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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Some wonderful news just as I pass another year around the sun: a delightful book of essays on Hugh MacDiarmid has just been published with @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social and authored by many of the most inspiring and thoughtful writers I have had the pleasure of working with –

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The new SCROLL volume features essays by IASSL members Alan Riach, Antoine Rumelhart, @crfirvine.bsky.social, @paulmalgrati.bsky.social, @dashflint.bsky.social, @scottlyall.bsky.social, @monikaszuba.bsky.social, Peter Mackay, @poncarova.bsky.social, Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir, and Daisy Li.

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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone – I hope you’re having restful, joyous, and love-filled days! It’s an apt day to pull out and share some close-ups of a few of T. S. Eliot’s gorgeous Christmas Cards – I think the 1950 card is my favourite! 🎄

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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Great news from the wonderful folks behind Project Fergusson @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social, who've worked with Taproot Press to produce this beauty! Very honoured to have contributed 'The Last Tavern', a Dantesque encounter between Burns and Fergusson, and to be in the company of such amazing poets!

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We're thrilled to announce 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson. Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives! taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...

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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Two books arrived on the same day, waiting for me at home having forgotten I’d ordered either of them a long while back: the posthumous books of Heaney and John— sad in themselves, but full of hope and beauty in their pages

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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

An exceptionally apt day to share one of my favourite songs: 27 by @passengermusic — From 33:00 to 36:18 in this video is my favourite performance of it youtu.be/DRrgWOCEDsI?...

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Passenger live at Pinkpop 2013 - FULL SHOW

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Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Here’s a provisional clanjamfry of scholars, novelists, bodies and poets involved in Scottish literature and present on Bluesky. Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/3EEXPcA

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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

If there’s another cure for this last week other than buying books, then I don’t know of it 📚

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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

The morning was spent working on Dante, and I wish more epics were collaboratively translated by modern and contemporary poets like this. Imagine an Aeneid with Heaney’s Book VI, combined with some Carson, Paterson, Oswald, and so on adapting a book each?

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