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Association for Scottish Literature

@IMcMillan i am rife in sion (i.e. Zion) and i die a mere sect a mere section of the life of men… More on the poem here – from Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan’s Writing, by Monika Kocot: https://t.co/419lYMOGnW

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“Quartered Safe Out Here … provides insight into what it takes an individual to survive, both (with luck) physically and, more importantly, ethically” – retired @AustralianArmy officer Jason Thomas on George MacDonald Fraser’s WW2 memoirs 3/5 https://t.co/iJOKPgDVZz

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@GUBoslit @GlasgowBurns @ScotLitSociety Also of interest: Prof Willy Maley on Robert Burns & the Spanish Civil War: “In 1940 Spain, when Franco’s repression of dissident ideologies was at its peak, Burns’s poems challenge the official discourse by putting forward an alternative vision of war.” https://t.co/mWNdzFyir8

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Century Notes: special Naomi Mitchison issue of THE BOTTLE IMP —travel narrative Mucking Around —#scifi Solution Three —fairy encounters —Mitchison & the supernatural —Mitchison: traveller & storyteller —reading We Have Been Warned in contemporary Scotland https://t.co/CpyDDiUoGW https://t.co/Y0sNqaNOMn

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“Stevenson became a mentor for me, still is.” Author of WAR HORSE & 120+ other books for children, current @Booktrust President, & former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo on his favourite book growing up – Robert Louis Stevenson’s TREASURE ISLAND https://t.co/e2jnwB4coW https://t.co/uDUrI2zB5C

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@stooryduster @RennieSusanC The Hornell painting is a great piece! We used it as the cover for our free ebook THE DEVIL I AM SURE: Three Short Stories by James Hogg, which includes “The Brownie of the Black Haggs”: https://t.co/GFzMcdthgG https://t.co/3u8MzYWykN

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@BlacklockBrown As the weather hardens towards frost, the world begins to improve for Edinburgh people. We enjoy superb, sub-arctic sunsets, with the profile of the city stamped in indigo upon a sky of luminous green. —Robert Louis Stevenson Picturesque Notes: Edinburgh https://t.co/qC4A3Nrpty

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PS: In 2018, a YA novel – The Bottle Imp of Bright House, written by @tommyllew, illustrated by @GrisGrimly, & inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story – was published by @HolidayHouseBks 9/8 https://t.co/awBzucxOrh

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“Muriel Spark gave me a new model for a feminist hero […] It was about loitering—about the quiet subversiveness of simply existing in public as a woman.” — @ZoziInTheMetro on Muriel Spark’s LOITERING WITH INTENT 5/9 https://t.co/TxMC7Kq9c1

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“‘A Christmas Sermon’ … is inextricably intertwined with a traumatic event in Stevenson’s life, his quarrel with his former close friend and collaborator, W.E. Henley…” —Richard Dury, writing in The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson blog: https://t.co/mlgeizFnpi

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