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Janet Paisley

Contributor

Janet Paisley

Janet Paisley is one of Scotland's most versatile writers. Her awards include BAFTA and Royal Television Society nominations, a Creative Scotland Award, a Canongate Prize, British theatre's Peggy Ramsay Award, BBC Prose Prize, MacDiarmid Poetry Trophy, and the Sutton Short Story Prize. A popular performer of her work at national and international festivals, she writes poetry, fiction, plays, radio, television, screenplays, and literature for children. Her work, in English and in Scots, is taught across the curriculum from primary to university.

Articles by Janet Paisley

With These Rings
By Janet Paisley
You are fresh words / on the old stone of time.
Translated from Scots by the author
Multilingual
scotland
By Janet Paisley
she'll turn your dreams to Scotch mist, / bone comb your hair with tugging wind / scrub your faces with rain.
Translated from Scots
Multilingual
Hawk Stones
By Janet Paisley
there is no stone where the hawk soars, / no hawk where the stones stand
Translated from Scots by the author
Multilingual