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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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Pies, Poute, and the Poetry Mills of Victorian Dundee
It might make some sense to resume this blog where it left off, with a further reference to the ongoing work on Dundee writing in the 19th century. At the Dundee Literary Festival the other week, Professor Kirstie Blair and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Wilson, Alexander Burgess, Alyth, Andy Jackson, Athole's Pies, Christopher North, D.C. Thomson's, Dundee, Dundee Literary Festival, Dundee Makar, Eccentric Scotland, Edwin Morgan, Erin Farley, Factory Muse, Gairfish, Gioia Angeletti, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ian Hislop, James 'B.V.' Thomson, James Hogg, James Young Geddes, John Davidson, John Wilson, Kristie Blair, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Nick Newman, Noctes Ambrosianae, Poets of The People's Journal, Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland, Poute, Radical Renfrew, Richard Price, Sir John Leng, Tammas Bodkin, The People's Journal, The Scottish Nation, The Wipers Times, Tom Leonard, Valentina Bold, W.D. Latto, Walt Whitman, Whaleback City, William Donaldson, William McGonagall
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Awa the Messages (for National Poetry Day 2016)
I was prompted to post this piece for National Poetry Day by a comment made on Facebook by the poet Mandy Maxwell, who pointed out that the theme for this year’s NPD has a double meaning for a Scottish (or … Continue reading
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Tagged David Annand, Dundee, Kent, Lochee, Mandy Maxwell, National Poetry Day, Poetry, Public Art, Walter Benjamin
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Stop! in the Name of the New Unsettlement
4 (of 4) So the public art proposals I’ve been posting on Strawberry Duck on Tumblr for the last few years aren’t exactly that; they are partly simple enough ideas which could actually be done (and at relatively little expense, … Continue reading
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Dial the New Unsettlement!
3 It is as an opposition to this mindset that I welcome, rejoice in, and kick myself for missing, the construction and demolition of the cardboard Royal Arch by Claire Dow and Olivier Grossetete. Such fond, culturally-informed and – yes … Continue reading
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Tagged Claire Dow, Dadaism, Dundee, Dundee University, Erin Catriona Farley, Geddes Institute, George Wyllie, Grayson Perry, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Mark Waldron, Monty Python, Olivier Grossetete, Sir Patrick Geddes, Situationism, The Overgate, Whitfield, William McGonagall
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Smile! It’s the New Unsettlement
1 (of 4) I was intending to be in Dundee last weekend for a project that strongly appealed to my imagination: the reconstruction and subsequent demolition of a cardboard effigy of the Royal Arch. With my usual, firmly xenochronicitous grasp … Continue reading
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Tagged Baudrillard, Brian Wilson, Darlington, David Annand, Dundee, Hugh MacDiarmid, Mike Love, Pet Sounds, Smile, The Beach Boys, The Daleks, The Royal Arch, Westpark
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