Readings of ‘The Cantos of Ezra Pound’
Ezra Pound’s monumental poem The Cantos is the longest and most sustained literary effort made by a poet of the […]
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The Origins of the Scots Language (In Scots)
A fantastic video introduction to the tongues, peoples and events that shaped the earliest history of the Scots language with […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Percy Shelley’s ‘The serpent is shut out from paradise’.
The 3rd of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is the digital scan of the letters and manuscript of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘The serpent is shut out from paradise’. Addressed to Edward Williams, the poem is one of eleven Percy wrote for Jane Williams. In the note included with this manuscript Percy writes that Edward may read the poem to Jane “but to no one else”.
Read moregrab some scottish pussy
If you feel the urge, as Donald Trump sometimes does, to grab some pussy, this 3D model of the skull of a Scottish Wildcat (Felis Silvestris) made by Dr. Tobias Schwarz, of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies has been shared as OER on Sketchfab where it can be viewed, grabbed, re-used and re-shared. It’s a …
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 1st – Nort Atlantik Drift
Enjoy beautiful scenes, sounds, and poetry with this short clip showcasing a film about Shetlandic poet, Robert Alan Jamieson. Using his […]
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