Reposted by Glenda NorquayRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156164795559
Reposted by Glenda NorquayMike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026As the University of Edinburgh moves to close a number of degree programmes, including the standalone degree in Scottish Ethnology, Kevin MacNeil reflects on the subject that changed the course of his life bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/09/24/a...bellacaledonia.org.ukA Subject That Taught Me I ExistedAs the University of Edinburgh moves to close a number of degree programmes, including the standalone degree in Scottish Ethnology, Kevin MacNeil reflects on the subject that changed the course of … 12113
Reposted by Glenda NorquayAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 21/09/2026My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the buttons on the back of her dress… —Jackie Kay, “George Square” from LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005 Today, 21 September, is the International Day of Peace #peace #poem #poetry www.un.org/en/observanc... 513346
Reposted by Glenda NorquayRaphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026‘Between History and Memory: Writing Speculative Lives' Join Alison Light and Joe Moran to discuss the shadowy field of life writing, its limits and its possibilities. Thursday 22 October, Bloomsbury BetweenHistoryMemory.eventbrite.co.uk @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social 045
Reposted by Glenda NorquayAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 01/09/2026FLEMINGTON is also available as a free audiobook from LibriVox, from 2 different readers 💙📚 librivox.org/flemington-b...librivox.org 133
Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · 19/08/2026If you are in Liverpool and haven't yet been to the mesmerising 'Listening All Night To The Rain' at The Walker Art Gallery, catch it before it finishes at the end of the month. Creating a deep connectivity between lives and landscapes, memory and forgetting, politics and place.liverpoolmuseums.org.ukJohn Akomfrah: Listening All Night To The Rain'Listening All Night To The Rain' by British artist Sir John Akomfrah is a series of multi-channel video installations. It was commissioned for the British Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024... 031
Reposted by Glenda NorquayJoe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This book by my colleague Helen Tookey will be great. And the online version is free to read! 241
Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026 Compelling rendition of ‘The Body Snatcher’ by Blue Orange Arts #RLS www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...edfringe.comWheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets 110
Reposted by Glenda NorquayAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/07/2026Lorna Moon, she liked the ring of it, transformed from Nora Helen Wilson Low. Names need to have a resonance, a fit and this could take her where she yearned to go… —Kay Clive, “Lorna Moon” published in NORTHWORDS NOW 40 (Autumn-Winter 2020) #poem #poetry www.northwordsnow.co.uk/issue40/Lorn... 032
Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Pleasurable summer reading. Looks like a great collection. 120
Reposted by Glenda NorquayAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists 13522871173
Reposted by Glenda NorquayLesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 17/03/2026The programme for « (Un)natural Stevenson » is available and it looks great! www.unive.it/data/33113/5...unive.it(Un)natural Stevenson. Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science and gender - Univeconferenza/convegno 022
Reposted by Glenda NorquayUniversities Committee for Scottish Literature @studyscotlit.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Exciting ScotLit opportunity for someone! 024
Reposted by Glenda NorquayPetra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Chatting to @paulmalgrati.bsky.social is a pleasure always, this time a special treat to do so for his podcast for Scottish words & ideas, @thecarryingstream.bsky.social. The episode features a new Gaelic poem of mine, 'Na Crainn', which took shape between Daoulaz in Brittany, Aberdeen, and Prague. 0159
Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Very pleased to see this wee book on restless adventurer Robert Louis Stevenson out in the world. Thanks to Reaktion Books for all their support along the way. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/robert-... #RLS @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social 1144
Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Rather gloomy start to year in Liverpool but this brightened things up considerably. @suedehq.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Glenda NorquayMurray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Next instalment of @univ-amu.fr @uofg-civis.bsky.social seminar on Scottish Literature due on 13 November on Poetry and Public Life in Scotland @sahavoice.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social lerma.univ-amu.fr/contemporary...lerma.univ-amu.frCIVIS Seminar on contemporary Scottish Literature – LERMATitle: What is the future of now? Universities involved: Aix Marseille University (Prof. Marie Hedon) Glasgow University (Dr Corey Gibson) University of Lausanne (Prof Kirsten Stirling) 2024-25: The p... 063
Reposted by Glenda NorquayAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 08/09/2025THE INTERNATIONAL COMPANION TO THE SCOTTISH NOVEL Ed. Cairns Craig Assesses the work of Scottish novelists from the #C18th to the present day, & confronts constructions of nationality, identity, & form From all good bookshops everywhere & via @projectmuse.bsky.social asls.org.uk/publications... 0157
Reposted by Glenda NorquayLesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Si jamais vous vous trouvez à Aubigny-sur-Nère le 28 novembre #soscottish 011
Reposted by Glenda NorquayAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 19/09/2025“If there is sich a thing as a Author, I’m his favourite chara’ter. He does me fathoms better’n he does you—fathoms, he does. And he likes doing me. He keeps me on deck mostly all the time, crutch and all” —Long John Silver sticks up for himself 🏴☠️🦜💙📚 #talklikeapirateday asls.org.uk/publications... 2104
Reposted by Glenda NorquayAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 13/09/2025Mark, printed on the opposing page, The unfortunate effects of rage… —Robert Louis Stevenson’s MORAL EMBLEMS (c.1881–82) – printed & published by his 12-year-old stepson Lloyd Osbourne, & illustrated with woodcuts by RLS – is a pastiche of #C19 didactic rhymes for children #BookWormSat 💙📚 1/3 1226
Reposted by Glenda NorquayAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/08/2025Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) was born #OTD, 25 Aug, in Dunfermline. She is best known as a writer of #HistoricalFiction – in particular the six-part LYMOND CHRONICLES that begin with those fateful words: “Lymond is back.” A 🎂 🧵 💙📚 1/6 booksfromscotland.com/2019/06/redi...booksfromscotland.comRediscovering: Dorothy Dunnett - Books from Scotland'Her brilliance lies in her combining of literary skill with the integrity and passion that underlay her depictions of human lives, histories and societies.' 23416
Reposted by Glenda NorquayC21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social 06132
Reposted by Glenda NorquayPenny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 27/01/2025We have an amazing group of speakers for this. Join us for Hiberno-Scottish Gothic goodness (or badness?). 0136
Reposted by Glenda NorquayAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/01/2025‘[Muriel Spark] observes that … “Some of [Burns’s] most successful love songs present the girl’s point of view” … citing the bawdy verse “Wha’ll mow me now”, she comments drily: “If this is difficult to decipher, a little imagination will serve the purpose”’ www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...scottishbooktrust.comMuriel Spark burns bright on Burns NightProfessor Willy Maley outlines how Muriel Spark was influenced by Robert Burns. Originally published Tuesday 23 January 2018 0255
