Geraldine (ginorgym)
🎓part time Post grad (MPhil Res) Scottish Literature, University Of Glasgow, looking at the work of Edwin Muir, specifically Poor Tom.
Powered by coffee ☕️
📚avid reader & self confessed Scottish Literature geek
👵Older than I look but not wiser 🤪
- It has been a morning of checking quotes … !
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Seems an appropriate day to be reading this. Massie’s introduction made me rethink my literary critical skills. When you have to develop a confident argument for and against his introduction to Muir’s Scott and Scotland, you realise how far you still have to go. @alexmassie.bsky.social
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)CFP: 2026 Scottish Literature PG Symposium (Mis)placing Scottish Literature 8 May 2026, University of Glasgow Details: ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp... Deadline 15 March, student travel bursaries available!
- Coffee, shortbread and Burns at Dad’s wonderful care home! He even managed to recite all of tae a wee moosey (as one lovely lady kept saying) @glasgowburns.bsky.social
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)
[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Eeek
- Testing out a sign up link today! #comingsoon
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Fantastic piece by @katekane1542.bsky.social ! Drop @thebletherscotlit.bsky.social an email on thebletherpgr@outlook.com to sign up for our monthly Daily Bletherings!
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)Robert Burns never set foot in America but his words did, says leading Scots American Ian Houston ahead of his lecture @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference on 17 Jan 2026. As the US turns 250, discover how Scotland’s national bard shaped a nation’s conscience.
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)PLEASE SHARE — WE’RE OPEN 📚 The Agnes Owens Archive is now open at @agrayarchive.bsky.social AGA’s first satellite archive, restoring Owens to her rightful place in Scottish literature. Free tours Jan 23 & 31, 2026. Book via Eventbrite (link in bio). #agnesowens #theagnesowensarchive
- Looking forward to this event @uofgarc.bsky.social today! #memory
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)Dr Moira Hansen discussing the “Hollywood” moment in Robert Burns’s life, when he suddenly found fame and success in 1786 Edinburgh – a pivotal point but which took its toll on the poet’s mental health. 🏴 Listen to the rest of the podcast here: pod.link/1865430519
- My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee! www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
- And since it is coming up to #burnsnight Oxfam books website does it again!! @glasgowburns.bsky.social @hannahgrim02.bsky.social #robertburns
- Another first edition for my Muir collection! #edwinmuir #scottishliterature
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Off to buy a lottery ticket! Have not been on University campus for a while and … yes it is true … I got connected to eduroam without twenty million log in attempts
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)2026 is Agnes Owens’ centenary year, & Polygon will publish 7 new editions of her novels & short stories in collaboration with the Agnes Owens Archive – also launching this year. These new editions will be introduced by some of Scotland’s finest contemporary writers. 💙📚 birlinn.co.uk/2026/01/08/p...
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)To celebrate the imminent exhibition of Mary Queen of Scots' last letter at Perth Museum, I wrote an article for @uk.theconversation.com about my PhD research into Mary's writing - have a read for my top 5 things you should know! ⬇️ theconversation.com/mary-queen-o...
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)The Carrying Stream is a new podcast for Scottish words and ideas – long-form conversations with writers, scholars, poets and artists. 🎙️🏴 Episode 0 is now live, alongside the first three full conversations. pod.link/1865430519
- Assuming this is still languishing in storage …
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Edwin Muir reading One Foot in Eden youtu.be/p2Rw8UG0Qow?... #onthisday #edwinmuir #scottishliterature
- On this day in 1959, Edwin Muir died. The Muir archive, in the National Library of Scotland , contains a letter from Willa Muir to Kathleen Raine sent 28/12/1958 re his admission to Addenbrooke Hospital ‘with a faint chance of survival’. #edwinmuir #OnThisDay #ScottishLiterature @asls.org.uk
- To all near and far …
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Too Much from The Labyrinth (1949) Edwin Muir, The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir, ed. by Peter Butter (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1991), p.157. #edwinmuir #hogmanay #poetry
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Think Amazon have run out of commas
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)Merry Christmas from all at The Agnes Owens Archive! Whatever the festive period has in store for you, we wish you a happy and restful break! We are delighted that 2026 will mark the official opening of the Agnes Owens Archive as well as the centenary of her birth.
- What a great team! It is a pleasure to work with @hannahgrim02.bsky.social @katekane1542.bsky.social @swottypat.bsky.social ! Looking forward to 2026
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)🔥 2026 Residencies 🔥 @kirstininnes.bsky.social & @heatherparry.bsky.social named Writers-in-Residence at the Alasdair Gray & @aowensarchive.bsky.social Chosen from 130+ applicants, they’ll spend 8 months creating new work inspired by overlooked voices, supported by @creativescots.bsky.social
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)How do you celebrate Burns Night? 🏴 UofG's @glasgowburns.bsky.social has launched The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention. Help us build a crowdsourced archive of Burns Suppers worldwide for the 225th anniversary next July. Learn more: gla.ac/44Veysf
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)Five years of editing SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW with the fab @rhonabrown.bsky.social and more exciting issues to come in 2026. The latest bumper issue is out now. Get yours by joining @asls.org.uk here: share.google/P8K28t8SNfWU...
- The Christmas by Edwin Muir Muir, Edwin, _One Foot in Eden_ (London: Faber And Faber, 1956), p. 38. #christmaspoetry #edwinmuir #PoetryAtChristmas
- Thank you @katekane1542.bsky.social for this wonderful discovery!
- Early start! @uofgartshums.bsky.social
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Next up for this morning’s reading … MacDiarmid and Muir: Scottish Modernism and the Nation as an Anthropological Site by @pjrobichaud.bsky.social #edwinmuir
- I often wonder why Mainstream chose this image of ‘St Monance’ by William Wilson for the cover of this 1979 (reprinted in 1995) edition of Edwin Muir’s Scottish Journey. #edwinmuir #scottishliterature
- Stunning album of Burn’s songs by the wonderful Patrick Doyle. @hannahgrim02.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social #robertburns #patrickdoyle
- Reposted by Geraldine (ginorgym)[Not loaded yet]
- Loving the Burns references on Scotlands gritters @trafficscotland.bsky.social www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac... @hannahgrim02.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social
- Wonderful evening @natlibscot.bsky.social Kelvin Hall! Great chat between Amina Shah @louisewelsh00.bsky.social and finally meeting @damianbarr.bsky.social ! @sahavoice.bsky.social
- Coffee, sarnie and The New Sociology of Scotland!
