Three writers: a collection of writing by Alex Hamilton, , | 9780904002133 | Alex Hamilton, James Kelman, Tom Leonard | 1976 | Molendinar Press, 1976 | 82 pages

Three Glasgow Writers, with Alex Hamilton and James Kelman. Glasgow, Molendinar Press, 1976. My Name Is Tom. * * * Tom Leonard is one of the most interesting of the Scottish poets who emerged during the 1960s. His reputation in Scotland has tended to center on his poems in the Glasgow dialect, but in fact, as the publication of his first general collection, Six Glasgow Poems, made clear, he is a man of many styles, a restless, formal experimenter whose language is laid with surprises, traps, and ironies. There is a considerable element of humor, sometimes fantastic and sometimes moderately black, to attract the reader, and a recurring deadpan strangeness is characteristic. Three Glasgow Writers (1976), with James Kelman and Alex Hamilton. Intimate Voices (1984). Radical Renfrew: Poetry from the French Revolution to the First World War (1990). On the Mass bombing of Iraq and Kuwait, commonly known as The Gulf War with Leonard's Shorter Catechism (1991). In 2009 Leonard released Outside the Narrative, a collection of his poetry from 1965 to 2009. Other writings. Whilst working as Writer in Residence at Renfrew District Libraries in 1990 Leonard compiled Radical Renfrew: Poetry from the French Revolution to the First World War, an anthology resurrecting the work of long forgotten poets from the West of Scotland and disproving the âœtraditionalâ, fictitious belief that Scotland at that time was a cultural wasteland. Online version: Three Glasgow writers. Glasgow : Molendinar Press, 1976 (OCoLC)654327253. Document Type Hamilton, A. Gallus, did you say? Our Merry. Birthday.--Leonard T. Unrerelated incidents. Granny's. Honest.--Kelman, J. Young Cecil. No longer the warehouseman. The City slicker and the barmaid. Where I was. Fifty pence. Jim Dandy. Reviews. User-contributed reviews. Three Glasgow Writers, with Tom Leonard and Alex Hamilton. an anecdotal form he has experimented with from his earliest full collectionâ”Not Not While the Giroâ”onwards. The Glasgow Short Story - Association for Scottish Literary Studies James Kelman Books from Scotland Glasgow - Google Books Result Jun 7, 2011 . The title story Growing Up heads a remarkable collection of stories, the more Margaret Hamilton was a prolific writer of short stories from the 1940s until Three Glasgow Writers, which contained work by Alex Hamilton â“ some Tom Leonard, now so well known as a poet and critic, and James Kelman James Kelman emerged as a leading Scottish writer in the 1980s, having published several short story collections in the 70s. He is known for his unusual renderings of the Glasgow dialect and his works are usually an exploration of the thought processes of the narrators. His characters are often working-class and many critics consider him to be a Late Modernist, in similar vein to other Scottish writers, such as Hugh MacDiarmid. The collection An Old Pub Near the Angel was published in 1973 and the anthology Three Glasgow Writers in 1976, a collection created with fellow writers, Alex Hamilton and Tom Leonard. Short Tales from the Nightshift was published in 1978 and Not Not While the Giro appeared in print in 1983. Born in Glasgow in 1946, James Kelman left school at fifteen to begin an apprenticeship as a compositor (where he became sensitised to the look of words on the page), which was followed by periods of work and unemployment and a brief spell in the USA. A keen reader, it wasnâ™t until the early 1970s, in his late twenties, that he began to seriously acknowledge his creative ability, enrolling on a writing course under the tutelage of the influential Philip Hobsbaum, alongside fellow aspiring writers , and Tom Leonard. Tom Leonard (born 1944) is a Scottish poet, writer and critic. He is best known for his poems written in the Glaswegian dialect of Scots, particularly his Six Glasgow Poems and The Six O'Clock News. His work frequently deals with the relationship between language, class and culture. Leonard was born in Glasgow in 1944. His father was a train-driver who had moved to Scotland from Dublin in 1916. His mother, also of Irish descent, came from Saltcoats and had previously worked at the Nobel dynamite

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