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Renga City (3)
3. Kyū (Outcomes) i. Publication After a while with every project comes that moment of self-reflection: no longer ‘how shall we do this’ or ‘how are we getting on with doing it’, but ‘what shall we do with it now’? … Continue reading
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Tagged Bashō, City of Design, Dundee, Dundee renga, Renga, StAnza, The Bash Street Kids, The Beano
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Renga City (2)
(Part 1 of this article is on the StAnza blog here.) 2. Ha (Observing the rules and departing from them) i. As a set of principles Like any art form that has been practised for hundreds of years, renga is systematised to … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Jackson, Bloodaxe Books, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Dundee renga, DURA, Erin Farley, EUP, Gail Low, Linda France, New Boots and Pantisocracies, North Shields, Renga, Smokestack press, StAnza, The Lit & Phil, The Wreck of the Fathership, Whaleback City
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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2
Keaton, Carrington, and Milligan all encounter a similar type of crisis in their ability to pursue their art. The effect on them as creative individuals, and their attempts at solutions, however, are very different. For Keaton, it’s the encroachment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Buster Keaton, Hector Boece, Historia Gentis Scotorum, Holinshed, John Bellenden, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Goon Show, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1
(I seem to have spent forever over this next set of posts, or, rather, not so much over as hovering – or havering – nearby. Many other duties, including a talk on one of the poets mentioned below, W.S. Graham, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arc Publications, Buster Keaton, DCA, Dundee, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Little Nemo, Neil Brand, Poet & Critic, Reverend Thomas Dick, Rudi Blesh, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, Teresa Griffiths, The House of Fear, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Verity Maidlow, W.S. Graham, Winsor McCoy
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Mourning and Monsters, 2
(In which we perhaps learn more about the monsters, and the Makarship, than the mourning…) At the end of the short filmed interview he conducted with me after my gaining the Dundee Makarship in 2013, the late Jim Stewart was … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Jackson, Asif Khan, Auchenshoogle, Beanotown, Bristol Festival of Ideas, Cactusville, D'Arcy Thompson, Desperate Dan, Dr Patrick Blair, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Dundee Makar, Emily Dickinson, Florentina, Frankenstein, Gairfish, Grand Theft Auto, Grove Academy, Hector Boece, Informationism, Jim Stewart, Leonora Carrington, Mary Shelle, Mexico City, Minecraft, Monstro, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Oor Wullie, Pinocchio, Robert Wedderburn, Strawberry Duck, The Broons, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Courier, The Dundee Whale, The McManus Galleries, The Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, The People's Friend, The Scottish Poetry Library, The Uncouthy, W.D. Latto, William McGonagall
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Mourning and Monsters, 1
(As Christmas and the year’s end approaches, you begin to adopt Janus’s regard: looking forward to what is shared and anticipated, while reflecting back on what is lost or appears to be completed. I’ve been considering the links between the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Croft, Broughty Ferry, Byron, Crete, Don Juan, Dundee, Fudan University, N.S. Thompson, Shanghai
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The Three Polis: Scots and Intralingual Translation
The panel I took part in on translation at last week’s Newcastle Poetry Festival raised a number of issues of equal fascination to both poets and translators, and, one would hope, readers of both. I found myself as excited by … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Olson, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Erica Jarnes, Ezra Pound, Fiona Sampson, Hugh MacDiarmid, I Am The Walrus, Jean Boase-Beier, John Lennon, Kent, Newcastle, Newcastle Poetry Festival, Poettrios, River Tay, Robert Creeley, Robert Wedderburn, Roman Jakobson, Sophie Collins, Tayside, Thatcherism, The Beatles, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Horrors of Slavery, The Maximus Poems, The Monolog Recreativ, The Poetry Translation Centre
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