Gael Turnbull
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Edinburgh’s Shore Poets is turning 20 this year, and the current committee has decided to record a CD with all the present and former Shore poets they can get a hold of. Hopefully, it will also include recordings of the late Gael Turnbull reading his work — they do exist; I heard some at the
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I’ve been musing a little about the usefulness or otherwise of the term “mainstream” in relation to Scottish poetry. I think it’s fair to say that, in UK terms, Hugh MacDiarmid would not be regarded as mainstream. His non-mainstream status is emphasised by the fact that he turns up in the marvellous PENNsound archive, which
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The Scottish Poetry Library’s third annual online choice of Scottish poems published in the past 12 months or so–Best Scottish Poems 2006–went live on St Andrew’s Day. As ever, it’s a highly inpidual choice by this year’s editor, Janice Galloway, as you can see if you compare it with the 2005 choice by Richard Price
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Tuesday night saw the launch of There are words, the collected poems of Gael Turnbull, who died in 2004. Gael was a doctor, morris dancer, Liberal Democrat activist and endlessly inventive poet, though I knew of only the first and last of those aspects to his life while he was with us. Gael’s publishing life
Amy Jo Philip 