The wonderful voice of Edwin Muir reading the Two Brothers, around 29 minutes in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #edwinmuir

Poetry Extra - Elizabeth Jennings, John Donne, Jenny Joseph and Edwin Muir - BBC Sounds

Daljit Nagra chooses poets Donne, Jennings, Joseph and Muir from the BBC's poetry archive.

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Yesterday I graduated with my MPhil in Scottish Literature alongside @hannahgrim02.bsky.social 👩‍🎓 Thank you to my lovely friends, family, and supervisors who made this possible. And congrats to all the other grads! Screenshot courtesy of the wonderful @ginorgym.bsky.social

So exciting to deliver a paper at my first conference yesterday! Thank you to @uofgartshums.bsky.social Annual PGR Conference for having me and to the other fascinating speakers. My paper: ‘Gendered Violence and the Nation in 20th- and 21st-century literary depictions of Mary Queen of Scots’.

Super pieces from @emilyhay.bsky.social and @huntingrebels.bsky.social in The Blether to end our ‘Mary’ week! 👑

The Blether@thebletherscotlit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a Marian week we have had on The Blether! One more email to our subscribers to go! A huge thanks to @huntingrebels.bsky.social for answering our Treasure Island Questions and to @katekane1542.bsky.social for bringing everything together Subscribe today via us4.list-manage.com/contact-form...

A brilliant piece from @domenicodr.bsky.social in @thebletherscotlit.bsky.social today about David Rizzio and the scholarly work being undertaken to examine his place within Scottish cultural memory. Sign up to read: us4.list-manage.com/contact-form...

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...

It is all things Marian in this month’s Daily Blether, with just a touch of Burns & Rizzio in the mix. Subscribe via the link in our bio so you don’t miss out on articles by @hannahgrim02.bsky.social @emilyhay.bsky.social @domenicodr.bsky.social & brilliantly edited by @katekane1542.bsky.social

It feels strange to say that I’ve submitted the Collected Works of Robert Fergusson to @edinburghup.bsky.social… feeling equally relieved and bereft! But delighted that the edition is on its way in early 2027. Thanks to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for being a brilliant RA and all who supported ❤️

Mary, Queen of Scots in The Addams Family… kind of! (1964-65)

Tickets are now available for 'Bodies', the University of Glasgow College of Arts and Humanities PG Conference 2026. If you'll be in Glasgow on June 3rd, please do join us - we have lots of wonderful papers lined up, and there will be a very tasty free lunch... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-col...

'Bodies' - College of Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Conference 2026

Bringing together postgraduates from various disciplines, this year's conference focuses on bodies as sites of meaning-making & connection.

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Thank you @bars.bsky.social for publishing my review of the Lives and Letters of the Tennyson Women. www.romtext.org.uk/reviews/rt25...

Review of Marion Sherwood and Rosalind Boyce, Letters and Lives of the Tennyson Women (2023)

Visit the post for more.

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So excited to be editing May’s edition of The Blether! We have some amazing contributors on board who will be writing about all things Mary… Sign up below to read: us4.list-manage.com/contact-form...

The Blether@thebletherscotlit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Planning Writing Editing Designing TBC’ing #thebletherpgr #theblether #scottishliterature @katekane1542.bsky.social @hannahgrim02.bsky.social @swottypat.bsky.social @ginorgym.bsky.social

‘I scorn death and vow that I meet it innocent of any crime’ A privilege to view Mary’s last letter (Feb 1587) in Perth Museum yesterday with @hannahgrim02.bsky.social and Ollie. The exhibition is free and open until the 26th April - a rare chance to read Mary as portrayed in her own words.

This superb book by some bloke called James Coleman will be available in paperback soon. Available to preorder via @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-remembe... #heismyweebrother

Just over one week left to submit abstracts for the CoAH PG Conference! Link to submission form: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/YzbADsQhqu

sophie | PhD student@sophiecairns.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣Please share!📣 The call for papers for the Glasgow University CoAH PG Conference is now open! We're pleased to invite abstracts relating to the theme of 'Bodies' - please see the full cfp below. The conference is organised by PGRs for PGRs, and we'd love to see some of you in Glasgow on June 3rd!

