Contemporary Scottish Poetry

1. D. O'Rourke (ed.), Dream State: The New Scottish Poets (Edinburgh: Polygon, [1994] 2002), pp. 280–1.

2. Berthold Schoene, ‘Going Cosmopolitan: Reconstituting “Scottishness” in Post-Devolution Criticism’, in B. Schoene (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), pp. 7–16.

3. Kathleen Jamie, Jizzen (London: Picador, 1999), p. 5.

4. Donnie O'Rourke (ed.), Dream State, p. 281.

5. Edward Soja, Postmodern Geographies (London: Verso, 1989), p. 6.

6. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (London: Verso, 1991), pp. 364–5.

7. The phrase is from Iain Crichton Smith, Towards the Human: Selected Essays (Edinburgh: Macdonald, 1986), pp. 13–70.

8. Michael Keith and Steve Pile (eds), Place and the Politics of Identity (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 38.

9. Neil Smith and Cindi Katz, ‘Grounding Metaphor: Towards a Spatialised Politics’, in Michael Keitt and Steve Pile (eds), Place and the Politics of Identity, p. 69.

10. Tom Leonard, Radical Renfrew: Poetry from the French Revolution to the First World War (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990), p. xxi.

11. Jacques Rancière, ‘The Thinking of Dissensus: Politics and Aesthetics’, paper presented at the conference ‘Fidelity to the Disagreement: Jacques Rancière and the Political’, Goldsmith College, London, 16–17 September, 2003.

12. Cairns Craig, ‘Scotland and Hybridity’, in G. Carruthers, D. Goldie, A. Renfrew (eds), Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004), p. 240.

13. John Macmurray, Persons in Relation (London: Faber, 1983 [1961]), p. 158.

14. Edwin Muir, An Autobiography (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2000 [1954]), p. 47.

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