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wordfringe 2006 |
Dead Good Poets present the third in a series of three fifteen-minute poetry readings broadcast on Sunday afternoons at 3.45pm. These will include Doric and English poems written and read by some of the leading published poets of the North-East of Scotland.
The readings are broadcast by Multi-Ethnic Aberdeen Limited and the poems will reflect some of the concerns and themes of a multi-ethic society.
Tune in to Me FM (105.8FM).
Phyllis Goodall rediscovered her poetry-making ability in 1995 when she won the Doric Festival Connon Caup with Doric Sweet talk. Since then her Nell o Sparta, Allawakin, Berryhill and several others have won awards. She is published in The Leopard and her naughty Golf-Widow has been translated for a Netherlands Golf Club. |
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Sheena Blackhall is a poet, short story writer, folksinger and book illustrator who writes mainly in Scots. She has published many books and from 1998-2003 was Creative Writing Fellow in Scots at Aberdeen University's Elphinstone Institute. She has won the Hugh MacDiarmid trophy for Scots and the Robert McLellan Cup for short story writing.
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Margaret Grant (nee McWilliam) was born in Kinnoir in 1938. A retired Law Accountant, she attended Kinnoir School and The Gordon Schools, Huntly. She has had two books of Doric verse published, Jist for a Lauch in 1999 and Anither Keckle in 2003, and has also appeared in print in The Leopard. |