... of course, well before Rankin with Rebus, William McIlvanney was already
writing Glasgow noir detective fiction.
But nobody cares about John the Baptist.
Ian Hamilton Findlay's _Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd ..._ was couthy and funny,
but it all really started with Tom Leonard's "Six Glasgow Poems".
There's a fairly comprehensive collection (even I get included!) if anyone
wants to track urban Glasgow poetry, in Hamish Whyte's anthology, _Noise and
Smoky Breath_.
The contentious text, when it comes to dating, is Stephen Mulrine's "The
Coming of the Wee Malkies".
Robin
{Oh and of course, let's not forget Carl MacDougall's "Cod Liver Oil and the
Orange Juice" -- though the textual variants of that are quite baroque,
putting Langland to shame.
R.}
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Subject: Re: Scottish fiction & Irn-Bru
> Oh yes I read the Rebus novels and its great knowing Edinburgh well.
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