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Kirsty Gunn in Conversation with Cynthia Rogerson, University of Dundee, May 2017

[iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/739M7ESJ8l8″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] (This is a lightly edited transcript of the interview; to view the whole interview, please click image above) Cynthia Rogerson: I’m Cynthia Rogerson. I write novels and short stories. I’m from California and live in the Highlands. I’ve been there for a long, long time. Probably almost thirty-five years. Kirsty Read More

Kirsty Gunn and Cameron Twiddy in conversation with James Kelman

[iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/D-pm-6mVDyk” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] This is an edited filmed interview of a conversation that took place between Kirsty Gunn, Cameron Twiddy and James Kelman in October 2016. Cameron Twiddy’s personal account of that interview was posted on DURA, 28 July 2017.

An Interview with Martin Cathcart Froden

Martin Cathcart Froden’s debut historical crime novel “The Devil take the Hindmost” won the 2015 Dundee  International Book Prize of five thousand pounds and publication with Freight Books. Set in the velodromes of London and the Midlands in the late nineteen twenties, it follows the adventures of a young highlander. Paul arrives at Kings Cross Read More

An audience with James Kelman

  I’m about to interview James Kelman, inarguably one of the most important writers working in Britain today. As I climb the stairs of the University of Dundee’s Tower Building, I’m feeling terribly anxious. Over the course of his career, Kelman has garnered a bit of a reputation for giving quite thorny interviews and I’m Read More

Edward Small in conversation with Crime Novelist, Claire MacLeary

[iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/1ILItl7IW1Q” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] (This is a lightly edited transcript of the interview; to view the whole interview, please click image above) Edward Small: Hello. I’m Eddie Small. I lecture in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee and we’re here today to do an interview with one of our past students on behalf Read More

The Four Marys: Mary Brooksbank (performed by Jane Campbell)

[iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/jtPpPl87gUc?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] Excerpt from Edward Small, The Four Marys (Dundee: The Voyage Out Press, 2017; ISBN:9780995512313)

The Four Marys: Mary Lily Walker

[iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/9lxx-hB-Sgc?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] Excerpt from Edward Small, The Four Marys (Dundee: The Voyage Out Press, 2017; ISBN:9780995512313)

Jim Stewart: A Creative Memorial

Their keening need will fold its sound, bred in the humid shells they’ll make ‒ to shift, and free (peculiar as themselves) new birds. Jim Stewart,  from “Oystercatchers” Before he died, Jim and I discussed the idea of having some kind of Memorial for him, based loosely around the poetics of the American Poet Joe Read More