Critics welcomed this new voice in poetry. Peter Porter
noted that the urgency of CAD
's crusading sensibility
qtd. in
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin, 1994.
152
had not led her to any compromise in the artistry of her language. The book won...
Textual Production
Ali Smith
AS
's first book, a collection entitled Free Love and Other Stories, was published by Virago Press
. The book won that year's Saltire Literary Award and the Scottish Arts Council
Book Award.
Germanà, Monica, and Emily Horton, editors. Ali Smith. Bloomsbury, 2013.
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“Ali Smith Wins the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction”. Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, 3 June 2015.
Textual Production
Ali Smith
Finally, in 2006, Smith joined up again with director Matthew Zajac
, her original partner for the Highland Festival, and successfully reapplied to the Scottish Arts Council
for funding. Now partnered with the Dogstar Theatre...
Travel
Liz Lochhead
LL
went to Glendon College in Toronto, on the first Scottish Arts Council
Scottish/Canadian Writers' Exchange.
The Canadian writer who spent that year in Scotland was the novelist Graeme Gibson
, Margaret Atwood
's partner.
Smith, Ali. “Liz Lochhead: Speaking in Her Own Voice”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 1-16.
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Wealth and Poverty
Kathleen Jamie
With her salary and the award at the turn of the century of two years' generous funding from the Scottish Arts Council
, KJ
said: At last I've got as much money as I need.
qtd. in
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol.