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Issue 29: Debatable Lands

  • EditorialNotional Boundaries
  • ‘England and Scotland here impartially divide’: Contentions at the Anglo-Scottish BorderBy Kate Ash-Irisarri
  • D & G LiteratureBy Hugh McMillan
  • Lost in the Landscape: From Balfour to BondBy Kirsti Wishart
  • Reading Scotland’s Borders through the EnvironmentBy Julia Ditter
  • William H. Ogilvie (1869–1963): From Outback to Border PoetBy Ian W. Landles

Regular Columns

  • New Reviews

Upon Another Point

  • Rural RealismBy Dorothy McMillan

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Book Reviews

‘Maim-Slè’ by Alasdair C. MacIlleBhàin

Review by Meg Bateman

‘Trimming England’, by M. J. Nicholls

Review by Alistair Braidwood

‘Memo for Spring’ by Liz Lochhead (50th Anniversary Edition)

Review by Nia Clark

‘A Squatter o Bairnrhymes’, by Stuart A. Paterson

Review by John Hodgart

‘Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities’, by Ian Brown

Review by Peter Arnott

‘The Evergreen: A New Season in the North 4’, volume IV, edited by Elizabeth Elliott

Review by Carl MacDougall

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