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Glasgow, late September and the city I spoke of
in another country (its fierce sandstone
burning, its bombast of finials built on the heads of slaves…

—Gerrie Fellows, “Dream Cities”
published in The Body in Space (Shearsman, 2014)

A poem for World Dream Day

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/dream-cities/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #NewZealand #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

Glasgow, late September and the city I spoke of
in another country (its fierce sandstone
burning, its bombast of finials built on the heads of slaves…

—Gerrie Fellows, “Dream Cities”
published in The Body in Space (Shearsman, 2014)

A poem for World Dream Day

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/dream-cities/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #NewZealand #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

Glasgow, late September and the city I spoke of
in another country (its fierce sandstone
burning, its bombast of finials built on the heads of slaves…

—Gerrie Fellows, “Dream Cities”
published in The Body in Space (Shearsman, 2014)

A poem for World Dream Day

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/dream-cities/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #NewZealand #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

Glasgow, late September and the city I spoke of
in another country (its fierce sandstone
burning, its bombast of finials built on the heads of slaves…

—Gerrie Fellows, “Dream Cities”
published in The Body in Space (Shearsman, 2014)

A poem for World Dream Day

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/dream-cities/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #NewZealand #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

Glasgow, late September and the city I spoke of
in another country (its fierce sandstone
burning, its bombast of finials built on the heads of slaves…

—Gerrie Fellows, “Dream Cities”
published in The Body in Space (Shearsman, 2014)

A poem for World Dream Day

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/dream-cities/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #NewZealand #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

Lying asleep walking
Last night I met my father
Who seemed pleased to see me.
He wanted to speak. I saw
His mouth saying something
But the dream had no sound…

—W.S. Graham, “To Alexander Graham”
published in Collected Poems 1942–1977 (Faber, 1979)

A poem for World Dream Day

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48732/to-alexander-graham

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #father #fathers #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

Lying asleep walking
Last night I met my father
Who seemed pleased to see me.
He wanted to speak. I saw
His mouth saying something
But the dream had no sound…

—W.S. Graham, “To Alexander Graham”
published in Collected Poems 1942–1977 (Faber, 1979)

A poem for World Dream Day

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48732/to-alexander-graham

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #father #fathers #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

Lying asleep walking
Last night I met my father
Who seemed pleased to see me.
He wanted to speak. I saw
His mouth saying something
But the dream had no sound…

—W.S. Graham, “To Alexander Graham”
published in Collected Poems 1942–1977 (Faber, 1979)

A poem for World Dream Day

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48732/to-alexander-graham

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #father #fathers #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

Lying asleep walking
Last night I met my father
Who seemed pleased to see me.
He wanted to speak. I saw
His mouth saying something
But the dream had no sound…

—W.S. Graham, “To Alexander Graham”
published in Collected Poems 1942–1977 (Faber, 1979)

A poem for World Dream Day

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48732/to-alexander-graham

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #father #fathers #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

Lying asleep walking
Last night I met my father
Who seemed pleased to see me.
He wanted to speak. I saw
His mouth saying something
But the dream had no sound…

—W.S. Graham, “To Alexander Graham”
published in Collected Poems 1942–1977 (Faber, 1979)

A poem for World Dream Day

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48732/to-alexander-graham

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #father #fathers #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…

—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams”, free online via @gutenberg_org

4/4

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…

—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams”, free online via @gutenberg_org

4/4

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…

—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams”, free online via @gutenberg_org

4/4

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…

—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams”, free online via @gutenberg_org

4/4

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…

—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams”, free online via @gutenberg_org

4/4

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“That Robert Louis Stevenson, as a child, suffered from bad health & horrible nightmares is amply supported & documented by the source materials of his biographers, &, above all, by himself”

—Jean-Pierre Naugrette, “Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pleasure of Nightmares”, in STEVENSON & PLEASURE (2026)

3/4

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“That Robert Louis Stevenson, as a child, suffered from bad health & horrible nightmares is amply supported & documented by the source materials of his biographers, &, above all, by himself”

—Jean-Pierre Naugrette, “Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pleasure of Nightmares”, in STEVENSON & PLEASURE (2026)

3/4

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“That Robert Louis Stevenson, as a child, suffered from bad health & horrible nightmares is amply supported & documented by the source materials of his biographers, &, above all, by himself”

—Jean-Pierre Naugrette, “Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pleasure of Nightmares”, in STEVENSON & PLEASURE (2026)

3/4

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“That Robert Louis Stevenson, as a child, suffered from bad health & horrible nightmares is amply supported & documented by the source materials of his biographers, &, above all, by himself”

—Jean-Pierre Naugrette, “Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pleasure of Nightmares”, in STEVENSON & PLEASURE (2026)

3/4

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“That Robert Louis Stevenson, as a child, suffered from bad health & horrible nightmares is amply supported & documented by the source materials of his biographers, &, above all, by himself”

—Jean-Pierre Naugrette, “Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pleasure of Nightmares”, in STEVENSON & PLEASURE (2026)

3/4

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”

2/4

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/that-crafty-artifice-stevensons-brownies-and-the-writing-process/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”

2/4

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/that-crafty-artifice-stevensons-brownies-and-the-writing-process/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”

2/4

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/that-crafty-artifice-stevensons-brownies-and-the-writing-process/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”

2/4

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/that-crafty-artifice-stevensons-brownies-and-the-writing-process/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”

2/4

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/that-crafty-artifice-stevensons-brownies-and-the-writing-process/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

Today, 25 September, is World Dream Day

1/4

#Scottish #literature #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #poem #poetry #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

Today, 25 September, is World Dream Day

1/4

#Scottish #literature #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #poem #poetry #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

Today, 25 September, is World Dream Day

1/4

#Scottish #literature #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #poem #poetry #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

Today, 25 September, is World Dream Day

1/4

#Scottish #literature #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #poem #poetry #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

Today, 25 September, is World Dream Day

1/4

#Scottish #literature #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #poem #poetry #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay