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Fierce Poetry in Motion

Posted by: scottishwriters on May 25, 2017

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✨ Event tonight ✨
Sally Evan's poems on the story of William Burrell and his daughter took several years to complete, and that was only the research. Having visited the Burrell Collection often and researching the history of the Burrell family and their shipping line, she wrote the first section of the poems in much the way they now appear, and published them as a pamphlet in 2011. She realised there was next to no information to be found on the Burrells’ daughter Marion (1905-1992), and this part of the story remained a puzzle to her until 2014, when S.M.O Stephen, Marion’s god-daughter and Burrell family friend, published her biography Collector’s Daughter. This revealed the hitherto unpublicised dysfunctionality at the heart of the Burrell family life. This new information filled out the mystery Sally had identified, and the result is her book of poems reflecting both the main Burrell story and Marion’s extraordinary life.

Sally will consider how research affects poetry; how poetry can be based on fact, and how accuracy and research can strengthen poetic responses to a story; how writing in different personas can show perspectives of a complex story and a real story can be brought to life by poetic imagination, working with accuracy and probability in a similar way to historical fiction.

7pm @ CCA £6(£3 concession/FREE for members)

#SWC #scottishwriters #scottishwriterscentre #whatsonglasgow #theburrellcollection #scottishauthors #poetry #poetrylovers #poetryloversofinstagram #glasgow #scotland

✨Bookstagram-a-thon Day #4 ✨

Book 4/7

Today's challenge: read a book in a day. I've already done this three times now but at least this has loads of pictures.

#johnberger #SWC #scottishwriterscentre #french #bookworms #bookbooksbooks #bookstagramathon #btat17 #books #librariesofinstagram

✨Bookstagram-a-thon Day #3 ✨

Book 3/7

Today's challenge is to read a book with someone on the cover so took this is an opportunity to read the next Spark in my to be read pile!
#bookstagramathon #btat17 #booktubeathon2017 #librariesofinstagram #bookworms #booklovers #tbr2017 #bookbooksbooks #SWC #scottishwriterscentre #glasgow #scotland #scottishauthors #scottishliterature #literature #bookstagramathon #love #reading #cake #murielspark

✨Bookstagram-a-thon Day #2✨
Book 2/7
Today's challenge: read a book you only bought because of the cover.

Admittedly the cover to Ali Smith's 'Autumn' made me pick it up and buy it without reading anything about it / never having read anything by her (despite only hearing wonderful things). So today I'm settling down to my FIRST Ali Smith. Plus, the title is giving me gentle relief after catching a seriously hideous sunburn yesterday 😅

The artwork on this front cover is David Hockney's 'Early November Tunnel' and it's beautiful. 🍂🍁 #btat17 #booktubeathon2017 #bookstagramathon #scottishliterature #scottishwriterscentre #scottishauthors #alismith #bookworms #bookloversofinstagram #follow #beautiful #photooftheday #like4like #booklovers #novels #tbr #reading #scotland #whatsonglasgow #glasgow #aberdeen #englishliterature #english #literature #writing #hockney #davidhockney #librariesofinstagram #love

✨Bookstagram-a-thon Day #1 ✨
Book 1/7

Since it's 25 degrees in Glasgow today (!!) I'm taking advantage and beginning with challenge 5: to read an entire book completely outdoors. 🌞🌱🌷🌻 I've chosen Rebecca Solnit's 'Hope in the Dark' because I've been dying to read some of her stuff and it's short length puts me at least risk of sun stroke.

#booktubeathon2017 #bookstagramathon #booksbooksbooks #sunshine #glasgow #SWC #scottishwriterscentre #reading #rebeccasolnit #scotland #sunshine #hopeinthedark

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