Scottish Friction » News http://scottishfriction.com Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:39:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Scottish Fiction http://scottishfriction.com/2010/08/21/scottish-fiction/ http://scottishfriction.com/2010/08/21/scottish-fiction/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:31:06 +0000 Scottish Friction http://scottishfriction.com/?p=1563 The Scots Makar – or Scottish national poet – Edwin Morgan died this week at the age of 90. He was widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th Century. His poem in the Idlewild song below was the inspiration for the name of this blog.

“It isn’t in the mirror
It isn’t on the page
It’s a red-hearted vibration
Pushing through the walls
Of dark imagination
Finding no equation
There’s a Red Road rage
But it’s not road rage
It’s asylum seekers engulfed by a grudge
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Scottish fiction

It isn’t in the castle
It isn’t in the mist
It’s a calling of the waters
As they break to show
The new Black Death
With reactors aglow
Do you think your security
Can keep you in purity
You will not shake us off above or below
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Scottish fiction” – Edwin Morgan (1920 – 2010)

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]]> http://scottishfriction.com/2010/08/21/scottish-fiction/feed/ 0 Jay Reatard http://scottishfriction.com/2010/01/13/jay-reatard/ http://scottishfriction.com/2010/01/13/jay-reatard/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:46:27 +0000 Scottish Friction http://scottishfriction.com/?p=827 I am absolutely devastated by the news that Jay Reatard has passed away aged 29. He was a hero of mine.

Jay Reatard

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