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The Saltire Society
2009
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SCOTTISH SONG COMPETITION
The Competition was held in the
Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, Perth
on Wednesday 24th June 2009
commencing at 10.30 a.m.
For more information and photos go to
The Scots Song page.
ROBERT BURNS
commemorated by The Saltire Society
supported by The Scottish Government
The First Minister has presented the Saltire Society with a rescue package of
£10,000 for its 2009 Scottish Book of the Year Award. In addition a further
£15,000 has been offered for a one-off Saltire Homecoming Prize. This will be
open to anyone - complying with the entry rules - entering the Society's existing
quartet of book awards. In 2009 applications to the awards will be encouraged
from Commonwealth countries and the USA.
The Scottish Government's announcement was made by Linda Fabiani, Minister for Europe,
External Affairs and Culture, at the 2008 Literary Awards Ceremony, held on
Friday 28th November at the National Library of Scotland.
NEW PUBLICATION from the Saltire Society
A Clamjamfray of Poets By Stanley Roger Green was published in July 2008
ISBN 13 978 0 854110 98 8
Edinburgh has had several great ages of literary conviviality,
most recently the two decades from the early 1950s. Then,
Stanley Roger Green was a member of the circle of poets and
writers surrounding Hugh MacDiarmid in the howfs and halls of
post war Edinburgh. Sydney Goodsir Smith, Norman MacCaig,
Tom Scott, George Mackay Brown and Robert Garioch were among
them and the author here recounts many amusing and informative
incidents from this modern hotbed of genius.
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