Norman Bissell will discuss his new book Living on an Island Expressing the Earth about his journey from Glasgow to the Isle of Luing, his involvement in geopoetics over many years and his views of major writers and artists who have influenced it. This will be a Zoom Conversation with Read more…
Book now for the Online Talk Geopoetics – Expressing the Fundamental Geology this Wednesday 2 October at https://bit.ly/Geology_and_Geopoetics! This talk by Prof Patrick Corbett and poetry reading by Dr Alyson Hallett is a joint session of the Scottish Geology Trust and the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics as part of the Read more…
This event will bring together diverse disciplines to explore the impact of geology on creative observation, articulation, expression and outreach. Inspiration includes landscape, the subsurface, geological processes, deep time and the Anthropocene. In-person presentations and performances will run in parallel with skills workshops along the following themes: Art, sculpture and Read more…
The Scottish Centre for Geopoetics & the University of Glasgow Islands in the Global Age Arts Lab present Kenneth White: Travels in Euramerasia International Conference at the University of Glasgow on Friday 14 June and Hillhead Library on Saturday 15 June 2024 This International Conference celebrating the life and work Read more…
Come to our Geopoetics Day in Glasgow’s West End, explore the banks of the River Kelvin, take part in our AGM and in the Lecture Q&A. All donations for this event, apart from the Library rental, will go towards a Kenneth White Bursary to enable an artist to develop geopoetics during a Read more…
Scotland and Environmental Aesthetics The Tony McManus Lecture 18 February, 2023 Cairns Craig First, I want to pay tribute to the work of Tony McManus in helping us understand both the meaning and the implications of Kenneth White’s neologism ‘geopoetics’, which some of you have been fulfilling in practice today Read more…
Antonia Thomas and Bridie Ashrowan will each show us 10 images to stimulate discussion about crossing boundaries between arts and sciences, art and archaeology, urban and rural, community and private ownership of projects. Antonia’s work over the past ten years has increasingly explored experimental and creative approaches to archaeology, and Read more…
Green Consciousness: Perspectives from Kenneth White and John Moriarty The 5th Tony McManus Geopoetics Lecture, 2022 Máiréad Nic Craith Professor of Public Folklore Institute of Northern Studies University of the Highlands and Islands NB: This is a work in progress, and I am already re-drafting it. It you wish to Read more…
Our first ever Geopoetics Day in North Wales will take place at Betws y Coed in Snowdonia on Saturday 10 September starting at 11 am. Poems will be read outdoors and there will be walks round some of the lead mines in the expert company of Marika Gates, geologist and project manager of the Read more…
The 4th Tony McManus Geopoetics Lecture 2020 7th November 2020 Richard H. Roberts (Prof.), Honorary Fellow, New College, University of Edinburgh NB:THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, PLEASE DO NOT CITE WITHOUT FIRST CONSULTING THE AUTHOR. We are living in what for the West, Europe, Anglo-America – and Scotland – Read more…