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DWAMS - Books from Scotland
ABOUT THIS BOOK PUBLISHER: Tapsalteerie ISBN: 9781916214880 RRP: £10.00 PAGES: 74 PUBLICATION DATE: April 2, 2024 By Shane Strachan In a spectrum of voices across Scots and English, the poems in DWAMS concern themselves with the climate emergency and just transition, rising xenophobia, and with queer romance and sex, in a groundbreaking debut collection from North East Scottish writer and poet Shane Strachan.
Honouring ma mither tongue
Growing up in Fraserburgh, the Scots language only existed outside the classroom for Shane Strachan. Not any more. The author and National Library of Scotland’s Scots Scriever explores how the richness of Doric is now widely recognised and how it unleashes previously overlooked creativity in schools As far as I can remember, during my whole time at school in Fraserburgh, from 1993 to 2006, we never read anything in Scots in class.
Scots Language Publication Grant Awardees 2023
Looking for more in Writing and Authors or The Scots Language Publication Grant? The Scots Language Publication Grant supports Scots publishers and encourages Scots writers. We are delighted to announce the new titles to be supported by the Scots Language Publication Grant.
The Bill Gibb Line on Apple Podcasts
2 episodes A spoken word podcast celebrating the life and work of fashion designer Bill Gibb. This limited series traces the story of the Scottish farm boy turned fashion designer who dressed the likes of Twiggy, Bianca Jagger and Elizabeth Taylor in the 1970s. Written and performed by Shane Strachan with music by Ross Whyte. Sponsored by Finnies the Jeweller. Support the podcast creator at ko-fi.com/shanestrachan A spoken word podcast celebrating the life and work of fashion designer Bill Gibb.
Asleep Awake Asleep
Jo-Ann Bekker Jo-Ann Bekker is a South African writer whose stories have appeared in Volume 1 Brooklyn, New Contrast, Itch, The Drum, Type/Cast and Problem House Press. She received her MA in Creative Writing from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, in 2016. She lives in Knysna.
African Books Collective: Nevertheless
August 1937: Nineteen-year-old Muriel Spark is making her way from Edinburgh to Southern Rhodesia in search of a new life with her husband-to-be. What she discovers is a country of divides, the sharpest between husband and wife. When the world goes to war around her, she must find and follow her literary destiny to survive. November 2016: Duncan, a young Scottish doctor from Aberdeen, unknowingly traces Spark’s steps in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and similarly faces up to the reality of life in the edge.
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