@swottypat.bsky.social
SGSAH funded PhD researcher in early modern Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. I've been known to knit. Whiles I cook. I sometimes take pictures. But mostly I read.
Wow! I didn't know this poem, but it's jumped right into my 'favourite' list. Wow!
20.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And watch this programme. It single-handedly compensates for all that's wrong with television.
14.11.2025 15:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Read this poem. It's brilliant and exemplifies all that I love about the divine Norman.
14.11.2025 15:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Phenomenal event with Amina Shah, @damianbarr.bsky.social @louisewelsh00.bsky.social hosted by @natlibscot.bsky.social in the @kelvinhall.bsky.social all about Libraries that made me. I'm so glad to have been able to attend, for nothing, cos that's how libraries do it. Many thanks.
12.11.2025 20:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity”
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
I'm a bit late in reposting, but give us a wee follow please. There's lots of good stuff to come.
11.11.2025 23:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A green wall. On it is a piece of another wall, cut out to encompass a mural by Alasdair Gray. On the left, a red semi-heraldic Scottish lion rampant is sitting at a table, using a laptop computer. One foot is under the table grasping a computer mouse (which resembles a real mouse, apart from the cable coming out of its nose and linking it to the laptop). A scroll of paper emerges from the laptop's screen, and the lion is using a quill pen to write on it. The scroll has handwriting on it, saying words wards wurds Scots Scottish Scotch Scoatch Caledonian The scroll rolls out of the top of the laptop screen and across the rest of the wall, becoming a banner reading SCOTTISH Books
The Oxfam bookshop on Glasgow’s Byres Road moved, recently, to a new location further down the hill – but I’m very pleased that they managed to take Alasdair Gray’s mural with them! I think he did this when on a break from painting the ceiling in Òran Mór …
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
The brilliant Scottish Book Trust's Xmas campaign. Donate here:
www.scottishbooktrust.com
Carved standing stone in front of mountain landscape with the words Crowdfunding Campaign Launch over it
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
It will be the first of many I'm sure. It's a favourite place of mine too.
05.11.2025 09:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I moved house, so I got rid of soooo many books. Now I'm apparently replacing them with other unnecessary treasures.
#Saturdaybooks
#Scottishbooks
#ireadpastmybedtime
#don'tletmeoutonmyown
A diary od spiritual exercises and meditations by Prof of Divinity John Forbes. Happily mining it fir references to the National Covenant in @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social
29.10.2025 08:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to be visiting #Aberdeen and the Special Collections @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social
I'm being weirdly nostalgic for a town I couldn't wait to leave 20 years ago. Just sightseeing today, the campus is beautiful.
#Aberdeenuni
#Oldaberdeen
#granitecity
#itscoldupnorth
Read this poem, it's brilliant
25.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reminiscent of the plastic bag in American Beauty, without the pollution issues.
25.10.2025 14:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Been looking out short stories for Monday's train journey. Erchie is Neil Munro's 'other' inspired creation, and deserves the same attention as Para Handy, imo. @birlinn.bsky.social seemed to think so too.
#Saturdaybooks
#scottishbooks
#Ireadpastmybedtime
#Birlinnpublishers
#glasgowstories
Pentlands Book Festival
6 Nov–3 Dec
The programme for the 2025 Pentlands Book Festival is now online!
pentlandsbookfestival.org
The amazing Isle of Arran Heritage Museum needs a new roof on one of its fantastic buildings! It’s a worthy cause! #Arran Please repost!
18.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Read this poem. It's brilliant. Well, it would be.
#GottoloveMacCaig
When the modern love the ancients. Working with Scottish Literature second year students on Cresseid this week sent me back to Heaney's version for no reason other than it's there, and it's rather good in its way.
#Saturdaybooks
#scottishbooks
#ireadpastmybedtime
#readmorepoetry
#makars
A statue of Robert Fergusson outside Edinburgh’s Canongate Kirkyard. He is not on a plinth, but walking along the street, his coattails blowing and a book in his hand.
A plaque commemorating Robert Fergusson in St Giles Kirk, Edinburgh. He is in profile, looking to his right.
#OTD in 1774, Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson died in the city’s asylum for pauper lunatics at 24. Despite the tragedy, his works are full of life, laughter and satire. My new edition of his works is out next year, but for now enjoy some treats from Project Fergusson
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk
Read this poem. It's brilliant
17.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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12.10.2025 09:23 — 👍 3 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
My library book is too much for bedtime, so I went back in time. They're still amusing.
#saturdaybooks
#scottishbooks
#ireadpastmybedtime
#readaproperbook
We are now inviting teams and individuals to sign up as volunteers for our Caring Christmas Trees collection points across Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lothians and Fife!
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A corbie in a graveyard...evocative of so much folklore
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-twa...
READ THIS POEM!
It's joyful.
I found this in the library today. @megaheid.bsky.social has me hooked from the first chapter. Weekend plans: ignore #stormamy and stay snug at home.
#glasgowlibraries
#penguins
#readalocalauthor
I was looking for that at the weekend, but as I was in Dunblane Cathedral with an imperfect memory, I was disappointed.
03.10.2025 10:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
