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And Michel Faber. And Louise Welsh. And various others: This photo a table in Blackwell’s was taken by my friend Anneleen. It probably represents the closest I’ll ever get to stardom and notoriety!
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I found out this afternoon that, along with six other Salt poets, I’ve been highly commended in the Forward prize! “Summa”, from The Ambulance Box, is included in this year’s anthology The Forward Book of Poetry 2010, which is published in October. The other highly commended Salters are: Katy Evans-Bush, Luke Kennard, Andrea Porter, Anthony
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Everyone has been hit in some way by the downturn, with the arts suffering a predictable squeeze as Government and business belts tighten all over the place. According to Jane Holland, the UK has lost or is going to lose several poetry presses. It’s a dire time for poetry — indeed, for literature in general
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This is the second of my projected series of poems in English but whose titles are Scots weather terms. I’ll leave it up for a week at the most. [Poem deleted 18/09/08] The astute among you will have noticed that the titles of this and the previous draft poem (“Onding”) are both words that appear
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Yes, it’s a while since I posted anything! Apologies for the radio silence, but Linlithgow Book Festival, central heating replacement, certain Shore Poets business and putting together this guest blog entry for on writing poetry for Fiona Veitch Smith have occupied much time and energy. Several posts are brewing in my head. Meanwhile, here is
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Apologies for the length of time it has been since I added anything to the blog. I blame the cumulative tiredness I was suffering from before our week near Criccieth on the Lleyn peninusula in North Wales. It’s RS Thomas country that is, but my main reading matter for the week was The Bloodaxe Book
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We were in Wigtown a week past Saturday. Came away with a nice wee haul of second-hand books, including John Berryman‘s Collected Poems 1937-1971 (doesn’t include the Dream Songs, which I really want to get my teeth into at some point) and Octavio Paz‘s bilingual Collected Poems 1957-1987 edited by the translator and wonderful essayist
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What would happen if, instead of constantly asking about the use of art, our society began to ask itself seriously about the art of use?
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Cambridge-based publisher Salt has created a bulletin board brimming with literary news and virtual space to exchange useful and interesting information. At the moment, the focus in the news sections is on Salt publications, but that’s only because the main people to have posted so far are Salt. Anyone can sign up and post. Looks
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