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Tag Archives: T.S.Eliot
Carry On, Leonora: 5
This summer I went to Liverpool to see the large Carrington show in the Tate. I stayed, as is my wont, in a mid-range hotel, part of a chain so, wherever you go, the rooms and the menus are much … Continue reading
Heroes and Homilies (3)
(This third section is an attempt to bring the argument a little more up to date by using three contemporary writers as a means of categorising certain ways of working with old texts, what I call ‘diachronic translation’, i.e. within … Continue reading
Four Beginnings
Sarah Broom, Tigers at Awhitu (Carcanet Oxford Poets), £9.95, 73pp; Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Inroads (Seren), £7.99, 64pp; Adam O’Riordan, In the Flesh (Chatto & Windus) ?49pp; Sam Willetts, New Light for the Old Dark (Cape Poetry), £10.00, 55pp There are two … Continue reading
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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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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