Dream State
Celebrating 30 years of Dream State with its editor Donny O’Rourke.
In this extended version of Nothing But The Poem Kevin Williamson interviews Donny O’Rourke, editor of Dream State – The New Scottish Poets which was published in 1994 and remains the gold standard of poetry anthologies, and, arguably, the most visionary poetry anthology ever published in Scotland.
In this podcast, Donny O’Rourke sits down in the Scottish Poetry Library with Kevin Williamson (co-founder of Bella Caledonia) to revisit the creative riot that was the early 1990s. They discuss Dream State and the time and place which gave birth to it.
Dream State The New Scottish Poets was published by Polygon.
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Brilliant and timely —many thanks Kevin, and Donny- for putting this out now
Trust a suit,
lose your loot,
& like enuff,
even a foot.