http://www.janetpaisley.com/ 2010-08-30T00:06:01+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/ http://www.janetpaisley.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2006-01-10T01:03:33+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/alien_crop?rev=1136855013 Chapman ISBN 1 903700 09 4 From the Back Cover 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 mischievi... text/html 2005-12-30T14:06:37+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/back_to_basics?rev=1135951597 Bread and Circuses with Back to Basics A Mayfest New Writing Commission and on tour May - August 1993 Bread and Circuses are writer-performers: Alison Reid, Graham McKenzie, Mary McCann, Catherine Orr, Janet Paisley The Show Last Year the Act ... text/html 2005-12-16T22:33:25+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/biting_through_skins?rev=1134772405 Rookbook Publications ISBN 0 948475 14 5 Reviews Her poetry astonishes each time. By turns angry, humorous, heartfelt and poignant, it is always characterised by an impeccable eye for detail and an ear tuned to truth… a great poet… Border Telegr... text/html 2005-12-30T14:24:38+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/bread_circuses?rev=1135952678 A Mayfest New Writing production May 1990 Bread and Circuses are Mary McCann, Graham McKenzie, Catherine Orr, Alison Reid, a group of four new writers from Glasgow presented by poet and writer Janet Paisley The Show The writers read and perfo... text/html 2007-04-23T00:46:25+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/contact?rev=1177285585 Please enter your message below: Your Name : Your Email : Subject : Message : For professional enquiries regarding Film, Television, Radio and Theatre contact agent Julia Tyrrell ... text/html 2005-12-19T15:43:00+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/deep_rising?rev=1135006980 Deep Rising by Janet Paisley Paisley has the power to take us right to the heart of another human being’s experience in the space of a couple of hours in the theatre... the mark of a true playwright - Scotsman First Production Stellar Qui... text/html 2007-06-04T14:29:04+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/double_yella?rev=1180963744 Dick was gaunae go mental. Dick was gaunae rage fur ever. The double lines wur set like yella concrete. Stupendously, screaminly permanent. Double Yella is a one-act monologue play based on a short story which appears in Janet Paisley’s Not f... text/html 2005-12-30T14:47:03+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/for_want_of_a_nail?rev=1135954023 Component Parts with For Want of a Nail A Mayfest New Writing Commission and on tour May - August 1994 Directed by Paula McGee Component Parts are writer-performers: Janet Paisley and Graham McKenzie. The Show As thirtysomethings couple, Fran... text/html 2010-01-22T02:54:01+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/links?rev=1264128841 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 Scotland to Russia Creative Scotland... text/html 2005-12-19T18:50:02+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/long_haul?rev=1135018202 Best Writer nomination: Janet Paisley for Long Haul The Film Long Haul - a short film Directed by Bob Blagdon Starring Gary Lewis and Simone Lahbib * Best Drama nomination - Royal Television Society 2001 * Best Writer nomination - BAFTA New... text/html 2007-09-28T17:40:26+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/magic?rev=1190997626 Magic Make nothing except love and love will make you Janet Paisley ... text/html 2008-06-28T17:28:17+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/not_for_glory?rev=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 2005-12-16T22:33:48+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/pegasus_in_flight?rev=1134772428 Rookbook Publications ISBN 0 948475 04 8 From the Back Cover ... A fresh and welcome new talent on the Scottish cultural scene - Radical Scotland Reviews Janet Paisley... whose assured but unshowy phrasemaking, dark figurative pallette and m... text/html 2008-07-07T18:13:58+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/read_biography?rev=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 2008-07-01T12:49:01+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/reading_the_bones?rev=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 2006-10-31T19:32:26+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/refuge?rev=1162323146 Peggy Ramsay Memorial Award 1996 The £50,000 award was made to the best new play script commissioned by any British theatre or company in that year. Janet has this astonishing ability to write about painful subjects with great depth and intensit... text/html 2008-07-29T16:02:55+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/replies_to_reader_s_questions?rev=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 2009-10-03T00:53:55+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/scotland_ink_list?rev=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 2010-01-17T21:12:21+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/scots_language?rev=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 2010-07-14T18:21:19+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/sidebar?rev=1279128079 Home Writing Biography Contact Webstore Links ... text/html 