Alex Linklater
@alexlinklater.bsky.social
Working title – "Antagonist: the life behind Hugh MacDiarmid"
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2344&context=ssl
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2344&context=ssl
This is the first thing that has really made me laugh on this site
Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one
October 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is the first thing that has really made me laugh on this site
Reposted by Alex Linklater
My review of Modern Irish and Scottish Literature by @richardalanbarlow.bsky.social is now published by @mfsjournal.bsky.social.
Richard's book is definitely worth a read if you are interested in modern Scottish and/or Irish literature, revivalism, and modernism.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Richard's book is definitely worth a read if you are interested in modern Scottish and/or Irish literature, revivalism, and modernism.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Alan Barlow (review)
muse.jhu.edu
June 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
My review of Modern Irish and Scottish Literature by @richardalanbarlow.bsky.social is now published by @mfsjournal.bsky.social.
Richard's book is definitely worth a read if you are interested in modern Scottish and/or Irish literature, revivalism, and modernism.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Richard's book is definitely worth a read if you are interested in modern Scottish and/or Irish literature, revivalism, and modernism.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Reposted by Alex Linklater
R.S. Thomas was a 20th c Welsh poet & Anglican priest whose most famous poem, The White Tiger, uses the analogy of a tiger trapped in a cage for human perception of the divine-- "agonizing over immensities that will not return."
I hear your bold blackbird, that slow singer,
alone at my desk yet walking with you
through your valleys and hills, that shining
stream bubbling notes of your music
your pure Welsh music…
—Sheila Templeton, “For R.S. Thomas”
in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30
#poetry
alone at my desk yet walking with you
through your valleys and hills, that shining
stream bubbling notes of your music
your pure Welsh music…
—Sheila Templeton, “For R.S. Thomas”
in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30
#poetry
March 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
R.S. Thomas was a 20th c Welsh poet & Anglican priest whose most famous poem, The White Tiger, uses the analogy of a tiger trapped in a cage for human perception of the divine-- "agonizing over immensities that will not return."
Richard Leonard (17.27.30) produces the most impressive MacDiarmidian rhetoric in this Holyrood motion. He repeats the myth that MacD was expelled from the National Party for being a communist but gets the splendidly mad tenor of the politics just right
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/memb...
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/memb...
Members' Business — S6M-16290 Clare Adamson: MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank Cottage, a Scottish Cultural Treasure | Scottish Parliament TV
www.scottishparliament.tv
March 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Richard Leonard (17.27.30) produces the most impressive MacDiarmidian rhetoric in this Holyrood motion. He repeats the myth that MacD was expelled from the National Party for being a communist but gets the splendidly mad tenor of the politics just right
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/memb...
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/memb...
Time for @mrewanmorrison.bsky.social to be recognised as the most prescient writer working in Scotland today
www.thetimes.com/article/4048...
www.thetimes.com/article/4048...
Ewan Morrison on Elon Musk, brain implants and the danger of tech bros
The novelist discusses his latest book and reveals his fears of the darker side of technology being pursued by billionaires such as the Space X chief
www.thetimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Time for @mrewanmorrison.bsky.social to be recognised as the most prescient writer working in Scotland today
www.thetimes.com/article/4048...
www.thetimes.com/article/4048...
God's own county
Perthshire is Scotland’s 4th largest county. One of the few without a coastline. But it makes up for it in every possible way—forests, rivers, hills, lochs & light that shifts by the minute.
Here are 16 B&W images of Perthshire.
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/perthshire-i...
#Scotland #Photography
Here are 16 B&W images of Perthshire.
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/perthshire-i...
#Scotland #Photography
Perthshire In Black and White
I forget how much I love black and white photography until I use it. Some images demand colour—but others feel like they were born to be monochrome.
Perthshire is Scotland’s fourth-largest county and...
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io
February 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
God's own county
Is theft of stolen property still theft? AI copyright issues blown open. Students of TS Eliot's borrowing-stealing audit of major writers take note. For @asls.org.uk and other Scotlit folk, Hugh MacDiarmid is surely the pre-eminant (con-?) artist of the "perfect" (and other kinds of) poem
The new plagiarism machine plagiarised the plagiarism that the prior plagiarism had already plagiarised? Oh no!
