill)”
from THE HUNTERIAN POEMS, ed. Alan Riach (Freight, 2015)

Today, 15 April, is World Art Day

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/landscape-outside-glasgow-138431

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"I cannot quite believe I am even writing this, but #Reform hopes to become the official opposition to the #SNP in #Holyrood in May and sees this election for the #Scottish parliament as the first step to seriously competing for power in Scotland in five years' time."

#UKPol #ScotPol #ReformUK

https://news.sky.com/story/nigel-farage-is-on-the-cusp-of-real-success-but-challenges-remain-13531542

Take Four Books: Jenni Fagan

On BBC Sounds: Jenni Fagan tells presenter James Crawford about her new novel, The Delusions, in which she takes readers to the afterlife – or, at least, to its anteroom. Jenni’s three chosen influences are Nina Cassian’s poem “Temptation” (1966), Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN (1818), & Jeanette Winterson’s WEIGHT (2005)

@bookstodon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002tzm1

#Scottish #literature #JenniFagan #womenwriters #novel

We used to think the universe was made
of tiny invisible pin-points of energy, jostling
and tumbling and buzzing together…

—J.O. Morgan, “We used to think the universe was made…”
published in INTERFERENCE PATTERN (Jonathan Cape, 2016)

Today, 14 April, is World Quantum Day!

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/431702/interference-pattern-by-j-o-morgan/9781910702024

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #WorldQuantumDay #physics #quantumphysics #quantum