Hamish MacDonald - Ode

Reading in Scots of an Ode by Hamish MacDonald to Commemorate the World Burns Federation's First Summer School, July 2003. Hamish is the first Robert Burns Writing Fellow for Dumfries & Galloway, and Joint Artistic Director of Dogstar Theatre Company.

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Poems:
Ode To Commemorate the World Burns Federation's First Summer School, July 2003

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Rab Wilson

Poet, translator and performer Rab Wilson (Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire), reads from his latest collection in Scots and English. Works include his Scots translation of The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam and parliamentary poems commissioned for MSP Cathie Jamieson.

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Poems:

Biggin

The Last Sea-Eagle

Dumfounert Wi Wunner

Accent O The Mind

Mary Smith

Reading by journalist and poet Mary Smith (Castle Douglas), author of Before the Taliban and a Creative Writing MLitt student at Glasgow University. Most recently, she collaborated with the National Theatre of Scotland on Home Dumfries.

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Poems:

Water God
Surprises
Africa in the News
Cutting Fodder in Afghanistan
Buzkashi
Hazara Jat

Tom Pow

Reading by poet and playwright Tom Pow (Dumfries), who heads the Creative and Cultural Studies department at Glasgow University's Crichton Campus. Recently shortlisted for a Creative Scotland Award, his collections include Landscapes and Legacies and Red Letter Day.

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Poems:
The Football
Crabs: Tiree
Island Love
The Buoy-Tree
Spanish Shaving

Derek Ross

Poetry reading in Scots and English by Derek Ross (Dumfries), Stranraer-born microbiologist at D&G Royal Infirmary. His poems and photography have also been exhibited in collaborations with Angus Macmillan, Canan's Solus (2003), Tidelines (2004), and Beyond the Wall (2005).

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Poems:

Waterloo Tower, New Abbey
Origins
G8
Red Kites at Bellymack
Looking Out

Liz Niven

Reading in Scots and English by poet and playright Liz Niven (Dumfries), former D&G Writer in Residence. Her collections include Stravaigin and Burning Whins, and her poetry is engraved in public art installations in southwest Scotland.

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Poems:

Wick
The New Mannie
In Memoriam Solway Harvester
The Loch District
The Thistle at the Beck
The Great Russian Dream
Fern
Touch the lucky lead

Hugh McMillan

Hugh McMillan (Penpont) teaches history at Dumfries Academy. He is a past winner of the Scottish Open Poetry Competition and several Arts Council bursaries. His four poetry collections include Aphrodite's Anorak (Peterloo, 1996) and After A Storm (Smith/Doorstep, 2005).

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Poems:
Surprise Attacks
Old Photograph
Poetry
Wandered
May Revision
Marked
The World Book of the McMillans

Angus Macmillan

Reading in Gaelic and English by Angus Macmillan (Dumfries). Born in Lewis, he has worked in Dumfries as a psychologist for over twenty-five years. His collection, Life Lines, is published by Markings Press, and he has produced three exhibitions of poetry and photography with Derek Ross.

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Poems:
Uisge beatha/Whisky
Dannsa 'san t-seomar-feitheamh/Dancing in the waiting room
Tha e sileadh an Leodhas/It is Raining in Lewis
fear-labhairt deireannach/the last speaker
Life lines
The tree and the wall
Ash
vallum, balla, wall
Drystane dyker
broch
crannog
last breath

Hamish MacDonald - Children's Poems

Poetry for children in Scots from Itchy Coo Press by Hamish MacDonald, Robert Burns Writing Fellow for Dumfries & Galloway. He is Joint Artistic Director of Dogstar Theatre Company, and his novel The Gravy Star is published by 11:9.
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Poems:
From King o the Midden (Itchy Coo Press)
Creation
Clatty Wattie's Emporium
Two Epitaphs
Nae Fizz Izzy

Douglas Lipton

Douglas Lipton is a poet and teacher based in Dumfries. His works include The Stone Sleeping Bag (Mariscat Press), Hale-Bopp Poems, Fairy Tales, The Outside World (all from Markings Press).

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Poems:

The Yellow Jersey
Lullaby
Three Fingers
Killer Bees
Luna De Miel
Sexton Beetle
Oak Apple
'A Good Sink': an anecdote
Le Cirque Albaron

Vivien Jones

Reading by musician and poet Vivien Jones (Powfoot). She is a recipient of a Scottish Arts Council writers’ bursary, and her fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio.


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Poems:

Churching Hat. 1894. Parton.
Log Pattern Quilt c. 1900.
Animal Traps: Various
Museum: Empty Case
My History of Curry
Octopus in Galloway
Fry Up

Jackie Galley

Reading poet and ecologist Jackie Galley (Caerlaverock). Her work has appeared in anthologies and as the Herald's Poem of the Day. Past winner of the Kirkpatrick Dobie Prize.

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Poems:
Solway Sunset
Bearings
Alzheimer's
The Stonemason's Touch
Granite Remains
A Piece of the Cuillins

Judi Benson

Reading by poet, and artist Judi Benson (Dumfries/London) American-born writer, Writer in Residence at D&G Royal Infirmary. Her work has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and she co-edited the Bloodaxe collection, Klaonica - Poems for Bosnia, with Ken Smith.

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Poems:
Adrift
Found Tape
And Still the Stones
Translocation
Disgruntled Daff of Dumfries
The Way It Is

Jo Abbott

Reading by poet Jo Abbott (Dunscore), winner of the Scottish Poetry Library Haiku competition & the Kirkpatrick Dobie Prize at Glasgow University's Crichton Campus.

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Poems:
Factorial Flowers
Logarithms (from Hard Sums)
Valentine's Haiku (Scottish Poetry Library)
African Seed Pod
Russet
Garlieston Bay
Floodbells
Nae Sense
Devorgilla's Days
Wigtown Book Town