The celebration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics will continue throughout 2025 and as part of that we would like to produce an issue of Stravaig which will reflect how geopoetics can inspire our thinking, writing and art in different ways. Please send Read more
Please 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! Find out how Edinburgh writer, musician and teacher Tony McManus led the way as its founder back then. Norrie Bissell Read more
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
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
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
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