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“Forget ‘tiny’. Ure’s was a rare talent, in both Scots meanings of ‘rare’.”
—Ian Brown reviews THE TINY TALENT: Selected Poems of Joan Ure, published by Brae Editions, 2018
6/6
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-tiny-talent-selected-poems-of-joan-ure/
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‘There was this woman and she had this tiny talent’. So begins the poem whose title is that of this short collection of the late Joan Ure’s poetry. Yet, if the poem is to be read as self-referent, one has to reflect that Ure in her writing, whether dramatic or poetic, was a sophisticated – […]
“Ure writes in a poetic voice that’s very much ahead of its time, its tone conversational, tongue-in cheek and vulnerably feminine, as well as the manipulation of spacings, creating a poetic voice very similar to Liz Lochhead’s that comes twenty or so years later”
—Charlie Catterall, from the Memorialising Scottish Literature & Culture placement, working on the Papers of Joan Ure
5/6
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A guest blog post by Charlie Catterall, from the Memorialising Scottish Literature & Culture placement, working on the Papers of Joan Ure (ASC 011 A: Writings) in Archives and Special Collectio…
“Ure […] frequently employed her drama as a vehicle through which to articulate urgent observations on the Scottish theatrical landscape of her day”
—“Something In It for the Underdog: The Playwriting of Joan Ure”, Victoria E. Price, IJOSTS 6/2 (2013)
4/6
https://ijosts.glasgow.ac.uk/volume-6/something-in-it-for-the-underdog-the-playwriting-of-joan-ure/
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“Joan Ure is a ‘Dangerous Woman’ in the sense that firstly, she was a key Scottish post-war creative voice that was largely ignored. The neglected woman writer is one of the recurrent images in her work. Secondly, she had many bones to pick with Scottish society, challenging post-war attitudes and values”
Richie McCaffery on Joan Ure, for the Dangerous Women project
3/6
https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/06/24/joan-ure/
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I saw you from my window, Margaret.
I was watching the seagulls swooping the sky.
The seagulls, I was telling myself, know
today is a day for trying out the wingspan…
—Joan Ure, “To Margaret on a Monday”
2/6
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/margaret-monday/
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It is a land of wee
hard men and all I
am wanted for is to
stand and cheer…
Prof Alan Riach considers the life & work of the poet & playwright Joan Ure (1918–1978) – born #OTD, 22 June
1/6
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With My Own Hand: Ashley Douglas on Scotland’s 16th-century Sappho
22 July, Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh – £0/£4/£22 (with book)
Ashley Douglas tells the story of Marie Maitland (c1550–1596), the Maitland manuscript, & Marie’s secret lesbian love poetry
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“With over nineteen editions published over the course of the nineteenth century, THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL is an intriguing blend of fictional and instructive writing… Johnstone played with multiple genres, mobilising popular fiction to both poke fun at and undermine the period’s distinction between high-minded masculine gastronomy and uncomplicated female cookery”
4/4
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‘[“What a style o’ language!” whispered Mrs Dods; “but I maun look after the scouring o’ the kettles!.”]’. So comes the parenthetical exclamation of Margaret (Meg) Dods, a fictional character in Sir Walter Scott’s novel, Saint Ronan’s Well (1823). This sentence does not come from Scott’s novel, set in a spa town in the Scottish borders, but […]
Under the pseudonym “Meg Dods” (a character from Walter Scott’s ST RONAN’S WELL) Johnstone also wrote THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL, which includes the equally fictitious Cleikum Club – “a small gathering of absurd diners who do not much like or trust each other”
3/4
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Luna Station Quarterly
Assoc for Scottish Literature