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The Recent Pathology of Poetry
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The Recent Pathology of Poetry A message to Our Readers We are emerging from a period when published poetry has been the well-managed art of an isolated and notoriously small elite into a more expansive and deregulated market focused outwards towards its audience. Poetry (capital P) is, thank goodness, the product of its readerships [...] Erin Belieu offers a simply knockout review of Don Share?s Squandermania in the Boston Review . It is also heartening to encounter a poet who is willing to risk writing a book that not everyone will have the patience to explore. There is something ultimately winning about the book?s [...] The Robert Burns Centre saw the welcome return last week of two well-kent writers who took part in a Short Story Evening. Linda Cracknell, who has been involved with the CREATE Team doing workshops in Dumfries and Galloway schools, and Sara Maitland, Galloway’s own homegrown writer who grew up near Dalbeattie. Sara recently returned [...] How chuffed am I — I’ve been invited by the wonderful people at Frank O’Connor Prize to attend their awards festival in September! They have asked me to take part in a round-table discussion on the short story. I am so pleased to be invited; what a fantastic opportunity to meet the world’s short [...] WEST CORK LITERARY FESTIVAL, BANTRY, IRELAND. July 6th -12th As Lord Puttnam said, The best food, the most fun and the nicest people in Europe, what more could anyone want – other than an all but obsessive interest in good writing; along with the desire to celebrate the work of those who have [...] It’s great to be longlisted for the Frank O’Connor prize – but I bet I would have had a better chance of getting on the short list had my book Aromabingo been presented in PowerPoint format. Well, it’s not, but you can see my project Destroy Powerpoint, a set of ultra short stories [...] Eric Forbes’s Book Addict’s Guide to Good Books ELIZABETH BAINES was born in South Wales and lives in Manchester. She has been a teacher and is an occasional actor as well as the prize-winning author of plays for radio and stage, and of two novels, The Birth Machine and Body Cuts. Her award-winning [...] All eight Salt titles are available and in stock at Amazon, why not buy them all now and make your own mind up about who should win the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award? Elizabeth Baines: Balancing on the Edge of the World Richard Bardsley: Body Parts: The Anatomy of Love Linda Cracknell: The Searching [...] And, I’m proud as punch to say, it paid off. In the last couple of weeks I’ve had happy news from two of our five winners. Vanessa Gebbie’s first collection of short stories … Read more [...] |
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