Straight Outta Compton (Mackenzie)
Edward Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972) was born #OTD, 17 Jan. Mainly remembered today for his 1947 comedy WHISKY GALORE, he wrote more than 100 books & influenced writers such as F Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, & Cyril Connolly
A 🎂 🧵
1/4: Compton Mackenzie’s forgotten genius
https://unherd.com/2022/11/the-forgotten-genius-of-compton-mackenzie/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #FScottFitzgerald #GeorgeOrwell #CyrilConnolly
The Life & Songs of Robert Tannahill, radical weaver & contemporary of Burns
27 Jan, Paisley – free
Discover the life of Robert Tannahill, a late-18th-century songwriter, poet & weaver from Paisley who wrote about working-class lives, racism, & the right to roam
#Scottish #literature #poetry #songs #songwriting #WorkingClass #18thcentury
“It’s a travesty that so few Scots have heard of Raine – to my mind, one of the greatest, most underrated writers of the twentieth century”
—Kirsten MacQuarrie on her novel REMEMBER THE ROWAN, inspired by the true story of the ‘some-requited’ love affair between Kathleen Raine & Gavin Maxwell
https://westendermagazine.com/online-only/new-scottish-novels/
Live Programme: Maud Sulter – You Are My Kindred Spirit
Jan–March, Tramway, Glasgow – free but ticketed
A live programme of events curated by Pelumi Odubanjo to accompany the Maud Sulter exhibition at Glasgow Tramway (on until 30 March 2025) – celebrating the life & work of Scottish–Ghanaian artist & writer Maud Sulter (1960–2008) who grew up in the Gorbals
https://www.tramway.org/live-programme-maud-sulter-you-are-my-kindred-spirit/
#Scottish #Glasgow #art #literature #photography #poetry #drama #film #MaudSulter
White stones shaped like hearts:
you can tell they were chosen.
In the winter garden
they gleam on bare ground…
—Sheenagh Pugh, “Gardening”
published in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30 (ASL, 2012)
“Three decades after Shepherd’s death in 1981, a new readership found its way to THE LIVING MOUNTAIN, a manuscript Shepherd had conceived as an escape from the horrors of war but which now afforded shelter in a different climate. ‘In that disturbed and uncertain world,’ she wrote in the foreword, ‘it was my secret place of ease.’”
—Fraser MacDonald on growing up in Nan Shepherd’s village
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/fraser-macdonald/diary
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WomenWriters #Cairngorms #Aberdeen #environment
“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes”
Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, humorist, absurdist, musician – was born #OTD, 15 Jan. A 🎂 🧵 …
In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:
1/7
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt
#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
The Scottish Gaelic translation of STILL WAKES THE DEEP is deeply political
“Arts and culture, including video games like Still Wakes the Deep, are in a unique position to normalize minority languages and assist those learning to speak it.”
https://www.polygon.com/features/486346/still-wakes-the-deep-scottish-gaelic
#Scottish #Gaelic #language #minoritylanguage #gaming #videogames