Neil DrysdaleSad news that the community group which was hoping to purchase Arbuthnott Church - the 13th century building which helped inspire Lewis Grassic Gibbon to write “Sunset Song” - has been unsuccessful. The Church of Scotland has now put the Kirk back on the market - at just £45,000. Grassic Gibbon, who is buried in the churchyard, will probably be turning in his grave! #ArbuthnottChurch #Doric #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #ChurchofScotland https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/6887226/church-that-inspired-sunset-song-put-up-for-sale/
Culture | The Guardian USMaster at work: on set with celebrated British film director Terence Davies – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2025/oct/21/on-set-with-celebrated-british-film-director-terence-davies-in-pictures #Documentaryfilms #SiegfriedSassoon #Filmadaptations #TerenceDavies #EdithWharton #CynthiaNixon #Lifeandstyle #AgynessDeyn #Dramafilms #SunsetSong #JackLowden #Liverpool #Culture #UKnews #Books #Stage #Film #BFI
Lifestyle | The Guardian USMaster at work: on set with celebrated British film director Terence Davies – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2025/oct/21/on-set-with-celebrated-british-film-director-terence-davies-in-pictures #Documentaryfilms #SiegfriedSassoon #Filmadaptations #TerenceDavies #EdithWharton #CynthiaNixon #Lifeandstyle #AgynessDeyn #Dramafilms #SunsetSong #JackLowden #Liverpool #Culture #UKnews #Books #Stage #Film #BFI
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureToday, 30 September, is International Translation Day – read THE BOTTLE IMP: Scottish literature & translation issue free online:
🇩🇪 SUNSET SONG in the GDR
🇮🇹 THE BLACK ARROW on Italian TV
🏆 Scotland’s Nobel-nominated Esperanto poet
🇫🇷 Franco-Scots poetry & postcolonialism
🏗️ Transcreating concrete poetry
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/bad-harsk-speech-and-lewit-barbar-tung/
#Scottish #literature #InternationalTranslationDay #translation #SunsetSong #GDR #Italian #Esperanto #French #postcolonial #poetry #concretepoetry
Bad Harsk Speech and Lewit Barbar Tung - The Bottle Imp
Translation it is that openeth the window, to let in the light; that breaketh the shell, that we may eat the kernel; that putteth aside the curtain, that we may look into the most Holy place; that removeth the cover of the well, that we may come by the water. —King James Bible, 1611: ‘The […]
The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon
ed. Scott Lyall
The best contemporary guide to Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s/James Leslie Mitchell’s literature, politics, life, & work – available in print or online via Project MUSE
9/9
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic1/
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #ScienceFiction #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #Scots #Scotslanguage
Prof Scott Lyall discusses SUNSET SONG – a talk given at our Schools Conference in 2015
8/9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NMdO47oy4&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WYcu-9sTwjGIqkJDYOImwgK
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #Scots #Scotslanguage
Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song
SUNSET SONG
Currently on the iPlayer: the digitally restored 1971 BBC adaptation of the first part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s SCOTS QUAIR trilogy about a young girl’s intellectual & sexual development in rural north-east Scotland just before WW1
7/9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001bm9l/sunset-song
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #Scots #Scotslanguage #adaptation #TV
Why Everybody Needs Smeddum
“The heroine, Meg Menzies, is Gibbon’s answer to Austen’s Mrs Bennet. In fact, she works as a kind of anti-Mrs Bennet.”
—Graeme Trousdale on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic short story “Smeddum”
6/9
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2007/05/why-everybody-needs-smeddum/
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #Scots #Scotslanguage #shortstory #shortfiction
Why Everybody Needs Smeddum - The Bottle Imp
Lewis Grassic Gibbon‘s Smeddum, the tale of the Menzies family in rural north-east Scotland, is a beautifully crafted, and really satisfying short story. The word ‘smeddum’ means ‘spirit’, ‘determination’, ‘true grit’. That grit is now metaphorical, but the earliest recorded use of the word shows that smeodoma in Old English was used as a gloss for the Latin […]
SUNSET SONG: a Scottish Gift to German Readers
Regina Erich compares the original German translation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A SCOTS QUAIR trilogy published in the GDR between 1970 & 1986, with its more recent republication in a unified Germany
4/9
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/sunset-song-a-scottish-gift-to-german-readers/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #translation #German #EastGermany #GDR
Sunset Song: A Scottish Gift to German Readers - The Bottle Imp
Scottish literature enjoys a wide international readership. Many Scottish authors, whether creators of classic novels or contemporary writers, have been translated into foreign languages. Germany is no exception to this. Walk into any German bookshop and you will find at least one book written by a Scot. Yet one great Scottish writer seemed to have […]
“Not only did he invent a sentence structure that works like breath through the body of the reader, and a kind of Scottish English that’s simultaneously rich and spare, but [A SCOTS QUAIR is] a formally stunning and cunning work of art”
—Ali Smith in 2019, on James Leslie Mitchell / Lewis Grassic Gibbon
3/9
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/29/ali-smith-books-that-made-me
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #Scots #Scotslanguage