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Elizabeth Baines: Reading group: Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas

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How to be a writer without ending up sozzled, behind bars or insane. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Reading group: Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas. Another book (suggested by Ann) which tended to prompt discussion of the history on which it centres - in this case the Spanish Civil War - rather than of its treatment of those issues or the book as a literary artefact. However, the unusual structure of this book is of great interest both politically and aesthetically. Our archive discussions can be found.

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Elizabeth Baines: Writers travelling: wear dark specs unless you're looking for a story

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How to be a writer without ending up sozzled, behind bars or insane. Monday, July 06, 2015. Writers travelling: wear dark specs unless you're looking for a story. What a wonderful time I had at the Unthology 7 launch in Norwich - great readings from Dan Powell, Elaine Chiew, Adrian Cross, Gary Budden and. I got out my book and he asked what I was doing. I said I had things to read before I got to Norwich. He said, 'Oh, I'd better leave you to do your homework! Well, how could any writer resist? Theres an...

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Elizabeth Baines: May 2015

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How to be a writer without ending up sozzled, behind bars or insane. Monday, May 18, 2015. Why writing is on hold. I don't think it's just the sound of hammering above, and battens being thrown down all around; it's also to do with my displacement from my nook. I've puzzled about why, since I've written in so many other places: I've lived. Happen. So why can't I do it now? Links to this post. Labels: The Writing Life. Saturday, May 16, 2015. Very exciting. Nicely typeset, too. It's pretty great being in ...

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Tonguefire: Reasoning Rhyme: Making It New

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A young(ish) Scottish poet squeaks. Sunday, February 04, 2007. Reasoning Rhyme: Making It New. In the previous post. In this series, I briefly explored why rhyme terminology was ripe for revision. In this post, I set out the basics of a revised terminology. At one point, this entails using a wee bit more involved terminology from linguistics, which I'll explain in a supplementary post. In the new terminology, rich and perfect rhyme are brought together under the heading. There is no identity, but all seg...

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Tonguefire: Reasoning Rhyme: More Complex Phenomena

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A young(ish) Scottish poet squeaks. Saturday, February 10, 2007. Reasoning Rhyme: More Complex Phenomena. I introduced the basics of my new terminology for rhyme. This post applies that terminology to the examination of more complex phenomena in rhyme. Remember that you can find a key to the symbols I use to indicate individual sounds here. There's a bit more linguistic terminology in this post. I hope it doesn't bamboozle too much. I'm still working on the supplement. It might become two! Which is a rem...

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Tonguefire: Date Change at the Great Grog

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A young(ish) Scottish poet squeaks. Monday, February 02, 2009. Date Change at the Great Grog. If you've dropped by the Poetry at the Great Grog. Blog recently, you'll have seen that Julia Rampen. And I have swapped slots, which means I'll now be reading on 14 June. Instead of in May. I'm thoroughly looking forward to reading with fellow Salt poet and literary blogger extraordinaire, Katy Evans-Bush. Author of that rather fine collection, Me and the Dead. Fellow former Shore Poet, Allan Crosbie. For Broke...

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Tonguefire: Troubadour Poems: Andrew Philip

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A young(ish) Scottish poet squeaks. Monday, May 19, 2008. Troubadour Poems: Andrew Philip. Originally, I wasn't going to post one of my own poems in this series, but I've changed my mind and am posting a piece from. That hasn't appeared anywhere else. Someone was standing in the middle of the road. She stood astride it, just beyond. The blind spot on a sharp, countryside bend,. So hidden that I nearly ran her over. At first, she seemed an ordinary figure. But for the confidence with which she stood.

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Tonguefire: Open Plan

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A young(ish) Scottish poet squeaks. Monday, July 27, 2009. I'll be interviewing another Shearsman poet, Claire Crowther. Here on Friday 31 July. The following poem comes from her marvellous new collection The Clockwork Gift. They took the walls away without warning. The roof floated, a miraculous over. We were caught out. We cooled quickly. A sty? My hands made paws? My lover stamped in the open. Who took the decision? About iconoclasm. We’d had a tradition. Of opening the inside but obscuring doors.

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Tonguefire: Thursday Past: What Did and Didn't Happen

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A young(ish) Scottish poet squeaks. Sunday, August 23, 2009. Thursday Past: What Did and Didn't Happen. Along with Jim Sinclair, Michel Faber. Unfortunately, I had to head straight home after the reading and so didn't get to see David Gaffney. S show or meet the man himself. I also didn't manage to get to either of Michael Symmons Roberts. Readings this weekend. Not much of a festival for me this year. There's always the next one! I vow to do more readings in Edinburgh next August too. For Broken or Worse.

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Tonguefire: Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe and More

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A young(ish) Scottish poet squeaks. Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe and More. Family circumstances mean I'm almost absent from Edinburgh this festival season, but I'll be reading at Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe. On Thurs 20th. Rob A Mackenzie is reading there tomorrow night. There are, of course, numerous literary events going on in Edinburgh this month. I hope that I might manage to hear one of Michael Symmons Roberts. But we'll have to see how things work out. A Rough...