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…
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…
Annual Tony McManus Geopoetics Lecture 2018 Leith Parish Church, 3rd November 2018 Mairi McFadyen Abstract: The challenges we face today – ecological, social and political – demand new forms of consciousness, creativity and collective action. In his book The Radical Field (2007), Tony McManus outlines the world significance of geopoetics as a 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…
Expressing the Earth: Geopoetics and George Orwell Norman Bissell So, what is Geopoetics? I suppose the simplest answer is: look around you. It’s about creative people: writers, musicians, storytellers, visual artists, geologists, ethnologists, botanists, ornithologists, geographers, conservationists, researchers and people who care about the future of the planet, coming together Read more…
“Sweet the Cuckoo’s Sound” Argyll: Place, People and Neighbours Prof. Michael Russell, MSP for Argyll & Bute; Minister for UK Negotiation on Scotland’s Place in Europe Keynote address at the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics ‘Expressing the Earth’ conference, 24th June 2017 The Glenmasan Manuscript, written in 1238, brought to light a much Read more…