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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

IASSL event coming soon! On Friday 23 October at 8.30 pm (UK time) on Teams, we're hosting our second online webinar on "Narratives of Illness and Dis/ability in Scottish Literature". Find more about this here: scotlit-iassl.org/author/scotl...

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Women of the Saltire Society, an event at the National Library of Scotland, Tuesday, 20 October, 2pm - 3:30pm, with speakers Magnus Linklater and Dr Sarah Leith. events.humanitix.com/women-of-the...

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Women of the Saltire Society

A special event celebrating the women whose contributions have helped shape the Saltire Society and Scotland’s cultural life.

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

English @edinburghnapier.bsky.social ranked 13th in the UK by The Times. Feel rather proud of my wonderful colleagues. UK university rankings 2027: League table | The Times and The Sunday Times share.google/TJGU5P9KTSZw...

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UK university rankings 2027: League table

The definitive 2027 UK university rankings league table, from The Sunday Times. Discover the best universities

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are offering two courses in English, one on the Literary Canon and Decolonisation and the other on Scottish Literature (reading set texts from the National 5 and Higher). Get in touch with me if you are interested in taking our Scottish Literature course.

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UK university rankings 2027: League table

The definitive 2027 UK university rankings league table, from The Sunday Times. Discover the best universities

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

– WS Graham, Poetry Scotland, No. 3 July 1946; reprinted in NFM, pp. 379-83 #NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 14/09/2026

Dr Andrew Nash: EDITION Autumn Lecture & workshop 23 Oct @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Free, ticketed Workshop: Publishing the Scottish Literary Renaissance Lecture: The Voice of Scotland: Literature, Publishing & the Nation in the 1930s #BookHistory www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dr-andrew-...

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Dr Andrew Nash: EDITION Autumn Lecture and workshop

For EDITION's Autumn Lecture 2026 and an optional preceding workshop, we welcome Dr Andrew Nash (Institute of English Studies).

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm really looking forward to this talk from the President of @asls.org.uk, Dr David Goldie, at Craiglockhart Campus @edinburghnapier.bsky.social , organised by the excellent @afrayn.bsky.social. Registration link below 👇

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Scottish PEN @scottishpen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thanks for sharing, Scott. Your essay sounds interesting, as does Sarah's, particularly as we approach our annual Helen Cruickshank Memorial Lecture. Saltire Society, @asls.org.uk and @iassl.bsky.social members will all be very welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/helen-crui...

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Helen Cruickshank Lecture 2026

Nada Shawa delivers the 2026 Scottish PEN Helen Cruickshank Memorial Lecture, "Doon the Stair fae Ms Cruickshank.

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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our rather beautiful Edwin Morgan book is finally making its way out into the world! It has been a great experience to work with @gregchthomas.bsky.social and @reaktionbooks.bsky.social on this. Here is a box of the books I have ready for our first launch in Glasgow. We'd love to see you there.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'Rain on Princes Street,' is one of a small number of Fururist pictures Stanley Cursiter painted in 1913 which capture the sensation of modern life: people, colours, objects, and sounds - these works brought him major critical attention at home.

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Out now: TOWARDS A NEW HISTORY OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY: TWO ESSAYS by Sarah Leith and Scott Lyall. Edited by Gerry Carruthers, the pamphlet is published in the University of South Carolina Scottish Literature Series. @asls.org.uk | @iassl.bsky.social | @scottishpen.bsky.social

The front cover of Towards a New History of the Saltire Society: Two Essays by Sarah Leith and Scott Lyall.

The cover image is a detail from 'The Community: A Festival of Time', painted by the artist James Cumming.

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tippermuirbooks.bsky.social @tippermuirbooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Scots Language Awards now open for voting & Tippermuir features Scots in Business & Book o the Year: Ayont the Thistle. We would appreciate U voting 4 Tippermuir - plus check out the other shortlists & those in our shortlists. projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotslanguag...

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Interested in teaching Secondary English? Or just fancy taking a fun literature course? From January, I will be leading a Scottish Literature module as part of the PGDE programme @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. Details below, or contact me: S.Lyall@napier.ac.uk @asls.org.uk | @iassl.bsky.social

Information on forthcoming teacher education/CPD courses at Edinburgh Napier University

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We should read, analyse and celebrate Violet Jacob's manifold work - poet, novelist, short-story writer, diarist, artist - so much more than we do currently in Scotland.

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We asked our Executive Committee members what IASSL means for them. Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing their answers. Follow the link below to learn more about them: scotlit-iassl.org/about/the-ex...

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Out today: to mark this year's centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid's 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle', AYONT THE THISTLE, edited by Jim Mackintosh, Alan Riach and James Robertson. 'Jean', my short story in Scots, is amongst the contributions. @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

The front cover of Ayont the Thistle: A gallimaufry of poetry and prose to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The call for submissions and nominations for the 2026 Jack Medal is open until 30 November 2026. The award recognises the best article / book chapter on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, Gaelic, English, and Latin). scotlit-iassl.org/awards/the-j...

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Great to see this new volume on the work of Hugh MacDiarmid is now published. My chapter, '“The Omnific Word”: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Religious Poetry', claims his poetry is distinguished by a “religious atheism” characteristic of modernism.

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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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SCROLL | Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature @scroll-scotlit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New publication in the SCROLL series! The collective monograph 'Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023: Visions and Revisions', edited by Camille Manfredi, Fiona Paterson, and Philippe Laplace, is now available as an e-book from @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. brill.com/display/titl...

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Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023

"Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023" published on 04 Aug 2026 by Brill.

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Edinburgh Napier University @edinburghnapier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🎸 | Post-punk guitarist and singer-songwriter Malcolm Ross has been honoured by #EdNapier for his remarkable career in music. Full story ➡️ orlo.uk/Gd9iR #MustBeNapier | #ENUGrads

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The latest issue of the Scottish Literary Review @asls.org.uk has been published! Edited by @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @scottlyall.bsky.social, it also features three essays by our members: @ainsley76.bsky.social on Stevenson; Rob Sutton on Anne Grant; and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social on Fergusson.

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The latest edition of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW, published by @asls.org.uk and edited by me and @rhonabrown.bsky.social, is now available @projectmuse.bsky.social. Essays on Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, Anne Grant, and Robert Fergusson. Check it out: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57136

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Project MUSE - Scottish Literary Review-Volume 18, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2026

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Project MUSE - Scottish Literary Review-Volume 18, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2026

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Rothko’s paintings are..numinous tempests, violent force fields, mercurial landscapes you can feast on, roll with, drown in." I visited Rothko in Florence while deaf & loved it so much I wrote this essay on the artist & silence. It's free to read/subscribe. Thanks. open.substack.com/pub/danigara...

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Silence is so Accurate

Rothko in Florence

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National Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📢 Callout for participants 📢 National Theatre of Scotland at 20: Culture, Democracy, and the Stateless Nation is a day of conversations on how the arts shape Scotland’s society and democratic life, hosted at @scotstorycentre.bsky.social on 23 Oct

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is an excellent essay by Boyd Tonkin, that captures the Muirs' cultural positionality accurately: "The Muirs – marginal itinerants uneasy with the dominant Scottish, never mind British, literary culture – did not enjoy the luxury of institutional radicalism."

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Just showed up in my inbox - proof copy of the second volume of Connolly's collected writings - the complete shorter works. This brings together all of his pamphlets - including ones he edited which have never been republished. Amazing work by @iskrabooks.bsky.social On target for autumn release.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/06/2026

2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For #GiesAScotsPoemDay @brambrella.bsky.social invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...

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Gies a Scots Poem Day 2026

This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe...

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My new book is out! "Art of Divination: A Visual History". An original exploration of global divination traditions across time, and 240 colour images from around the world.

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

10.23pm, early June, Edinburgh. It's such a beautiful, ridiculous time of year in Scotland. I never want to sleep.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Disability history has been widely suppressed to the extent it rarely even gets mentioned when talking about the past. Huge congrats to Prof. David Turner for his groundbreaking deep dive, A History of Resistance. Out this week: www.waterstones.com/book/disabil...

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

In May, IASSL held its election for offices. Bob Irvine is the new convener, supported by a committee of re-elected and newly elected members, based at universities in Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, USA, and China, representing IASSL's global reach. tinyurl.com/yf5j35c6

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Delighted to have a chapter on Alasdair Gray and Hugh MacDiarmid in the hot-off-the-press The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social

Detail from Alasdair Gray's ceiling mural in the Òran Mór in Glasgow on the front cover of a book dedicated to Gray's work.

The back cover of The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts.

The title page of Scott Lyall's comparative chapter on the work and ideas of Hugh MacDiarmid and Alasdair Gray.

A detail from Alasdair Gray's notebook where he quotes from Hugh MacDiarmid's poem In Memoriam James Joyce.

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Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

New publication day! Delighted to present this new scholarly edition of Alan Sharp’s A Green Tree in Gedde (1965): beat generation, existentialism, faith, sex, and the collision of Greenock with Paris: a forgotten classic of the Scottish 60s. Published by @asls.org.uk asls.org.uk/publications...

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