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DJCAD MASTERS SHOW 2017: MFA ART, SOCIETY & PUBLICS

The MFA Arts, Society and Publics end of year show brings together a diverse group of creatives working in a multitude of different artistic areas for a unique group show. The students on the MFA course are from varied backgrounds and experiences. The course enables these individuals to share knowledge with peers whilst working with Read More

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On Balance (Shortlisted, 2017 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection)

     Time, which is itself encased     in stunning script: Baikal     poured into a single     shell or glass receptacle. Belfast folk aver there was nothing wrong with the Titanic when she left their slipway. As that city’s inaugural laureate Sinéad Morrissey arrives in Newcastle, her most recent collection On Balance opens by contemplating the fated liner’s Read More

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MIRROR, SHOULDER, SIGNAL (Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize)

Sonja, the protagonist in Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, is a Danish translator who is working on a series of Swedish crime fiction novels. She is “over forty” and appears to have reached a midlife crisis when the novel begins. She decides to learn to drive, despite suffering from a form of inherited positional vertigo which can Read More

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The Art of Dying

The Art of Dying would seem an incongruous title for Adam Wyeth’s astonishing new poetry collection, because it is so richly alive with nature’s characters – personified trees, ducks, Mafioso foxes… But two particular characters give the title its meaning: a man and his dying father. Wyeth is already a lauded poet, his previous work Read More

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Aeneid, Book V1

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s pre-eminence as a poet is too well known to need any elucidation of course, but perhaps it is worth noting here that his prowess as a translator was also already evident in his  Beowulf.  Heaney undertook his verse translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid to honour the memory of Read More

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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

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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

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SLAVONIC DANCES

Tom Hubbard was the first librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library and is the author, editor or co-editor of over thirty academic and literary works, including several novels and poetry collections. Slavonic Dances, the name given to a series of orchestral pieces by Dvorak, is a happy title for this sequence of novellas whose characters Read More

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CROSS PURPOSE

Cross Purpose is an energetic debut novel that attempts to perform a balancing act between a gritty Tartan Noir and a darkly comic detective novel. Claire MacLeary’s first novel jumps into Scottish crime fiction with both feet. She doesn’t flinch away from the torrid tedium of life in Scottish council estates, but embraces the dichotomy Read More

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Lus na Tùise/Lavender

Lus na Tùise is, by any standard, a beautiful book and it is, perhaps, fitting that this parallel Gaelic-English collection was published in Nova Scotia.  Those who have set expectations of what Gaelic poetry may be, are already alerted that all is not as it seems; Marcas Mac an Tuairneir hails from Yorkshire and has Read More

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