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Jim Ferguson is a well known Glasgow poet I've had the pleasure of poeming with at many a Glasgow spoken word event over the past 5 years I've known him, he is such fun to have attending any poetry …
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What will be will be.
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BIRL v, n spin, whirl The first unequivocal quotation with birl in the sense of spin appears in 1790 in David Morison Poems: “The temper pin she gi’es a tirl, An’ spins but …
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Occasionally someone comes along who is very perceptive. Someone with something simple but profound to say. Artist Róisín Gallagher who hails from Falkirk is just such a person. In her project …
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Hugh McMillan is a poet from Penpont in South West Scotland. His work has been published widely in Scotland and beyond, and he has won various prizes, most recently the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award …
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We hear aboot fit’s in the new online anthology Best Scottish Poems 2019 fae the Scottish Poetry Library. An in an extended interview - writer, musician, producer, composer, Freeland Barbour …
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Gossip grows as it is transmitted
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It was 160 years ago this month, on 9 May 1860, that James Matthew Barrie was born at Kirriemuir in Angus. Remembered today as the ‘Peter Pan man’, a story which has delighted children …
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SKITE v dart, shoot through the air, fall or be driven in a slanting directionSkite is one of these Scots words that defies translation into English. We find it used of the unimpeded slanting …
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John Goldie was born in Ayr in 1798 and was educated at the academy there. He later went to Paisley and then Glasgow where he owned a china and stoneware shop. In 1819 he joined the volunteer rifle corps …