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The Great Moc Gonagall
Norman Watson, Poet McGonagall: The Biography of William McGonagall (Birlinn) One of the first books of poetry I remember from my childhood is listed in the bibliography to this new life of William McGonagall, the enigmatic purveyor of bad verse … Continue reading
Posted in reviews (some antique)
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Buster Keaton, Byron, D.C.Thomson, Douglas Dunn, Hamish Henderson, Lowden Macartney, Peter Quince, Reverend George Gilfillan, Robert Burns, Robert Tannahill, Shakespeare, T.S.Eliot, Thomas Moore, Walter Scott, Weekly News, William McGonagall
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pax scotorum
(During the Dark Night of the Newsland Doldrums in August 2008, Guardian Blogs phoned me up on holiday in Crete to ask me for a response to Jeremy ‘I’m Scottish?’ Paxman’s assertion that Burns was ‘nothing more than a king of sentimental … Continue reading
unglish for all!
(This review of Kinsella, Hartley Williams and Lumsden appeared in Poetry London in (probably) Winter 2005. On reflection, it was a near-perfect triumvirate of writers to give me, as each of them illustrates some aspect of what I think of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Bernstein, Chopin, Coleridge, Dan Dare, Harold Bloom, Hugh MacDiarmid, J.H. Prynne, John Ashbery, John Clare, John Clare or Robert Burns, John Hartley Williams, John Kinsella, Ken Smith, Lyn Hejinian, Marjorie Perloff, Peter Didsbury, Poetry London, Robert Burns, Roddy Lumsden, Ted Hughes, Tomaz Salamun, William Wordsworth, Yang Lian
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A Turbulent Makar
(This piece on Edwin Morgan’s Scottish Laureateship was written in November 2005 for a small magazine the name and a copy of which continues to evade me.) The idea of a poet laureate carries with it some interesting preconceptions. Although … Continue reading
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