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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie A @ntsonline.bsky.social Production Presented in partnership with @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social & in association with @pitlochryft.bsky.social Directed by Vicky Featherstone Featuring Gayle Rankin as Jean Brodie 2 Oct–7 Nov www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/the-p...

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | National Theatre of Scotland‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life’At the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, junior-school teacher Miss Jean Brodie is famouslwww.nationaltheatrescotland.com

You have returned to Glasgow after a long exile… —Tom Leonard claps back from Situations Theoretical and Contemporary (Galloping Dog Press, 1986)

Returning to Glasgow after long exile Nothing seemed to me to have changed its style. Buses and trams all labelled “To Ibrox” Swung past packed tight as they’d hold with folks… —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Glasgow, 1960” fitba’s back #poem #poetry

Men slapped the ponies from pit bank to field, slammed the gate shut and left them to their fortnight but it rained solid so their poor backs turned black-sodden as old carpet… —Pippa Little, “Lammas Goldfish” NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44 (ASL, 2026) #poem asls.org.uk/publications...

In December 1788, the first President of the USA acquired one of the earliest American editions of Burns’s 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴, 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵. Washington’s signature sits on the title page, showing how quickly Burns’s words crossed the Atlantic to captivate the new republic. #BookHistory #C18

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” from New Writing Scotland 30 (ASL, 2012) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry

It was upon a Lammas night, When corn rigs are bonie, Beneath the moon’s unclouded light, I held awa to Annie… —Robert Burns, “Corn Rigs” text from Robert Burns: Selected Poems & Songs (OUP, 2013) Today, 1 August, is #LammasDay #poetry #C18 #romanticism #folksong global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I think there’s a Scots joke about a pavlova – or a meringue?