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
January 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Is theft of stolen property still theft? AI copyright issues blown open. Students of TS Eliot's borrowing-stealing audit of major writers take note. For @asls.org.uk and other Scotlit folk, Hugh MacDiarmid is surely the pre-eminant (con-?) artist of the "perfect" (and other kinds of) poem
The dawn of the anti-woke era - www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
The dawn of the anti-woke era
Having rejected the Democrats’ progressivist dogma, the American electorate is undergoing a social and demographic revolution.
www.newstatesman.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The dawn of the anti-woke era - www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
Damn Edwin Muir could write a poetic eulogy
Dear Ann, wherever you are
Since you lately learnt to die,
You are this unsetting star
That shines unchanged in my eye…
Born in Kirkwall, Ann Scott-Moncrieff was a friend of the Orkney poet & translator Edwin Muir, who wrote this poem for her when she died.
7/7
Since you lately learnt to die,
You are this unsetting star
That shines unchanged in my eye…
Born in Kirkwall, Ann Scott-Moncrieff was a friend of the Orkney poet & translator Edwin Muir, who wrote this poem for her when she died.
7/7
January 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Damn Edwin Muir could write a poetic eulogy
Reposted by Alex Linklater
Dear Ann, wherever you are
Since you lately learnt to die,
You are this unsetting star
That shines unchanged in my eye…
Born in Kirkwall, Ann Scott-Moncrieff was a friend of the Orkney poet & translator Edwin Muir, who wrote this poem for her when she died.
7/7
Since you lately learnt to die,
You are this unsetting star
That shines unchanged in my eye…
Born in Kirkwall, Ann Scott-Moncrieff was a friend of the Orkney poet & translator Edwin Muir, who wrote this poem for her when she died.
7/7
January 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Dear Ann, wherever you are
Since you lately learnt to die,
You are this unsetting star
That shines unchanged in my eye…
Born in Kirkwall, Ann Scott-Moncrieff was a friend of the Orkney poet & translator Edwin Muir, who wrote this poem for her when she died.
7/7
Since you lately learnt to die,
You are this unsetting star
That shines unchanged in my eye…
Born in Kirkwall, Ann Scott-Moncrieff was a friend of the Orkney poet & translator Edwin Muir, who wrote this poem for her when she died.
7/7
Reposted by Alex Linklater
Orcadian author Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914–1943) was born #OTD, 11 January. Lesley Findlay, her daughter, talks about Ann’s life in Orkney, her writing, & her children’s stories – recently republished by Scotland Street Press
1/7
www.scotlandstreetpress.com/journal/who-...
1/7
www.scotlandstreetpress.com/journal/who-...
Scotland Street Press | Who was Ann Scott-Moncrieff?
Lesley Findlay, daughter of Orcadian author Ann Scott-Moncrieff talks to Scotland Street Press about Ann’s life in Orkney, her writing and her Children's stories which have been republished as a colle...
www.scotlandstreetpress.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Orcadian author Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914–1943) was born #OTD, 11 January. Lesley Findlay, her daughter, talks about Ann’s life in Orkney, her writing, & her children’s stories – recently republished by Scotland Street Press
1/7
www.scotlandstreetpress.com/journal/who-...
1/7
www.scotlandstreetpress.com/journal/who-...
Reposted by Alex Linklater
The January exhibition of Turner watercolours in Edinburgh is an annual treat. Made even lovelier this year because, for the first time, the national galleries of Ireland and Scotland have swapped their Vaughan bequests. New Turners!
January 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The January exhibition of Turner watercolours in Edinburgh is an annual treat. Made even lovelier this year because, for the first time, the national galleries of Ireland and Scotland have swapped their Vaughan bequests. New Turners!
Man, you rational folks on @bsky.app have been missing all the crazy shit on X-formerly-Twitter. Nigel just lost $100m by saying something sensible and Elon is having a globally public mental health episode and everyone is shrieking uncontrollably and nothing is happening in reality!
January 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Man, you rational folks on @bsky.app have been missing all the crazy shit on X-formerly-Twitter. Nigel just lost $100m by saying something sensible and Elon is having a globally public mental health episode and everyone is shrieking uncontrollably and nothing is happening in reality!
The author who, more than any other British writer, defined the idea of literary academia: both its great intellectual dreams and its comic absurdities.
It's a Smaller World now.
Is the death of David Lodge a metaphor or a metonym?
RIP
It's a Smaller World now.
