be published by Ki Publishing as CORRESPONDENCE. Scottish Society of Playwrights Joan Ure, Ena Lamont Stewart, and Ada F Kay were among the founder members of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, which was set up after a meeting called in September 1973 by Hector MacMillan, Ena Lamont Stewart and John Hall. Acclaim in Scotland A poem by Joan Ure was suggested by members of the public as one of the runners-up for the Scottish Parliament's Canongate Wall Project to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Holyrood Parliament: A country makes the artists it deserves / As it makes governments / Our artists shriek in paranoiac discords / When they are not just havering / You hope they do not feel they speak for you. The Canongate Wall Acclaim abroad The University of Bologna, Italy, teaches several English Literature modules, using Joan Ure's plays Qualcosa anche per Cordelia (Something in it for Cordelia), and Sette Personaggi Venuti dal sogno (Seven Characters out of a dream). Dream English Cordelia English Cordelia English Characters English The University of Parma, Italy, also uses two plays by Joan Ure in their English Literature programme: Come una ragazzina (1968) and Riprendi la tua costola ! (1974) are available in the Italian translation by Panozzo Editore who describe her works as "confronting the themes of the condition and emancipation of women .... with the irony which characterises the whole work of Joan Ure". https://web.archive.org/web/20100425015135/http://www.diplingue.unipr.it/Ricerca%20e%20pubblicazioni/Pagine%20personali/Angeletti.html http://www.ibs.it/code/9788874721337/ure-joan/come-una-ragazzina.html External links International Journal of Scottish Theatre, Vol.3 no.1, 'Is it not possible to have a Poem made out of Theatre?' - An assessment of the dramas and dramaturgy of Joan Ure Scottish Women Playwrights against Zero Visibility, by Ksenija Horvat, Google Docs Open Library: Joan Ure, Five Short Plays Text of Joan Ure's play "Something in it for Cordelia" Scottish Review, 5 August 2010: Kenneth Roy, 'Land of the forgotten sex' Ki Publishing Blog on forthcoming publication of "Correspondence" (letters between Ure and John Cairns) Five Songs by Joan Ure Joan Ure songs: lyrics References Robert Crawford, Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature, Oxford University Press, 2009, , p. 635 1918 births 1978 deaths Scottish women poets Scottish women dramatists and playwrights People from Wallsend Writers from Tyne and Wear Writers from Glasgow 20th-century British women writers 20th-century Scottish poets 20th-century Scottish dramatists and playwrights Pseudonymous women writers 20th-century Scottish women 20th-century pseudonymous writers