Callum Robert Forbes Irvine
@crfirvine.bsky.social
Poet, Academic, former President at St Andrews School of English, Oxford Faculty of English, and St Leonard’s College at St Andrews. Interested in Late Style, and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature. Sins my own, unless footnoted.
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We're thrilled to announce 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.
Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives!
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Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives!
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
Great news from the wonderful folks behind Project Fergusson @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social, who've worked with
Taproot Press to produce this beauty! Very honoured to have contributed 'The Last Tavern', a Dantesque encounter between Burns and Fergusson, and to be in the company of such amazing poets!
Taproot Press to produce this beauty! Very honoured to have contributed 'The Last Tavern', a Dantesque encounter between Burns and Fergusson, and to be in the company of such amazing poets!
Great news from the wonderful folks behind Project Fergusson @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social, who've worked with
Taproot Press to produce this beauty! Very honoured to have contributed 'The Last Tavern', a Dantesque encounter between Burns and Fergusson, and to be in the company of such amazing poets!
Taproot Press to produce this beauty! Very honoured to have contributed 'The Last Tavern', a Dantesque encounter between Burns and Fergusson, and to be in the company of such amazing poets!
We're thrilled to announce 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.
Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives!
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives!
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
August 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Great news from the wonderful folks behind Project Fergusson @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social, who've worked with
Taproot Press to produce this beauty! Very honoured to have contributed 'The Last Tavern', a Dantesque encounter between Burns and Fergusson, and to be in the company of such amazing poets!
Taproot Press to produce this beauty! Very honoured to have contributed 'The Last Tavern', a Dantesque encounter between Burns and Fergusson, and to be in the company of such amazing poets!
Reposted by Callum Robert Forbes Irvine
We're thrilled to announce 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.
Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives!
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives!
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
August 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We're thrilled to announce 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.
Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives!
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives!
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
Two books arrived on the same day, waiting for me at home having forgotten I’d ordered either of them a long while back: the posthumous books of Heaney and John— sad in themselves, but full of hope and beauty in their pages
August 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Two books arrived on the same day, waiting for me at home having forgotten I’d ordered either of them a long while back: the posthumous books of Heaney and John— sad in themselves, but full of hope and beauty in their pages
An exceptionally apt day to share one of my favourite songs: 27 by @passengermusic —
From 33:00 to 36:18 in this video is my favourite performance of it
youtu.be/DRrgWOCEDsI?...
From 33:00 to 36:18 in this video is my favourite performance of it
youtu.be/DRrgWOCEDsI?...
Passenger live at Pinkpop 2013 - FULL SHOW
YouTube video by Passenger NL
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August 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
An exceptionally apt day to share one of my favourite songs: 27 by @passengermusic —
From 33:00 to 36:18 in this video is my favourite performance of it
youtu.be/DRrgWOCEDsI?...
From 33:00 to 36:18 in this video is my favourite performance of it
youtu.be/DRrgWOCEDsI?...
Reposted by Callum Robert Forbes Irvine
Reposted by Callum Robert Forbes Irvine
Here’s a provisional clanjamfry of scholars, novelists, bodies and poets involved in Scottish literature and present on Bluesky.
Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added.
go.bsky.app/3EEXPcA
Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added.
go.bsky.app/3EEXPcA
November 16, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Here’s a provisional clanjamfry of scholars, novelists, bodies and poets involved in Scottish literature and present on Bluesky.
Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added.
go.bsky.app/3EEXPcA
Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added.
go.bsky.app/3EEXPcA
If there’s another cure for this last week other than buying books, then I don’t know of it 📚
February 12, 2024 at 3:35 PM
If there’s another cure for this last week other than buying books, then I don’t know of it 📚
The morning was spent working on Dante, and I wish more epics were collaboratively translated by modern and contemporary poets like this. Imagine an Aeneid with Heaney’s Book VI, combined with some Carson, Paterson, Oswald, and so on adapting a book each?
February 2, 2024 at 1:23 PM
The morning was spent working on Dante, and I wish more epics were collaboratively translated by modern and contemporary poets like this. Imagine an Aeneid with Heaney’s Book VI, combined with some Carson, Paterson, Oswald, and so on adapting a book each?