When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you’ll remember. For you need not so… —Charles Hamilton Sorley was killed in 1915, aged 20 #RemembranceSunday poetryfoundation.org/poems/47427/wh…

“like Frankenstein before it, [Jekyll & Hyde] has been too often simplified, distorted, & refashioned into a warning about good defeated by evil. The true nature of Stevenson’s tale is far more complex” Leslie S. Klinger on JEKYLL & HYDE for CrimeReads #RLSDay crimereads.com/jekyll-hyde-ro…

Hoping the film lives up to the novel which is simply amazing! youtube.com/watch?v=mtXWL1…

A bit excited (but mostly terrified) that the book proofs are finally here!

#OTD 1791 The 21-year-old Wordsworth crosses the channel to revolutionary France. Here's @Sfitzgib on how the poet fell in and out of love with the country bit.ly/1py1cHd

Descanse en paz Concha Velasco

Because we need to Look beyond our borders more than ever, and Aberdeen’s Modern Languages department is a great place to do that. Save Language, Translation & Interpreting degrees at the University of Aberdeen - Sign the Petition! chng.it/yYWP9F2n via Change.org UK

Immanuel-Songs Of Praise (subtitulado) youtu.be/oKuKKE-WOK0?si… a través de YouTube

This, from Christopher Silver, is excellent on Poor Things. prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/film/6…

Happy Burns Night!

The modernist flow of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's handwriting style - which finds its literary complement in the run-on prose style of his Scots fiction.

You can find out more about the 'Glasgow: City of Empire' permanent exhibition, curated by Nelson Cummins Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum here: glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/kelvin…

IASSL Webinar: Environmental Scotland II, 22 April 2024, 17:00 GMT, with Timothy Baker (University of Aberdeen), Léna Ferrié (UBO - Univ. Brest), Pàdraig MacAoidh (University of St Andrews), Camille Manfredi (UBO - Univ. Brest), and Monika Szuba (Uniwersytet Gdański). Details: iassl.org/dialogues-webi…

Poet Jackie Kay: ‘I could have been brought up by Tories!’ theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Don't miss Alison Jack's talk on 'Social and Religious Isolation in Iain Crichton Smith’s "In Church" at the III UAM Scottish Studies Seminar, April 24, 2024, 3:30-5:30 pm, Aula de video 1, módulo II. #ScottishStudies #InPersonEvent Pilar Somacarrera

Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92 theguardian.com/books/article/…

Very sorry to hear that very old friend and fellow writer #AliceMunro has died. It would have been her 93rd birthday in July. Many memories, for over 45 years...

She was beloved here in Spain, too. May she rest in peace.

Testament del canadiense Denys Arcand, una de las peliculas más valientes de los últimos tiempos!

Scary, indeed!