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hard men and all I
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Prof Alan Riach considers the life & work of the poet & playwright Joan Ure (1918–1978) – born #OTD, 22 June
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Assoc for Scottish Literature
in reply to Assoc for Scottish Literature • • •“Joan Ure is a ‘Dangerous Woman’ in the sense that firstly, she was a key Scottish post-war creative voice that was largely ignored. The neglected woman writer is one of the recurrent images in her work. Secondly, she had many bones to pick with Scottish society, challenging post-war attitudes and values”
Richie McCaffery on Joan Ure, for the Dangerous Women project
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Joan Ure - Dangerous Women Project
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in reply to Assoc for Scottish Literature • • •“Ure […] was a woman dramatist who broke with the social and stage conventions of her time and whose work was, as a result, in many ways undervalued by her contemporaries”
—“Something In It for the Underdog: The Playwriting of Joan Ure”
Victoria E. Price, International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen 6/2 (2013)
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Something In It for the Underdog: The Playwriting of Joan Ure – The International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen
ijosts.glasgow.ac.ukAssoc for Scottish Literature
in reply to Assoc for Scottish Literature • • •I saw you from my window, Margaret.
I was watching the seagulls swooping the sky.
The seagulls, I was telling myself, know
today is a day for trying out the wingspan…
—Joan Ure, “To Margaret on a Monday”
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To Margaret on a Monday by Joan Ure - Scottish Poetry Library
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