This is Tara Bergin’s second poetry collection; her first, published in 2013, This is Yarrow, won the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine/Strong Award so it comes as no surprise that The Tragic Death of Eleonore Marx should excite much interest. Deservedly so, this is a collection from a unique poetic voice. Playful, dreamlike, with Read More
“You don’t think things like this happen in woodsy Maine, off the beaten path? It sounds more like L.A.? In Maine, there may be a path, but it’s never clear […]” In The State We’re In: Maine Stories, we are transported to Maine – the coastal state that writer Ann Beattie recognises has the reputation Read More
“The loss of a mother must be something very strange…”. This epigraph from Sigmund Freud sets the scene for Emily Berry’s superb second collection, Stranger, Baby, which concerns the sense of dislocation, “dismantlement” and alterity brought about by intense grief. The suicide of her mother left the narrator/Berry all at sea from the age of Read More
Dundee University’s Comics courses are internationally recognized, and the quality of the work in this year’s show demonstrates why. Seven students have their work on display, demonstrating a high level of skill and a willingness to experiment with the medium. The works vary from the wordless, where the pictures tell the entire story, to a quite Read More
(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 Gunn: And Cynthia’s here today to Read More
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.
18th-28th August The Masters Animation and VFX show at DJCAD this year will take you on a fantastic journey through diverse lands: dystopian futures, dreamlike vistas, dark underworlds, troubled candy-coloured fairytales and also to Dundee by means of a Dandy comic inspired world and a cardboard arch situated in the cities Slessor Square. On Read More
This is a diverse group of artists, but there emerges from their work a unifying theme of ethical challenge and political awareness. Rishi Srinivasan questions the colonisation of India in his work entitled Peace in My Head. He uses distinctive motifs: Dhristi Bohmai masks, commonly found in the south of the country to ward off Read More
The MSc Medical Art show demonstrates the use of a wide range of techniques, both traditional and digital, to educate and inform medical personnel and patients. In many cases highly complex ideas are demonstrated so clearly that even the non-medical viewer can understand the procedures and anatomy being explained. Inspired by his own experience undergoing Read More
Such men rise in the ranks and can only be removed by death or revolt … (“Candidate A”) In the 1970s, before the advent of our daily intake of internet reporting, the name Idi Amin Dada evoked a vague sense of horror too distant for the details of his reign of terror to be clear. Read More