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Tag Archives: Harry Giles
Omnisatire and the Ragged Sleeve
Reading The Poets of The People’s Journal, edited by Kirstie Blair, I am so far maist impressed by by the mock-rustic ‘Poute’ (Alexander Burgess), wha conducts a sort of omnisatire, in that he critiques mid-19th century assumptions about poetry, the … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Poute' (Alexander Burgess), Adrian Wisniewski, Alexander Moffat, Alison Flett, Annalena McAfee, David Kinloch, David Wheatley, George Gilfillan, Guardian Review, Harry Giles, Hugh MacDiarmid, Jackie Kay, Kate Kellaway, Kirstie Blair, Liz Lochhead, Lys Hansen, People's Journal, Peter Howson, R.D. Laing, Richard Price, Robert Burns, Robert Crawford, Stella Cartwright, Stephen Campbell, The Bottle Imp, Tom Leonard, W.S. Graham, William Letford, William McGonagall
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Three notes: 3, on Scots
(A couple of weeks before Xmas, while I was waiting around to be chosen for jury duty, I was reflecting on the relation between the work I was doing on Scots in my old school, and the latest manifestations of … Continue reading
Blurbalicious
The art of the poetry blurb is such a particular thing, and, as I’m asked to perform it with increasing frequency, I find myself wondering whether or not I do so from a sufficiently principled stance. Below are the most … Continue reading
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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