About this Event
Join us in Edinburgh on Saturday 25 January at 2 pm in celebrating 30 years since the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics was founded on Burns Night in 1995 and the launch of a new book about geopoetics.
Find out how Edinburgh writer, musician and teacher Tony McManus led the way as its founder back then. Norman Bissell, author and Director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, will be paying tribute to him and reading excerpts from his new book Living on an Island Expressing the Earth about how geopoetics has grown in influence in Scotland and internationally since then.
His illustrated talk will outline the courses and conferences which Tony and he organised, some of the geopoetics articles and reviews they wrote, and the many field visits and other activities which have taken place in those 30 years.
15 issues of our Stravaig journal featuring poetry, essays and artwork in print and online have been produced as well as 4 books by our Alba Editions publishing imprint.
Q&A and Discussion. All welcome. Book your place here!
If you can't be there, you can order a signed and dedicated copy of Living on an Island Expressing the Earth and get a free print copy of 56 page Stravaig#14 journal posted to you with the book at https://bit.ly/NBShop.
Tony McManus, Director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics from 1995 to 2002.
Nanon McManus and Norman Bissell at a Geopoetics Event on the Isle of Luing in Argyll.
The Expressing the Earth Conference at Seil Island Hall in June 2017.
A Geopoetics Day in Leith in November 2018.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Quaker Meeting House, Victoria Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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