2007-09-28T17:49:08+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/solstice?rev=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 2006-01-06T21:06:44+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/sooans_nicht?rev=1136581604 by Janet Paisley & Graham McKenzie Inspired by Janet Paisley’s prize winning short story First Production Castlemilk People’s Theatre at Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh 9 - 24 August 1996 Directed by Andi Ross Cast: Richard Conlon -... text/html 2010-08-20T03:06:40+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/start?rev=1282270000 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 2005-12-30T15:20:19+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/stick?rev=1135956019 Bread and Circuses with Stick A Mayfest New Writing Commission and on tour May - August 1992 Directed by Paula McGee Bread and Circuses are writer-performers: Janet Paisley, Mary McCann, Catherine Orr, Graham McKenzie, Alison Reid The Show Fi... text/html 2005-12-19T14:05:22+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/straitjackets?rev=1135001122 straitjackets by Janet Paisley SAC playwright’s bursary commission 1999 Only a vicious circle can resolve a paradox... Bertrand Russell First Production Rehearsed reading and discussion at The Tron, Glasgow 6 Nov 1999 Directed by Irina Bro... text/html 2005-12-30T14:08:12+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/the_killing_of_women?rev=1135951692 Bread and Circuses with The Killing of Women A Mayfest New Writing Commission and on tour May - August 1991 Bread and Circuses are writer-performers: Mary McCann, Alison Reid, Graham McKenzie, Catherine Orr, Janet Paisley The Show Four Glasgow... text/html 2010-08-28T22:26:22+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/the_lasses_o?rev=1283030782 ‘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 m... text/html 2010-07-20T22:41:38+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/the_lasses_o_-_abridged?rev=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 2009-08-15T22:59:46+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/warrior_daughter?rev=1250373586 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 2010-07-02T00:09:44+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/webstore?rev=1278025784 Original Poetry Cards designed by WitchyJA. Order direct from WitchyJA@aol.com Wedding Posters Original poems by Janet Paisley on fine-quality fleck or parchment card. Ideal for reading during a Wedding Service and as a Wedding or Paper (1st) Ann... text/html 2007-09-27T17:30:15+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/wedding?rev=1190910615 Wedding Hush, is that a trumpet sounding or the sun blaring from the sky? Wheesht, is that laughter tinkling from the stars and could that be the west wind’s gentler sigh? Listen, oh listen for the language of a heartbeat, in the rhythm of each c... text/html 2010-08-20T03:00:39+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/white_rose_rebel?rev=1282269639 “This is an amazingly powerful book...” White Rose Rebel is incredibly readable, pacy, lusty, rousing and richly imagined. It is the story of a couple torn apart and set against each other, finding themselves on opposite sides of t... text/html 2007-09-29T19:23:31+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/wi_thur_twa_rings?rev=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 2009-10-25T20:30:59+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/wicked?rev=1256502659 Sandstone Press ISBN 1 905207 07 7 Janet Paisley’s hilariously naughty comic novella from Sandstone’s Vista series is also available as a Clipper Audio book and in a Large Print version on the Shortlist series from BBC Audiobooks &ldq... text/html 2006-01-10T01:04:35+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/wild_fire?rev=1136855075 Taranis Books ISBN 1 873899 50 5 From the Back Cover “It was wildfire. There in the nodding heads, the knowing looks, the drone of mouths. Bees buzzing in a byke were not so loud. Trees howling at the wind made less sound. The village burn... text/html 2005-12-19T15:19:17+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/winding_string?rev=1135005557 Winding String by Janet Paisley A powerful and witty drama about a family bound together by a dark secret from their past. First Production Mica Theatre Company at the Battersea Arts Centre 7 April - 1 May 1999 Cast: Theresa McElroy - Illona Li... text/html 2007-09-27T17:20:38+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/with_these_rings?rev=1190910038 With These Rings You are fresh words on the old stone of time. Here, silence honours you, here now, the earth turns, the sun beats, the rain sings. You are not adrift among the wheeling constellations but held by the hoop of love. Ancient as ... text/html 2007-09-28T17:45:40+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/words_for_my_daughter?rev=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... text/html 2010-07-30T22:12:24+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/writing?rev=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 2007-09-26T22:54:37+01:00 http://www.janetpaisley.com/ye_cannae_win?rev=1190843677 Chapman ISBN 0 906772 96 6 From the Back Cover Ye Cannae Win is the first collection of her monologues which have an uncanny ability to capture the human voice and express the innermost depths of thought and feeling of ordinary people. Reviews...