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Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>“By fusing a dialect-laden verse with knowledge and respect for Dante’s original, Gray has, almost inadvertently, built a bridge across borders and nations. Yes, this is a strange, idiosyncratic, individual text, but it is at the same time an undeniably Scottish one.”</p><p>—Jamie Mackay, via Words Without Borders</p><p><a href="https://wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews/in-hell-alasdair-gray-creates-a-celtic-wind-lashed-translation-of-dantess-i/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wordswithoutborders.org/book-r</span><span class="invisible">eviews/in-hell-alasdair-gray-creates-a-celtic-wind-lashed-translation-of-dantess-i/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Dante" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dante</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>translation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DanteDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DanteDay</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>25 March is <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DanteDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DanteDay</span></a>. In 2021 the University of Glasgow &amp; the Alasdair Gray Archive, with the support of the University of Verona and the Italian Institute of Culture, held a symposium &amp; reading commemorating 700 years since the death of Dante, &amp; marking Alasdair Gray’s translation of The Divine Comedy – his last major work before his death in 2019</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsBnib39WNU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=vsBnib39WN</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Dante" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dante</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>translation</span></a></p>
Brian Lavelle<p>New—old—book &amp; new—old—bookstand, both picked up in Glasgow today.</p><p>The former is an apparently rare Edwin Morgan title from Mariscat Press, first published in 1984. This is the 1986 2nd impression. Wonderful, unmistakeable Alasdair Gray cover.</p><p>The stand is more likely a display stand, made for the Dahlberg Offisupply Company of Des Moines, Iowa. No idea where I’m going to put it!</p><p><a href="https://lavelle.scot/tags/EdwinMorgan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdwinMorgan</span></a> <a href="https://lavelle.scot/tags/ScottishPoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottishPoetry</span></a> <a href="https://lavelle.scot/tags/ScottishPoet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottishPoet</span></a> <a href="https://lavelle.scot/tags/MariscatPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MariscatPress</span></a> <a href="https://lavelle.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://lavelle.scot/tags/BookStand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookStand</span></a> <a href="https://lavelle.scot/tags/DahlbergOffisupplyCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DahlbergOffisupplyCompany</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.”</p><p>—Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality” </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stephendurkan.wordpress.com/20</span><span class="invisible">21/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrayDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lanark</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>Prof Alan Riach – who appears, briefly &amp; fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference</p><p>8/8</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OSI&amp;list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaVgzFyI3JdP1V-XAopXEgR" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OS</span><span class="invisible">I&amp;list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaVgzFyI3JdP1V-XAopXEgR</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrayDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lanark</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>“Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art &amp; love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”</p><p>—David Auerbach on the sources of the frontispieces for LANARK’s four books, and how Alasdair Gray used them</p><p>7/8</p><p><a href="https://www.waggish.org/2020/alasdair-grays-lanark-the-four-frontispieces/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">waggish.org/2020/alasdair-gray</span><span class="invisible">s-lanark-the-four-frontispieces/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrayDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lanark</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>(although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh)</p><p>6/8</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrayDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lanark</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>Which academic will finally dare to write the long-awaited paper “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes”?</p><p>5/8</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrayDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lanark</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: Calvin &amp; Hobbes, avant la lettre</p><p>4/8</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrayDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lanark</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>The frontispiece’s quotation</p><p>“By Arts is formed that great Mechanical Man called a State, foremost of the Beasts of the Earth for Pride”</p><p>is based on Hobbes: “For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE…”</p><p>The 2nd part draws on the Bible—the description of Leviathan (Job 41.34):</p><p>“He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.”</p><p>3/8</p><p><a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gray-lanark-book-four-p20974" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gray-</span><span class="invisible">lanark-book-four-p20974</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrayDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lanark</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>Discernible landmarks include Glasgow University tower; John Knox’s statue in the Glasgow Necropolis; the Wallace Monument; the Grangemouth oil refinery; St Giles Cathedral; Edinburgh Castle; the Forth &amp; Tay bridges; &amp; the experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor at Dounreay. Also visible are oil rigs in the North Sea, nuclear submarines in the Irish Sea &amp; Holy Loch, &amp; the paddle-steamer PS Waverley sailing down the Clyde.