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It shared the award for Scottish Book of the Year, [8] and was banned from Central Region school libraries. [10] Peter Manson, in the Poetry Review, claimed the poems, "speak so precisely and with such a fierce, analytical wit that they transcend their status as poems and become part of the shared apparatus we use to think with. I don't know ...
The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegians can draw on a "continuum between fully localised and fully standardised". [ 3 ]
Picture from a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript of the Roman de Fergus. The Kingdom of Alba was overwhelmingly an oral society dominated by Gaelic culture. Our fuller sources for Ireland of the same period suggest that there would have been filidh, who acted as poets, musicians and historians, often attached to the court of a lord or king, and passed on their knowledge and culture in ...
Glaswegian is the associated adjective and demonym of Glasgow, a city of the Scottish Lowlands in Scotland. It may refer to: Anything from or related to the city of Glasgow, in particular: The people of Glasgow (see also List of people from Glasgow) The Glasgow dialect of English and Scots
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Bud Neill's legacy: Lobey Dosser and Rank Bajin, astride Elfie, the only two legged horse in The West. William "Bud" Neill (5 November 1911–28 August 1970 [1]) was a Scottish cartoonist who drew cartoon strips for a number of Glasgow-based newspapers between the 1940s and 1960s.
William McIlvanney died on 5 December 2015 at the age of 79, after a short illness. [10] Following his death, a number of public figures, including SNP MSP Nicola Sturgeon , authors Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh , paid tribute noting both his inspirational writing and his likeable and gentlemanly personality.
Mark Rudman suggests that Briggflatts is an example of how free verse can be seen as an advance on traditional metrical poetry. He cites the poem to show that free verse can include a rhyme scheme without following other conventions of traditional English poetry. To Rudman, the poem allows the subject to dictate the rhyming words and argues ...