EVENTS
Academic and public events are being planned to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Fergusson’s death in 2024 and beyond into 2025. These events will reflect on the diverse legacies connected to his biography and, at the same time, spotlight and disseminate research for the forthcoming edition.
Please keep checking this page for more updates and information. If you are running an event dedicated to Fergusson in 2024 or 2025, please do get in touch via the contact form!
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Online Book Launch: ‘O’er a’ my labours sey your skill’
Join us online as we celebrate the launch of ‘O’er a’ my labours sey your skill’: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.
In this new poetry collection, across Scots, Gaelic and English, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to famed eighteenth-century Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson’s work. From tributes to departures, Scotland’s most celebrated writers and emerging poets alike evoke the enduring impact of Fergusson upon their work, proving that, two hundred and fifty years after his death, his song immortal lives.
This celebration will include readings of Fergusson’s poetry, a selection of our wonderful poets reading their own works responding to Fergusson, and discussion of Fergusson’s life and numerous legacies.
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‘O’er a’ my labours sey your skill’: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson forms part of ‘The Collected Works of Robert Fergussson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies’ research project, funded by The Leverhulme Trust (October 2023 – October 2025).
Fergusson’s death, at the age of just twenty-four in an Edinburgh asylum was tragic, but his legacy is anything but. Via events and publications, the project gives Fergusson’s literary, textual, biographical, linguistic, medical and cultural legacies the timely recognition they deserve.
O’er a’ my labours sey your skill’: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson is published by independent Edinburgh publisher Taproot Press and is available to purchase on their website: https://taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-a-my-labours-sey-your-skill-poetic-responses-to-robert-fergusson-9781739207762/