The Tiny Talent: Selected Poems by Joan Ure (ISBN 9781907508073, price £7.99) can be ordered through any bookshop, but it is currently in stock at the following: Orkney Stromness Books and Prints (distributor) phone 01856 850565 / email grahamplace1@hotmail.com The Orcadian Bookshop Edinburgh Blackwell’s, South Bridge Glasgow Aye-Aye Books Good Press Tell It Slant London James Fergusson Books […]

In our notes to the publication The Tiny Talent: Selected Poems by Joan Ure, Richie McCaffery and I allude to the circumstances that led to our joining forces on the project. That a writer and critic then living in Ghent, and a small publishing house based in Orkney should come together for the purposes of […]

Reproduced by kind permission of publisher Joy Hendry on behalf of Chapman Magazine, and by kind permission of the author, Alasdair Gray. Cover image by Marion Thomson. JOAN URE : 1919-1978 Joan Ure the playwright was called Elizabeth Carswell when born near Newcastle, where her father worked as an engineer with Vickers-Armstrong. On her father’s and mother’s […]

First, some background. Late last year, after Richie McCaffery and I had decided to seek to publish a centenary selection of poems by Joan Ure, one of the first people we contacted was Professor Emerita Jan McDonald, formerly James Arnott Professor of Drama at the University of Glasgow, and we are delighted to confirm that she […]

Alison Peebles is an award-winning Scottish actress and director in theatre, film, and television in a career spanning over thirty years. Trained as an artist at Edinburgh College of Art, she co-founded the celebrated Communicado Theatre Company and was noted for her portrayal of Lady Macbeth in Michael Boyd’s seminal production of Macbeth at The Tron Theatre. She was nominated […]

Edinburgh (11th) and Glasgow (12th): At Blackwell’s, South Bridge, Edinburgh; 6.30-8.00pm, Tuesday 11th December 2018. A selection of the poems will be read by Alison Peebles. Tickets are free and available via Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-the-tiny-talent-selected-poems-by-joan-ure-tickets-52868769914 At CCA, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow; 5.30-7.00pm, Wednesday 12th December 2018. The poems will be read by Jan McDonald and Richie McCaffery. […]

From The Orcadian 22 November 2018. Reproduced with permission. Thanks, big time, to Olive M Ritch, for stepping in when we’d had time to take stock of our expectations vis-à-vis the so suddenly packed room. And thanks to Ann McTaggart for bringing the poetry, and the room, so splendidly to life.

This pamphlet of 22 poems by the playwright and poet Joan Ure, pen name of Elizabeth Clark (1918-78), was published on November 5th of her centenary year. It represents the first occasion on which her poetry has appeared within its own covers. The selection was edited by Richie McCaffery and Alistair Peebles, the present writer, […]

A friend wrote from Spain this morning to wish me ‘Happy Paul Violi Day’, on what would have been the New York poet’s 74th birthday. He hoped, he added, to read some of Paul’s poetry online later. I misunderstood, imagining a kind of digital reprise of the small event that he and I and some […]