Poetry/writers' groups
Here are some samples of the range of work completed with various writers' groups or writing projects for the purpose of producing verse.
2000 & 2002 Glasgow Storyfest Survivors Poetry Workshop (twice) for people with mental health issues taking tales into poetry.
2003 with poets Christina De Luca and Ian Stephen. at‘A Shoal of Poets” - Bute Poetry Festival – Rothesay Academy we took stories - storytelling into poetry For S1 – S3 age groups Funded by Argyll and Bute Council
2010 Scottsland storytelling/poetry project - workshops McLaren High School, teenagers, Callander, Perthshire with visual, musical and environmental artists on the 20th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott’s epic poem ‘The Lady of the Lake’ facilitating previously primary but newly brought in S1s to compose their own verse and interpretations of the story of this great epic.
Funded by Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park.
On the topics of landscape and redemption, the piece Pine was published on the Stirling Makar's webbsite in 2010 by the then Makar of Stirling of Stirling Magi Gibson.
Subsequent to this the socio-political piece Till Daith tae Pairt was publlished by the new Stirling Makar Anita Govan this year (2013).
2000 & 2002 Glasgow Storyfest Survivors Poetry Workshop (twice) for people with mental health issues taking tales into poetry.
2003 with poets Christina De Luca and Ian Stephen. at‘A Shoal of Poets” - Bute Poetry Festival – Rothesay Academy we took stories - storytelling into poetry For S1 – S3 age groups Funded by Argyll and Bute Council
2010 Scottsland storytelling/poetry project - workshops McLaren High School, teenagers, Callander, Perthshire with visual, musical and environmental artists on the 20th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott’s epic poem ‘The Lady of the Lake’ facilitating previously primary but newly brought in S1s to compose their own verse and interpretations of the story of this great epic.
Funded by Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park.
On the topics of landscape and redemption, the piece Pine was published on the Stirling Makar's webbsite in 2010 by the then Makar of Stirling of Stirling Magi Gibson.
Subsequent to this the socio-political piece Till Daith tae Pairt was publlished by the new Stirling Makar Anita Govan this year (2013).
