Amy Jo Philip
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Radio Scotland is airing a three-part series on Scottish poetry called “Poets and The Nation” on Mondays from 11:30 to 12:00. You can listen online from the features page (I assume each programme is available for the standard seven days after broadcast). The first instalment, which was broadcast Monday this week, explored how Scottish poets…
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Thank Heaven: the world is hectic enough as it is.
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Throughout the Reasoning Rhyme posts, I refer to the features of segments. These are the aspects of each consonant or vowel that make it the sound it is. This post and its companion on vowels attempt to explain the basics of feature theory in fairly non-technical language, but I’m afraid they’ll remain pretty dry! (Remember…
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I have taken my first faltering steps into the world of feeds today, not only by subscribing to the feed for Rob Mackenzie’s blog Surroundings, but by subscribing to Feedburner and installing a nice big button for the feed from this blog. Here’s hoping for a feeding frenzy …
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Over at desktopsallye, Sally Evans of diehard press and Poetry Scotland has begun writing about meter. She seems quite defensive of pentameter for some reason. Metrics is an interesting subject to explore, and is obviously related to a consideration rhyme, but trying to defend any particular approach against another seems to me like defending red…
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Just discovered an interesting site: the web pages of LUPAS, the Liverpool University Centre for Poetry and Science. I haven’t explored the site in depth yet, but it looks interesting, especially the diaries section, a communal blog of sorts involving poets and scientists. I’ve had a brief scan of the essays section, but the text…
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Last time, I introduced the basics of my new terminology for rhyme. This post applies that terminology to the examination of more complex phenomena in rhyme. Remember that you can find a key to the symbols I use to indicate individual sounds here. You should be familiar with the use of slashes round a symbol…
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Wednesday night’s reading went well. I irritated myself by stumbling uncharacteristically over a couple of lines at the beginning, but I settled into the groove fairly soon. Both Gerrie Fellows and I had 40 minutes (two 20-minute sets), which is double the length of time I’ve ever had before! I had plenty work to fill…
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In the previous post in this series, I briefly explored why rhyme terminology was ripe for revision. In this post, I set out the basics of a revised terminology. At one point, this entails using a wee bit more involved terminology from linguistics, which I’ll explain in a supplementary post so that this one doesn’t…
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I’ve mentioned the painter Alison Watt before. There’s an interview with her in today’s Sunday Herald, which is worth reading. I’ve been entranced by her work since I saw her solo exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2000, and her new piece at the Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh certainly sounds interesting.…
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This post concerns itself with brief definitions of the basic rhyme phenomena and a quick critque of the traditional terminology. Throughout this series, it’ll be necessary to use some technical terms from linguistics and literary studies, but I’ll explain them as I go along. Rhyme involves a correspondence between two or more elements, usually, but…
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Back in the dim and distant past, as a Linguistics student, I wrote an Honours dissertation on rhyme. It grew out of my reflection on rhyme practice as a reader and nascent writer of poetry and developed into a critque of a PhD thesis on rhyme by a Dutch linguist, Astrid Holtman. It struck me…
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Just over a week until my reading with Gerrie Fellows for the Poetry Association of Scotland! Having been a member of the Association for a good few years, I know I can expect not only a warm welcome but an acute audience. It’s the best combination a writer can have. Here are the details: Wednesday…
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After the horror of the photoshoot, we settled down to writing, with Ken first recording an introduction to the renga for the BBC Radio Scotland arts show Radio Cafe. Elspeth had to shuffle off for a live studio interview with them at lunchtime, but Richard and I were left voiceless on the airwaves. Participating in…
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I am beginning to think that the necessary qualifications for working in PR and media relations must include a degree of–perhaps that should be “degree in”–Schadenfreude. It seems to me a truth universally ignored, at least by PR people, that the unfortunates who have to appear in quirky publicity shots are never the folk who…
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