behind the donkey's mask (4,350 words)
An article on the writer's personal reaction to the events following the Destruction of the Trade Towers in New York City in 2001. Given as the Keyonote Speech at the 'Write to the Point' Conference at the University of Glasgow in 2004. An excerpt from this article was published in Scottish PEN's newsletter in August 2004.

being scottish (750 words)
An exploration of identity as it menifests through the creative impulse.

crap voices on queen street (938 words)
An dose of vitriol and liver-salts for those of us who dream of a multicultural utopia. We're a long way off yet. Call for the enemas!!

dance of the albatross (3,270 words)
A Report from the Conference of the Birds: A Modulation on Art and Politics. Written for the Talacchanda Projectga

epistle to a lager lout (1,007 words)

fade in (1,091 words)
(Article - words - published in Awaz of Scotland, 2001)
Explores the power and the danger of writing. Not for the faint-hearted.

gray's anatomy (1,350 words)
A creative review of Alasdair Gray's classic novel, 'Lanark'

screaming down the walls (Article - 1,103 words)
(Published as 'What's New?' in Product magazine, 2001)
It is a trumpet piece of prose about what's new in work by Glasgow-based writers.

songs of the village idiot (8,241 words)
This essay, originally delivered in Kiev in 2005 and published in 'Third Text' in 2007, explores music in fiction as force for historical cognisance, as delineator of the geopoetics  of locus - river, land, darkness - and in a more metaphysical, sufi  vein, as potential mediator of redemption and unity. In other words, time,  place and essence.

the elephant has no clothes (1,300) words)
A Review of ‘Picturing South Asian Culture in English: Textual and Visual Representations’ (Tasleem Shakur and Karen D’Souza, eds.)

valve radio (3,300 words)
In early 2002, BBC produce, Anna Magnusson, asked Saadi to write a monologue for her series, 'Still Lives' on the theme of a physical object which held some special significance to him, as a person and as an artist. Saadi picked an old valve radio.

writing wrongs (Article - 3,541 words)
Is there a morality intrinsic to writing?

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