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An early supporter of establishing a poetry library in Edinburgh, DUNCAN GLEN was one of the stall holders at the 2006 Scottish Poetry Library Small Press Fair. In this audio interview with Jennie Renton, he describes poetry in terms of dance and song. …

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Overexposure in the Frame

Authors, Interviews Hugo Rifkind

In his debut novel, HUGO RIFKIND takes as his setting the celebrity world he covers in his gossip column. And as it happens, the central character is a gossip columnist, just like him. But all is not quite as it seems, as he tells Jennie Renton in this audio interview. …

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Maurice Lindsay Interview

Authors, Interviews Maurice Lindsay

Senior man of Scottish letters MAURICE LINDSAY has spent the best part of sixty years pursuing a career as a writer, poet and broadcaster. A bibliophile from an early age, he remembers early inspirations, as well as later embarrassments. This interview with Jennie Renton from the Scottish Book Collector archive took place in 2000. …

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Eddie Gibbons Interview

Authors, Interviews Eddie Gibbons

Football provides the theme for the latest poetry collection from EDDIE GIBBONS. In this audio interview for textualities.net he discusses the loves of his life – language, laughs and Liverpool. …

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Carol Shields

Authors, Interviews Carol Shields, Ruth Thomas

Magnificently multi-tasking Canadian author CAROL SHIELDS raised five children and wrote twenty books. The winner of major literary prizes, her work reached a broad international readership. She died in 2003. This interview with Ruth Thomas from the Scottish Book Collector archive took place in 2000. …

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Sense of Belonging

Authors, Interviews Ron Butlin

A sense of belonging, and its elusiveness, is at the core of a new novel from RON BUTLIN. Here in an audio interview with Jennie Renton he discusses a book that has been variously described as a sophisticated literary thriller and as a modern morality tale. …

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Angus Dunn’s Cromness Craic

Authors, Interviews Angus Dunn

ANGUS DUNN talks about the inspiration for his first novel, Writing in the Sand, with his editor, Jennie Renton. With a quirkiness all of its own, this offbeat fantasy set in the fictional town of Cromness brings to mind Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure and Doctor Who. …

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Janice Galloway Interview

Authors, Interviews Janice Galloway, Ruth Thomas

From the Scottish Book Collector archives, Volume 2, Number 6. Ruth Thomas interviewed JANICE GALLOWAY shortly after publication of The Trick is to Keep Breathing, her novel about the struggle with life at the interface of what is called sanity and what is called madness, as experienced by the ironically named ‘Joy.’ …

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Mothering Words

Authors, Interviews Anita Govan

Interview with performance poet ANITA GOVAN. She talks about the difficulties and joys of balancing motherhood and poetics, overcoming dyslexia to work with words, and her reaction to seeing her poems – until now always performed live – collected for the first time in Jane. She also recites two of her poems, ‘Love’ and ‘Three Monkeys and Me.’ …

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Les Murray Interview

Authors, Interviews Les Murray

Textualities editor Jennie Renton interviews Australian poet LES MURRAY. They discuss his new book, Hell and After, a collection of poems by four nineteenth century Australian poets. Murray also gives his views on Scottish literature and the state of Australian publishing. …

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Philip Pullman Interview

Authors, Interviews Philip Pullman

Jennie Renton interviews PHILIP PULLMAN, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy. …

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Kjersti Scheen Interview

Authors, Interviews Kjersti Scheen

Textualities editor Jennie Renton interviews Norwegian crime writer KJERSTI SCHEEN about her first book to be translated into English, Final Curtain. …

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Jacob Polley Interview

Authors, Interviews Benjamin Morris, Jacob Polley

A conversation between Benjamin Morris and poet JACOB POLLEY on the nature and power of words, and the effects of language in our lives and superstitions. …

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Interview with Maggie Fergusson

Authors, Interviews Maggie Fergusson

MAGGIE FERGUSSON’s Life of George Mackay Brown is an engrossing portrait of the Orcadian writer. Here she speaks to Textualities editor Jennie Renton about her first meeting with Mackay Brown, her impression of the man, and her experiences writing his biography. …

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Matthew Hollis Interview

Authors, Interviews Matthew Hollis

MATTHEW HOLLIS was at the Edinburgh Debut Writers Festival exultant about his first poetry collection, Ground Water. Interview by Benjamin Morris. …

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