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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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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
A note on MacCaig
(This brief note arose from a Facebook chat with Alan Buckley, in which I suppose I was outlining something of what I think of as Secondariness – how certain writers, indeed certain literatures, are perceived as outside the frame 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
Sweary Words & Difficult Understanding
(An orthographic discussion on Facebook about a localised sweary word in, I think, east coast Scots, led me to think some more about a few of the points I meditate on regularly as a writer who works in a kind … Continue reading
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Tagged D. Philips, Dundee, Dundonian, Father Jack, Gaelic, Lochee, Scots, Tom Leonard
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