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Often dressed in a three-piece suit and tie he could easily have been taken for a businessman or a member of one of the professions.

The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, a cornerstone for discovering and supporting emerging poetry talent, will be announced at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival.

BEFORE I returned to live in Scotland on January 1, 2001, a friend asked me, “Why do you want to live in Scotland?” I thought about it before I…

Many immigrants who want to live in the United States don't have family members who can petition for them or employers who can sponsor them. Many of these...

A CONFERENCE will take place on Alasdair Gray on June 16-17, convened by his biographer, the novelist and lecturer in creative writing at the…

THE Sunday National asked some prominent Scots to nominate their first president of an independent Scotland in the style of an Irish president, who…

On 25 October 1960, a Boeing pilot aiming for Heathrow accidentally landed at an RAF base, only realising his error when the runway turned out to be alarmingly short. Disaster was averted, but the near-miss caused some embarrassment, and the minister of aviation had to answer questions in the House. What had confused the pilot,

When I went to the opening of the Still Life exhibition down at Sogo Arts in Glasgow’s Saltmarket, on a day hinting at the first blue and yellow stirrings of spring, Liz Lochhead was in attendance, chicly splattered with paint from a morning in her studio, effusive with praise for photographer Angela Catlin and poet Henry Bell’s work.

I’VE certainly had my scratchy days with the great, ornery monsters of the second Scottish literary renaissance.

WHETHER or not indyref2 happens next year – and readers should appreciate that I am completely out of the loop on the plans – our parliamentary…