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Ruth Padel in the TLS celebrated CAD 's political-erotic challenge.This book won her a second Scottish Arts Council Book Award and a Dylan Thomas Award.

Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press . She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...

She dedicated it to her grandson Paul and his parents; the last poem in the book conjures up little Paul dancing for, and stamping on, the sea. The book has an epigraph from...

She began writing it as a student of education, using the computer room at Moray House in Edinburgh. Then she was awarded a Scottish Arts Council grant of £8,000 (the first of several) for...

NM published in Edinburgh, with the help of a grant from the Scottish Arts Council , What do you think yourself? Scottish short stories.

This book garnered the Forward Poetry Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, and another Scottish Arts Council Book Award.Eavan Boland called CADone of the freshest and bravest talents to emerge in British poetry—any poetry—for years.

AS has held a number of awards: a Scottish Arts Council award, 1974, a Welsh Arts Council award, 1980, a Northern Arts Literary Fellowship at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham , 1981-2, and...

As recipient of the Saltire Literary Award and a 10,000-euro prize from the Scottish Arts Council , Free Love and Other Stories was received with considerable acclaim. According to Jeanette Winterson , AS was actually...

This volume won KJ a Scottish Arts Council award. Of the suddenness of her early success she says, I didn't think of asking permission and Nobody told me I couldn't do it.

On its original appearance, this book won the Scottish Arts Council Book Award for 1992.

KJ has said that now, having all the time, money (a two-year grant from the Scottish Arts Council ), and confidence she needs, she feels able to say, I'm a poet and this is what...

Many critics agree that AD is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds as well as in social, historical, and political polemics. Salman Rushdie has named her central subject as solitude, and...

This collection won a prize from the Scottish Arts Council .Maggie Gee praised the stories in The Sunday Times Culture, calling them accomplished and fearless.

CAD considers these poems to be juvenilia. The following year she received a Scottish Arts Council Award.

Critics welcomed this new voice in poetry. Peter Porter noted that the urgency of CAD 's crusading sensibility had not led her to any compromise in the artistry of her language. The book won...