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Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn
Wi’ caller verdure our the lawn,
The Gowdspink comes in new attire,
The brawest ’mang the whistling choir…—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “Ode to the Gowdspink”
from The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson (Glasgow, 1800)#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch
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Scraping an encrustit stane
wi some carved letters, lichent-owre,
an archaeologist, ye glowre;
sae lichtly, lichtly mak it plain…—Robert Garioch, “…That is Stade in Perplexite…”
from A Kist o Skinklan Things (ASL 2016)4/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Watch an animation of “Sisyphus” online, read by Garioch – via the National Library of Scotland
3/4
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2912
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #animation
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Dinna be glaikit, dinna be ower smert,
dinna craw croose, dinna be unco blate,
dinna breenge in, dinna be ayewis late,
dinna steek yer lugs, dinna steek yer hert…—James Robertson, “A Manifesto for MSPs”
published in Voyage of Intent (Scottish Book Trust/Luath Press, 2005)https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/manifesto-msps/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScottishElections #politics #ScottishPolitics #ScottishParliament #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Dinna be glaikit, dinna be ower smert,
dinna craw croose, dinna be unco blate,
dinna breenge in, dinna be ayewis late,
dinna steek yer lugs, dinna steek yer hert…—James Robertson, “A Manifesto for MSPs”
published in Voyage of Intent (Scottish Book Trust/Luath Press, 2005)https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/manifesto-msps/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScottishElections #politics #ScottishPolitics #ScottishParliament #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Dinna be glaikit, dinna be ower smert,
dinna craw croose, dinna be unco blate,
dinna breenge in, dinna be ayewis late,
dinna steek yer lugs, dinna steek yer hert…—James Robertson, “A Manifesto for MSPs”
published in Voyage of Intent (Scottish Book Trust/Luath Press, 2005)https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/manifesto-msps/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScottishElections #politics #ScottishPolitics #ScottishParliament #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Dinna be glaikit, dinna be ower smert,
dinna craw croose, dinna be unco blate,
dinna breenge in, dinna be ayewis late,
dinna steek yer lugs, dinna steek yer hert…—James Robertson, “A Manifesto for MSPs”
published in Voyage of Intent (Scottish Book Trust/Luath Press, 2005)https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/manifesto-msps/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScottishElections #politics #ScottishPolitics #ScottishParliament #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Dinna be glaikit, dinna be ower smert,
dinna craw croose, dinna be unco blate,
dinna breenge in, dinna be ayewis late,
dinna steek yer lugs, dinna steek yer hert…—James Robertson, “A Manifesto for MSPs”
published in Voyage of Intent (Scottish Book Trust/Luath Press, 2005)https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/manifesto-msps/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScottishElections #politics #ScottishPolitics #ScottishParliament #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhFlt0cRcs
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #TheCorries #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhFlt0cRcs
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #TheCorries #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhFlt0cRcs
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #TheCorries #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhFlt0cRcs
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #TheCorries #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhFlt0cRcs
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #TheCorries #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZy2Q3QY0Q
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #JoanBaez #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZy2Q3QY0Q
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #JoanBaez #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZy2Q3QY0Q
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #JoanBaez #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZy2Q3QY0Q
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #JoanBaez #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZy2Q3QY0Q
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #JoanBaez #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
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“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
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“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
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“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
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“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
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If we lose our languages, do we lose ourselves?
21 Feb, free onlineInvestigating how languages travel with people through migration, conflict, economic pressures, & chance; reflecting on the love & connection languages bring; & the losses that can come with changing languages or disappearance
#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #BSL #minoritylanguages #immigration #belonging
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Some slock they must hiv hin on them,
haevan man-shorn rock fae quarry tae dig,
their own hand’s deueen hewn intae the face o it…—Ingrid Leonard, “Maeshowe – I”
in SOUND OF AN ICEBERG: New Writing Scotland 374/5
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws37/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #midwinter #solstice #Orkney #archaeology #prehistory #neolithic #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Award-winning Scottish folksinger and pianist Iona Fyfe brings her solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe on 21st and 22nd August at 19:30. A programme of folksongs, ballads and self-penned songs. Doors open shortly before start time. Age 5+.
📍Venue #138
📅 21 + 22 August
⏰ 19:30
Tickets 🎟️ https://bit.ly/ionafringe#edfringe #scotslanguage #edinburgh #edinburghfestivalfringe #edinburghfringe
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Oh ye, wha in your oors o ease,
Are fashed wi golochs, mauks, an flees,
Fell stingin wasps an bumble bees,
Tak tent o this:
There’s ae sma pest that’s waur nor these
To mar your bliss…—W.R. Darling, “The Pest”
published in Oor Mither Tongue: An Anthology of Scots Vernacular Verse (Alexander Gardner, 1937)#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #midge #midges
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Currently on BBC Sounds: Melvyn Bragg & guests – Michael Boardman & Rhiannon Purdie of the University of St Andrews,, & Steve Boardman of the University of Edinburgh – discuss ideas of chivalry & freedom in John Barbour's c.1375 epic, the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots
3/3
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpm8
#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage #chivalry
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Back to the Future: The Bruce & Relevance to the 21st-Century Reader
“Scotland’s Iliad and Odyssey rolled into one”—Christine Robinson discusses how John Barbour’s #medieval epic poem is a liberating text for modern writers & speakers of Scots
2/3
📷Duncan Cumming: Barbour quotation, Makars’ Court, Edinburgh
#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Eident indwaller o that wilderness
Reddin and guidin it fir your domain:
Smaa pioneer, makar miraculous,
Frien beaver: tak this haun’s-turn o my ain…—Tom Hubbard, “Beaver”
published in From Soda Fountain to Moonshine Mountain (Akros, 2004)
#InternationalBeaverDay 🦫https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/beaver/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #beaver #BeaverDay