Delighred this is out in the world today! 🌱The fruits of a long collaboration with wonderful colleagues on women's poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400-1800 #scottishliterature www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
PLEASE SHARE | GRAY DAY 2026: Reimagined Glasgow—45 Years of Lanark. 25 Feb 2026, 7–10pm, Òran Mór, Glasgow. Hosted by Josie Long. New writing by Rachelle Atalla & Alan Bissett + new animations. In partnership with @canongate.co.uk Tickets: link in bio.
Once upon a time, there was an ogress who lived on the North Berwickshire coast, & she managed to scare even the king of fairies before marrying the devil himself…
—Dr Sarah Dunnigan on the supernatural feminine in early Scottish literature
#WyrdWednesday
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This talk on "Scottish Women Writers in Children's Literature" from the fab Sarah Dunnigan and Lois Burke will be great.
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, 19 March 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM. Tickets free, but booking required.
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The Alasdair Gray Archive is a living archive: kept warm through engagement. Meaning grows through access, research, creativity, education and collaboration—inviting new readings and artworks while honouring the past.
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We're so looking forward to this!🧡 Please RT & share widely!
After the rain the garden feels so replenished 💚
Deep crimson layers of rose petals on a single stem.
Rose ruffles 💜
Thank you so much for your wonderful talk! So lovely to host you.
Single stem soft pink rose bud in the garden.
Softness 🌿
Ox-eye daisy in the foreground of a large green field.
Brightness 💛
Different lilac flower hues against a green fence with a single teasel in the foreground.
Lilac hues 💜
Today's performative clampdown on migrants will gut our care homes of desperately needed staff.
We are *already* short of over 150k carers.
Banning foreign care workers will only exacerbate this - increasing suffering of society's most vulnerable members & pressures on the NHS.
It's madness.
A wee blog about early modern dogs which I wrote for @edinburghup.bsky.social 🐕🐾
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Close-up of a little blue tit at a window bird feeder with a background of trees and a window hanger of stained-glass style poppies.
That comforting tap-tap at the window 💜🐦
Thank you - so beautiful 💜x
Image shows a narrow brown/orange dragonfly resting on a pink watering can with some green seedlings in leaf in the foreground.
Rest 🧡
Little moon in a mauve blue sky high above two dark silhouetted trees.
The moon is lovely tonight 🤍
A close-up of horse chestnut flowers in waxy cream, pink and yellow.
Long distance shot of horse chestnut tree, branches spread to the ground with flowers.
Horse chestnut flowers for the first Sunday of May. This beautiful old tree is laden far and wide with these bright candles 🌿💛
That's very special; glad you found a favourite. The exhibition is so much about nurturing memories too...
So glad you all enjoyed it! Can't quite believe this is actually open now! 💚🌿 #naturenurture
Image shows a little bridge over a river with reflections of overhanging leaves and branches.
Grass and greenworld all together' - Hopkins, 'The May Magnificat' 💚🌿
Image of a lilacsprig, with some flowers opened, some in bud, against a green leaf background.
A sprig of garden lilac for precious #MayDay 💜🌿
Image shows a small garden, with geum, lilac and eryssium in the forefront; a bird table and a pink/green garden shed in the background.
Rain and birdsong in the wee garden 🌿
A glass vase of blue/purple iris against a blue painting of a dog and a green wall. A heart shaped ornament hangs above.
Iris 💙
Wee sparrow looking at crumbs by a wooden table.
'the peace of wild things' - Wendell Berry 💚
Awh, that's exactly him 🥰
Image shows a stem of lilac buds.
The lilac is coming into flower now 💜
Image shows a fallen tree amidst greenery and tall overhanging blossom.
This grief is making the greening and the beauty of the woods even more vivid 💚
