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World Poetry Portfolio #33: David Kinloch

By on July 17, 2011 in WPP

Sudeep Sen presents poems by Glaswegian David Kinloch, featuring Cain’s wife, Deborah, Hannah, and King David’s “dick like a didgeri doo.”

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World Poetry Portfolio #17: Richard Price

By on March 13, 2011 in POETRY, WPP

Glaswegian poet Richard Price was one of the founding Informationalists, an influential group of Scottish poets whose work foregrounded information technology. Sudeep Sen has selected eleven poems from his three Carcanet collections and unpublished work.

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Of All Poets a Musician: Fiona Sampson’s Rough Music

By on March 9, 2011 in POETRY

Scottish poet Alice Willinton reviews Fiona Sampson’s new collection of thirty-two “folk dances, with precise and intricate steps.”

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“Prospect,” by Jane Draycott

By on January 17, 2010 in POETRY

Poet Jane Draycott‘s latest collection, Over (Carcanet Press), is a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize for the best collection of poetry published in England or Ireland in 2009. The winner will announced tomorrow, 17 January 2010. In the meantime we are happy to print the below poem, a finalist for the 2009 Troubador International [...]

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Two Successful Experiments

By on July 21, 2009 in POETRY

Frank Kuppner is the funniest Glaswegian poet writing today. He also holds the world record for most impressive poet’s lambchops, only shorn in recent years, though any proof of their existence remains deep within the Carcanet file cabinets of authors photos.

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