Bibliography

Publications

Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

c/o Dept of Scottish History
9 University Gardens
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QH

Phone: 0141 330 5309

ASLS publishes a wide variety of texts in the field of Scottish Studies, for example Scottish Literary Journal and its sequel, The Review of Scottish Studies, and Scottish Language, and New Writing Scotland, an annual volume publishing poems and prose from both emerging and established writers. Moreover, ASLS publishes the Scotnotes series, which are comprised of valuable and comprehensive study guides to a large number of the Scottish Classics. ASLS also publishes an Annual Volume, each year a different work of major importance written by a leading expert in the field. By joining the ASLS, the reader will receive each of these and more over the year of subscription (except Scotnotes, which are priced individually).

Scotnotes publications include the following titles:

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song by Douglas Young

The Poetry of Edwin Morgan by Geddes Thomson

George Douglas Brown’s The House with the Green Shutters by Iain Crichton Smith

James Hogg’s 'The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner' by Elaine Petrie

The Poetry of Norman MacCaig by Roderick Watson

George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe by Alan MacGillivray

Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by David S. Robb

The Poetry of Iain Crichton Smith by John Blackburn

Robert Burns by Kenneth Simpson

Robin Jenkins’s The Cone-Gatherers by Iain Crichton Smith

The Poems of Robert Henryson by Gerald Baird

The Poetry of William Dunbar by R. D. S. Jack

John Buchan’s Witch Wood, Huntingtower & The Thirty-Nine Steps by C. MacLachlan

William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw by Beth Dickson

The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid by Alan Riach

Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off by Margery McCulloch

ASLS Annual Volumes include the following titles:

Boswell in Scotland and Beyond, ed. Thomas Crawford

The Christis Kirk Tradition: Scots Poems of Folk Festivity, ed. Allan H. MacLaine

The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir, ed. Peter Butter

A Galloway Glossary by Alastair Riach

Minority Languages in Central Scotland, ed. J. D. McClure

Sir Walter Scott: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship and Criticism, ed. Jill Rubenstein

Margaret Oliphant: Selected Short Stories of the Supernatural, ed. Margaret Gray
 

ASLS Conferences

ASLS Annual Schools Conference
Dept of Scottish History
University of Glasgow
9 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QH
Phone: 0141 330 5309

Annual Burns Conference

Scottish Cultural Studies Centre
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow G1 1XH
Phone: 0141 548 3518
 

Arts and Literary Associations

Gaelic Books Council
Department of Celtic
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Phone: 0141 339 8853

Poetry Association of Scotland

38 Dovecot Road
Edinburgh
EH12 7LE
Phone: 0131 334 5241
 

The Saltire Society
Fountain Close
22 High Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1T
 

The Scots Language Society
Scots Language Resource Centre
A.K. Bell Library
York Place
Perth
PH2 8EP
Phone: 01738 440 199
 

Scottish Arts Council
12 Manor Place
Edinburgh EH3 7DD
Phone 0131 243 2444
 

Scottish Book Trust
Scottish Book Centre
137 Dundee Street
Edinburgh
EH11 1BG
Phone: 0131 229 3663
 

Scottish National Dictionary Association
27 George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
Phone:0131 650 4149
 

Scottish Poetry Library
5 Crichton’s Close
Canongate
Edinburgh EH8 8DT
Phone: 0131 557 2876
 

Scottish Publishers Association
Scottish Book Centre
137 Dundee Street
Edinburgh
EH11 1BG
Phone: 0131 228 6866
 

The Scottish Storytelling Forum
The Netherbow
45 High Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1SR
Phone: 0131 556 9579/2647
 

Scottish Publishers Association (information re publishers)
Scottish Book Centre
137 Dundee Street
Edinburgh
EH11 IBG
Phone: 0131 228 6866
 

Literary Journals and Publications

Books in Scotland/In Scotland
9 Glenisla Gardens
Edinburgh
EH2 2HR
Phone: 0131 662 1915
 

The Broken Fiddle

Editorial Committee
1 Church Street
Macduff
AB44 1UR
 

The Burns Chronicle
28 Stranka Avenue
Paisley
PA2 9DW

Cencrastus
Unit 1
Abbeymount Techbase
8 Easter Road
Edinburgh
EH8 8EJ
Phone: 0131 661 5687
 

