ALAN Spence is an award-winning poet, playwright and author. He has previously won the Scottish Writer of the Year Award in 1996 and has been named the new Makar. Alan was born in 1947 in Glasgow ...

And with Alan Bergman, he wrote “That Face.” Spence later said he was inspired ... NBC special “An Evening With Fred Astaire,” has become “one of a small group of songs from that era ...

A long time ago, in 1978 or ’79, the young Alan ... he is, I suppose, the only Scottish writer to have been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the government of Japan. His career has been ...

Award-winning writer Alan Spence considers the meaning ... Now, it happens that the man has a little caged bird in his room, and he likes to hear it sing. But one morning he notices the bird ...