http://www.janetpaisley.com/ 2012-05-05T15:59:09+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/ http://www.janetpaisley.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-05-04T00:12:04+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.168.45) http://www.janetpaisley.com/warrior_daughter?do=diff&1336090324 WARRIOR DAUGHTER is a compelling story inspired by the legendary Scathach. Illuminated by the great Celtic fire festivals, it’s a fascinating exploration of conflict within a matriarchal society of the 1st century AD, a culturally rich era rar... text/html 2012-03-22T03:40:22+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.168.45) http://www.janetpaisley.com/webstore?do=diff&1332387622 New - Rare out-of-print signed First Edition copies of Janet Paisley’s acclaimed poetry collection Reading the Bones ‘a remarkable complex literary journey’ - Hayden Murphy - The Herald ‘mocking, yearning, self-deprecatory... text/html 2012-02-03T06:09:20+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.168.45) http://www.janetpaisley.com/start?do=diff&1328249360 Janet Paisley is an award winning poet, author, playwright, non-fiction and scriptwriter, writing in Scots and English. A prolific and popular writer, first published in 1979, her work has been translated into German, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Ca... text/html 2012-02-03T05:21:22+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.168.45) http://www.janetpaisley.com/links?do=diff&1328246482 More About the Author Penguin interview Books from Scotland Vsesvit - Janet's poetry in Ukranian British Council - contemporary writers National Library of Scotland - The Write Stuff Words without Borders Scottish Music Centre Bridge Reading... text/html 2012-02-03T04:41:48+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.168.45) http://www.janetpaisley.com/wicked?do=diff&1328244108 Sandstone Press ISBN 1 905207 07 7 Janet Paisley’s hilariously naughty comic novella from Sandstone’s Vista series is also available as an Audio book and in a Large Print edition from AudioGo “Janet Paisley’s many fans wil... text/html 2012-02-03T02:39:34+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.168.45) http://www.janetpaisley.com/white_rose_rebel?do=diff&1328236774 “This is an amazingly powerful book...” Scottish BOOK OF THE MONTH - Waterstones July 2007 White Rose Rebel is incredibly readable, pacy, lusty, rousing and richly imagined. It is the story of a couple torn apart and set against ea... text/html 2012-01-03T02:41:01+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.168.45) http://www.janetpaisley.com/the_lasses_o?do=diff&1325558461 ‘THE LASSES, O’ by Janet Paisley - EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 2010 a delightfully subtle act of subversion... Sunday Herald Midwife, relative, mother-in-law, smuggler, neighbour - five women who knew Robert Burns tell their stories in ... text/html 2011-08-10T23:21:45+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.169.220) http://www.janetpaisley.com/alien_crop?do=diff&1313018505 “Janet Paisley’s poetry is never predictable, but always moulded by her distinctive character. She confronts painful experience and difficult, intimate emotions with understanding and mischievious humour. She celebrates sensuality, but f... text/html 2010-07-30T21:12:24+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.171.110) http://www.janetpaisley.com/writing?do=diff&1280524344 Poetry Ye Cannae Win – Chapman 2000 & 2004 Reading the Bones – Canongate 1999 Alien Crop – Chapman 1996 & 2004 Biting through skins – Rookbook Pegasus in Flight – Rookbook Images video - ETV/AV, Moray House Poets Blog 2009 - Learning... text/html 2010-07-20T21:41:38+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.171.110) http://www.janetpaisley.com/the_lasses_o_-_abridged?do=diff&1279662098 THE LASSES, O by Janet Paisley ...a delightfully subtle act of subversion... Mark Brown - Sunday Herald. THE LASSES, O - for Homecoming and Robert Burns’ 250th anniversary, the award-winning playwright tells the stories of five women who kn... text/html 2010-07-14T17:21:19+01:00 Jonathan Alexander (jonathan@80.41.213.109) http://www.janetpaisley.com/sidebar?do=diff&1279128079 Home Writing Biography Contact Webstore Links ... text/html 2010-01-17T21:12:21+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.171.110) http://www.janetpaisley.com/scots_language?do=diff&1263762741 The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages was adopted in 1992 by the Council of Europe to help protect and promote Europe’s lesser used languages. It is intended to ensure, as far as is reasonably possible, that regional or minority la... text/html 2009-10-02T23:53:55+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.171.110) http://www.janetpaisley.com/scotland_ink_list?do=diff&1254527635 SCOTLAND INK - 10 SCOTTISH BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD 1. Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith : The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson 2. Encyclopaedia Britannica : Chambers Dictionary 3. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Robert Burns : Dreaming... text/html 2008-07-29T15:02:55+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.171.110) http://www.janetpaisley.com/replies_to_reader_s_questions?do=diff&1217343775 From Janet - After several infuriating attempts to recover a reader’s message which I accidentally deleted I’ve answered the question here in the hope she sees it. The message arrived Fri 25 July from, I believe, Anne who read White Rose... text/html 2008-07-07T17:13:58+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.171.110) http://www.janetpaisley.com/read_biography?do=diff&1215450838 Janet Paisley is an award winning poet, author, playwright, non-fiction and scriptwriter, writing in Scots and English. Born 1948 Ilford, Essex of Scottish parents, she grew up in Avonbridge, a small village in Central Scotland. Marriage, a teaching... text/html 2008-07-01T11:49:01+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.171.110) http://www.janetpaisley.com/reading_the_bones?do=diff&1214912941 Canongate, ISBN 0 86241 884 4 From the Back Cover Reading the Bones is Janet Paisley’s fourth collection of poetry and is further testament to her extraordinary talents. Often disturbing, yet always life-affirming, it readily confirms the ... text/html 2008-06-28T16:28:17+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.171.110) http://www.janetpaisley.com/not_for_glory?do=diff&1214670497 Canongate, ISBN 1 84195 174 9 From the Back Cover Heart-breaking, hilarious, profound, Not for Glory is an unforgettable collection of interlinked stories, delivered in a Scottish prose style unique to this gifted writer. Set in a central Scots... text/html 2007-09-29T18:23:31+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.171.110) http://www.janetpaisley.com/wi_thur_twa_rings?do=diff&1191090211 Wi Thur Twa Rings Yeese are chippit new intae the auld stane o time. Here, awthing faws quate fur yeese, here noo, sunlicht skirls, rain diddles, the yirth birls. Yeese are no alane amang the hurlin constellations but cleikit tae thon gird crie... text/html 2007-09-28T16:49:08+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.171.110) http://www.janetpaisley.com/solstice?do=diff&1190998148 Solstice The pages of tomorrow wait for word of celebration, a stroke that calls the clock to turn this December, drifting down, cracks the door on blossoming. The sting cold rivers throat and lungs, startled in the virgin light of a bright eart... text/html 2007-09-28T16:45:40+01:00 Janet Paisley (janet@82.41.171.110) http://www.janetpaisley.com/words_for_my_daughter?do=diff&1190997940 Words for my Daughter Come, the cap of birth is dry, my labouring is done, your cry has split the world’s roof. Be comforted, the womb returns to wrap around you. Sweet darkness, velvet-blood from which you came, as night will cup you ag...