Sheena Blackhall is a writer, illustrator, traditional ballad singer and storyteller in North East Scotland. From 1998-2003 she was Creative Writing Fellow in Scots at the Elphinstone Institute. She has published four Scots novellas, fifteen short story collections and over 200 poetry collections, which are listed here (most recent first). In 2009 she became Makar (poet laureate) for Aberdeen and the North East, and Makar for the Doric Board in 2019.
Dauvit Horsbroch and Sheena Blackhall talk about the Scots language.
The Robin Sang
Fitba
Scots Yule version of 'Ma Bonnie'
Multicultural Scotland's for me. -A children's song for all the people of Scotland.
A collection of haiku in Gaelic, published under the name of Sìne NicTheàrlaich (Hammerfield Publishing, 1997).Sheena said that the poems were ‘written for Scots like myself, on the first rung of learning Gaelic, and for those who would like a brief taste in the mouth of the language of Gaeldom.’
At the time of writing she was a member of a Gaelic choir, regularly competing at the Mod.
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