James Milligan: Carlisle Cotton Spinner Poet
While our archival research is still on hold due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, the ‘Piston, Pen and Press’ team has…
While our archival research is still on hold due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, the ‘Piston, Pen and Press’ team has…
Writing up entries for the ‘Piston, Pen & Press’ database continually produces new findings. Even without access to our usual…
Five-thirty a.m., an a middlin crowd mornin. Hooooooo-eeeeeee. Ohhoooeeeeeee. Dunno be alarmed, I’m nobbut tryin to imitate a mornin buzzer wi cowd type. Ooh———-, EEeeeeeeeeeooooooooo. Han yo getten me? Bang bang bang bang bang…Continue Reading →
During the lockdown, we’re missing the chance to get out and do more poetry workshops with Scottish primary schools, which…
Archival research is at the heart of the ‘Piston, Pen and Press’ project. Since we began our work almost two-and-a-half…
Place-based learning, industrial heritage and Scots language Over the past few weeks, we have been taking our project into the primary schools of North Lanarkshire. From Abronhill and Stepps, to…Continue Reading →
Guest post in Scots and English by Martin Travers, playwright Wirkin oan ma new play A Daurk Maiter haes buin…
Whether technically autumn or not (it certainly feels like it outside) it has been a busy few weeks here at…
These past two weeks conducting research in the libraries and archives in the Borders have been really exciting. In addition to finding materials on little-known millworker poets like John Singer…Continue Reading →