I hope you’re well and keeping safe. Virtual Geopoetics Event Saturday 7 November 2020 from 1 pm to 5 pm Please register now for our virtual Geopoetics Event on Saturday 7 November which is our main event this year. It will include music from Ada Francis, our Annual General Meeting at 1.15 pm Read more…
I hope you’re well and keeping safe. Geopoetry 2020 on 1 October was a great success with 45 participants, including several members, and 400 registered for the virtual event. See below to watch it. Virtual Geopoetics Day Saturday 7 November 2020 from 1 pm to 5 pm Register now for our virtual Read more…
View this email in your browser Scottish Centre for Geopoetics Residential Conference 2019 in association with the Intercultural Research Centre at Heriot-Watt University & the Scottish Geodiversity Forum at Wiston Lodge near Biggar Friday 14 – Sunday 16 June 2019 Expressing the Earth in the Year of Indigenous Languages Call Read more…
The Tony McManus Geopoetics Lecture 2017 Heriot Watt University, 18th November 2017 James McCarthy I’m honoured to be asked to give this inaugural lecture in memory of Tony McManus, who was crucial in the establishment of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics. Although I never knew Nan Shepherd personally, I feel Read more…
The following is written as if spoken. It is, however, a reconstruction from subsequent memory, plus some elaborations to what I said at the conference – Expressing the Earth, organised by the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics and the University of the Highlands and Islands on the Isle of Seil, 23 Read more…
A warm welcome to all the new members who have joined the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics since June’s Expressing the Earth Conference in Argyll, and to all the new subscribers to this newsletter. A special welcome to new members in Australia and Ireland. The conference was a watershed event in Read more…
Our recent Expressing the Earth Geopoetics Conference in Argyll was a huge success and exceeded all expectations. Over 70 positive, passionate people from Brazil, USA, Switzerland, Italy, England, Wales and Scotland who care about the planet and its creative expression took part, including speakers from Argyll College and SAMS (both Read more…
Expressing the Earth Conference Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 June 2017 Seil Island Hall Argyll It’s only 5 weeks until our biggest ever trans-disciplinary Geopoetics Conference in Argyll with a wide range of creative workshops, presentations, field visits, films, network sessions and performances. The Scottish Centre for Geopoetics and the Read more…
Expressing the Earth Conference Thursday 22 – Friday 24 June 2017 Seil Island Hall Argyll You are cordially invited to take part in a trans-disciplinary Conference with creative workshops, presentations, field visits, films, seminars and performances. ‘Geopoetics is concerned, fundamentally, with a relationship to the earth and the opening of a Read more…
The latest issue of our online journal Stravaig is now available to read here: http://bit.ly/2hWgzdI It’s been a long time in the making but its poems and essays are well worth reading. The essays include the first and second place prize winners in the Hugh Miller Writing Competition. Many thanks Read more…