</p><p>2/8</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrayDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lanark</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>The cover of this edition shows Gray’s frontispiece for Book 4. Based on Abraham Bosse’s 1651 frontispiece to Hobbes’ LEVIATHAN, it depicts a figurative State towering over a panoramic view across Scotland</p><p>1/8</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrayDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lanark</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>INTERVIEWER: When somebody asks you to describe your book LANARK, what do you say to them?<br>ALASDAIR GRAY: I say it is a Scottish petit bourgeois model of the universe.<br>I: Just like that?<br>AG: Yes, I’ve rehearsed it &amp; honed it down to as few words as possible.</p><p>It’s <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrayDay</span></a>! Alasdair Gray’s LANARK was first published on 25 Feb 1981 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br>🧵<br>preface/</p><p>🎨 Screenprint of the title page to LANARK, by Gray &amp; Murray Robertson</p><p><a href="https://shop.glasgowprintstudio.co.uk/artists/38-alasdair-gray/works/23001-alasdair-gray-lanark-title-page-2014/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shop.glasgowprintstudio.co.uk/</span><span class="invisible">artists/38-alasdair-gray/works/23001-alasdair-gray-lanark-title-page-2014/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lanark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lanark</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Alasdair Gray’s Portrayal of Glasgow as a Disappearing City<br>25 Feb, Kelvingrove Museum &amp; Art Gallery, Glasgow – free</p><p>The perception of the city &amp; its people as vulnerable to being forgotten or erased inspired Gray’s lifelong commitment to explore, preserve, &amp; reassert Glasgow’s identity across his visual &amp; literary works.</p><p><a href="https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/2/talk-alasdair-grays-portrayal-of-glasgow-as-a-disappearing-city" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">glasgowlife.org.uk/event/2/tal</span><span class="invisible">k-alasdair-grays-portrayal-of-glasgow-as-a-disappearing-city</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/visualart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visualart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>GRAY DAY<br>25 Feb, Òran Mór, Glasgow – tickets £22.50</p><p>The annual celebration of all things Alasdair Gray from the @agrayarchive.bsky.social – with live readings, comedy performances, film screenings &amp; more</p><p><a href="https://thealasdairgrayarchive.org/event/gray-day-2025-a-celebration-of-alasdair-gray-at-90/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thealasdairgrayarchive.org/eve</span><span class="invisible">nt/gray-day-2025-a-celebration-of-alasdair-gray-at-90/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GrayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrayDay</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Fishing for Poetry: A Celebration of Norman MacCaig</p><p>Aly Bain, Andrew Greig &amp; Billy Connolly seek the Loch of the Green Corrie – with MacCaig’s poetry read by Douglas Dunn, Alasdair Gray, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead &amp; Aonghas MacNeacail </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NormanMacCaig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NormanMacCaig</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlyBain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlyBain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AndrewGreig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndrewGreig</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BillyConnolly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillyConnolly</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DouglasDunn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasDunn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/JackieKay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JackieKay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TomLeonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TomLeonard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LizLochhead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LizLochhead</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AonghasMacNeacail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AonghasMacNeacail</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>GRAY MATTERS</p><p>Writers &amp; comedians Alan Bissett, Ashley Storrie &amp; Christopher Macarthur-Boyd celebrate the work of Alasdair Gray – &amp; Glasgow’s 850th anniversary – in a collaboration between the Alasdair Gray Archive &amp; the 2025 Glasgow Comedy Festival</p><p><a href="https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/15655/ashley-storrie-alasdair" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/15</span><span class="invisible">655/ashley-storrie-alasdair</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comedy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GlasgowComedyFestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlasgowComedyFestival</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Exploring Colonialism in Alasdair Gray’s POOR THINGS</p><p>10 Dec Glasgow. Free, booking essential</p><p>Following a discussion of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel POOR THINGS by Hussein Mitha, participants will undertake creative writing exercises. Participants are not expected to have read the book, but some familiarity with the novel (or film) will be beneficial</p><p>To secure your spot please email info@thealasdairgrayarchive.org</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CreativeWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PoorThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoorThings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>CIVIS Webinar: Poor Things Revisited</p><p>Sorcha Dallas introduces the Alasdair Gray Archive &amp; discusses POOR THINGS and its digital guide. Lauren Forde discusses her research work on this novel. Lauren &amp; Sorcha together examine the film adaptation, which is placed in the context of what material is available at the Archive.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/litstudies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>litstudies</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPWsP7NSfa0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=hPWsP7NSfa</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PoorThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoorThings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/adaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adaptation</span></a></p>
Dresden S<p>LMAO <a href="https://gaygeek.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://gaygeek.social/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://gaygeek.social/tags/PoorThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoorThings</span></a></p>