Poetry On Trial: 2. “Poetry and Tribalism” by Jon Stone
In the second of our ‘Poetry on trial’ essays – culled from the excellent Cut Out and Keep blog (now part of Fuselit website) – English poet Jon Stone looks at poetry’s three… Read More
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Poetry On Trial: 1. “What are poets for?” by George Gunn
This thoughtful provocative essay by poet George Gunn asks some timely questions on the whys and wherefores of modern poetry, and asks whether there is a socialised character of poetry in Scotland that… Read More
‘The Winter Coast’ by George Gunn
We don’t usually publish poetry on Bella but occasionally something comes into our hands which we can’t not publish. The Winter Coast is one such poem. In this beautiful, timely and epic work… Read More
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This from Social Media Week Glasgow Crowdsourced Scottish Poetry Audiobook:
Kevin Williamson on our radical seditious patriotic Bard
It takes a brave or foolish man to try and step into Robert Burns’s Scotland-size shoes but Bella Caledonia’s Kevin Williamson is doing it for fourteen nights in August. Here he explains why:… Read More
Notes From The Gutter, Music To My Ears
by Kevin Williamson – And yet I feel this muckle thistle’s staun’in’ Atween me and the mune as pairt o’ a Plan.” When Hugh MacDiarmid’s whisky-fuelled ‘Drunk Man’ looks up from the gutter,… Read More
O Donald Trump, Woe Donald Trump
Donald Trump is an American billionaire born of an exiled Hebridean mother. He plans to build “the world’s greatest golf course” and five hundred executive houses on a pristine beach near Aberdeen, previously… Read More
The Republic of Hope
To conclude (but not close) our week long celebration of women writers - we’re delighted to publish a handful of poems by Lorna Waite, from her forthcoming collection The Steel Garden. We tried to… Read More
In Memoriam Edwin Morgan (1920-2010)
By Robert Alan Jamieson In a life of 90 years, a degree of transformation is to be expected, as times a-change and people must respond. In Edwin Morgan’s, sheer constancy of place, work… Read More
So now begin
Open the doors! Light of the day, shine in; light of the mind, shine out! We have a building which is more than a building. There is a commerce between inner and outer,… Read More
