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diff --git a/src/content/news/en-GB/2023-03-17-eiks-30.mdx b/src/content/news/en-GB/2023-03-17-eiks-30.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34a83ac --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/news/en-GB/2023-03-17-eiks-30.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ +--- +title: Eiks an Ens 30 +summary: >- + Included in this issue of Eiks an Ens are details of our next + Conference in Perth and of our anthologies, which are having + very positive reviews and are well worth the money. +--- +import Link from '$components/Link.astro'; +import Schedule from '$components/Schedule.astro'; + +## Annual Conference + +The Annual Conference of the Scots Language Society will be held on Saturday the +3<sup>rd</sup> in the Sandeman Room, AK Bell Library, York Place, Perth, PH2 +8EP. This year’s theme will be _The Art of Flyting in Scottish Literature_. + +<Schedule + entries={[ + { time: '10.00 am', description: 'Registration and coffee.' }, + { time: '10.30 am', description: 'Derrick McClure: Whit is Flyting?' }, + { time: '11.15 am', description: 'George T Watt: The Flyting Hugh M' }, + { time: '12 noon', description: 'Sangschaw 2023: prizes and readings.' }, + { time: '12.45 pm', description: 'Lunch break.' }, + { time: '2.00 pm', description: 'AGM of the Scots Language Society.' }, + { time: '2.30 pm', description: 'Fred Freeman: Hamish Henderson’s Flyting o Life and Daith.' }, + { time: '3.15 pm', description: 'Len Pennie: Contemporary Scots Literature.' }, + { time: '4.00 pm', description: 'General discussion.' }, + { time: '4.30 pm', description: 'Close of Conference.' }, + ]} +/> + +The cost of attending the Collogue is £20. Contact George Watt on +<Link href="mailto:lallans@hotmail.co.uk">lallans@hotmail.co.uk</Link> +or Elaine Morton on +<Link href="mailto:failte@go-plus.net">failte@go-plus.net</Link>. + +## Sangschaw 2023 Winners + +### The Robert McLellan Tassie fur Scots Prose + +#### Winner + +_Aince_ by Jamie Purves + +#### Rinner-up + +_Haymarket Wumman_ by Jerry Randalls + +#### Ruisit + +_Bother wi a Babby Bird_ by Anne Jones + +_Benny_ by Andrew G Matthews + +_Kafka_ by Pete Fortune + +### The John MacPhail Law Tassie for Owersettin + +#### Winner + +_A Sang tae the Heir_ by Derrick McClure + +#### Jynt Rinner-up + +_The King o the Bees_ by Dorothy Lawrenson + +_Salome_ by Jerry Randalls + +#### Ruisit + +_Mylkwiffe_ by Donald Adamson + +_Weddin Blessin_ by Gordon Davidson + +_A Dug wi Nae Maister_ by Tom Ellett + +_Seeven Auld Fodies_ by WS Milne + +_The Tale o Thorstein Grue_ by Colin Mackenzie + +_The Yirdin o Sorley MacLean_ by Derrick McClure + +_Propertius_ by John Erskine + +### The Hugh MacDiarmaid Tassie for Poesie + +#### Winner + +_Roond Stane_ by Finola Scott + +#### Jynt Rinner-up + +_The Black Loch_ by Robert Duncan +_Aliens_ by James Sinclair + +#### Ruisit + +_Chale Shaw_ by Joe Carstairs + +_John MacLean’s Coat_ by Robert Duncan + +_Jock Tamson’s Luve-Bairns_ by David Bleiman + +_Bauk in the USSR_ by Alastair McLeish + +_Eldritch, Cretaceous Man Jinkin_ by Alan Millar + +_The Ootgaun_ by Hamish Scott + +_Mindin Joe_ by Jock Stein + +_The Ceremonie o Cairnholy_ by Donald Adamson + +_A New Sang_ by David Bleiman + +_Ahint the Haund_ by Kevin Connelly + +_The Marriage Lair_ by Irene Howat + +_Leid in ma Heid_ by Alan Millar + +## Wittins: Sangschaw, Lallans 102-103 + +Our own Lord Braxfield, Judge of the Sangschaw, will deliver his summary of +this year’s happenings in Lallans 102. The word on the street is that the +cranky old grump was pretty impressed by what was put before him. So keep at +it, Scots writers - it vexes him no end to see the Scots language being put to +such good effect! It’s not too early to start working on your masterpiece for +next year. The winner of the poetry class is printed below, but the editor will +endeavour to include as many entries as possible in the forthcoming Lallans +102/103. The summer number in particular will have an extraordinary and broad +showing of further Scots writing, including an interview with Scots Radio +broadcaster Frieda Morrison; Fred Freeman’s epic on Burns, Hamish Henderson +and song; the final instalment of Sam Burns’ Deacon Broadie play and an +abundance of thought-provoking poetry, stories, reviews and news concerning +all the other ventures in the ever-expanding world of the Scots language. + +## _The Galloway Hoard, Kirkcudbright Museum_ by Finola Scott + +_Winner of the Hugh MacDiarmid Cup for Poetry, Sangschaw 2023_ + +Aw muscle and glaur, he’s preenin<br /> +An muckle boastin. Yi’d think<br /> +He wis the first. In he struts<br /> +Aw Cock o the walk,<br /> +King o Faithers, comb throbbin.<br /> + +Aye unnerfit, he wants tae feel<br /> +Ma flutters, tae cup the load I coorie.<br /> +He brags aboot the hero it’ll be.<br /> +Weel mibbe, but fir noo it’s jist<br /> +A wee will o the wisp, ma treisur.<br /> + +I shouldnae compleen, sure he broucht<br /> +thon gift - a wee baa. Its hollow jinglet<br /> +when I joogelt it. I thocht it a toy<br /> +fir the bairn. But naw, seems it’s tae ease<br /> +an bless the birthin. Whit a man.<br /> + +## Anthologies + +The Scots Language Society is a registered charity run by volunteers. By being +a member of the Society, you are already giving the Scots language a boost. +You can help us further by purchasing one or both of our first-rate +50th-anniversary anthologies: contact our membership Secretary, George T Watt +at <Link href="mailto:lallans@hotmail.co.uk">lallans@hotmail.co.uk</Link> +or Willie Hershaw at +<Link href="mailto:w.hershaw678@btinternet.com">w.hershaw678@btinternet.com</Link>. +Every book costs £12.99 including postage. Overseas orders incur an additional +£5 for postage. Included is a selection of the best Scots poetry and prose +from across 50 years and hundred issues of Lallans. |
