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.
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
The Poems: Millennium Blues
Seven of the poems in Millennium Blues (Hammerfield Publishing, 1999) were owersett into Doric from Gaelic Songs from the Eastern Highlands on Upper Deeside, and were dedicated to the poet’s aunt, Nancy Macintosh, who was born at Corriemulzie, Glen Ey. Much of the vanishing Gaelic material was collected in that region in the 1930s by Frances Diack. During this time, Sheena was gathering material for her M.Litt research study into Doric on Upper Deeside.
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