Chapman
4 Broughton Place
Edinburgh
EH1 3RX
Phone: 0131 557 2207
 

Cutting Teeth
The Arts and Cultural Development Office
17 Castlemilk Arcade
Glasgow
G45 9AA
 

The Dark Horse
c/o Gerry Cambridge
Brownsbank Cottages
Candymill
Biggar
South Lanarkshire
ML12 6QY
 

Edinburgh Review
22 George Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9LF
 

Gairfish
71 Long Lane
Broughty Ferry
Dundee
DD5 2AS
 

Gairm (Gaelic quarterly)
29 Waterloo Street
Glasgow
G2 6BZ
Phone: 0141 221 1971
 

Lallans
c/o The Scots Language Society
A.K. Bell Library
York Place
Perth
PH2 8AP
Phone: 01738 440199
 

Lines Review
Edgefield Road
Loanhead
Midlothian
EH20 9SY
 

Nerve Magazine
PO Box 3848
Glasgow
G46 6AS

New Writing Scotland
Dept of Scottish History
University of Glasgow
9 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QH
Phone: 0141 330 5309
 

Nomad
Survivors Poetry Scotland
The Tryst
Cresswell Street
Glasgow
G12
 

Northwords
68 Strathkanaird
Ullapool
Wester Ross
IV26 2TW
 

Poetry Scotland
Diehard
3 Spittal Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9DY
Phone: 0131 229 7252
 

Scotlands
School of English
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
KY16 9AL
 

Scottish Film and Television Archive
1 Bowmont Gardens
Glasgow
G12
Phone: 0141 337 7400
 

Scottish Studies
School of Scottish Studies
27 George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
Phone: 0131 650 3056/4167
 

Southfields
David Kinloch
Dept of Modern Languages
University of Strathclyde
26 Richmond Street
Glasgow G1 1XH
 

Tocher
School of Scottish Studies
27 George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
Phone: 0131 650 3056/4167
 

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AKROS Publications
33 Lady Nairn Avenue
Kirkcaldy
Fife
KY1 2AW
Phone: 01592 651 522

Television and Audio Resources
The reader might find some of the following useful for resources such as interviews with writers, adaptations of fiction and drama, literature readings, literary discussions, and the like

Television and Radio Contacts
BBC Scotland
Queen Margaret Drive
Glasgow
G12 8DG
Phone: 0141 339 8844/338 2000
 

John Russell
Education Officer
Edinburgh
Phone: 0131 248 4243
 

Channel Four
124 Horseferry Road
London
SW1P 2TX
Phone: 0171 396 4444 (Switchboard) 0171 306 8333 (General Enquiries)
 

Scottish Television
Cowcaddens
Glasgow
G2 3PR
Phone: 0141 300 3000
 

Audio Recordings
Scotsoun
Dr George Philip
13 Ashton Road
Glasgow
G12 8SP
Phone: 0141 339 4705

There are also a number of recordings of medieval and Renaissance music available, such as:

Coronach: Remember me, my deir; Whip my Towdie; O Lustie May, and The Rowallan Consort: Notes of Noy – Notes of Joy.

Other Media/Teaching Support

Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN)
Abden House
1 Marchhall Crescent
Edinburgh
EH16 5HW
Phone: 0131 662 1211

SCRAN is a public organisation with Millennium Commission funding to digitise Scotland’s rich human history and influential material culture. The SCRAN database has information on Scottish history, landscapes, work, people, play, sport, music, and literature. SCRAN is currently working on a project called ‘Sounds of Scots’, an archive of spoken material by Scottish writers to be made available through the Web.
 

Scottish Council for Education and Technology (SCET)
74 Victoria Crescent Road
Dowanhill
Glasgow
G12 9JN
Phone: 0141 337 5000

SCET’s main focus is to support and promote learning through technology, and it is committed to promoting state-of-the-art educational resources to schools, further education establishments and the business community. SCET also provides advice, guidance, training, technological solutions, and consultancy.
 

Software for Teaching English and Scottish Language and Literature and its Assessment (STELLA)
University of Glasgow
6 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Phone: 0141 330 4980

The aim of the STELLA project is to examine the applications of computers in tertiary level of the teaching of English and Scots, and to develop software in the broad area of English and Scottish Studies. Three departments of the University of Glasgow are involved in STELLA: English Language, English Literature, and Scottish Literature.

