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Scott Lyall

@scottlyall.bsky.social

"Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world. https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall

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Scott Lyall@scottlyall.bsky.social · 11h ago

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.

SCROLL | Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature@scroll-scotlit.bsky.social · 14h ago

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...

Scott Lyall@scottlyall.bsky.social · 11h ago

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.

SCROLL | Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature@scroll-scotlit.bsky.social · 14h ago

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...

International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures@iassl.bsky.social · 14h ago

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.

SCROLL | Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature@scroll-scotlit.bsky.social · 14h ago

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...

The History of Literature Podcast@holpod.bsky.social · last wk.

In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to biographer Glenda Norquay (Robert Louis Stevenson: A Critical Life) about the amazing life of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish author of classic works like Kidnapped and Treasure Island. #books #literature @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

819 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Glenda Norquay) | The Rise of H…

After discussing a news article detailing the rise of "hot literati," Jacke talks to biographer Glenda Norquay (Robert Louis Stevenson: A Critical Life) about the a…

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Scott Lyall@scottlyall.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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."

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

“The Muirs gave Kafka a distinctive voice in English for half a century: fluent, formal, enigmatic and mesmeric” – but a new, award-winning study of Kafka’s translators has almost completely erased their work from literary history, says Boyd Tonkin engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...

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

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...

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 · 2mo ago

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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