Deep Wheel Aberdonia

Deep Wheel Aberdonia is an event celebrating writing from and about Scottish islands with special guest Harry Josephine Giles. We take our title from Harry Josephine Giles’s recently published verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia, in which Orkney and its language are taken on a strange science-fiction journey, carving out a radical new space for Scottish writing.

Scottish Language, Literature and Identity

In a week when the fabulous Kathleen Jamie has been announced as the new Makar, we thought we’d share this discussion from ‘Free Thinking‘ in 2015, where Jamie is joined by Lewis academic, writer and broadcaster Peter Mackay, the cultural historian Murray Pittock and writer Janice Galloway on Scottish language, literature and identity. Tales of

Jana Prikryl Event

The Grierson Centre is delighted to welcome Jana Prikryl for a live reading and discussion on 19th May, chaired by PhD student and poet Ingrid Leonard at the School of LLMVC.  Jana Prikryl is the author of two collections of poetry, The After Party (2016) and No Matter (2019). She was born in Ostrava, the Czech Republic,

New work by Martin Malone

Following on from our interview with Martin Malone in February 2021, we are pleased to be able to feature one of a new sequence of forthcoming poems. The new work is based around Martin’s home in Gamrie in the north east of Scotland and will feature the art of Bryan Angus. You can read Martin’s

Cliff Forshaw

We are delighted to publish a preview of Cliff Forshaw’s current work in progress, French Leave, a sequence of versions and perversions of French poems by Gautier, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Laforgue, Apollinaire and others.  Cliff Forshaw’s recent books include Satyr (Shoestring Press, 2017) – a topical satirical sequence illustrated by his paintings and drawings – and Pilgrim Tongues (Wrecking Ball,

Interview with Poet Martin Malone

Aberdeen University has links with more than a few poets, resident and otherwise, and in this, the first interview in a series, we had chance to catch up with Gamrie based poet, Martin Malone, whose work ranges far beyond the tight confines of Gardenstown’s cliff-nestled streets.  Martin is an honorary teaching fellow at Aberdeen University

The Grierson Verse Prize

This prize, estimated value £900, is awarded to a matriculated student of the University of Aberdeen or the University of Edinburgh. It is given for a poem or series of poems, using any recognised verse form other than free verse, totalling no more than 80 lines on a given theme (the theme for 2021 is