by Emma Rose Miller | Oct 30, 2019 | Uncategorised
Close, No. 80 High Street, from Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow by Thomas Annan (1868/71), Scottish National Portrait Gallery In the Thirteenth Disciple, Malcolm Maudsley asks “What are we going to do about it? What’s our job to help its beginning again in this...
by Emma Rose Miller | Sep 25, 2019 | Uncategorised
Literary Lights Please click on the above link to access information about the Grassic Gibbon Centre’s Literary Lights Competition and to read Jane Morris’ winning short story “Nine Tails”. In July of 2019, the Grassic Gibbon Centre celebrated...
by Emma Rose Miller | Aug 24, 2019 | Uncategorised
The death of James Leslie Mitchell in his early thirties was a major loss to Scottish literature. Hugh MacDiarmid in the the introduction to Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon by Ian S. Munro, vii. Grave at St. Ternan’s Church, Arbuthnott On February 7, 1935, when...
by Emma Rose Miller | Jul 23, 2019 | Uncategorised
A child’s drawing, most likely Rhea’s, in Mitchell’s notebook. Mitchell Literary Estate, NLS. Life, we might say, is universally preoccupied with creating. We reproduce, we build, we write, we paint, we grow. As a species, we have created systems of...
by Emma Rose Miller | Jul 19, 2019 | Uncategorised
Works by Katie Hillard, Gaye Thornton-Kemsley, Elizabeth Brown, and Cammy Adam. Stepping into the Arbuthnott Art and Craft Exhibition at the Grassic Gibbon Centre, four large images on the immediate left hand wall claim my attention first. In black, white, and an...
by Emma Rose Miller | Jun 14, 2019 | Uncategorised
Many of us are familiar with the more explicitly Scottish works by J. Leslie Mitchell, written under his pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Sunset Song has seen many editions and is taught in classrooms across Scotland. Terrance Davies directed a major motion film...
