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Portrait of Gerda Stevenson

Hame-comin

Hame-comin Gerda Stevenson’s entry – Hame-comin – to the YES Arts Festival Poetry Challenge was selected as the winning poem by judges Allan Massie, Rosemary Goring and Tom Murray. The challenge was to respond to the words The Flooers of the Forest, in Jean Elliot’s great song of that title, which is about the Battle […]

September 21, 2013
Book cover by Janine Di Giovanni

Two War Correspondents Remember Bosnia

Two War Correspondents Remember Bosnia Discussion at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 17th August 2012 – Janine di Giovanni and Ed Vulliamy, – twenty years on from the beginning of the war in Bosnia. by Morelle Smith The War is Dead, Long Live the War; Bosnia, the Reckoning – Ed Vulliamy   Ghosts by Daylight; […]

August 24, 2012

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