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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 Ms: Mammoth, Minerva, and Merkin
Mark Doty, Deep Lane (Cape); Frances Leviston, Disinformation (Picador); Christopher Reid, The Curiosities (Faber). (Three collections reviewed for the June issue of Literary Review, here with – slightly – critical notes restored.) Mark Doty’s ninth collection displays his customary gifts … Continue reading
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Tagged Auden, Bath, Blake, Byron, Christopher Reid, Frances Leviston, George Herbert, Gogol, Jackson Pollock, Mark Doty, Walt Whitman, Yeats
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hotching in heteronyms
(This is evidently a review I did, possibly for Poetry Review, certainly back in January 2002. I like Pessoa a lot more than it would appear to suggest, so I was talking more about contemporary lazy smartnesses.) Ah, heteronyms, those … Continue reading
Holocaust Memorial Day Reading
(This piece was written in February 2005 for the Blinking Eye website. I was judging their competition, and they asked me for something for the site. Every year for the last three years the writers associated with Newcastle University — … Continue reading
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Tagged Bennett Hogg, Cynthia Fuller, Duska Radoslavjevic-Heaney, Gillian Allnutt, Holocaust Memorial Day, HOmer, Jack Mapanje, Julia Darling, Lewis Watson, Linda France, Margaret Wilkinson, Newcastle University, School of English, Sean O'Brien, Statius, Walt Whitman
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