Robert Fergusson (1750-74)

Taking place tomorrow!! There's still time to grab tickets at the link below 🔽

Reminder: Get your ticket's for next Wednesday's event in Edinburgh at Golden Hare Books!
We look forward to celebrating our wonderful collection with you then!

October 2025 sees the end of the funded portion of #ProjectFergusson. We've had an amazing two years celebrating Edinburgh's poet! Thanks to all our friends and collaborators for your support ♥️
Check out the blog for more info & future plans:
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/project-ferg...

Congratulations to IASSL members @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social on their new edited publication: '‘O’er a’ my labours sey your skill’: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson' (Taproot Press), published as part of the @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social project.

Thanks to all who read at and attended yesterday's online launch - what a fantastic event!

Our final launch (for now!) is in Edinburgh on 15 October
at Golden Hare Books with Scotland's Makar Pàdraig MacAoidh | Peter Mackay
and a range of lovely poets!
Get your tickets ⤵️
shorturl.at/Xg3XC

Free tickets are still available for our online launch, taking place this Thursday at 6pm!
www.eventbrite.com/e/online-boo...

Oer a' my labours sey your skill - book of poems celebrating Robert Fergusson.

Just drapped! I'm in this. Cheers @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social

The front cover of ‘O’er a’ my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson’ designed by Andrew Redmond Barr: a black and white sketch of Edinburgh below a blue and yellow sky. In the background is my flowery tablecloth whose pink and red colour scheme clashes with the book.

Some fun book post this afternoon! Thank you to Taproot Press for sending it over and to Rhonda and Amy @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social for including a wee poem of mine in the anthology. That’s my Saturday night reading sorted!

🎆It's out!🎆
'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson is out NOW!
Check out our blog post for more info about the publication, about our wonderful Glasgow launch on Wednesday and for the link to buy your own copy!
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/publication-...

This event was such a joy. An array of brilliant poets responding to the poet’s poet, Robert Fergusson. More launches are on the way, so join us to hear some great new poetry and remember Fergusson. You can order a copy from Taproot Press by following the link 👇
#ScottishLiterature #18thC 📖

🪶We'll be celebrating Fergusson next Wednesday in Glasgow at our SOLD OUT book launch for 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson.🪶

Free tickets are still available for the online launch on Thursday 25 September @ 6pm. ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/online-boo...

Happy Birthday to Robert Fergusson, born #OTD 275 years ago!

For more info on what we've been up to on Project Fergusson as the official end of the project approaches, see our website: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk

We've got online exhibitions, other resources, project updates and much more!

We’re really pleased that our Robert Fergusson exhibition, initially held at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library last year, is now available online. If you weren’t able to visit last year, click along and remember Robert Fergusson with us 👇

and lots of lovely pictures of the amazing Fergusson Special Collections holdings at the Mitchell. Thanks to all who allowed us to use their material in the exhibition, Brian Aitken who designed the exhibition and Clare Thompson at the Mitchell for her amazing expertise!

It features all the best bits of the in-person displays, with added video links to National Gallery: Portrait talks and Braw Clan Scots Language Theatre Company materials, recordings of Fergusson's poems by the wonderful James Robertson ...

We're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition!

Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhib...

“O’er a’ my labours sey your skill”
10 Sep, @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Free

@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social & @glasgowburns.bsky.social launch a new poetry collection where contemporary writers respond to #C18th poet Robert Fergusson’s work, in English, Gaelic, & Scots
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-bo...

Join us for our Glasgow and online launches of 'O’er a’ my labours sey your skill’: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.
More information and to book free tickets, see below:
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/events/

'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson (9781739207762) - Taproot Press UK Marking two hundred and fifty years since the death of Robert Fergusson, this collection of poems in Scottish, English and Gaelic from Scotland's most celebrated writers and emerging poets alike evoke...

Looking forward to seeing this in print next month: a new collection of poems in tribute to Robert Fergusson including one of my own in Scots!

Available to pre order now from Taproot's website: taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...

#edinburgh #literature #scotland #poet
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to be part of this. #Poetry #ScottishPoetry #TaprootPress #Scots

Fair tricket tae hae a poyum o mines in this here buik.

It's cried Foostie Oysters, an it's a repone tae yer man's Caller Oysters.

Thare'll be a gey wheen ither braw poyums in it an aw fae a hantle braw makars.

Get the dammt thing bocht 😃

Great news from the wonderful folks behind Project Fergusson @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social, who've worked with
Taproot Press to produce this beauty! Very honoured to have contributed 'The Last Tavern', a Dantesque encounter between Burns and Fergusson, and to be in the company of such amazing poets!

Congratulations to Project @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social and Taproot Press, honoured to have a Gaelic poem responding to Fergusson's 'Canongate Playhouse in Ruins' included in the collection.

🚨 New publication from Project Fergusson! In this collection, emerging and established poets respond to the life and afterlives of 18thC Edinburgh poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-74). We’re delighted with this, and hope you will be too. Details of our book launches to come, so please watch this space 🚨

Thank you to the wonderful poets who offered up their work to be included in this collection, to Andrew Redmond Barr for his WONDERFUL cover design, to Gillebride MacMillan for being our Gaelic editor and to Patrick Jamieson at Taproot Press for his support throughout the whole project!

We're thrilled to announce 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.
Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives!
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...

An update on what we've been up to over the past few months!
Collation, copytexts, poetry collections, archive trips & more!
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/copytexts-an...

Robert Fergusson looking canty and braw in the Edinburgh sunshine this evening @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social @rhonabrown.bsky.social 💐

Talk: ‘Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Death’, Textual Editing Lab

Thursday 22nd May 2025, 2-4pm
On Uni of Glasgow campus

In this session, we discuss the complexities of editing Fergusson.
Tickets and more details ⤵️
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/event/talk-e...

Reminder - @rhonabrown.bsky.social will be giving at talk in Aberdeen today about all things #ProjectFergusson!