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, 24 May 2011
The Bairn Books: Mr. Pavlova's Comb-Over
The Bairn Books: Mr Pavlova's Comb-Over (ISBN 978-O-9564837-7-5)is published by the Reading Bus. A Limited Edition has been printed by Thistle Reprographics, Aberdeen, however you can download your own free version of the book from the Reading Bus website, www.readingbus.co.uk. Look in the Books section. Download your own e-Pub for your mobile device by clicking here. Or copy and paste this link in the browser of your i-Pod, i-Phone or i-Pad https://files.me.com/readingbus/1lrxlx The book will open in i-books for you to enjoy.Or you can download the file as a PDF by clicking here Or copy and paste this link into the browser of your computer https://files.me.com/readingbus/3l4neb
Re. the theme of turtles,a poem for adults by Blackhall, The Flight of the Turtles will be published in New Writing Scotland 29.
Mr Pavlova's Comb-Over is illustrated by the poet under the name of Sine NicThearlaich.It was previewed at the University of Aberdeen's Word Festival in 2011To hear Blackhall discuss Doric with Jessie Kesson and Billie Kay, google-search Kay's Originals on You Tube.
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