Software provided by STELLA includes:

A Guide to Scottish Literature, an electronic course in Scottish Literature, divided into three units: Medieval and Renaissance Literature 1375-1700; Poetry and Fiction 1700-1900; Poetry, Fiction and Drama since 1920. The essays are followed by notes, questions, and topics for discussion, and are suitable for use in courses from sixth-year studies upwards.

Older Scots, a software package containing information on the development of the Scots language from 1100 to modern times and is designed to help the beginning student appreciate Older Scots literature.

The Basics of Scots Metre (1, 2 & 3), a self-access software package which introduces students to the main conventional metres used in Scottish verse, especially iambic pentameter. It can be used both with students who require a straightforward grounding in the subject and with those who study it in greater depth. Unit 3 of the package deals with verse of greater metrical variety.
 

Scots Teaching And Research Network (STARN)
Web site: www.arts.gla.ac.uk/www/english/comet/level2.htm

STARN has been set up by the STELLA project. It collects and makes available through the World Wide Web a selection of Scottish literary and non-literary materials: prose, poetry, drama, criticism and commentary. These materials are usually difficult to access by other means. They are primarily intended for use by educationalists and researchers into aspects of Scottish culture, particularly Scottish literature, and varieties of Scots language.

Places of Literary Interest

Abbotsford (Sir Walter Scott’s Home and Library)
Melrose
Roxburghshire
TD6 9BQ
Phone: 01896 752 043

Burns House Museum
Castle Street
Mauchline
Ayrshire
KA5 5BZ
Phone: 01290 550 045
 

Grassic Gibbon Centre
Arbuthnott
Laurencekirk
AB30 1LX
Phone: 01561 361 668

MacDiarmid’s Cottage
Biggar Museum Trust
Brownsbank Committee
Kirkstyle
Biggar, Lanarkshire
ML12 6QY
Phone: 01899 221 050
 

The Scottish Literary Tour Company
(Tours for Edinburgh and Glasgow)
Suite 2
97B West Bow
Edinburgh
EH1 2JP
Phone: 0131 226 6665
 

The Writer’s Museum
(dedicated to Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson)
Lady Stairs House
Lady Stairs Close
Lawnmarket
Edinburgh
EH1 2PA
Phone: 0131 529 4901
 

Festivals and Events
Edinburgh Book Festival
Scottish Book Centre
137 Dundee Street
Edinburgh
E11 1BG
Phone: 0131 228 5444
Contact: Faith Liddell, Director
 

Glasgow Book Festival
Literature Development Officer for Glasgow
Mitchell Library
North Street
Glasgow
G3 7DN
Contact 0141 287 2838
 

National Poetry Day
Annually, on first or second Thursday of October
Contact Scottish Book Trust
Phone: 0131 229 3663
 

Annual PEN-Glasgow University Naomi Mitchison Lecture
Annually in November
University of Glasgow
Dept.of Scottish Literature
6 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Phone: 0141-330 5093
 

Libraries and Archive Materials
Scottish Library Association (local libraries)
1 John Street
Hamilton
ML3 7EU
Phone: 01698 458 888
 

Mitchell Library
North Street
Glasgow
G3 7DN
Phone: 0141 221 9600
 

The National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh
EH1 1EW
Phone: 0131 226 4531
 

Scottish Poetry Library
5 Crichton’s Close
Canongate
Edinburgh
EH8 ADT
Phone: 0131 557 2876
 

Scottish Theatre Archive
Glasgow University Library
Hillhead Street
Glasgow
G12 8QE
Phone: 0141 330 6758

Literary Societies

There are a number of literary societies in Scotland which are concerned with the promotion and reading of major Scottish literary figures. For further information on

William Dunbar Society

Robert Henryson Society

James Hogg Society

Walter Scott Society

Robert Louis Stevenson Society

Neil Munro society

and others, consult

A Directory of Publishing in Scotland 1999 (Edinburgh: Scottish Publishers Association, 1999); or, Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 1999 (London: A&C Black, 1999).

Writers’ Groups

There are a vast number of active writers’ groups in Scotland. The reader is advised to contact the Scottish Arts Council Helpline for information about these (e-mail:help.desk.sac@artsfb.org.uk). Information on writers’ groups in Glasgow can be obtained from Catherine McInerney, Literature Development Officer for Glasgow, Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN. Phone: 0141 287 2838. The Literature Development Officer’s chief objective is to raise the profile of literature in Glasgow. The Officer holds extensive information on Glasgow writers, literary organisations and writers’ groups.