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⭐️DEADLINE EXTENSION⭐️
We've extended the deadline for submissions to our upcoming 'Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson' project.
Follow the link below to find out more about how to submit 👇
To give you all a little extra time, the deadline for submissions to our poetry collection 'Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson' has been extended to Friday 28th February 2025!
More information below ⤵️
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.…
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🎙️📚💕 The latest @ScotsWhayHae podcast is an interview with @RhonaLBrown1 to hear all the about #ProjectFergusson which will edit the Collected Works of @RFergussonPoet, but there's so much more.
For full details, & all the ways to listen, click here
👉 bit.ly/3Un7Y8k
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What a brilliant opportunity this is - the good folks at my publisher @PressTaproot working with @RhonaLBrown1 & the #ProjeftFergusson team for a new collection of poems. Open call!
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Immensely proud of this and very grateful to Johnny Mains and the British Library for their collab. Buy it, read my Intro, and believe me when I say Dorothy's the real deal! 👻
Woohoo out today! It’s The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes. Edited by @craigscrolls, with a foreword by @ohsinnerman. With FIVE previously unpublished stories & Mervyn Peake illustrations. It’s a thing of chilly beauty. Available from @BL_Shop & all good bookshops.
⭐️Poetry opportunity⭐️
We're delighted to team up with @RhonaLBrown1, @WilcocksonAmy and #ProjectFergusson on this new book of contemporary responses to Robert Fergusson, one of Scotland's greatest ever poets.
Follow the link below to learn more about how you can get involved!
✒️Exciting news!! 🖋️With our friends @PressTaproot, we welcome submissions for a new poetry collection entitled 'Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson'.
Please share with those you think may be interested in contributing! Info⤵️
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.…
⭐️ Out now ⭐️
JOSHUA IN THE SKY: A BLOOD MEMOIR in audiobook. The work of the inimitable @rodgeglass and producer extraordinaire @gilldavies.
Available on Spotify and other audiobook platforms 🌈
Pls share! Out today, the new audiobook of JOSHUA IN THE SKY @PressTaproot, ushered into being by the skilled Producer's ear of @gilldavies. This version of Joshua's story is on @Spotify et al NOW. If you like it, pls review. It helps us reach more good folks.
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Lunchtime Talk: Celebrating Scottish poet Robert Fergusson (1750 - 1774)
📅 Wednesday 23rd October
⏲️ 12 noon (drop in)
🏛️ Mitchell Library
Join @WilcocksonAmy from @RFergussonPoet for a guided tour of our co-curated exhibition.
glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/l…
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Incredibly tired. But not so tired, it turns out, to not take in a couple of pages of this brilliantly visceral book by @rodgeglass
Only just started and know I’m going to ❤️ this. Thanks @PressTaproot
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Thanks for having me @SpaceSubjective - in conversation here with @sindhurajasekar about Joshua in the Sky @PressTaproot as part of the @SpaceSubjective podcast series. Life, death, joy, pain. Keeping it light as always ☺️🌈🖤
open.spotify.com/episode/4Mg…
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Wonderful news from our friends and collaborators @Burns_Ellisland! A significant @HeritageFundSCO award towards safeguarding the future of this important site and the home Burns built. Congratulations! @Burns_Scotland @JoanMcAlpine @HopesDavid @GerardCarruthe2
We are absolutely delighted by this support from @HeritageFundSCO A huge thanks to the players of The National Lottery. bbc.com/news/articles/cn0ewy…
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Buzzing for @Arunskisood. 🏆
The @KavyaPrize is an amazing recognition. Well done to everyone involved.
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Something to fill your first week of November.
Joshua in the Sky and Rodge Glass will, fittingly, be a part of Absent Friends Week with this event at the Mitchell.
Book your place at the link below.
To mark To Absent Friends Week @rodgeglass joins us to discuss his memoir 'Joshua in the Sky' which details his attempts to make sense of the loss of his nephew Joshua who died the same day he was born, from a blood condition they both share
Book Now:
glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/t…
ALT Combined image featuring a black and white image of author Rodge Glass standing on a bridge with his hands folded above his head and the bright orange front cover of his memoir 'Joshua in the Sky'
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With Frankfurt Book Fair almost upon us, what better time to share our gorgeous new Autumn/Winter New Books Scotland catalogue 🍂❄️
This beauty's jam-packed with the best new and upcoming Scottish books - dive in and discover your next favourite today 👇
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Here @Lucy_Worsley tries out our first @UofGMiM prototype for an in-depth, 360 look at some remarkable objects related to #MaryQueenOfScots! “So the only question left is, what will you put into your museum?”. No surprise - Burnsiana #RobertBurns for me! @GlasgowBurns @UofGMiM
I've created a brand new museum …in the Metaverse! @meta Quest 3 and @UofGlasgow’s ‘Museums in the Metaverse’ project has digitised thousands of artefacts so you can see and handle them from home. It's pretty cool! Visit 'my' museum here👇#ad
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In Wigtown for @WigtownBookFest and very much looking forward to talking with @rodgeglass about his book JOSHUA IN THE SKY this afternoon at 3pm. Do join us!
Tomorrow at 3pm - all at #wigtown make your way along to what will no doubt be a brilliant event 👇
Very excited about interviewing Rodge Glass @rodgeglass on his engrossing new book JOSHUA IN THE SKY @WigtownBookFest on Oct 3, 3pm. Such a moving, sad yet funny and uplifting book, written with tremendous insight and compassion.
tickets.wigtownbookfestival.…
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‘Joshua in the Sky is more than just a memoir of grief and guilt.’
Read what David Robinson had to say about Joshua in the Sky @rodgeglass in the latest issue of BooksfromScotland!
Rodge is reading @WigtownBookFest on Thursday - tickets.wigtownbookfestival.…
booksfromscotland.com/2024/0…
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Next up on the Joshua in the Sky @PressTaproot tour it's @WigtownBookFest where I'm hosted by journalist @wendymoore99. Come join us 🤍🌈↘️
Very excited about interviewing Rodge Glass @rodgeglass on his engrossing new book JOSHUA IN THE SKY @WigtownBookFest on Oct 3, 3pm. Such a moving, sad yet funny and uplifting book, written with tremendous insight and compassion.
tickets.wigtownbookfestival.…
Taproot Press retweeted
Very excited about interviewing Rodge Glass @rodgeglass on his engrossing new book JOSHUA IN THE SKY @WigtownBookFest on Oct 3, 3pm. Such a moving, sad yet funny and uplifting book, written with tremendous insight and compassion.
tickets.wigtownbookfestival.…