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Micro-reviews (1): Haurd Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds
(Translations into Scots from Du Fu and Li Bai by Brian Holton, Taproot Press, 2021) I’ve been meaning for a while to post a few of the micro-reviews I always end up writing whenever I’m asked for ‘a sentence or … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Holton, Du Fu, Eneados, Gavin Douglas, Hugh MacDiarmid, James MacPherson, Jorge Luis Borges, Li Bai, Ossian, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scots, Scottish literature, Sir Walter Scott, StAnza, Taproot Press, The Aeneid, The Great Slowing Down, William McGonagall, xenochronicity
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Robo-Burns: The Orfeon Translates
(By way of xenochronicitous – AKA late – celebration of the birth o the Bard, here’s an machine-generated curio. The Bulgarian poet Kristin Dimitrova completed a translation of one of my Burns poems – there’s mair – back in 2009 … Continue reading
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
Note on the Rabbie-habbie-tiger Contiguity
(I was delighted when David Robinson picked ‘Rabbie Rabbie Burning Bright’ as one of his Scottish poems of the year over on the SPL website. So much so that I suddenly remembered I still hadn’t written the little note on … Continue reading
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Tagged David Robinson, Robert Burns, The Scotsman, The Scottish Poety Library
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Not as we see, but as we are seen
I woke up the other morning, as I sometimes do, with a line of verse in my head. Sometimes this is something composed in the last dream before waking, and usually it’s a magnificent higgamus-hoggamus (‘The long iron boot-rat’ being … Continue reading
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Tagged Jaques Derrida, Richard Dawkins, Robert Burns, Sigmund Freud, W.S. Graham
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The Great Moc Gonagall
Norman Watson, Poet McGonagall: The Biography of William McGonagall (Birlinn) One of the first books of poetry I remember from my childhood is listed in the bibliography to this new life of William McGonagall, the enigmatic purveyor of bad verse … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Buster Keaton, Byron, D.C.Thomson, Douglas Dunn, Hamish Henderson, Lowden Macartney, Peter Quince, Reverend George Gilfillan, Robert Burns, Robert Tannahill, Shakespeare, T.S.Eliot, Thomas Moore, Walter Scott, Weekly News, William McGonagall
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pax scotorum
(During the Dark Night of the Newsland Doldrums in August 2008, Guardian Blogs phoned me up on holiday in Crete to ask me for a response to Jeremy ‘I’m Scottish?’ Paxman’s assertion that Burns was ‘nothing more than a king of sentimental … Continue reading
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Tagged Christophe Lambert, Henry Mackenzie, James Naughtie, Jeremy Paxman, Laurence Sterne, Robert Burns
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unglish for all!
(This review of Kinsella, Hartley Williams and Lumsden appeared in Poetry London in (probably) Winter 2005. On reflection, it was a near-perfect triumvirate of writers to give me, as each of them illustrates some aspect of what I think of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Bernstein, Chopin, Coleridge, Dan Dare, Harold Bloom, Hugh MacDiarmid, J.H. Prynne, John Ashbery, John Clare, John Clare or Robert Burns, John Hartley Williams, John Kinsella, Ken Smith, Lyn Hejinian, Marjorie Perloff, Peter Didsbury, Poetry London, Robert Burns, Roddy Lumsden, Ted Hughes, Tomaz Salamun, William Wordsworth, Yang Lian
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A Turbulent Makar
(This piece on Edwin Morgan’s Scottish Laureateship was written in November 2005 for a small magazine the name and a copy of which continues to evade me.) The idea of a poet laureate carries with it some interesting preconceptions. Although … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Motion, Augustus, Ben Jonson, Billy Collins, Carol Ann Duffy, Charles II, Creative Scotland, Doctor Johnson, Douglas Dunn, Edwin Morgan, Edwin Muir, Frank McAveety, George Mackay Brown, Hugh MacDiarmid, Iain Crichton Smith, Jack McConnell, James Hogg, John Dryden, Liz Lochhead, Michael Morpurgo, Norman MacCaig, Restoration, Robert Burns, Robert Crawford, Robert Fergusson, Roddy Lumsden, Scottish Executive, Scottish Opera, Sorley MacLean, T.S.Eliot, Virgil, W.S. Graham, Walter Scott
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