Telling Their Stories: Researching & Writing Highland Lives
17 May, Waterstones Inverness – free
Historians Jennifer Morag Henderson & David Worthington will be chaired by Shona MacLean to discuss their approach to researching and writing about the history of the Highlands and its people
“‘The Circle’ illustrates what can still be achieved in traditional forms at a time when some might imagine adherence to, say, end-rhymed quatrains in iambic tetrameter belongs to a bygone era”
—Ben Wilkinson analyses Don Paterson’s poem “The Circle”, for The Friday Poem
https://thefridaypoem.com/ben-wilkinson-on-the-circle-by-don-paterson/
My boy is painting outer space,
and steadies his brush-tip to trace
the comets, planets, moon and sun
and all the circuitry they run…
—Don Paterson, “The Circle”
published in RAIN (Faber, 2010)
The Scottish Rock & Pop Lunch
Featuring Scottish artists & bands
12-2pm daily on Radio Jammor
#Scottish #rock #pop
#lunch #lunchtime
Radio Jammor is on the air...
Broadcasting from #Scotland
https://radiojammor.com
#ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
#Music #radio
“We’ve returned to a stage where ‘reality’ as presented by authority is allowed unchallenged. We live or die by a value-system that is abhorrent, typically upper class, white-Anglo-Saxon-heterosexual male. In prose fiction this is expressed by a 3rd party narrative where the ‘voice’ is Standard English Literary form.”
—Existence is a guerilla campaign: Rastko Novaković interviews James Kelman
https://salvage.zone/existence-is-a-guerilla-campaign-an-interview-with-james-kelman/
Beyond the Caledonian Antisyzygy: Scottish Studies for the Future
13 May, free online
Julia Ditter reflects on what a future-oriented Scottish Studies might look like, & highlights the need to move beyond historicist & nationalist frameworks. #Scottish #literature has long been producing conceptual worlds beyond national & historical meaning-making & can help us rethink the categories we use to border not just our world but also our disciplines
Hit wis da swans, dat’s whit it wis.
Dat’s whit set da day apairt…
—Maxine Rose Munro, “A fine day”
published in NEW SHETLANDER #295, 2021
Listen to Maxine read the poem here, via the Scottish Poetry Library:
The Scottish Rock & Pop Lunch
Featuring Scottish artists & bands
12-2pm daily on Radio Jammor
#Scottish #rock #pop
#lunch #lunchtime
Radio Jammor is on the air...
Broadcasting from #Scotland
https://radiojammor.com
#ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
#Music #radio
Back from fiddle camp, it was my first time going to a music learning event like this, it was really nice and wholesome!
I learned a lot and finally got to meet other trad cellists!
It was a scottish trad camp and i wasn't too familiar with it as i mostly play irish, but now i want to learn more!
Definitely made me eager to practice more! And to dance!
Monday at 8-10pm
The Auld & Traditional Scottish Show
#Traditional #Scottish #folk #music & auld family favourites.
Radio Jammor is on the air...
Broadcasting from #Scotland
https://radiojammor.com
#Music #radio
#ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
“since this first volume of his purported ‘memoirs’ was published recently in the US, all decked out with notes and glossary, no fewer than 10 out of 42 reviewers—one of them a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University—have been gulled into taking Flashman seriously”
—review of the first FLASHMAN novel in TIME Magazine, 1969
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https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,901382,00.html
“the books add up, by design or otherwise, to one of the most sustained and damning condemnations of imperialism in popular literature … It’s the books’ unlikely anti-imperial bona fides that make them surprisingly relevant today, not least because the same old adventures continue to take place on the same old battlefields.”
Matthew Calyfield on the continuing relevance of George MacDonald Fraser’s FLASHMAN novels
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https://meanjin.com.au/latest/why-read-the-flashman-papers-today/
A very happy birthday salute to Brigadier-General Sir Harry Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE, etc. etc. – born #OTD, 5 May, 1822. As his extraordinary entry in WHO’S WHO (c.1908, below) shows, Sir Harry embodied all those qualities that built & sustained the British Empire 
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Sir Harry’s storied career is too long for the ALT-text, but you can read it here:
>> Also, I'm not comparing apples (or Apples) to oranges. I'm saying: "holy crap, there's a $1,600 fruit! Did everyone realize there's fruit that cost that much?!"
It's like buying a $400 bike and comparing it to a $40000 car and saying hold crap, there's a $40K vehicle.
I'm surprised nobody commented on the actual topic the OP raised — that #TrumpTariffs are #TrumpTaxes, not on Apple, but on #American consumers, not #Canadian, not the #Scottish.
Robert Burns: forgery and ‘Antique Smith’
Dr Ronnie Young examines forgeries in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum made by the prolific Edinburgh forger ‘Antique Smith’. Smith flooded the late nineteenth-century collectibles market with fakes of major writers, including Burns, Byron, Dickens & Scott.
https://www.nts.org.uk/collections/themes/robert-burns-forgery-and-antique-smith
The White Rose of Gask – The Life & Songs of Carolina Oliphant
1 June, Innerpeffray Library, Perthshire – £15/£5
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) is second only to Robert Burns as a writer of Scots song. Discover more about her life & work:
I see the old woman behind the flowering broom.
I have followed her from poem to poem …
—Iain Crichton Smith, “Old Woman”
Published in Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2021)
How many May dawns
have I slept right through,
the trees courageous with blossom?
Let me number them…
—Kathleen Jamie, “Blossom”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
@QuokkaMocha Heads-up to @floofpaldi @DoctorMonkey2 and @KurtHohmann I think this could be right up your alley! Also to @ixtlidekami I guess, for the darkness of the human mind.
And for @fluffgar and @scotlit because of support for a fellow #Scottish author. And @bookstodon of course!
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