Is the death of David Lodge a metaphor or a metonym?
RIP
I am very sad to say, David Lodge died on January 1st.
He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer.
I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much.
His campus novels will be read for years to come.
A great loss.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer.
I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much.
His campus novels will be read for years to come.
A great loss.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
January 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The author who, more than any other British writer, defined the idea of literary academia: both its great intellectual dreams and its comic absurdities.
It's a Smaller World now.
Is the death of David Lodge a metaphor or a metonym?
RIP
It's a Smaller World now.
Is the death of David Lodge a metaphor or a metonym?
RIP
Depressingly on-the-nail account of the state of Scottish education
Column on the problems in Scottish education. The biggest problem is the people who run education in Scotland. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
December 30, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Depressingly on-the-nail account of the state of Scottish education
Reposted by Alex Linklater
Reading James VI and I’s Daemonologie. Seeing Macbeth everywhere:
‘And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of Darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence…
‘And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of Darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence…
December 17, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Reading James VI and I’s Daemonologie. Seeing Macbeth everywhere:
‘And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of Darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence…
‘And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of Darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence…
Reposted by Alex Linklater
@alexlinklater.bsky.social Hi Alex. Fellow Shuggy Mac D fan here. www.dailyreckless.com/2024/11/01/h...
Hugh | Daily Reckless
Reckless EP based on Scotland 76 by Momus. Scotland 76 "The mist-filled Scotland in which people chant Hugh MacDiarmid poems over Side Two of David Bowie's Low" - Momus (from The Book Of Scotlands) Tr...
www.dailyreckless.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:04 PM
@alexlinklater.bsky.social Hi Alex. Fellow Shuggy Mac D fan here. www.dailyreckless.com/2024/11/01/h...
Just as @mrewanmorrison.bsky.social was ahead of the field with pandemic fiction and novels about ideological capture, so he is the pioneer of AI literature in Scotland. Terrifying, engrossing, masterful. The most inventive and original writer we have.
@ianrankin1.bsky.social old school cinematic trailer for FOR EMMA by Ewan Morrison launches on YouTube! Thank you so much for your support and early endorsement of this literary belter Ian.
youtu.be/dgoa41NJkOU
youtu.be/dgoa41NJkOU
FOR EMMA by Ewan Morrison | Trailer
YouTube video by Leamington Books
youtu.be
November 29, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Just as @mrewanmorrison.bsky.social was ahead of the field with pandemic fiction and novels about ideological capture, so he is the pioneer of AI literature in Scotland. Terrifying, engrossing, masterful. The most inventive and original writer we have.
“Deep down in him there is something that comes from his roots in island Christianity.”
(Free Kirk factionalism and the Disruption?)
Excellent piece from @mikewadejourno - soon to leave @timesscotland, a loss to Scottish journalism. Ochone.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
(Free Kirk factionalism and the Disruption?)
Excellent piece from @mikewadejourno - soon to leave @timesscotland, a loss to Scottish journalism. Ochone.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Donald Trump’s Hebridean cousin: ‘I’m sure he’s lovely, deep down’
As the president-elect divides opinion globally, his relatives on the Isle of Lewis reflect on his Scottish heritage
www.thetimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:34 AM
“Deep down in him there is something that comes from his roots in island Christianity.”
(Free Kirk factionalism and the Disruption?)
Excellent piece from @mikewadejourno - soon to leave @timesscotland, a loss to Scottish journalism. Ochone.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
(Free Kirk factionalism and the Disruption?)
Excellent piece from @mikewadejourno - soon to leave @timesscotland, a loss to Scottish journalism. Ochone.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Alexander Hamilton wrote nicely about the Senate's power to reject the president's "appointment of unfit characters,” including those “who had no other merit than that … of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of [the president’s] pleasure.”
November 16, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Alexander Hamilton wrote nicely about the Senate's power to reject the president's "appointment of unfit characters,” including those “who had no other merit than that … of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of [the president’s] pleasure.”
@leaskyd.bsky.social did what you suggested David - here I am - and note you have 364 followers after posting 0. Not a bad ratio of followers-to-contribution. A proportional infinity, no less!
November 15, 2024 at 11:50 AM
@leaskyd.bsky.social did what you suggested David - here I am - and note you have 364 followers after posting 0. Not a bad ratio of followers-to-contribution. A proportional infinity, no less!