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@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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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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Mark Twain & George MacDonald: The Salty & the Sweet “Both Sir Gibbie & Huckleberry Finn explore questions of ethics & truth through the life of an unusually bright & unusually unfortunate boy […] & they have at least twenty plot elements in common.” 3/5 https://t.co/R6PytV7NpC

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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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“To pick up a pen is to place oneself outside the community in the act of being self-conscious about it.” —read Dorothy McMillan’s essay “Rural Realism”, on George Douglas Brown’s THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS https://t.co/Z8aifvSErL 3/3 https://t.co/Q5tyrUiw2V

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“William Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns… I count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry” —Prof @GerardCarruthe2 @ScottishLit on the links & commonalities between Burns & #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday https://t.co/VWHHLgYLh8

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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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“‘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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👆“Signs & Wonders” is one of 47 pieces of Morgan’s prose—journalism, book & theatre reviews, essays & lectures, drama & radio scripts, forewords & afterwords—collected in EDWIN MORGAN: IN TOUCH WITH LANGUAGE, ed. John Coyle & James McGonigal. Out now! 4/7 https://t.co/Mm0DlVuSlb https://t.co/cNP88QmN7k