Amy Wilcockson
@wilcocksonamy.bsky.social
MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London Communications Officer - BARS PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell (she/her) https://www.amywilcockson.com/
I'm thrilled to be working on this exciting project funded by the MHRA this year. It's been so much fun so far!
Modern Humanities Research Association@themhra.bsky.social · 4mo ago'Romantic Deliveries' A great interview by Barbara Burns with Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London, Co-Editor of 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley' (OUP) and Amy Wilcockson (@wilcocksonamy.bsky.social), the project’s MHRA Research Fellow this year. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/03...
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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New academic headshot from my month at Chawton 🤍 - and a silly picture capturing my PhD perfectly Thanks to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for the photography/tips (and for being a lovely co fellow & making me gjggle a lot this month✨️)
… while @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social offers a palate cleanser of “Oysters and Aqua Vitae: Food and Drink in Robert Fergusson’s Poems”, washed down with a Tavern Rat cocktail brewed especially for the 250th anniversary of Fergusson’s death … 5/6 #C18th www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/oyst...
Oysters and Aqua Vitae: Food and Drink in Robert Fergusson’s Poems - The Bottle Imp
In the 3 September 1772 issue of The Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement, an anonymously authored poem was published. Written by someone referred to only as ‘J.S’, it was titled ‘To Mr Robert Ferg...
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Reminder: Get your ticket's for next Wednesday's event in Edinburgh at Golden Hare Books! We look forward to celebrating our wonderful collection with you then!
Robert Fergusson (1750-74)@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · 10mo agoThanks to all who read at and attended yesterday's online launch - what a fantastic event! Our final launch (for now!) is in Edinburgh on 15 October at Golden Hare Books with Scotland's Makar Pàdraig MacAoidh | Peter Mackay and a range of lovely poets! Get your tickets ⤵️ shorturl.at/Xg3XC
BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025. Deadline: 12th January 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
Took part in a fabulous online launch last night for 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill' with a bunch of other poets. Many thanks to @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for organising. I did a Scots version of this song from the book which I've also provided a link to. #BowieBard
Robert Fergusson | Daily Reckless
Wake up ya dunderheids Smell the flowers not the weeds Put another barb in your books for me I'll make my own kind of poetry I look out my window, what do I see? A crack in the sky and a hand reaching...
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Congratulations to IASSL members @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social on their new edited publication: '‘O’er a’ my labours sey your skill’: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson' (Taproot Press), published as part of the @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social project.
Robert Fergusson (1750-74)@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe're thrilled to announce 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson. Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives! taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
Pleased to receive @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social’s brilliant collection of poems responding to Robert Fergusson, the bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. I’m also glad to have a wee Franco-Scots piece in there (riffing on Fergusson’s Jacobite/apocalyptical eclogue, ‘The Ghaists’). 🇫🇷🏴
Why are Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey Austen's neglected novels? Lovely to write this article for The Conversation's Jane Austen 250 series!
Jane Austen: why are adaptations of Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey so rare?
Unlike the usual Austen narratives, these two novels are concerned with wider, more serious issues that perhaps puts TV and film-makers off.
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Robert Fergusson (1750-74)@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition! Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhib...
Just spent a gorgeous afternoon in Lanark watching a new performance penned by the brilliant Martin Travers for the equally brilliant Braw Clan, the Scots Language Theatre Group. If you haven’t heard of Braw Clan, you must! Find out more about their excellent work here: brawclan.com
🚨 @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the publication on 1 September of a new collection of poems in response to Robert Fergusson's life, works, and legacies, published with the brilliant Taproot Press! You can pre-order the book here: taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson (9781739207762) - Taproot Press UK
Marking two hundred and fifty years since the death of Robert Fergusson, this collection of poems in Scottish, English and Gaelic from Scotland's most celebrated writers and emerging poets alike evoke...
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Looking forward to this halesome tribute to Robert Fergusson, the Jacobite bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. Thanks to @rhonabrown.bsky.social @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for featuring a wee piece of mine and more importantly for linking scholarship and contemporary poetry in a way that’s only too rare still!
Many thanks to @mjrsangster.bsky.social @abdavis.bsky.social & @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for their great papers on Romanticism and contemporary music esp Matt for organising-now thinking about the Romantic repeatability of deathly presences (& how bad writing degrades the quality of our suffering)
Thank you so much for your support @bsecs.bsky.social and Queen Mary! Really excited to have a week in London and finalise my notes/intro for the Campbell letters!
BSECS@bsecs.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations to our QMCECS-BSECS 2025 Fellow @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social! The fellowship will support Amy to complete her forthcoming (Autumn 2025 @livunipress.bsky.social) edition of the letters of Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) #BSECS #skystorians 🗃️ 1/5
Editing Robert Fergusson 22 May @uofglasgow.bsky.social Free, ticketed Prof @rhonabrown.bsky.social & Dr @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social will discuss the complexities of editing Robert Fergusson (1750–74) & how we handle his tragic biography & his publication history www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/editing-ro...
Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Death
Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Death 2-4pm Thursday 22nd May 2025, on campus with refreshments
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Excited to have written for The Conversation on the family home of William Wordsworth, Rydal Mount's potential sale!!
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · last yr.It was at Rydal Mount that Wordsworth truly settled, building a ‘writing hut’ and extensively landscaping the grounds to his own design.
We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open! Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025. We look forward to hearing from you!
@rhonabrown.bsky.social will be giving a talk 'Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth' on Tuesday 18 March 2025, from 16:00 - 17:30 at the University of Aberdeen. The event is hybrid, for more details, see the link below: www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth
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Happy International Women's Day to my ECR friends especially. I admire your courage, kindness & wit every day & I would not be where I am today without you ❤️ (not everyone is on here but shout out to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social, @amybouwer.bsky.social, & @diddykeats1.bsky.social who are)
⭐️DEADLINE EXTENSION⭐️ We've extended the deadline for submissions to our upcoming 'Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson' project. Follow the link below to find out more about how to submit 👇 robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/legacy/submi...
Submissions invited: Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson Poetry Collection – The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson
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BARS Digital Symposia – Call for Expressions of Interest BARS is looking to run a series of one-day digital symposia. Along with the Digital Events, these symposia will provide spaces for addressing more specialised topics in international conference off-years. Info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5778
It's been quite a year celebrating Robert Fergusson at the 250th anniversary of his death. Our work keeps on and next year we'll be finalising his Complete Works for @edinburghup.bsky.social. Follow us @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social & @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social. Merry Christmas from #ProjectFergusson!
More on the new acquisition of the original trial sketch by the Mitchell Library here: www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2469931...
Glasgow library's new 'piece of the jigsaw' in famous Madeleine Smith murder trial
IT WAS one of the most famous trials in Scottish legal history, and Victorian society was shaken to its core.
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Reflecting back on an excellent event at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow on Thurs. Examining the murder trial of Madeleine Smith, the staff showed us new acquisitions (the original trial sketch!), ms letters & more. The Mitchell is a fab library and one that needs our support! Visit if you can!!
