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    Life with the Cambergs
    Discursive Essays
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    In the autumn of 1945 I arrived in this country from Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and came to stay with my maternal grandparents, Bernard and Sarah Camberg. It was to be a strange and exciting but rather tumultuous time. My sojourn with the Cambergs was to last for the remainder of their lives, until my grandmother passed away in her eighty-fifth year.
    Life with the Cambergs was never dull. …

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    Haggis Hunting
    Non Fiction Reviews
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    Every so often, even a blasé Edinburgh audience is moved to utter that much-overused word ‘unique’. It happened with what became known as ‘the cherry blossom Macbeth‘, it happened with the premiere of Mary Queen of Scots got her Head Chopped Off, and it happened on the second day of the Haggis Hunting conference. The Traverse Theatre presented an acted reading of a recreation of the 1522 (?) version of Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis. This version is due

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    The Edinburgh Companion to 20th Century British and American War Literature
    Non Fiction Reviews
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    For such a substantial and outwardly formidable collection of essays that explore Anglophone creative, literary and innovative reactions to the various conflicts of the twentieth century, each essay is in itself incisive, scrupulously researched, nuanced and above all highly accessible. Adam Piette reminds us twice that this volume is ‘exemplary rather than comprehensive’, aiming ‘to inspire new directions’ and ‘roads that might be taken in the future’. One of its strengths is this awareness that it is not the definitive

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    GERRY SMITH
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            Gerry Smith is a text-based artist. In 1998 he graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Printmaking. In 2010 he gained an MFA (Intermedia Art) from Edinburgh College of Art. In the period in between he did stuff. He has been working with words for what seems to have been a very long time. Influenced by OULIPO and the Fluxus artists, his concern with reductive forms has led

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