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 session and Read more…
Alyson Hallett, Patrick Corbett and Glenda Rome will discuss Geology and Creativity in the light of the Earth’s Canvas event in London they took part in. Expect poetry, film making and geopoetry to feature. This will be a Zoom session and further details will follow soon.
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…
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…
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…
Happy New Year! This newsletter is a reminder about upcoming deadlines and contains some new information about events and opportunities in 2018. Read the full newsletter here FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Stravaig is the online journal for the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics. We invite you to submit essays, poems, artwork Read more…