Amy Jo Philip
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Things are moving on apace with The Ambulance Box, folks. No sooner had I dispatched my second proofs, than third proofs and a first cover design appeared in my inbox. (Okay, I confess to a slight exaggeration there. There was a time lag of a few days.) The cover looks as fabulous as all those…
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Ryan Van Winkle, the Scottish Poetry Library‘s reader in residence, has just produced the first SPL podcast. Check it out here.
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I can’t let today pass without noting that it would have been the 100th birthday of that great 20th century composer Olivier Messiaen, a favourite of mine. I’ve blogged before about what makes him so great for me, and my enthusiasm only deepens the more I hear his music. Radio 3 is celebrating the centenary…
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Katy Evans-Bush‘s virtual book tour has got off to a glowing winter start with a short but delightful interview at the North Meadow Media blog. I just had to write down the following and share it with you: Word play opens up the language itself, like a pile of roasted chestnuts, for our delectation. Isn’t…
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It’s a good season for poetry on Radio 3. The Essay last week was deeply under the influence: five contemporary poets each on a poet who influenced them. I’d recommend in particular Michael Symmons Roberts on David Jones; WN Herbert on Edwin Morgan (don’t ask me what the picture of Eilean Donan castle is about!);…
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That ever-stylish blogger and Salt poet Katy Evans-Bush embarks tomorrow on a virtual book tour to promote her collection Me and the Dead. The tour, entitled “A Conversation About Dreams” will include feature interviews, pictures, audio, poems, jokes and a few serious moments — everything you’d expect from an in-person book tour expect flesh-pressing signing…
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For any Facebook user interested in contemporary literary publishing — especially writers who hope to be published — Chris Hamilton-Emery’s notes should be essential reading. They are a blog in the strictest sense, a log of daily ups and downs that gives a fascinating insight into the struggle of juggling family life and the heavy…
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The Ambulance Box grows ever closer to becoming a reality. Chris at Salt and I have just settled on 1 March 2009 as the publication date. If that seems far away to you, as it does to some friends I talk to, it seems tantalisingly close to me! Speaking of Salt, Will Stone’s collection Glaciation…
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You’ll be humming it for weeks, especially around 20th January 2009.
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That’s got to have been the best wee festival in the world we had the weekend before last. What a cracker LBF 08 was! Fiona Hyslop, the Scottish Government education secretary and a Lithgae resident, launched the festival and christened our new participants autograph book. She stayed around for Christopher Brookmyre‘s sell-out event. There was…
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A truly remarkable day in the USA. A truly remarkable day for politics in the developed world full stop, surely. I found myself quite moved first thing this morning hearing President elect Obama’s victory speech. And I was moved again this evening watching the scenes of celebration. President elect Obama. Wow. Let’s say that again:…
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Never mind Brand and Ross, this is the real entertainment news (and this is the really interesting bit).
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A busy weekend ahead with this year’s Linlithgow Book Festival kicking off on Friday. I’m particularly looking forward to the workshop I’m running and to Alistair Findlay’s reading on Sunday. Alistair is one of Scotland’s sharpest voices and a hugely entertaining reader. He’s an unusually political writer for this era and can be a bitingly…
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It’s really been a week for new audiences. Wednesday morning was filled with meetings about a Scots language poetry project in Bo’ness Academy. They lasted longer than I anticipated and ended up running into the afternoon but some extremely useful and exciting stuff came out of them. The project gets going in earnest on Monday;…
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Got back on Saturday from a much-needed family break in Northumberland, then it was off to St Andrews on Monday for my Inklight reading, stopping off en route in Edinburgh for lunch with fellow HappenStance poet James Wood. With a bit of time to kill between lunch and my train to Leuchars, I popped into…
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