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“Scottishness is as much myth as it is history, which means that we must guard it carefully, retell it beautifully &, more than anything else, love it wisely”

John Burnside (1955–2024) was born #OTD, 19 March. His career as an author & poet spanned nearly 40 years

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https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/07/in-search-of-a-homeland

#Scottish #literature #poetry #novels #JohnBurnside #Scottishness #ScottishIdentity

Assoc for Scottish Literature Nov 25

“Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!”

William McIlvanney (1936–2015) – author & poet (& provider, at a rally in Edinburgh in 1992, of our profile header, as quoted in Neal Ascherson’s 2002 book STONE VOICES) – was born #OTD, 25 November

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@bookstodon

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#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #Scottishness #identity

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Oct 24

@VulcanTourist

Scotland’s a sense of change, an endless
becoming for which there was never a kind
of wholeness or ultimate category.
Scotland’s an attitude of mind.

—“Speaking of Scotland” by Maurice Lindsay (1918–2009)
Published in COLLECTED POEMS 1940–1990 (AUP 1990)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scottishness #identity

William Bell Sep 23, 2023

What a beautiful essay about my favourite music act of the last 10 years set in context of #Scottishness #blackness and the amazing music which #youngfathers create. Loved this one @bandcampunited

https://daily.bandcamp.com/resonance/young-fathers-cocoa-sugar-essay?utm_source=notification