Gutter

  • November is almost upon us already, which means that — aside from all the ghoulish goodies in the supermarkets, the building of bonfires and the buying of fireworks — Linlithgow Book Festival is just around the corner. This year’s LBF runs from Friday, 2 November to Sunday, 4 November. As in previous years, I’m running

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  • Gutter 07 arrived in the post this afternoon. As I mentioned previously, I have one poem in this issue, the first of my abnominals to be published anywhere. I’m particularly pleased it’s the abnominal I wrote for my wife. It’s a month or two since I last looked at it, and I’m happy to see

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  • Circumstances have kept me from doing anything with this blog lately, but things seem to be settling down a bit, so I’m back to some degree of blogging at least — though don’t expect too much from me for a whilie! Anyway, the purpose of this post is to say that one of my abnominals,

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  • Was it Wigtown the last time I blogged? Good heavens! A month is far too long in blog land, isn’t it? Well, I suppose that gives me a neat little link to this post, which is mainly to say that, if you’re anywhere near the National Library of Scotland on Thursday, you should come down

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  • I had an amazing weekend at Wigtown Book Festival. My previous experience of the town, described here, could not have been any more of a contrast. There was a real buzz about the place and, unsurprisingly, I kept bumping into people I know from the literary scene. The town seemed to have come into its

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