Brian LavelleIn celebration of the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s birth.
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This Is My GlasgowWhile he has largely fallen out of favour in the years since his death in 1844, he was well enough regarded in his day to be buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey alongside the likes of Chaucer, Dickens, Browning, Kipling and Tennyson.
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A plaque marking the birthplace of the Romantic poet Thomas Campbell at 215 High Street in Glasgow, and his statue in nearby George Square. Born in 1777, Campbell was not only a highly respected poet by the likes of Byron, he also served as the Rector of Glasgow University and helped found University College London.
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Bryan 🏳️🌈 PixelfedExploring Jacksonville • Robert Burns Monument • Springfield Park • North Main Street • Springfield neighborhood
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Robert Burns is Here | Jacksonville Magazine
by Tim Gilmore His face is crumbling. Beneath the magnolias, the poet’s visage looks mottled, venous and slightly blue. Standing beneath his 15-foot-tall column, one can barely discern his lips, his nostrils, the sockets for his eyes. He looked proud once, proclaiming his love “like a red, red rose,” this author of “Auld Lang Syne” […]
One of the sculptures in the Scottish Poetry Rose Garden in Queen's Park on the Southside of Glasgow. Opened in 2003, it celebrates the poets and poetry of Scotland written in English, Scots and Gaelic.
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This intriguing plaque can be found on the side of the 1895 former British Linen Bank on High Street in Glasgow. It reads: On this site stood the house in which the poet Campbell lived. An additional plate seems to have been added later with the text: born 1777, died 1844.
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Jay WhittakerRead this #essay 'The sickbed cocoon' by #SaltireLiterary nominated #poet #GeorgiGill on trying to read with #MS induced #brainfog https://www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir/the-sickbed-cocoon/?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-pangyrus_litmag&utm_content=later-31404356&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio
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Brian Lavelle has movedIan Hamilton Finlay, ‘Sea Poppy 2’ (1968)
I finally found an inexpensive copy of George Mackay Brown’s early (1965) volume of poems, The Year of the Whale. The cover design conjures another era altogether, one when—it seems—the publishing of “living” poets was something to be remarked upon.
The Year of the Whale contains one of my favourite of Brown’s poems, The Poet, the text of which is in the 2nd image. I've always thought those last four lines truly haunting.
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