The Dynamics of Balsa: No. 25 (New Writing Scotland) - Softcover

Merryn Glover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0948877774 ISBN 13: 9780948877773

Publisher: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2007

Synopsis

"New Writing Scotland" is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every year it publishes the very best from both emerging and established writers, and lists many of the leading literary lights of Scotland among its past (and present) contributors. Available this summer, "The Dynamics of Balsa" is the latest collection of excellent contemporary literature, drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society. Over the last twenty-five years "New Writing Scotland" has published early material by Iain Banks, Anne Donovan, Janice Galloway, A. L. Kennedy, James Meek, Ian Rankin, Suhayl Saadi and Irvine Welsh, along with a host of other talents. What rising stars are shining in this edition? "New Writing Scotland" is regarded as an annual indicator of the state of the literary nation. "The Dynamics of Balsa" shows it to be it to be in vigorous, vibrant, strong - even rude - health!

About this title

About the Author

Liz Niven is the editor or coeditor of several books, including A Drunk Wumman Sittin oan a Thistle, Past Presents, and The Sound of Our Voices. Brian Whittingham is a poet, playwright, and editor whose recent poetry collections include The Charing Cross Carpet, Drink the Green Fairy, and The Old Man from Brooklyn.

Edition details

• Publisher: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0948877774
• ISBN 13: 9780948877773
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Niven Liz, Whittingham Brian