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Flight and Fall

Flight and Fall

3 November 2017 /Posted byDavid Betteridge
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David Betteridge has written a commemorative work of prose and poetry especially for this Russian Revolution section of Culture Matters. An extract from the poetry is given in ebook format here, along with some illustrations by Bob Starrett.

Flight and Fall looks back at the events of 1917 from the standpoint of Glasgow in 2017.

 

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David Betteridge is the author of a collection of poems celebrating Glasgow and its radical traditions, 'Granny Albyn's Complaint', published by Smokestack Books in 2008. He is also the editor of a compilation of a book celebrating the 1971-2 UCS work-in on Clydeside, called 'A Rose Loupt Oot', published by Smokestack Books in 2011. His latest book is 'Sapling & Wood', published by Culture Matters.

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