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'Artfully sculpted poems.'
Sunday Herald |
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'Poetry that verbally paints pictures in
the mind, engaging all the senses.
Written for the ear, its musicality inspires.'
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008, online review |
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'Warm and strong, beautiful words and evocative imagery.'
'The Scotsman |
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'She is a wonderful performer, warm and strong … her voice caressing the beautiful words and evocative imagery. Her poetry sings of … love and longing and celebrates the sensual undercurrents of everyday life.' |
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Book: Jane |
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'Easy, loping rhythms and in the direct and pressing energy of Govan's bright, glittering vocabulary.'
The Guardian |
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'Never mind reality TV, Anita Govan delivers reality poetry.'
Rosemary Dun, poet & producer of Big Mouth |
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'Kick-starting an interest in poetry not seen since the days of Hugh MacDiarmid and Dylan Thomas.'
Scotland on Sunday (Big Word Scotland, 2000) |
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'A musicality that rolls out a rhythmical ribbon, released through verses of rhyme with syncopated, rhythms and time… this night inspired the linguistic juices to ooze.'
DownHome (Pojazzy, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 5 Stars 2008) |
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'With its off-harmony keening of a supposedly ancient ethnic song, its snatches of personal recollection, built into a wistful evocation of how fragile memory is…'
Mary Brennan, The Herald (Goat Island at the CCA, 1998, Forgetting Text sequence conceived by Anita Govan and others) |
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'Exhausting and glorious – an independent showcase for new work, new artists, new hopefuls … theatre, comedy, dance, live art and jazz…'
Mary Bremner The Herald (Artistic Upstarts, 1994) |
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