Amy Wilcockson

New academic headshot from my month at Chawton 🤍 - and a silly picture capturing my PhD perfectly

Thanks to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for the photography/tips (and for being a lovely co fellow & making me gjggle a lot this month✨️)

… while @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social offers a palate cleanser of “Oysters and Aqua Vitae: Food and Drink in Robert Fergusson’s Poems”, washed down with a Tavern Rat cocktail brewed especially for the 250th anniversary of Fergusson’s death …
5/6
#C18th
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/oyst...

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!

BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

Robert Fergusson | Daily Reckless Wake up ya dunderheids Smell the flowers not the weeds Put another barb in your books for me I'll make my own kind of poetry I look out my window, what do I see? A crack in the sky and a hand reaching...

Took part in a fabulous online launch last night for 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill' with a bunch of other poets. Many thanks to @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for organising. I did a Scots version of this song from the book which I've also provided a link to. #BowieBard

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.

Pleased to receive @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social’s brilliant collection of poems responding to Robert Fergusson, the bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. I’m also glad to have a wee Franco-Scots piece in there (riffing on Fergusson’s Jacobite/apocalyptical eclogue, ‘The Ghaists’). 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Jane Austen: why are adaptations of Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey so rare? Unlike the usual Austen narratives, these two novels are concerned with wider, more serious issues that perhaps puts TV and film-makers off.

Why are Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey Austen's neglected novels?

Lovely to write this article for The Conversation's Jane Austen 250 series!

Four people - three women and a man - in chairs on a stage with red and black curtains as backdrop. They are all laughing. A woman in blue is interviewing three actors, all dressed in black.

Just spent a gorgeous afternoon in Lanark watching a new performance penned by the brilliant Martin Travers for the equally brilliant Braw Clan, the Scots Language Theatre Group. If you haven’t heard of Braw Clan, you must! Find out more about their excellent work here: brawclan.com

'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...

🚨 @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the publication on 1 September of a new collection of poems in response to Robert Fergusson's life, works, and legacies, published with the brilliant Taproot Press! You can pre-order the book here:
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...

Looking forward to this halesome tribute to Robert Fergusson, the Jacobite bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. Thanks to @rhonabrown.bsky.social @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for featuring a wee piece of mine and more importantly for linking scholarship and contemporary poetry in a way that’s only too rare still!

Many thanks to @mjrsangster.bsky.social
@abdavis.bsky.social &
@wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for their great papers on Romanticism and contemporary music esp Matt for organising-now thinking about the Romantic repeatability of deathly presences (& how bad writing degrades the quality of our suffering)

Thanks Amanda <3

Thank you so much for your support @bsecs.bsky.social and Queen Mary!
Really excited to have a week in London and finalise my notes/intro for the Campbell letters!

a pizza with peppers, ricotta and spinach

I forget the building's name but it's a university one with a Gothic tower & cloisters

thank you for dinner & west end walk @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social ❤️

Editing Robert Fergusson
22 May @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Free, ticketed

Prof @rhonabrown.bsky.social & Dr @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social will discuss the complexities of editing Robert Fergusson (1750–74) & how we handle his tragic biography & his publication history
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/editing-ro...

Excited to have written for The Conversation on the family home of William Wordsworth, Rydal Mount's potential sale!!

We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open!

Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.

We look forward to hearing from you!

So are you pal xx

@rhonabrown.bsky.social will be giving a talk 'Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth' on Tuesday 18 March 2025, from 16:00 - 17:30 at the University of Aberdeen.

The event is hybrid, for more details, see the link below:
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...

😍😘❤️

Amy, Jodie (me) and Isabelle sitting in the audience for Burna' Beggars Opera on the last night of BARS, July 2024

Happy International Women's Day to my ECR friends especially. I admire your courage, kindness & wit every day & I would not be where I am today without you ❤️

(not everyone is on here but shout out to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social, @amybouwer.bsky.social, & @diddykeats1.bsky.social who are)

Top-notch theatre last night 🥳

⭐️DEADLINE EXTENSION⭐️

We've extended the deadline for submissions to our upcoming 'Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson' project.

Follow the link below to find out more about how to submit 👇
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/legacy/submi...

BARS Digital Symposia – Call for Expressions of Interest

BARS is looking to run a series of one-day digital symposia. Along with the Digital Events, these symposia will provide spaces for addressing more specialised topics in international conference off-years.

Info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5778

Statue of poet Robert Fergusson, in bronze, outside Edinburgh's Canongate Kirk. The statue depicts Fergusson walking along the street with book under his arm. He's dressed in an eighteenth-century coat (which flaps back in the wind), breeches and boots. His hair is tied back. It's snowing, with show on the ground and gathered on the statue.

An extract from Fergusson's 'The Daft Days', his poem in Scots on the Christmas and New Year holidays: When merry Yule-day comes, I trou, You'll scantlins find a hungry mou; Sma are our cares, our stamacks fou O' gusty gear, And kickshaws, strangers to our view, Sin fairn-year.

It's been quite a year celebrating Robert Fergusson at the 250th anniversary of his death. Our work keeps on and next year we'll be finalising his Complete Works for @edinburghup.bsky.social. Follow us @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social & @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social. Merry Christmas from #ProjectFergusson!

Glasgow library's new 'piece of the jigsaw' in famous Madeleine Smith murder trial IT WAS one of the most famous trials in Scottish legal history, and Victorian society was shaken to its core.

More on the new acquisition of the original trial sketch by the Mitchell Library here:
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2469931...

Reflecting back on an excellent event at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow on Thurs.
Examining the murder trial of Madeleine Smith, the staff showed us new acquisitions (the original trial sketch!), ms letters & more.

The Mitchell is a fab library and one that needs our support! Visit if you can!!