💬 #Beastie #Scotland #Novel #Literature #Bookworm #GrittyFiction
I’d a bit of a problem with my computer. So I apologise for not replying sooner to any queries or to thank you for buying my book. And sharing links. That is so important because it affects the algorithms. As we know they rule the world and we just do the sweeping up for Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and his ilk (but don’t tell them I said that).
🏴 Robert Burns: Scotland’s Poetic Genius 🌹
I talked to Avä Whyte a journalist on the Clydebank Post about my book. Haggis and Burns supper day. You can let me know if read anything about the book in our local paper.
Beastie. The title of the book comes from To a Mouse, perhaps Burns’ best-known poem. Supposedly written, November 1785, after ploughing a field. And no, I wasn’t there. I’m not that old.
‘Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie.’
💬 #LiteraryJourney #ScottishHeritage #BookLove #PoetryInspiration #CulturalLegacy
The poet’s address is to a mouse. In my book, Beastie (link below), it’s a teenager, Chaz Sweeney’s victims.
Both To a Mouse and Beastie get up close and personal. Tell us about the unreliability of the world. A field in Ayrshire—around Dumfries—was Burns’ stomping ground. We find the cruel coulter of history, which ploughs and seeds, closer to home in a place we know well, Dalmuir.
Madness and storm which blow across heath and fields in King Lear. Burns firmly planted his feet in Scottish soil, in what W. B. Yeats called the ‘desolation of reality’. Scotland’s bard employs not the language of dread, but the tenderness of common speech to invoke warmth and fellow feeling for our fellow animal. Indeed, envy and mourning of lost innocence in a way that reminds us of our own childhood, when a wee boy or lassies rips off Christmas paper.
A shared joy: ‘The present only toucheth thee’.
Do me a wee favour and share the joy—and share this post. It doesn’t matter if you’ve done it before. It helps me reach out in a way I’m not capable alone. In a way we’re not capable alone in blasted heath or Scottish field.
😈 “Unleash the Beastie! https://bit.ly/bannkie
📚 Share the Magic, Share the Page! 🌟 #BeastieNovel #BookBuzz” 😈
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