The last of our special Arran editions is out today to our email subscribers. A huge thank you to Aimee and @katekane1542.bsky.social for your impressions of what was a fantastic weekend. #theblether #thebletherpgr #scottishliterature #visitarran

Meet Daniele Blee on placement with us during her PhD in Scottish Literature at @uofgartshums.bsky.social. Dani is exploring the Alasdair Gray archive to inspire a tabletop RPG, connecting Gray’s imagination with inclusive, community-driven play.

I wrote a thing about caves and our recent #ScotLit trip to the Isle of Arran. Sign up to the link here if you’d like to read it. Also, The Blether is very good, so you’d be doing yourself a favour anyhow… 👍🏻

The Blether@thebletherscotlit.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What do hills, spiders, caves and castles all have in common? Sign up to the Blether today via the link below and find out in our special Arran editions. us4.list-manage.com/contact-form... #thebletherpgr #theblether #scottishliterature

I enjoyed writing this for International Women's Day today! theconversation.com/wit-courage-...

Wit, courage and guile: ten literary heroines to inspire you on International Women’s Day

Whether courageous and confident or quietly subversive, literary heroines can inspire us in our everyday lives.

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Two poems by Scottish playwright and poet Joan Ure (1918-1978) for International Women’s Day. A small selection of Ure’s much-overlooked work was published in 2018’s The Tiny Talent, with a foreword by Alasdair Gray. Why is her work not considered part of the Scottish literary canon?

📚 Every secondary school pupil in Scotland deserves access to a school library but right now, there's no law to protect them. Write to your MSP today and tell them that school libraries shouldn't be a luxury. www.scottishbooktrust.com/our-research...

So nice to spend time on lovely Arran ☀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Our email subscribers are enjoying an article by @laurzzs.bsky.social on her work on Agnes Owens. Thank you for supporting us Laura and we can’t wait to visit @aowensarchive.bsky.social Subscribe today via us4.list-manage.com/contact-form... #thebletherpgr #theblether #agnesowens

Episode 4 is out: Scottish Folk and European Music with Kirsteen McCue, Professor of Scottish Literature and Song Culture at @glasgow.ac.uk We discuss the history of Scottish folk music and particularly its influence on the birth of modern music — from Beethoven to Bob Dylan. 🎼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Link⬇️

New publications by our members: "The Page as Gendered Cultural Recess: Female Creative Anxieties in Margaret Oliphant’s 'The Library Window' (1896)" by @leoniejungen.bsky.social has appeared in "Writing Angst". Available in open access: tinyurl.com/mrmwwpwe

Mary, Queen of Scots was executed for treason at Fotheringhay 439 years ago today! 21st-century poet Anne Pia imagines Mary’s final hours in her recent poem below, named ‘Les Dernières Heures: The Last Hours of Mary Queen of Scots’. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/les-der...

Photos from the NLS of ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’ and her ‘Four Maries’ at the Scottish Historical Pageant at Craigmillar Castle in 1927.

What can PhD researchers learn from a ceilidh? 🕺📚 From Gay Gordons to Strip the Willow, guest blogger Joshua MacRae dances through history, academia, and Burns Night reflections. Take the floor—read the full blog: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/27/d...

Take the Floor: A PhD Researcher’s Guide to the Ceilidh

Following the SGSAH Year 1 Residential in Stirling—and Burns Night—guest blogger Joshua MacRae leaps through the history of cèilidh dancing, his personal favourite dances, and what academics can le…

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To celebrate Burns Night on Sunday, I wrote an article for @theconversation.com about the role that Robert Burns played in the afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots. Have a read below!

Robert Burns and Mary, Queen of Scots: how the poet shaped the enduring cultural legacy of the executed monarch

The queen was the source of much debate among 18th-century thinkers.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This Burns Night, we’re digging into the blog archives to share how a Robert Burns poem helped promote the suffrage movement in Ayrshire & Arran. 📖 Discover the story here: womenshistoryscotland.org/2022/08/06/h... #BurnsNight #WomensHistory #Suffrage