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Alison Watt – Hiding in Full View

Alison Watt – Hiding in Full View

The artist's paintings are good, but suffer in comparison to the photography of Francesca Woodman

(3 stars)19 Dec 2011

‘All rooms will hide you, if you stand just so – ghosts know this, that’s really all they know,’ declares one of the poems by Don Paterson (a credited collaborator in this show), which are printed in fluid lower case type just below eye level on the…

Don Paterson, OBE and bard of Dundee - profile

Don Paterson, OBE and bard of Dundee - profile

The Scottish poet is the subject of three different events this month

15 Nov 2011

In a 2009 interview, Don Paterson insisted that the overriding characteristics of his work were ‘stupidity, incompetence and meanness of spirit’. A large handful of sodium chloride can be taken with that statement, as the bard of Dundee is clearly being…

Alain de Botton, AL Kennedy and Janice Galloway among highlights at Glasgow's Aye Write! literary festival

Alain de Botton, AL Kennedy and Janice Galloway among highlights at Glasgow's Aye Write! literary festival

2 Mar 2010

Alain de Botton The terribly clever philosopher and author wonders just what our obsession with work is all about. Why do we spend most of our waking hours doing it and what makes it pleasurable? Fri 5 Mar, 6pm. Janet Paisley and Manda Scott…

Don Paterson - The Blind Eye

Don Paterson - The Blind Eye

Comic aphorisms

(4 stars)4 Oct 2007

The Blind Eye is another delightful rendering of Dundee Don Paterson’s graceful ability to shift between the high brow and the pop cult with Game Boys and The Simpsons rubbing shoulders up against Orpheus and Auden. Never dull, often flighty, Paterson…

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