Sunday 8 March 2009
5pm
Migvie Church, Tarland
Poetry with Sheena Blackhall and Gerard Rochford
Sunday 8 March 2009
7pm
Left Bank, Tarland
Poetry with Kenneth Steven and Douglas W. Gray
Monday 23 March 2009
7pm
Station Hotel, Stonehaven
Writing Workshop with Magi Gibson
Friday 27 March 2009
7pm
Salmon Bothy, Portsoy
Viking Poetry: Ian Crockatt's Skald
Sunday 29 March 2009
2pm
Brander Library, Huntly
Renga Workshop with Colin Will
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Wordfringe Spring Events
March 2009
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Sheena Blackhall and Gerard Rochford
Sunday 8 March 2009
5pm
Migvie Church, Tarland (map)
Admission £5 (£3 concession)
or buy a combined ticket for this event and the reading later this evening by Kenneth Steven and Douglas W. Gray for £8 (£5
concession)
To reserve tickets, please email your name and requirements to
reservations@wordfringe.co.uk
A chance to hear two the North-East's best known poets reading in the remarkable
setting of Migvie Church. Read more about this venue on Undiscovered Scotland.
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Sheena Blackhall is a poet, short story writer, novelist and illustrator.
She is also a traditional ballad singer and storyteller, whose family roots are
in the area around Migvie Church. From 1998-2003 she was Creative Writing Fellow
in Scots at Aberdeen University's Elphinstone Institute, and in 2007 was Creative
Writing Tutor with the Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at Aberdeen University.
Sheena writes in Scots and English. Two of her children's plays have been televised.
She has published three Scots novellas, ten short story collections and over fifty
poetry collections. She has won several national and regional awards for Scots poetry,
Scots singing and ballad writing, and short story writing.
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Gerard Rochford's publications include Eating Eggs with Strangers,
The Holy Family and Other Poems, and Figures of Stone (Koo Press).
Founder member of Dead Good Poets, convenor of poetry readings at Books and Beans.
He is included in Janice Galloway's selection of Best 20 Scottish Poems of 2006,
for the Scottish Poetry Library. A featured poet on Poets Against the War,
principal guest reader at Planet Earth, Victoria B.C. and recently at the
launch of the Cromarty Film festival.
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