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I was shocked and saddened, like the Scottish literary world in general, to learn back in February that Gavin Wallace, the head of literature at Creative Scotland, had died. I didn’t know Gavin well, but I can say with certainty that The North End of the Possible would not be the book it is without the
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Just over a fortnight ago, I received the following message from Claire Askew: For nearly a year, as well as doing my teaching job, I’ve also been doing some work with an organisation called Women Supporting Women. WSW is a not-for-profit community organisation that provides resources and services to vulnerable women and girls in Edinburgh.
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Some cracking news: AB Jackson’s Donut pamphlet Apocrypha is the next PBS pamphlet choice. Well done, ABJ and Donut! It’s an excellent publication — tremendous poetry, beautifully designed — and a well-deserved accolade. If you don’t already have it, snap it up: it’s a limited edition of 250 copies. While you’re at it, you might
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“Good art stops being art — it becomes a way of being happy, of receiving something beautiful and human from stranger, of confirming one’s identity, of being not alone.” AL Kennedy in The Guardian books blog today arguing with typical intelligence, wit and accessiblity that it’s not unreasonable to defend arts funding when all the
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The Sunday Herald reports that the SNP Scottish Government is abandoning its manifesto pledge to provide Irish-style tax breaks for artists, musicians and writers and, instead, conducting a substantial review of arts funding in Scotland. It’s hardly a surprise that it should ditch the tax plans: the Scottish Parliament doesn’t have the powers to implement
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Salty ruminations on bad news from Bloodaxe. * Which come after Mark Ravenhill writes on arts funding vs sport funding in The Guardian. * Meanwhile, here’s a new poetry podcasting project. * And something else that could set poetry alight.
Amy Jo Philip 