As part of a remarkable charitable project, Vik Bennett at Wild Women Press has organised a calendar to raise funds for research into type 1 diabetes – her little boy Django suffers from it. Vik and her partner Adam are currently preparing the launch, and a pre-publication offer is available. Female poets ranging from Wendy Cope and Penelope Shuttle to Monica […]

Festival and future It’s been quite a week, here on Arran. The annual McLellan Arts Festival has seen an Opera Gala, a performance of the Mozart Requiem, a night of archive film about Arran and a poetry get-together featuring Alexander Hutchison and five local poets. 12 post-grad opera students from the Royal Northern College of Music have […]