Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureJan 23, 2025

Fishing for Poetry: A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

Aly Bain, Andrew Greig & Billy Connolly seek the Loch of the Green Corrie – with MacCaig’s poetry read by Douglas Dunn, Alasdair Gray, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead & Aonghas MacNeacail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0

#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #fishing #AlyBain #AndrewGreig #BillyConnolly #DouglasDunn #AlasdairGray #SeamusHeaney #JackieKay #TomLeonard #LizLochhead #AonghasMacNeacail

Billy Connolly and Aly Bain: Fishing for Poetry. A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureNov 14, 2024

Fishing for Poetry: A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

Aly Bain, Andrew Greig, & Billy Connolly venture to the Loch of the Green Corrie – with readings of Norman MacCaig’s work by Douglas Dunn, Alasdair Gray, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead, & Aonghas MacNeacail

10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thCentury #NormanMacCaig #fishing #AlyBain #AndrewGreig #BillyConnolly

Billy Connolly and Aly Bain: Fishing for Poetry. A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

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damian entwistleAug 20, 2024

Today's poem:

Orkney / This Life
- by Andrew Greig

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/759318970090323968/orkney-this-life?source=share

#Orkney #mainland #island #poetry #AndrewGreig #scotland

Orkney / This Life

Andrew Greig For Catherine and Jamie It is big sky and its changes, the sea all round and the waters within. It is the way sea and sky work off each other constantly, like people meeting in Alfred…

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Walter Scott PrizesDec 7, 2022

Each year we celebrate the entire shortlist for the #WalterScottPrize for #HistoricalFiction. Hear how Andrew Greig approaches his novels in this exclusive Q&A about #RoseNicolson (#RiverrunBooks): "My narrators tend to be historically real but minor characters...caught up in historical events." http://bit.ly/WSPgreigqa

#Books #tbr #History #BookPrize #AndrewGreig #literature #literary #book @bookstodon

Shortlist spotlight - Andrew Greig -

Andrew Greig, author of the 2022 shortlisted novel Rose Nicolson, spoke to the Prize’s Sheila Averbuch in the first of our Shortlist Spotlight interviews.  You can watch the fascinating interview above or on our facebook page. Andrew also kindly answered some burning questions we posed to him in writing, which you can read below. Q: How… Read More »

The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction