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Live Reviews: JEAN JOHNSTONE: THE WORDS I BORROW ONLY DO NOT OWN
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Visual Art: JEAN JOHNSTONE: THE WORDS I BORROW ONLY DO NOT OWN
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SCOTTISH POETRY LIBRARY
A POEM is such a small thing, a handful of lines pitted against
the millions of printed words in the cosmos. In our busy, word-
filled lives, it's all too easy to skim over a poem which speaks its
big truths in a still, small voice. Jean Johnstone's hand-made
artists' books mitigate against this.
Each book is a single poem, hand-scripted on to hand-made paper,
bound between textured covers and wrapped in a fold of silk or linen.
Before they can be understood and appreciated, they first have to be ...
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Reviews: The words I borrow only do not own
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; VISUAL ART JEAN JOHNSTONE: THE WORDS I BORROW ONLY DO NOT OWN **** SCOTTISH POETRY LIBRARY, EDINBURGH A POEM is such a small thing, a handful of lines pitted against the millions of printed words in the cosmos. In our busy, word- filled lives, it's all too easy to skim over a poem which speaks its ...
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Ancient port for Scottish poems LIBRARY: ALEXANDRIA
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...years later a delegation from the Scottish Poetry Library will be placing their texts...understanding through literature and asked the Scottish Poetry Library to contribute. "I'm thrilled about it, and especially because the Scottish Poetry Library has always seen itself and...
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A dream built on determination
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...purpose-built new premises of the Scottish Poetry Library hard by the new Scottish Parliament...which went into the creation of the Scottish Poetry Library, precisely because it now...the oaken shelves, may take the term Scottish Poetry Library to mean something fully embedded...
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Arts Debate of the Week Is there really anything worth celebrating on National Poetry Day?
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...afloat on the broad river that is Scottish poetry, a river still in spate. Many people...poems we are so often asked for at the Scottish Poetry Library The Sair Finger, The Boy in...People are always asking us at the Scottish Poetry Library for poems for these occasions...
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Scots poet claims major arts award
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; THE renaissance in Scottish poetry received a boost yesterday with the...leading figure in the renaissance of Scottish poetry alongside John Burnside, Jackie Kay, and Don Paterson. "Scottish poetry is in good fettle," she said yesterday...
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"The Legend of the Bischop of St Androis Lyfe".(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies
; ...Androis Lyfe and the Survival of Scottish Poetry David J. Parkinson University of Saskatchewan...Androis Lyfe and the Survival of Scottish Poetry. Early Modern Literary Studies 9.1...the survival and even resurgence of Scottish poetry in reformed Scotland; in satire as...
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Scots poetry library's new director
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...been appointed as the director of the Scottish Poetry Library. Dr Robyn Marsack, who has...important national institution. The Scottish Poetry Library moved in the summer, with...award-winning translation, said: "The Scottish Poetry Library preserves the nation's public...
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Vandals break glass in Poetry Library attack
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; ...a pane of glass in the roof of the Scottish Poetry Library. A glass canopy was smashed...damage was fairly substantial." The Scottish Poetry Library was founded in 1984 and moved...Gaelic and English. But historic Scottish poetry and contemporary works from almost...
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Taking poetry further out of its corner
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...to her new post as director of the Scottish Poetry Library; for the library was founded...most Scottish arts institutions, the Scottish Poetry Library is built not on bureaucracy...crucial experience for running the Scottish Poetry Library even in its new outwardly...
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Obituary: Callum Macdonald
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...going to do something about modern Scottish poetry?" He went on to notice three pamphlets...Macdonald for his struggle "to keep Scottish poetry in print". A potent mythological Gestalt...In 1984, Tessa Ransford set up the Scottish Poetry Library. Winnie died in 1986 and three...
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