Margaret Tait: Poems, Stories and Writings Book Launch

As poet, artist and above all filmmaker Margaret Tait realised her vision of the world across many of the artificial boundaries in the arts. Join Glasgow Women’s Library and CCA Glasgow in celebration of her work including screenings of Tait’s only feature Blue Black Permanent,Launch of Margaret Tait: Poems, Stories and Writings and the GWL documentary première, Margaret Tait: Film Poet.

Poems, Stories and Writings Book Launch
Saturday 4th August, 7pm

Margaret Tait was a pioneering filmmaker for whom words and images made the world real. In ‘documentary’, she wrote, real things ‘lose their reality …and there’s no poetry in that. In poetry, something else happens.’ If film, for Tait, was a poetic medium, her poems are works of craft and observation that are generous and independent in their vision of the world, poems that make seeing happen.

In this book Sarah Neely, Lecturer in Film at the University of Stirling, draws on Tait’s three poetry collections, her book of short stories, her magazine articles and unpublished notebooks to make available for the first time a collection of the full range of Tait’s writing.  Join us for the Glasgow launch of this collection with some familiar Orcadian voices reading the work and an introduction from Sarah Neely.

Prior to the launch and readings at 6.15pm will be a screening of And Under That, the film from 2011’s Margaret Tait Award winner Anne-Marie Copestake, a portrait of two women created through acts of looking and listening.

Booking

This event is free of charge but booking is essential. Please click here to book your free place(s) and please ensure you provide details of which of the Margaret Tait events you would like to attend.

Other Margaret Tait related events are happening on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th August at the CCA. Why not come along to our Friday evening screening or Saturday matinee of Blue Black Permanent or to the GWL documentary première, Margaret Tait: Film Poet.

These events have been made possible with support from CCA Glasgow.