Collaborations & Collectives

12

It is an energising, surprising and joyful experience to be a part of 12. We are an Edinburgh-based feminist poetry collective who write and respond to each other’s work. We are also sometimes invited to respond to exhibitions, such as the Emma Hart exhibition Banger at the Fruitmarket Gallery (see pics below). We are: Jane Goldman, J L Williams, Tessa Berring, Jane McKie, Marjorie Lotfi Gill, Theresa Muñoz, Em Strang, Lynn Davidson, Georgi Gill, Lila Matsumoto, Alice Tarbuck and Anne Laure Coxam.

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No Still Life

Jules Bradbury’s exhibition No Still Life drew on poems from Islander for two of the pieces: ‘A hillside of houses leave’ and ‘Bonefire’. So wonderful to see the poems reimagined into these gorgeous works. I read the poems at the exhibition opening at Northlight Gallery in Stromness, Orkney.

Street Art meets Poetry

Wonderful to see street artist Chris Fleming making ‘Hame is where the heart is’ teeshirts with kids at Muirhouse Library, riffing off a poem from Islander that uses the Scots word for home –  hame

Boast

Boast is an anthology of writing by a diverse collection of women about women speaking out. All profits from this book (edited by Rachel Bentham and Alyson Hallett) go to the Malala Fund. The Boast team are sending free copies of Boast into schools and funding workshops. I’m thrilled to be running a Boast workshop at the Scottish Poetry Library.

http://Project Boast

Pukeahu Exploratory Anthology

Before leaving Wellington I got to co-edit the place-based Pukeahu Exploratory Anthology with writing that touched on the many histories of Pukeahu Mount Cook in the centre of Wellington City: http://pukeahuanthology.org

Pukeahu Exploratory Anthology Team: Rosie Persival, Lynn Davidson, Ingrid Horrocks, Lena Fransham and Thomas Aitken
Pukeahu Exploratory Anthology Team: Rosie Persival, Lynn Davidson, Ingrid Horrocks, Lena Fransham and Thomas Aitken

Pukeahu Exploratory Anthology:interviews and readings. Podcast from Pip Adam’s ‘Better Off Read’ series.

The Land

This feels like another important collaboration for me, with the landscapes that have made me: Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland.

My hometown, Pukerua Bay

Another home place, the Isle of Islay

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