Tag: Scotland
‘Travelling the Distance’ and the Scottish Parliament
After a few weeks of revising plans, pleading emails, panicked phone calls, the Making Space focus group and the Political Literacy group made it to Holyrood…
Posted in News, Past Events, Press Coverage
Also tagged art, Events, Learning, Making Space, Public Art fund, Scottish Parliament, Women's History
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Women Writers Unite: She Settled in Scotland
Hear readings from Kokumo Rocks and Chiew-Siah Tei and students from the ground-breaking Glasgow University Creative Writing post graduate course at this second Women Writers Unite event.
Four Small Elegies (poems)
When terrible things are happening in the world, Margaret Atwood’s poetry helps me to face them.
Posted in Book Reviews, GWL Recommends, Reading Ideas
Also tagged Canada, Highland clearances, Margaret Atwood, poetry, Scottish Highlands
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The Tenderness of Wolves
Transports you to Canada in 1867, to the wilderness and terrible weather endured by Scots who emigrated there.
Posted in Book Reviews, GWL Recommends, Reading Ideas
Also tagged Canada, emigration, murder, Stef Penney
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