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Scottish Book of the Year Award 2012 shortlist announced
16 Nov 2012
Nominees include Alan Warner, Aonghas MacNeacail, Carol Ann Duffy, Ewan Morrison and Irvine Welsh
The shortlist has been announced for the 2012 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year. This years award will be chosen from a list of seven authors including James Kelman, Irvine Welsh and Kathleen Jamie to become the best Scottish book of…
Alice Oswald revives Homer at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2012
2 Aug 2012
Laureate-championed poet revives ancient craft of storytelling with Homer yarn
‘As your poet laureate, I’m ordering you to go,’ announced Carol Ann Duffy at the Bath Literary Festival this year. She was talking about Alice Oswald’s event the following evening. ‘She’s a much better poet than I am.’ When the laureate says that, you…
Aye Write! 2012 - highlights
28 Feb 2012
Seven of the best events at Glasgow literary festival, including William McIlvanney and William Boyd
William McIlvanney The Saltire and Whitbread-winning author from Kilmarnock reflects on a distinguished literary career which kicked off in 1966 with Remedy is None. Was he the man who began the Tartan Noir phenomenon? 9 Mar, 6pm, £8 (£7). Janice…
The Hot 100 2010 - Mark Millar, Kevin Bridges and Alasdair Gray take top 3 spots
16 Dec 2010
Our annual chart of the top creatives in Scotland
The Hot 100 is a list of Scots who’ve made a sizeable creative splash in 2010. It includes musicians, artists, writers, actors, fashion designers, technological innovators, shop owners, festival directors, record label heads and one mad cyclist.
How seven key figures in Scottish culture have fared over 25 years
23 Sep 2010
25 years of The List
Didn’t they do well? Scotland has more than its fair share of talent, finds Kirstin Innes, as she chronicles the highs and lows of some of our finest exports over 25 years, including Peter Capaldi, Carol Ann Duffy, Ian Rankin, Douglas Gordon, Tilda…
Work by photographer Chris Close returns to 2010 Edinburgh Book Festival
21 Jul 2010
Portraits of visiting authors appear in Charlotte Square for second year
Chris Close, the photographer behind last year's successful 'almost live' photography display at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, is set to return to Charlotte Square this year with a new series of portraits of visiting authors. Visiting…
Book and Literary festivals in Scotland 2010
28 May 2010
With Glasgow’s Aye Write! and Aberdeen’s Word behind us for another year, Scotland’s book lovers are now holding their breath for the real heavyweight of the nation’s literary calendar, the Edinburgh Book Festival (Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Sat…
Hot 100 2009 - Carol Ann Duffy profile
17 Dec 2009
In one year as Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy has made more of an impression than Andrew Motion managed in a decade in the job. Her appointment in itself was pretty iconoclastic, and we all dutifully reeled off the reasons why it was a historic event…
The World's Wife
13 Aug 2009
Poetry in motion
There are some things in life that even a suspicious Fringe audience can trust in, and Linda Marlowe interpreting the poems of Carol Ann Duffy’s best-known collection is a double gold-star guarantee of quality. Marlowe is a phenomenal performer, and…
Book Festival day planner
10 Aug 2009
Our guide on the festival's must-see events
As with most of the festivals, the Book Festival is a scary prospect at first glance. Here, Lizzie Mitchell maps out a plan which should make the minefield a little easier to negotiate. All events are based in Charlotte Square Gardens.
Home truths
6 Aug 2009
From fish factory worker to TS Eliot Prize-winning poet, Jen Hadfield talks to Kirstin Innes
It’s been a strange old year for poetry. Although the highs of Carol Ann Duffy’s appointment as the first female Poet Laureate and the unpleasantness of Ruth Padel and Derek Walcott’s fight for the Oxford Professor of Poetry position have almost…
Five festival over-achievers
6 Aug 2009
Robin Ince One can only assume that Robin Ince sits in a thick blue funk for that small portion of the day when he isn’t A) hosting a ‘lunchtime celebration of science and the wonderful’, B) being a ‘bleeding-heart liberal’ or C) opposing ‘the moral…
5 Questions: Carol Ann Duffy
6 Aug 2009
Glasgow-born Carol Ann Duffy may be a tad busy being Britain’s Poet Laureate at the moment, but she still found time to answer our 5 Questions
Alistair MacLeod, Libby Purves and more Carol Ann Duffy
4 Aug 2009
New events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
New events added to the Edinburgh International Book Festival line-up include Alistair MacLeod on Fri 28 Aug, who arrives to discuss No Great Mischief and renowned broadcaster and novelist Libby Purves. Following great demand, more tickets are also up…
The World's Wife
20 Jul 2009
Visceral poetry from the new laureate
You can't fault Linda Marlowe for timing. No sooner had the original Oh! Calcutta star and Berkoff protégé decided to adapt Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife for the stage, than the Glasgow-born Duffy landed the job of poet laureate. An hour or so…
Edinburgh International Book Festival and Edge Festival add to line-up
25 Jun 2009
From a Poet Laureate to cult TV show writers, this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival launched in style, with a programme boasting writers, poets, politicians, photographers and artists from 45 countries. Highlights of the August line-up…
StAnza 2009 - Patience Agbabi and Carol Ann Duffy
24 Mar 2009
Two contrasting women poets with a fondness for the sonnet form electrified the audience at their prime time reading on Saturday night at StAnza. Patience Agbabi on her third visit to the festival read from her collection Bloodshot Monochrome…
StAnza
19 Mar 2009
Scotland’s International Poetry Festival sets out its stall in St Andrews with the usual brew of literary genius. This year’s highlights include Ian Rankin (pictured), Helen Dunmore, Carol Ann Duffy and First Minister Alex Salmond. Byre Theatre…
Kids events
21 Aug 2008
Getting arty and yucky, all in the same week
If you suffer from Crayola on the carpet and finger-painted furniture, The Big Picture Event (24 Aug) should be the destination of choice for your little ‘uns. Chairman and Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen leads an exquisite event of drawing and…
Children's books
19 Jul 2007
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Anna Doherty (14), Lotte Fisher (13), Keira O’Sullivan-Robertson (13) and Archie Fisher (10) take their pick of the Book Festival’s exciting children’s programme
