by Amy Sansom | 19 Nov 2018 | News
On December 11th, recent MFA graduates Alexa Winik, Sean Robinson and Mhairi Owens will read at the Lighthouse Bookshop in Edinburgh. These three poets will be reading from their own work, and that of fellow MFA graduate Lily Clarke, who has returned to the US. The...
by Amy Sansom | 19 Nov 2018 | News
On October 4th, Professor Don Paterson published The Fall at Home: New and Collected Aphorisms (Faber). The Spectator stated that ‘The Fall at Home offers the reader a bracing combination of the profound, the comic and the often hilariously self-revealing,’ while The...
by Amy Sansom | 19 Nov 2018 | News
Lesley Glaister’s YA novel Aphra’s Child, the first volume in the Chimera series, was published on October 24th. It is a magical, dark and timely novel about ‘othering’, resistance, and love. The book was launched with events at Blackwells in Edinburgh and Waterstones...
by Amy Sansom | 19 Nov 2018 | News
The final instalment of Oliver Emanuel’s trilogy of plays about the 305 British soldiers executed for cowardice during the First World War premiered at the Perth Theatre in October. In a five-star review, The 306: Dusk was praised by The Stage as being ‘haunting and...
by Amy Sansom | 19 Nov 2018 | News
Oli Hazzard published a study of John Ashbery’s poetry, John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange: The Minor Eras (Oxford University Press). This book shows how the work of a major post-war American poet has been centrally concerned with questions of national identity...
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