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
8/10
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001bm9l/sunset-song
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #SunsetSong #LewisGrassicGibbon #drama #adaptation
Sunset Song
The first part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair trilogy about a young girl's intellectual and sexual development within a repressive peasant community in Scotland just before the First World War.
Sad 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/Master at work: on set with celebrated British film director Terence Davies – in pictures
Davies, who died in 2023, was the director of masterworks such as The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth, and Distant Voices, Still Lives; we go behind the scenes of some of his acclaimed films
Master at work: on set with celebrated British film director Terence Davies – in pictures
Davies, who died in 2023, was the director of masterworks such as The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth, and Distant Voices, Still Lives; we go behind the scenes of some of his acclaimed films
Today, 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/
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International Companion 1
Edited by Scott Lyall Published in: Paperback, 192 pages. By: Scottish Literature International, September 2015 Price: £24.95 / €29.95 / $29.95 ISBN 978-1-908980-13-7 Order from our bookshop Download…
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
Sunset Song
The first part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair trilogy about a young girl's intellectual and sexual development within a repressive peasant community in Scotland just before the First World War.
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 […]
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Neil Drysdale
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