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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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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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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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Psychogeoferric Footnotes
(This is the last of the plunder from Tumblr: displacement activity for not finishing off the Mexico City post, which I have now no excuse not to return to apart from the full time job. And my accounts. I’m adding … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Jackson, Beijing, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Crete, Dome on the Rock, Donegal, Dundee, Hagia Sophia, James Joyce, Kilometre Zero, Lewis Carroll, Madrid, Magdalen Green, Mexico City, Newcastle, Portmanteau Word, The Discovery, The Forbidden City, The Wailing Wall, Whaleback City
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New Boots and Pantisocracies: Are We Nearly Where Yet?
For the past 84 days I’ve been co-editing with Andy Jackson a post-election blog called ‘New Boots and Pantisocracies’, publishing each day a new poem by a different poet exploring the different political landscape we seem to have entered. Perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015 General Election. The Labour Party, Andy Ching, Andy Jackson, Donut Press, Double Bill, George Osborne, Harry Giles, Ian Dury, Madoc: A Mystery, New Boots and Panties, Paul Muldoon, Rachael Boast, Red Squirrel Press, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, SNP, The Conservatives, Whaelback City
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