Interview with Bram E Gieben

I talked to the writer, podcaster and musician Bram E Gieben about his new book The Darkest Timeline and what it means to “live in a world with no future”. You can listen to his podcast Strange Exiles here: Strange Exiles | Substack.

Listen to the interview here.

Interview with Paul Malgrati 

Magrati is the author of a new book on Robert Burns. Paul was born in France and earned his award-winning PhD in Scottish History and English in 2020. He currently lives in Switzerland where he works as a teacher and researches Scottish literature as an independent scholar. His first book, Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics The Bard of Contention (1914-2014) is forthcoming from EUP in March. Alongside academia, Paul also writes poetry. His debut collection, Poèmes Écossais (2022), which was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize, is believed to be the first book of Scots poetry by a non-native Anglophone.

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Interview with Kenneth White.
Kenneth White was in Scotland at the end of May for a series of talks, film screenings, poetry readings and lectures, organised by the Research Network in Existential Philosophy and Literature in collaboration with the Institut Francais, Alliance Francais Glasgow and the University of Glasgow. White is a poet and writer originally from the Gorbals, Glasgow. He set up the Jargon Group in 1964 which explored a mix of social and cultural forces including Nietzsche, Whitman, Taoism and anarchism. We discussed his work and the need for a radical unlearning, the memory and political lessons from May 1968 and some of his new and emerging projects and publications.

Here's my interview with him.

Interview with Ian Hamilton.
In a tranquil spot near Connell an elderly man overlooks a beautiful loch from his living room with hope, few regrets and an enduring fierce energy. Ian Hamilton reluctantly retells an oft told tale, how he and others reclaimed the Stone of Destiny and returned it to Scotland some sixty-seven years ago.Ian Hamilton was born in Paisley in 1925, went to school in Paisley and Glasgow, and at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities, was called to the Scottish Bar in 1954, appointed Advocate Depute in 1962, and is now a retired author and journalist, but will best remembered for one action.

Here’s my interview with him.