Thirteen of the region’s noted poets have embraced the digital age with a pioneering poetry podcast project – a regional showcase of audio recordings on the internet. It’s the first such poetry archive in Scotland, and it’s hoped it will attract a new international audience for the exciting poetry scene in Dumfries & Galloway.
The podcasts feature local poets with growing and national reputations:
The podcasts feature local poets with growing and national reputations:
:: douglas lipton :: hamish macdonald :: angus macmillan ::
:: hugh mcmillan :: liz niven :: derek ross ::
:: tom pow :: mary smith :: rab wilson ::
:: hugh mcmillan :: liz niven :: derek ross ::
:: tom pow :: mary smith :: rab wilson ::
The poems include work in Scots, English and Gaelic in settings stretching all the way from Bellymack to the highlands of Afghanistan, and covering an astonishing range of subjects, from cooking an octopus, to SQA exam-marking, to the tragedy of the Solway Harvester.
The Podcast Project is hosted by DGAA’s Writers’ Hub, www.dgcommunity.net/writers, set up by Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association as a resource for writers in the area, with support from the Council’s Library and IT Services.
We hope that hearing the authors' distinctive voices will add an extra dimension to their work, and showcase the quality and diversity of poetry in the region. We particularly hope that language and literature students abroad will be interested in hearing contemporary recordings in the different languages and accents of Scotland. More...
