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Glenda Norquay

@glendanorquay.bsky.social

Writer and academic. Prof Emerita in Scottish Literature.

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Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · 19h ago

If 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.

John 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...

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Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social · 3d ago

This book by my colleague Helen Tookey will be great. And the online version is free to read!

Liverpool University Press@livunipress.bsky.social · 6d ago

Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry by @helentookey.bsky.social is now available! This #OpenAccess title explores the lasting presence of Merseyside and its landscapes in Lowry’s writing. Learn more: bit.ly/LUPOutwardBo... #LiteraryStudies #Liverpool

Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · last wk.

Compelling rendition of ‘The Body Snatcher’ by Blue Orange Arts #RLS www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · last mo.

Lorna 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...

LORNA MOON
BORN STRICHEN 1886, DIED NEW MEXICO 1930
BY KAY CLIVE

Lorna 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.
“Shameless”, they called her in the staid wee town,
between the Buchan farmland and the sea,
writing about the folk she’d always known
probing pretence, revealing oddity.
The library refused to stock her book -
the quine whose scripts had dazzled Hollywood
was shunned in Strichen. They could not overlook
that searing light that showed more than it should.
She planned a journey home when gravely ill,
her ashes in a “trochie”, back to Mormond Hill.

Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · last mo.

Pleasurable summer reading. Looks like a great collection.

Lesley Graham@lesleygraham.bsky.social · last mo.

Available to pre-order Stevenson and Pleasure asls.org.uk/publications...

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BBC 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

Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The programme for « (Un)natural Stevenson » is available and it looks great! www.unive.it/data/33113/5...

(Un)natural Stevenson. Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science and gender - Unive

conferenza/convegno

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Universities Committee for Scottish Literature @studyscotlit.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Exciting ScotLit opportunity for someone!

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Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Chatting 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.

The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This episode’s guest is Dr Petra Johana Poncarová, a native speaker of Czech who has become a distinguished scholar of Gaelic literature and an award-winning poet in Gaelic. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇿 Petra’s perspective is totally unique, and I’m very glad to share this conversation with you. pod.link/1865430519

Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Very 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

Image of writer Robert Louis Stevenson on cover of Critical Lives biography by Glenda Norquay

Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Rather gloomy start to year in Liverpool but this brightened things up considerably. @suedehq.bsky.social

Murray Pittock :@murrayp.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Next 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...

CIVIS Seminar on contemporary Scottish Literature – LERMA

Title: 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...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12mo ago

THE 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...

Book cover. On the top half, in white letters on a green background, text reads

The International Companion to THE SCOTTISH NOVEL
Edited by Cairns Craig

Underneath is a detail from “When Children Are Asleep” (1885), by Thomas Faed (1825–1900). A woman wearing a simple, pale grey Victorian dress and a white bonnet, with a yellow shawl around her shoulders, sits next to a small fireplace, reading a book. She holds the book in her right hand, and puts down her left hand to warm it in the orange glow of the fireplace. Behind her, in a half-open box-bed, two small children are asleep.

Contents

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction (Cairns Craig)
1. Smollett and the Novel in Scotland (Aileen Douglas)
2. The Philosophical Foundations of the Scottish Novel (Cairns Craig)
Document 1 – Mrs Oliphant: ‘Walter Scott’
3. Walter Scott, the Reader, and the Times after Time (Caroline McCracken-Flesher)
Document 2 – Georg Lukács: from The Historical Novel
4. The Scottish Novel in the Wake of Walter Scott, 1815–1830 (Charles Snodgrass)
5. The Victorian Novel of Spiritual Crisis and the Disruption of Scottish Literary History (Juliet Shields)
Document 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson: ‘A Humble Remonstrance’
6. From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century (Andrew Nash)
Document 4 – Edwin Muir: from Scott and Scotland
7. The Scottish Novel in the Interwar Years (Glenda Norquay)
Document 5 – Lewis Grassic Gibbon: ‘Literary Lights’
8. From the Second World War to the 1970s (Eleanor Bell)

Contents (continued)

Document 6 – Muriel Spark: from ‘The Desegregation of Art’
9. The Scottish Novel 1979–1999 (Carole Jones)
Document 7 – James Kelman: ‘Elitism and English Literature’
10. The First Hundred Years of the Gaelic Novel (Moray Watson)
11. Scottish Detective Fiction (Matthew Wickman)
12. Scottish Science Fiction and Fantasy (Anna McFarlane)
13. Scottish Children’s and Young Adult Fiction (Fiona McCulloch)
14. Into the Twenty-First Century (Cairns Craig)

Endnotes
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index

Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Si jamais vous vous trouvez à Aubigny-sur-Nère le 28 novembre #soscottish

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 11mo ago

“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...

Book cover

Robert Louis Stevenson
FABLES

Against a background of handwritten text, sloping away into the distance, two ink-black silhouettes of eighteenth-century seamen – one with a crutch and only one leg – address each other. A few blobs of ink surround them. The one-legged man gesticulates towards the other, holding a smoking pipe in his hand.

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 11mo ago

Mark, 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

A crude woodcut illustration, showing two figures on the edge of a cliff. The figure on the right thrusts out an arm; the figure on the left, arms raised, topples backwards over the cliff edge.

Mark, printed on the opposing page
The unfortunate effects of rage.
A man (who might be you or me)
Hurls another into the sea.
Poor soul, his unreflecting act
His future joys will much contract;
And he will spoil his evening toddy
By dwelling on that mangled body.

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12mo ago

Dorothy 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...

Rediscovering: 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.'

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hiya 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

The banner image for this journal special issue shows an oil painting of trees, blue sky, and a meadow.

Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · 2y ago

Marianne Faithfull. So sad to see you go.

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 2y ago

We have an amazing group of speakers for this. Join us for Hiberno-Scottish Gothic goodness (or badness?).

SWINC@swinc-edi.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re thrilled to announce our research event on Scottish and Irish Gothic on 11 April, with a keynote by Claire Connolly and a fabulous lineup of speakers. We look forward to welcoming you. Full details and registration below: www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/scottish-and...

Flyer for the advertised event. Text reads:

Scottish and Irish
Gothic
11 April
50 George Square, 1.06
2pm - 6pm
Followed by a reception
Keynote by Claire Connolly
Speakers: Christina Morin, Dale Townshend, Matthew Sangster, Maddy Potter

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 2y ago

‘[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-...

Muriel Spark burns bright on Burns Night

Professor Willy Maley outlines how Muriel Spark was influenced by Robert Burns. Originally published Tuesday 23 January 2018

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