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Imagining Imagined Spaces
This review of a book of essays exploring the range of forms possible within creative critical thinking was supposed to appear in a briefer form sometime last year but, for whatever reason, did not. It acts as a sort of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Ronnie Mackintosh, Creative Criticism, Creative Writing, Duncan MacLean, Dundee, Dundee University, Gail Low, Glenn Gould, Kengo Kuma, Kenny Taylor, Kirsty Gunn, Lorens Holm, Meaghan Delahunt, Montaigne, Nine Arches Press, Patrick Geddes, Paul Noble, Philip Lopate, Susan Nickalls, The Idea of North, The V&A, The Voyage Out, Zen, Zenimalism
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Phorgotography, 2
iv mitherboardMitherboard imagery: street I grew up in till I was 6 (Peddie), but no the richt bit o it – we bided further up on the right. Street roond the corner whaur thon shop is (Corso) is whaur meh … Continue reading
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: 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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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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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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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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